Correspondence of Pamela Hanley and Professor James Booth

Reference No:
U DX419/8
Dates:
21 Nov 1992-30 Jan 2005
Description:

File contains the following letters:

1. Typescript signed letter from James Booth, Department of English at the University of Hull, to Pamela Hanley, Rivendell, 6 Princes Road, Aylesbury, 21 Nov 1992. Includes references to 'Letters launch', comments on A Girl in Winter and Larkin's ability as a novelist, fascism of D.H. Lawrence, next project by Booth to be on the seventeenth century libertine Rochester.

2. Typescript signed letter from James Booth, of the Philip Larkin Society, to Pamela Hanley, Rivendell, 6 Princes Road, Aylesbury, 21 Sep 2000. Includes references to Hanley having sent Booth a copy of her poem 'Where the Old Fools Are' for consideration for inclusion in 'About Larkin', recollection of having met Hanley at the launch of 'Selected Letters' in the University Library, a piece written by Hanley for About Larkin No.4, request that Hanley might look at and comment on an unfinished story by Larkin, written whilst in Leicester, titled 'Augusta Bax', Larkin's bookplate, opinion that Larkin should have read Beckett's novels as they would have been 'really right up his street'.

3. Typescript copy letter from Pamela Hanley to James Booth, of the Philip Larkin Society, 30 Jan 2005. Includes reference to having received a phone call from Booth, enclosure of an article for 'About Larkin', enjoyment at reading Anne Fine piece, having missed attending Larkin Society events due to deafness, an Inaugural Lecture to be given by Booth. Note the enclosure of a typescript article titled 'A Personal Postscript to Lucky Jim Country - Leicester'.

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file (3 pieces)
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Pamela Hanley (formerly Kitson, nee Fogwell) relating to Philip Larkin