PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952.
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002.
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One of his closest male friends, from his university days onwards, was the novelist Kingsley Amis
. The...
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Philip Larkin
PL
was also an indefatigable letter-writer. A couple of thousand of his letters to his mother
survive at Hull History Centre
, and about 1,500 to Monica Jones
. A selection of his highly personal...