Manuscripts and typescripts of novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction fragments. Some of the typescripts may have been made posthumously. See Add MS 88931/6 for Peake's notes towards an autobiography.
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'serious' poetry and nonsense verse. Some of the typescripts were probably produced by Peake's own typist and others may have been made or commissioned posthumously by Maeve Gilmore.
Preparatory work for Peake's fictionalised account of his childhood [working title 'China to Eltham']. Although the earliest material dates from 1939, Peake probably started work on his autobiography in 1950; see Maeve Gilmore, Peake's Progress (Middlesex: Penguin, 1981), p.470.
All sixty four extant finished drawings plus rough sketches and proofs for Mervyn Peake's illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, commissioned by Zephyr Books of Stockholm, Sweden in 1945. Mervyn Peake revised his drawings for the 1954 edi...
Sketches by Mervyn Peake, made whilst he was hospitalised at Roehampton. Mostly consisting of drawings of heads in pencil and crayon. Some drawings dated October 1964 [in Maeve Gilmore's hand].
Ephemera relating to two different exhibitions of Peake's drawings at the Victor Waddington Galleries, London: printed brief catalogue for a 1951 exhibition, with an introduction by Maurice Collis (annotation in Mervyn's hand notes the money made from the sale of works); press cutting with revie...