Letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin

Collection Level Description: Letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin

Reference: MSS. Eng. lett. c. 859-60
Title: Letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin
Dates of Creation: 1961-79
Extent: 2 shelfmarks
Name of Creator: Barbara Pym

Language of Material: English

Administrative/Biographical History

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913-80) was a novelist. Further details can be found in the introduction to the online catalogue ( http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/pym/pym.html) and in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Scope and Content

Letters from Barbara Pym to Philip Larkin, 1961-75, 1975-9, with nine Christmas cards, n.d.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Library by Philip Larkin in 1985.

Access Conditions

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Further Information

Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Related Units of Description

Papers of Barbara Pym (MSS. Pym 1-178). For Larkin's letters to Pym, see MSS. Pym 151-2.

Access Points

Novelists | 20th century

Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | Poet

Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist

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09 June 2011