LARKIN | collection of 14 typed letters signed, to Ray Carter

LARKIN, PHILIP

Series of 14 typed letters signed, to Ray Carter

discussing Carter's John Betjeman collection and Larkin's introduction to an exhibition catalogue of the collection, as well as book signings and proposals for meetings, 14 pages, folio and small oblong 4to, headed stationery of the Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, 12 April 1978 to 9 November 1984, with two envelopes; [with:] 17 retained copies of letters by Carter to Larkin and others, also a typed letter by Andrew Motion, 1978-91; typescripts, including copies of Larkin's two Betjeman exhibition introductions and Carter's recollections of Larkin, altogether 11 pages; A Catalogue of the Works of Sir John Betjeman from the collection of Ray Carter ... introduction by Philip Larkin. Warren Editions, 1983. 8vo, original wrappers; John Betjeman: A Celebration, handlist for an exhibition at the National Theatre, 1984, with an introduction by Larkin, stapled; order of service for Larkin's funeral and related ephemera; small group of cuttings relating to Larkin 

Raymond Carter, a politician and bibliophile who had been junior minister for Northern Ireland 1976-79, corresponded with Larkin over an introduction to a catalogue of Carter's Betjeman collection at St Paul's School. The two met only once, at All Souls College, Oxford, as Carter has recalled: "My abiding memory of him is of an extremely tall man, priestly looking and self-conscious about his height. After we had introduced ourselves to one another, he rested against a bookcase and proceeded to slide down to roughly my level. The conversation then moved off into a surprising direction. It wasn't about the books nor poetry. What interested him was politics, why I had got involved, what did I make of Northern Ireland."

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