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1. Add MS 88931/4/2/3

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Title:
The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Scope & Content:
Script and score for a performance of Peake's poem set to music, produced by Laurence Gilliam with Marius Goring as the sailor and Marjorie Westbury as the child. Broadcast by the BBC Third Programme [26 August 1964].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
2 files

2. Add MS 88931/12/2/1

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Title:
The Pictorial Volume of Animated Nature (London: Charles Knight & Co, 1843)
Scope & Content:
Mervyn Peake's reference copies, used when making drawings of animals. Volumes appear to have been used extensively.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 88931/13/3/11/1

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Title:
Letters From G Peter Winnington Re Mervyn Peake Review
Scope & Content:
Mostly signed typewritten letters from G Peter Winnington in his capacity as Editor of the Mervyn Peake Review [a role he continued in until resigning in 1984]. Letters also cover personal subjects. Files contain drafts of articles for publication in the Review.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1973-May 1983
Extent:
3 files

4. Add MS 88931/13/3/11/3

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Title:
General Correspondence Re Mervyn Peake Society
Scope & Content:
Letters from Society members and the public to Maeve Gilmore regarding talks, events, publications and visits to the Peake residence at 1 Drayton Gardens among other subjects. The last file in this series contains records relating to the administration of the Society.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1975-1982
Extent:
4 files

5. Add MS 88931/13/15/1/1

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Title:
Red Rook Films Adaptation: 'Titus Groan'
Scope & Content:
Unrealised adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast. It is unclear whether this project was always intended as a television serial, or whether a full-length film was considered.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1970s]
Extent:
5 files

6. Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4

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Title:
BBC Adaptation: 'Gormenghast'
Scope & Content:
Script for television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, broadcast on the BBC in the UK and PBS in the USA.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1998-2001
Extent:
4 files

7. Add MS 88931/13/15/3/4

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Title:
'Mr Pye' by Michael [Mike] Hazlewood
Scope & Content:
Light opera based on Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1979-1986
Extent:
2 files

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