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51. Add MS 88931/1/6/2

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Add MS 88931/1/6/2
Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Mr Pye chapters 22-26)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft. One ink drawing of a black male figure and chair on f.30v. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1951
Extent:
1 volume

52. Add MS 88931/1/7

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Title:
J Butterfield' and 'The Story of the Gray Horse
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript with semi-autobiographical story about an artist named Johnny Butterfield. Consists of draft of chapter 1 and beginning of chapter 2, followed by notes for development of the story. The notes refer to real people, places and events in Peake's life. There are two illustration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1952-c 1953
Extent:
1 volume

53. Add MS 88931/1/8

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Title:
Boy In Darkness
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript draft with autograph corrections of novella about Titus Groan's journey out of Gormenghast. See also Add MS 88931/1/2 and Add MS 88931/1/3 for the rest of the Titus manuscripts. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956?
Extent:
1 volume

54. Add MS 88931/1/9/1

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Title:
Manuscript: 'Footfruit various drafts - final writings - circa 1960'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: revised autograph fragments in ink and pencil on various sizes of paper. Includes original envelope and folder. Also includes ten illustrations in ink and pencil. Some leaves have unidentified typescript on reverse. Notes on plot are headed 'Metamorphosis'. Circa 1960. autograph noteb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960-1961]
Extent:
1 oversize file

55. Add MS 88931/1/9/2

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Title:
Typescript and Synopsis: 'The Enthusiast or the Adventures of Footfruit'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: typescript with minor corrections in pencil; gaps left in text [for illustrations], 2 March; typescript of synopsis in red ink; newspaper cutting with pencil marks in gutters: 'Sub-think', News Chronicle, 25 September 1957 [Maeve Gilmore cites this article as inspiration for 'Footfrui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1961
Extent:
1 oversize file

56. Add MS 88931/1/9/3

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Title:
Illustrated Typescript: 'The Adventures of Footfruit or The Enthusiast'
Scope & Content:
With minor corrections to text in pencil and six illustrations in ink. Pencil notes in margin specify the width of illustrations for printed edition. With original folder inscribed: 'Pan Books 6 out of 29'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1961
Extent:
1 file

57. Add MS 88931/1/10

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Title:
The Bitch
Scope & Content:
Leaf with revised autograph draft of chapter 1 of a story, comprising a scene between Johnny Prawn and Marta[?]. Paper watermarked 'Hylton Bank'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

58. Add MS 88931/1/11

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Title:
Short Story ['Manifold Basket']
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph fragment of a story about Stagg College. Story later reworked as a play entitled 'Manifold Basket' - see Add MS 88931/3/4. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

59. Add MS 88931/1/12

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Title:
Autograph Fragments
Scope & Content:
Comprises two unrelated items in Mervyn Peake's hand, both undated: Leaf with revised autograph fragment on the imagination, 'Without a limitless theme the imagination boggles...'; Leaf with autograph fragment about the influence of Charles Dickens on George Bernard Shaw's work, copied from Char...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

60. Add MS 88931/2/1

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Title:
'The Touch o' the Ash'
Scope & Content:
Complete autograph draft of narrative poem written in a juvenile hand. Editorial corrections in ink and pencil. Illuminated letters at the beginning of each paragraph.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 volume