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141. Add MS 88931/6/1

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Title:
'Interim Report on the Nethersole Hospital...' by Ernest Cromwell Peake
Scope & Content:
Autograph report by Mervyn Peake's father in his capacity as Acting Medical Superintendent of a Hong Kong hospital in 1946.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946
Extent:
1 file

142. Add MS 88931/6/2

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Title:
'Memoirs of a Doctor in China' by Ernest Cromwell Peake
Scope & Content:
Typescript with annotations [by Mervyn Peake?]. Mervyn Peake's father's memoirs of his life in China from 1898 through the early 1900s. Includes inserted loose leaf with notes in a different hand [Maeve Gilmore's?]. Undated (but date inferred from text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1948]
Extent:
1 file

143. Add MS 88931/6/3

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Title:
Printed Source Material
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A: Newspaper cutting of obituary for Mervyn Peake's father, Dr E C Peake [1950]; B: Cutting from London Missionary Society magazine of a photograph annotated 'sunhats on the river' in Mervyn Peake's hand; C: Printed leaves with black and white photographs of China and Japan by B T Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-c 1950
Extent:
1 oversize file

144. Add MS 88931/6/4

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Title:
Notes and Draft Manuscript
Scope & Content:
Comprises four parts: A: 'Chinese Puzzle'. Loose leaves with notes and draft of chapter 1 of Peake's memoir about his childhood in China. Inscribed 'Smarden 1951 July'. B: Autograph notebook with notes on Tientsin Grammar School, Eltham College, Kuling, the Compound, Shanghai and various childho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-c 1960
Extent:
2 files

145. Add MS 88931/6/4/1

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Title:
Loose Leaf: 'Bias Bay'
Scope & Content:
Undated loose leaf mounted on card. Contains drawing of a Chinese man with a pigtail and autograph notes about the Latin master stealing money from the Compound.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

146. Add MS 88931/7

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Title:
Alice Illustrations
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1954
Extent:
11 files

147. Add MS 88931/7/1

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Title:
Drawings for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Scope & Content:
Thirty three finished drawings, eight rough sketches and a partial set of pulls (first proofs) of Mervyn Peake's illustrations, some with captions in Peake's hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
6 files

148. Add MS 88931/7/1/1

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Title:
Unmounted Rough Sketches
Scope & Content:
Comprises three leaves with the following drawings: f.1: rough pencil outline of figure [possibly the Duchess?]; f.1v: part of pencil drawing of head; f.2: sketch in ink of Queen of Hearts pointing, inscribed 'Collar that Dormous [Dormouse], the Queen shrieked out'; f.2v: sketch in ink inscribed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945]
Extent:
1 file

149. Add MS 88931/7/1/2

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Title:
Drawings in Smaller Mounts (part 1)
Scope & Content:
Comprises eleven drawings. Rough sketches: Knave of Hearts; pencil drawing on tracing paper (bottom edge torn) (f.1); Mad Hatter; pencil drawing on paper (f.2). Finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Alice; ink drawing; with caption inscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:

1 oversize file

150. Add MS 88931/7/1/3

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Title:
Drawings in Smaller Mounts (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Eleven finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Duchess and the baby; with caption inscribed 'Chapter Six. While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song she kept tossing the baby violently up & down' (ff.2-3); Baby as a pig; with cap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 oversize file