Tramping along …

… An unexpected afterlife for Philip Larkin? | Andrew Motion. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

… two other kinds of contact with him continued, during and beyond the seven years I spent researching and writing my book. One involved Raymond Cass, a Hull-based hearing-aid specialist, who had regularly tested Larkin’s ears and fixed his hearing aids for him. I never met Dr Cass, but as I came close to finishing my work he wrote to me out of the blue, introducing himself as a doctor and adding (if I didn’t mind him “using a literary phrase to a literary man”) that he was also a spiritualist, and had been in touch with Larkin’s shade. 

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