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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs'
Scope & Content:
Complete draft of manuscript in juvenile hand. There are three illustrations in ink and pencil: 'The Hottentots Attack', 'A Picture of an Umzimbooboo Kaffir and a Hottentot' and 'Born Enemies'. Inside back cover has lists of chapters, illustrations and characters. Undated [Maeve Gilmore suggests...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921
Extent:
1 volume

2. 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

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Title:
'Mr Slaughterboard' (and 'The House of Darkstones')
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript of novella in ink and pencil. Complete draft in three chapters of the story that was later reworked as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Inscribed 'Trinity College Hotel, Chestnut Walk, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire'. Dated 1935 (f.53). Starting from the end of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 88931/1/3/1

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Title:
'Goremenghast continued' (Titus Groan chapters 12-16)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in ink and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editor's?] corrections in red pencil. This is the second volume of Peake's manuscript (cover is labelled '11' [II]). There are oddments of verse on f.103 and f.104. Dated 3 October 1940, Dartford. Drawings in ink and pencil: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 88931/1/3/2

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Title:
'Goremenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 17-24)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editor's?] corrections in pencil. As noted on the spine, this is the third volume of Peake's manuscript. Includes list of 'chapters already completed in the rough' on frontispiece. Notes on plot, vocabulary, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 88931/1/3/3

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Title:
'Goremenghast: Swelter (revised)' (Titus Groan chapters 2-3)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript written in pen and ink on foolscap leaves, with authorial [and editorial?] corrections. Sub-title 'The Province of Swelter' crossed out. Rough sketch of Swelter in ink on p.15. Dated 28 November 1940, Blackpool.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 oversize file

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Title:
'Titus Groan' (Titus Groan chapters 25-35)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks, with authorial revisions and [editor's?] corrections in pencil. Title 'Goremenghast (continued)' crossed out and replaced with 'Titus Groan'. Supplementary leaves with additions and revisions have been pasted into the volume. At the end of the manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-1941
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
'Goremenghast continued' (Titus Groan chapters 36-37)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in pen and ink with authorial revisions and [editorial?] pencil corrections. This is the fifth volume of Peake's manuscript, as indicated on the cover. Brief notes [towards drawings for 'The Works of Adolf Hitler'] on f.35v. There are notes at the end of the manuscript inclu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 88931/1/3/6

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Title:
'Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Goremenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 38-45)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editorial?] pencil corrections. Original title 'Titus Knell' crossed out. Character notes on f.68. Notes at end of volume include draft of poem 'The satyrs sprawl along my limbs'. Dated 14 April 1941, Blackpo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1941-Aug 1941
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 88931/1/3/7

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Title:
'Goremenghast continued - Book Seven' (Titus Groan chapters 47-57)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in pencil. Includes notes on vocabulary at end of manuscript and drafts of poem to Maeve, 'What can I ever offer you...', (crossed through). Passage from 29 May is headed 'Southport Neu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1941-1 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 volume