Disbound writing pad detailing drawings, manuscripts and other items loaned out for publication, exhibition and other purposes. Information recorded includes dates of loans, return of items and, in one case, missing items. Loans listed include: Pan Books (poems and drawings for A Book of Nonsen...
Clean copy typescript of a story written by Peake's former school friend with 'pictures by Mervyn Peake' (although there are no illustrations with this typescript). The character of the Dusky Birron was invented by Smith and Peake for an earlier collaboration, 'The Moccus Book'. Peake's Wallingt...
Contains original folder inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [where he lived from 1953 to 1960] but poems appear to have been written earlier. Inside folder is inscribed with the line 'I sometimes think of old tomes and [illegible: not 'weeds']' ['I sometimes think of old tombs and weeds' ...
Printing plate etched with a drawing of a baby by Mervyn Peake [probably his son Sebastian Peake]. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1965. Undated.
Comprises four parts: A. News From Afar [London Missionary Society] (Jan 1924), pp.1-15, containing article ‘Ways of Travelling’ (p.9) by Mervyn L Peake about different modes of transport in China, written at the age of 12. B. Cuttings of poems by Peake published in various periodicals (most pas...
International Copyright Bureau Script (Prospect Productions)
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Typescript of text for performance, labelled 'Script from Dr Czech [of the International Copyright Bureau] - on loan. Completely clean copy of second version'. With annotations in two different hands [one being Maeve Gilmore?]. Annotations mostly relate to the part of Dr Willy.