A reading of the letters of Philip Larkin and Barbara Pym by Oliver Ford Davies and Triona Adams, with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite, OBE.
Date: 10 December 2016, 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue: Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
When Philip Larkin first wrote to Barbara Pym in 1961 it was the minor poet approaching the celebrated novelist. While their literary fortunes were to change dramatically the correspondence and the friendship remained steady over nearly 20 years. Highly entertaining, fascinating and often deeply moving, the Pym-Larkin letters tell the story of an extraordinary relationship between two very different characters united in their passion for the written word and of fall and rise of a literary career.
Tickets cost £20, including refreshments.
To book please contact the Friends of the Bodleian Administrator on 01865 277234 or at fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
Further details at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/friends/fob-events/2016/we-used-to-correspond
The Bodleian Library holds letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin (shelfmarks MSS. Eng. lett. c. 859-860) and letters from Philip Larkin to Barbara Pym (MSS. Pym 151-152). For further details, please visit our online catalogue: https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Some (but not all) of the letters have been published in Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985 edited by Anthony Thwaite (1992) and A Very Private Eye: the diaries, letters and notebooks of Barbara Pym edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (1984).
Are these letter available in print?