Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985

First edition
Author	Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
Country	England
Genre	Correspondence
Publisher	Faber and Faber, London
Publication date	1 January 1992
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	791 pages
ISBN	0-571-17048-X

The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 is a volume of Philip Larkin's personal correspondence, compiled by Anthony Thwaite, one of Larkin's literary executors, and published in 1992 by Faber and Faber, seven years after Larkin's death. It was followed a year later by Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, Larkin's official biography, written by Andrew Motion, Larkin's other literary executor.

A further volume, of Larkin's correspondence with Monica Jones, was published in 2010.

List of recipients included in the selection

• Kingsley Amis
• John Betjeman
• Robert Conquest
• Colin Gunner
• Monica Jones
• Eva Larkin
• Charles Monteith
• Bruce Montgomery
• Barbara Pym

See also

• The Letters of Kingsley Amis