Correspondence relating to the publication of the second edition of the Larkin bibliography
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, mainly signed, relating to the publication of the second edition of Bloomfield's bibliography of Larkin, eventually published by the British Library and Oak Knoll Press. Includes correspondence relating to the valuation of Bloomfield’s private collection of Larkin material, 1998.
Wellington Public Library and Queen's University of Belfast material
Scope & Content:
Photocopies of reports relating to Wellington Public Library, 1944-1946, and original readers' handbook for the library at Queen's University of Belfast, 1953.
Reviews of Bloomfield's bibliography and copy of Bloomfield's Brought to Book
Scope & Content:
Reviews of Bloomfield’s bibliography and associated press coverage, together with a copy of B.C. Bloomfield, Brought to Book: Philip Larkin and his bibliographer (Edinburgh, 1995).
Material about Larkin not included in Bloomfield's bibliography
Scope & Content:
Newspaper cuttings with brief references to Larkin supplied by the press cutting agency Durrants, together with the envelope in which they were originally stored, marked by Bloomfield as 'Miscellaneous peripheral clippings'.