simultaneous affairs with two other women--his secretary and a colleague in the Hull University Library--it was with Monica [Jones] that he shared his most intimate thoughts in correspondence through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1983, she moved in with him. After his death two years later, she remained in his house until her own demise as a lonely alcoholic in 2001. Only then was it discovered that he had written her nearly 2,000 letters and postcards over the years--material that had not been available to either the editor of his selected letters or his biographer, Andrew Motion, back in the 1990s. The belatedness of their publication is a matter for great regret.
from The Daily Telegraph: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica ed by Anthony Thwaite: review
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