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231. Add MS 88931/13/3/17

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Title:
'Theses': Letters From Academics and Students
Scope & Content:
Includes letters from translators, writers, musicians and fans of Mervyn Peake, but most correspondents have some connection with academia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
1972-1982
Extent:

4 files

232. Add MS 88931/13/3/18/3

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Title:
Letters From Reference Publishers
Scope & Content:
Requests for information about Mervyn Peake and his work for reference publications: Novels and Novelists, Who's Who in Europe, Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of British Book Illustrators.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1978-1983
Extent:
1 file

233. Add MS 88931/13/3/18/6

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Title:
Letters From Publishers: M
Scope & Content:
Letters to Maeve Gilmore from Eyre Methuen, Methuen London, Methuen Children's Books and Associated Book Publishers. Letters pertain to both Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore's literary and artistic works, including the intended edition of Bleak House, illustrated by Mervyn, that was not ultimately...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1983
Extent:
1 file

234. 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

235. Add MS 88931/13/1/1

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Title:
Autograph Manuscripts for A World Away
Scope & Content:
Comprises four notebooks containing two drafts: A. Draft in pencil with minor revisions. Invoice at end dated 18 October 1967. B. Continuation of pencil draft, undated. C. Later revised draft, in ink, March 1968-April 1968. D. Continuation of later draft to end, May 1968.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1968
Extent:
1 file

236. Add MS 88931/1/1/2

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Title:
Typescript: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs by Mervyn Peake circa 1921'
Scope & Content:
Fair copy. Undated [perhaps produced prior to publication in Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1978]
Extent:
1 file

237. Add MS 88931/2/4/3

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Title:
Poems Written at Virginia Water Hospital circa 1960-1961. Holloway Sanatorium
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript poems: 'Heads move ['float' inserted] about me...'; 'Swallow the sky: chew up the stars...'; 'Course [Coarse] as the sun is blatant...' (with two sketches of heads); 'Through the voluminous foliage of the mind...'; 'On fishing up a marble head'; 'That lance of light that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960?
Extent:
1 oversize file

238. Add MS 88931/1/3/9

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Title:
'Ideas for Book Two' (Titus Groan chapters 60-61)
Scope & Content:
Working notebook for what Peake referred to as Book 1 and Book 2 [two parts of Titus Groan], in pencil, crayon and ink. Includes continuation of manuscript with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Also includes drafts of introduction (crossed out) and chapter listing....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939-1943
Extent:
1 volume

239. Add MS 88931/1/3/11

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Title:
'Titus Groan Part 1 (Continued) - Gormenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 65-68)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in various colour inks, with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Dated August 1943. Drawings in ink include: front cover: Steerpike; f.12: doodle of legs and feet; f.15: rough sketches [perhaps of nun]; ff.40v-f.41: satyrs [may be preparatory ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:

1 volume

240. Add MS 88931/13/2/5

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Title:
Fragments Re Fourth Titus Book [later entitled Titus Awakes]
Scope & Content:
Comprises: list in Mervyn Peake's hand of possible ideas, chapters or titles, headed 'Titus among the -' (pasted onto leaf from diary for 7 January 1963); p.135 of typescript draft [conversation between Mrs Sempleton? and Titus]; undated [1970s?]; photocopy of Peake's prologue and first chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-c 1995
Extent:
1 file