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101. Add MS 88931/13/3/14

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Add MS 88931/13/3/14
Title:
Letters From Tom Pocock
Scope & Content:
Letters re Pocock’s article ‘Travels with Mervyn Peake’ about their 1945 assignment to travel through post-war Europe for the Leader. Includes: typescript drafts of 'Travels With Mervyn Peake': the earlier with authorial revisions; the latter a clean copy; newspaper cutting of Pocock's article ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1977-Aug 1978
Extent:
1 file

102. Add MS 88931/1/9/3

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Add MS 88931/1/9/3
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

103. Add MS 88931/6/2

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Add MS 88931/6/2
Title:
'Memoirs of a Doctor in China' by Ernest Cromwell Peake
Scope & Content:
Typescript with annotations [by Mervyn Peake?]. Mervyn Peake's father's memoirs of his life in China from 1898 through the early 1900s. Includes inserted loose leaf with notes in a different hand [Maeve Gilmore's?]. Undated (but date inferred from text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1948]
Extent:
1 file

104. Add MS 88931/3/1/16

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Add MS 88931/3/1/16
Title:
International Copyright Bureau Typescript: '"The Wit To Woo" by Mervyn Peake'
Scope & Content:
Cast list for 1957 Arts Theatre production inscribed next to list of dramatis personae. There are handwritten notes and deletions in the text in preparation for performance. Final pages have been torn out. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957?
Extent:
1 volume

105. Add MS 88931/13/2/3

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Add MS 88931/13/2/3
Title:
Typescripts: 'Titus Awakes or Peradventure'
Scope & Content:
Two typescripts: A. Complete typescript including introduction and copy of Peake's notes on last leaf. B. Complete typescript as above but with handwritten corrections. Inscribed with Drayton Gardens address. Both undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1970s]
Extent:
1 file

106. Add MS 88931/2/6/2

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Add MS 88931/2/6/2
Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' ['Verse' partially visible]
Scope & Content:
Revised nonsense poems. Drawing pasted to cover depicts artist at his easel. Includes doodles of heads, figures and animals. Notes [perhaps for a play] about an old man on inside back cover. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore suggests that 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' was written on Sark, where the fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1940s]
Extent:
1 volume

107. Add MS 88931/13/4/1

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Add MS 88931/13/4/1
Title:
Notebooks and Lists
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Typewritten and autograph lists of published works and various projects by Mervyn Peake, including names of contacts (mostly written by Maeve Gilmore but with some notes in Mervyn Peake's hand) [1950s?-1970s?]. B. Notebook containing lists of manuscripts, drawings and other items...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1970s]
Extent:
1 file

108. Add MS 88931/3/1/7

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Add MS 88931/3/1/7
Title:
Discarded Typescript and Later Manuscript Draft: ‘The Wit To Woo’
Scope & Content:
Inscribed with Peake’s Wallington address. Undated. Comprises: complete draft typescript of play in three acts; later autograph draft of Act I and Act II on reverse of typescript, with revisions (some leaves pasted in, both in typescript and manuscript). The character October is still named Gu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 volume

109. Add MS 88931/7/1/2

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Add MS 88931/7/1/2
Title:
Drawings in Smaller Mounts (part 1)
Scope & Content:
Comprises eleven drawings. Rough sketches: Knave of Hearts; pencil drawing on tracing paper (bottom edge torn) (f.1); Mad Hatter; pencil drawing on paper (f.2). Finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Alice; ink drawing; with caption inscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:

1 oversize file

110. Add MS 88931/13/2/4

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Add MS 88931/13/2/4
Title:
Typescripts: 'Search Without End'
Scope & Content:
Two complete, identical typescripts. Appears to be later version of the story that became Titus Awakes, different from the drafts in Add MS 88931/13/2/1-3. This version is closest to the published text. With loose leaf title page in Maeve Gilmore's hand. Inscribed with Drayton Gardens address. U...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file