“The vanity of the late Philip Larkin has come to light in a previously unseen letter to a photographer. The witty correspondence with Fay Godwin from 1985 reveals how the womanising poet struggled to control his public image as he grew older. Half joking, half in deadly earnest, Larkin tries to prevent photographs being used that expose his baldness or girth. ‘I now have three conditions that photographers must promise to observe in what they print,’ he writes to Godwin….”