Philip Larkin (81 page)

  
38.
   Tolley and White (eds),
Larkin’s Jazz
, disc 2 ‘Oxford’, track 24.

  
39.
   20 November 1941.
SL
, p. 27.

  
40.
   BD1, p. 9.

  
41.
   Ibid.

  
42.
   See David Gerard, ‘Oxford Roundabout: Or Currents Turned Awry’ (The Fourth Larkin Society Birthday Walk),
AL
10 (October 2000), pp. 34–6, at p. 34.

  
43.
   Motion, p. 65.

  
44.
   Ibid., p. 74.

  
45.
   BD1, p. 9.

  
46.
   Ibid.

  
47.
   ‘Larkin at Twenty: Warwick, August 1942’, ed. Don Lee and James Booth,
AL
14 (October 2002), pp. 5–10, at p. 6.

  
48.
   Presumably a reference to Alan Ross, author, publisher and editor, a contemporary of Larkin and Amis at Oxford. See LKA, p. 93.

  
49.
   Ibid.

  
50.
   Ibid., p. 7.

  
51.
   Ibid. Larkin refers to D. H. Lawrence’s novel.

  
52.
   Ibid.

  
53.
   Ibid., p. 8.

  
54.
   Ibid., p. 9. Parts of this letter appear in
SL
, pp. 42–4.

  
55.
   Passage not in
SL
.

  
56.
   Ibid.

  
57.
   In
SL
(p. 43) Thwaite mistranscribed ‘scoffing’ as ‘slobbering’.

  
58.
   Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George V, was killed in a plane crash in 1942.

  
59.
   ‘Larkin at Twenty’, pp. 9–10.

  
60.
   Ibid., pp. 5–6.

  
61.
   Bradford,
The Odd Couple
, p. 48.

  
62.
   See ibid., pp. 51–2.

  
63.
   Motion, p. 61.

  
64.
   Nuala O’Faiolain,
Are You Somebody?
(New York: Henry Holt, 1996),
p. 66.

  
65.
   Motion, p. 78.

  
66.
   In BD2, p. 5, I mistranscribed ‘gently’ as ‘greatly’. Penelope’s name was Scott Stokes, without the hyphen which Larkin has mistakenly inserted.

  
67.
   Susannah Tarbush, ‘From
Willow Gables
to “Aubade”: Penelope Scott Stokes and Philip Larkin: Part 1’,
AL
25 (April 2008), pp. 5–11, at p. 8.

  
68.
   Ibid., p. 5.

  
69.
   
SL
, p. 105.

  
70.
   
AGW
, p. 173.

  
71.
   DPL/2/2/39.

  
72.
   DPL(2)/1/4/4. Tarbush, Part 1, pp. 10–11.

  
73.
   Geoff Weston, ‘Sidney Keyes and Larkin: A Postscript’,
AL
30 (October 2010), p. 15. See also David Wheatley, ‘Larkin and Sidney Keyes, or, The Case of the Mechanical Turd’,
AL
28 (October 2009), pp. 17–19.

  
74.
   Burnett (
Complete Poems
, pp. xix–xx) is mistaken in asserting that the lines following the asterisk are ‘not a continuation of the parody’. He also states incorrectly that the first two lines are in a ‘different metre’ from the rest. In fact a rough pentameter metre is maintained in all eleven lines. Burnett’s notion that the second and third sections are ‘disparate pieces of text’ is also misguided. They both refer to his parents, are woven together by rhymes and pararhymes and are clearly sequential.

  
75.
   BD1, p. 10.

  
76.
   BD2, p. 6.

  
77.
   ‘Larkin’s Dream Diary 1942–3, Part 1’, ed. Don Lee,
AL
27 (April 2009), pp. 5–13, and ‘Part 2’,
AL
28 (October 2009), pp. 5–13.

  
78.
   ‘Larkin’s Dream Diary, Part 2’, p. 6. Margaret Flannery appears in
Trouble at Willow Gables
, her name being subsequently altered to Margaret Tattenham.

  
79.
   ‘Larkin’s Dream Diary, Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’.

  
80.
   To Sutton, 7 January 1943. Not in
SL
.

  
81.
   ‘Introduction to
The North Ship
’,
RW
, p. 29.

  
82.
   ‘Vernon Watkins, an Encounter and a Re-encounter’,
RW
, p. 42.

  
83.
   
RW
, pp. 43–4.

3: Brunette Coleman (1943)

    
1.
   To his parents, 20 June 1943.

    
2.
   BD2, p. 8.

    
3.
   Ibid., p. 6.

    
4.
   
Jill
,
Introduction, p. 19.

    
5.
   David Gerard, ‘Oxford Roundabout: Or Currents Turned Awry’,
AL
10 (October 2000), pp. 34–6. Diana Gollancz married Prince Leopold of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1903–74), who published a memoir following her untimely death in 1967,
A Time to Live – A Time to Die
(New York: Doubleday, 1971).

    
6.
   BD2, p. 8.

    
7.
   6 July 1943.
SL
, p. 59.

    
8.
   To Sutton, 28 July 1943. Not in
SL
.

    
9.
   ‘An Incident in the English Camp’,
AL
12 (October 2001), pp. 5–10.

  
10.
   Ibid., p. 6.

  
11.
   Letter beginning ‘Dear fambly’, 18 November 1940.

  
12.
   ‘An Incident in the English Camp’, p. 6. The reading is confirmed by the original deleted version: ‘peanut shaped head’.

  
13.
   ‘An Incident in the English Camp’, pp. 7–9.

  
14.
   Ibid., p. 10.

  
15.
   Ibid.

  
16.
   BD2, p. 8.

  
17.
   To Sutton, 14 May 1943. Not in
SL
.

  
18.
   To his parents, 15 May 1943.

  
19.
   During the war Blanche Coleman’s group performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which had been converted into a dance hall for service personnel. She died in 2008.
The Times
, 6 May 2008.

  
20.
   To Amis, 11 January 1947. Passage not in
SL
.