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111. Add MS 88931/13/6/19

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Title:
'Harlequin Phoenix': Frontispiece
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of the 'Harlequin Phoenix' leaping from flames holding an unlit torch. Published in Thelma Niklaus, Harlequin Phoenix (London: Bodley Head, 1956). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1956]
Extent:
1 item

112. Add MS 88931/13/6/21

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Title:
Human-Animal Hybrids (small)
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of human-cat hybrid and human-donkey? hybrid, both raising their arms over their heads. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1968. Smaller version of Add MS 88931/13/6/20. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1968?
Extent:
1 item

113. Add MS 88931/3/1/6

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Title:
‘Sally Devius' Act III Scenes 1 and 2
Scope & Content:
Complete revised autograph draft in various coloured inks. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand. Many passages underlined in red pencil. 'Shirt' has been crossed out and the character renamed 'Kite'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1950
Extent:
1 volume

114. Add MS 88931/1/3/18

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Title:
'Titus' (Gormenghast chapters 38-50)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in ink, with authorial revisions. Dated 2 April 1949, 6.25am, Sark. At the end of the manuscript there are: nonsense poems with accompanying illustrations: 'Have a pear' (f.71v) and 'Little spider' (f.72); character notes on Titus, Fuchsia, the Cockatrice and Steerpike (f.77...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1949-Jun 1949
Extent:
1 volume

115. Add MS 88931/3/1/8

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Title:
Revised Typescript: ‘The Wit To Woo’
Scope & Content:
Comprises three parts: A: Act I; B: Act II Scene 1; C: Act II Scene 2; Incorporates additional manuscript leaves with revisions. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 file

116. Add MS 88931/1/3/13

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 1-14)
Scope & Content:
Draft with authorial revisions (some on supplementary leaves pasted in) and corrections. Includes 'The Colour Chapters'. Dated 12 Feb 1945 at front. Inscribed 'Moores Hotel Guernsey Sept 15th' on f.85. Drawings in ink include: f.3v: doodle of bird and face that looks like tribal mask; f.15: two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1948
Extent:
1 volume

117. Add MS 88931/1/3/17

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 36-38)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft. Dated Christmas Eve 1948. Drawings in ink include: f.4: head [Bellgrove?]; f.11: Bellgrove; f.23: primitive creature; winged creature wearing pointed hat next to a tree, island in the background; f.24v: man and child viewing giant horse on museum plinth; f.26: margin doodle of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1948-Mar 1949
Extent:
1 volume

118. Add MS 88931/13/3/10

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Title:
Letters Re Performing Rights and Productions
Scope & Content:
Letters predominantly relating to three projects: Readings of Gormenghast by the Western Australian Theatre Company (includes letters from director Lionel Farrell, programmes, poster and newspaper cuttings). British Theatre of the Deaf performance of 'Boy in Darkness' (includes story outline, sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1973-24 Sep 1982
Extent:
1 file

119. Add MS 88931/7/1/3

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Title:
Drawings in Smaller Mounts (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Eleven finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Duchess and the baby; with caption inscribed 'Chapter Six. While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song she kept tossing the baby violently up & down' (ff.2-3); Baby as a pig; with cap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 oversize file

120. Add MS 88931/13/5/5

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Title:
Proofs for Rhymes Without Reason
Scope & Content:
Contains: paste-up for jacket and black-and-white ozalid proofs for Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974), both with covering letter from editor Marcy Leavitt Thomas; full colour proofs with jacket proof.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1974-24 Apr 1974
Extent:
1 file