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321. Add MS 88931/13/7/1

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Title:
Transatlantic Review Photostats
Scope & Content:
Comprises: letter from Heathcote Williams of the Transatlantic Review to Maeve Gilmore; Maeve's list of drawings; photostats of fifteen of Mervyn Peake's drawings of various people, animals, hybrid creatures, Aunty Jill from 'Aunts and Uncles', Judy Smallweed from Bleak House and a drawing that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

322. Add MS 88931/13/7/2

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Title:
Photocopies of Brewers' Society Drawings
Scope & Content:
Photocopies of fifteen drawings Peake made as advertisements for the Brewers' Society. [See Add MS 88931/13/3/19/2 for letter dated 17 November 1978 from the Bodleian Library to Maeve Gilmore re Brewers' Society drawings.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1978
Extent:
1 oversize file

323. Add MS 88931/13/7/3

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Title:
Photographs of Drawings and Paintings
Scope & Content:
Reproductions of a variety of Peake's works, including a sketch of Flay and Rottcodd from the manuscript of Peake's stage adaptation of Titus Groan [see Add MS 88931/4/1], paintings of glass blowers and various nudes and other studies from life. Photographs found in envelope sent by Methuen's Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1981
Extent:
1 file [18 photographs]

324. Add MS 88931/13/8

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Title:
Copies of Article and Talk by Mervyn Peake
Scope & Content:
Comprises: photocopy of article by Mervyn Peake, 'What Is Drawing?', Athene, Vol 8 No 3 (April, 1957); photocopy of printed transcript of radio talk by Mervyn Peake, 'Alice and Tenniel and Me', broadcast on the BBC Home Service (12 December 1954), marked '© Maeve Gilmore 1978'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file

325. Add MS 88931/13/9

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Title:
Cuttings From Newspapers and Journals
Scope & Content:
Articles and reviews relating to Mervyn Peake and his work: Tom Pocock, ‘Hitler’s Problem Children’, with drawings by Mervyn Peake, Leader, 30 June 1945. Tom Driberg, ‘European Notebook’, with drawings by Mervyn Peake, Leader, 4 August 1945. Reviews of Titus Groan: New York Times, 11 October 194...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1984
Extent:
1 oversize file

326. Add MS 88931/13/10

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Title:
Publications
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Michael Moorcock, Ergo Ego (London: MJM Publications, 1962) - includes recommendation for the work of Mervyn Peake on back cover. B. Stephen R Sanderson, The Collector’s Bulletin, 10 (Newport News, Virginia: Purple Mouth Press, April 1969) - includes Mervyn Peake bibliography by Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1979
Extent:
1 oversize file

327. Add MS 88931/13/11

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Title:
Sale Catalogues
Scope & Content:
Comprises: Christie's catalogue, 28 May 1975, with a covering letter to Maeve - lots include Mervyn Peake's portraits of Graham Greene, Laurence Olivier, Sir Winston Churchill, Humbert Wolfe, David Jones, Dame Flora Robson, Kurt Toller and two portraits of Mark Gertler. Sotheby & Co catalogu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972-1975
Extent:
1 file

328. Add MS 88931/13/12

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Title:
Peake Family Greetings Cards
Scope & Content:
Comprises: two printed cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of a nude boy holding a branch, from Maeve and Mervyn Peake, 1 Drayton Gardens, London SW10, undated [1960-1968]; two printed Christmas cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of face [for Oscar Wilde's poem 'Madonna Mia'], 1967; pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1980
Extent:
1 file

329. Add MS 88931/13/13

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Title:
Maeve Gilmore's Sketchbooks
Scope & Content:
Two sketchbooks: one mostly containing pencil drawings of cats; the other containing several sketches in ink of various subjects, with newspaper cuttings of images from 1969-1973[presumably for inspiration].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1970s
Extent:
1 oversize file

330. Add MS 88931/13/14

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Title:
Passports and Identity Cards
Scope & Content:
Contains: British passport belonging to Mervyn Peake, 1951-1956; British passport belonging to Maeve Peake [née Gilmore], 1972-1982; Travel Identity Card belonging to Mervyn Peake; National Registration identity card belonging to Maeve Peake, 1943-1950; photocopy of British passport for Ernest C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1980s
Extent:
1 file