Monica Jones

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...

PL kept a voluminous series of diaries, which Betty Mackereth shredded soon after his death, according to his explicit instructions as relayed through Monica Jones .

PL 's correspondence with Brennan began tentatively but became frivolous, gossipy and light-hearted, running to fun and fantasy as well as steady affection. His thirty years of letters to Monica Jones are extraordinarily frank...

It is not clear why Philip Larkin and Monica Jones chose a copy of this novel for systematically defacing every page with childishly salacious alterations and insertions (lips were parted, for instance, became...

In LeicesterPL became involved with Monica Jones , who was then a young member of the English department there. A later commentator described Jones as a cockatoo of a woman, and as clever, eccentric...

The Marvell Press had been newly launched by George and Jean Hartley , who became his close friends, and who persuaded him to alter the title from Various Poems. The contract was not signed...

He is buried in the Cottingham municipal cemetery, and both Monica Jones and Maeve Brennan are buried nearby.