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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88931 Level [37] SubSeries

1. Add MS 88931/1/1

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Title:
The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs
Scope & Content:
Juvenile short story
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921-c 1978
Extent:

2 files

2. Add MS 88931/1/3

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Title:
Titus/Gormenghast Series
Scope & Content:
Drafts of first three novels and beginning of fourth book. Lacking the first eleven chapters of Titus Groan. Comprises thirty four notebooks plus typescripts and loose autograph leaves. In addition to text, drawings and poems, the notebooks include details of appointments, lists of current proje...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939-c 1962
Extent:

44 files

3. Add MS 88931/1/6

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Title:
Mr Pye
Scope & Content:
Fragments of drafts for novel. Chapters given in title field relate to the published version, not to original numbering of the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1951
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Add MS 88931/1/9

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Title:
Footfruit
Scope & Content:
Short story. See Add MS 88931/3/7 for early notes towards 'Footfruit'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1961
Extent:
3 files

5. Add MS 88931/2/4

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Title:
Manuscript and Typescript Poems
Scope & Content:
Various loose leaf poems by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1960s]
Extent:
3 files

6. Add MS 88931/2/6

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Title:
Nonsence
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript drafts of nonsense poems by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1970s
Extent:
4 files

7. Add MS 88931/3/1

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Title:
The Wit To Woo
Scope & Content:
Script of Peake's verse play which was performed at the Arts Theatre Club, London in 1957. According to Maeve Gilmore, Peake begun writing 'The Wit to Woo' circa 1950: 'The Wit to Woo', Peake's Progress (London: British Library, 2011), p.267. Typescripts Add MS 88931/3/1/16-19 are identical as ty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950-1970s
Extent:
20 files

8. Add MS 88931/3/3

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Title:
Mr Loftus
Scope & Content:
Complete play. Maeve Gilmore's notes for Peake's Progress [see Add MS 88931/13/4/5] state that the play 'was written between circa 1954-55'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1970s
Extent:
6 files

9. Add MS 88931/3/6

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Title:
The Cave
Scope & Content:
Complete play. Maeve Gilmore's introductory note for 'The Cave' in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written between 1957 and 1959' [see Add MS 88931/13/4/5].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1957-1970s]
Extent:

5 files

10. Add MS 88931/4/1

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera
Scope & Content:
Adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake [for which he hoped Benjamin Britten would compose the music].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1950s
Extent:
3 files

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