Betty Mackereth
Betty Mackereth was Larkin's secretary for most of his at Hull University, joining the staff in that role in 1957. After his death it was she who, on his wishes, destroyed his diaries, feeding them sheet by sheet into a university shredder. The began an affair in 1975, when they were both in his fifties. She knew about both Monica Jones and Maeve Brennan, and also about his large collection of pornography. In 2002 a poem written to her, "We Met At The End Of The Party", was publicised by her, prompted by the discovery of a notebook which contained its opening lines.
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“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)