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Letter to Edmund Skellings from Philip Larkin

Title

Letter to Edmund Skellings from Philip Larkin

Type

text

Subject

Invitation

Creator

Larkin, P. A.

Date

1964-02-07

Format

pdf

Item

https://chell.lib.fit.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/files/Skellings/Correspondence/COR-6402-02.pdf

Description

British poet Philip Larkin declines Edmund Skellings' invitation to speak at the University of Alaska. Skellings greatly admired Larkin's poetry and wrote a poem for him entitled "Love Song in Age". Larkin was Librarian at the University of Hull.

Citation

Larkin, P. A., “Letter to Edmund Skellings from Philip Larkin,” John H. Evans Library Digital Collections, accessed November 25, 2024, https://digcollections.lib.fit.edu/items/show/4394.