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121. Add MS 88931/13/5/8

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Title:
Proofs of Gormenghast character drawings
Scope & Content:
Proofs of six black and white drawings by Mervyn Peake of characters from Gormenghast: Fuchsia Groan; Cora and Clarice Groan; Countess of Groan; Irma Prunesquallor; Dr Prunesquallor and Fuchsia; Abiatha Swelter and kitchen urchin. Printed underneath the drawings are quotes describing the charact...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1968]
Extent:
1 oversize file

122. Add MS 88931/3/1/4

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Title:
‘Sally Devius, A Comedy by Mervyn Peake' Act I
Scope & Content:
Complete revised autograph draft in various coloured inks. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand. List of ‘dramatis personae’ on title verso. Sketch [of Percy Trellis] with sweat dripping from brow on original cover (leaf with new cover loosely attached over the top). ‘Not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1950
Extent:
1 file

123. Add MS 88931/3/3/4

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Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus by Mervyn Peake in conjunction with Aaron Judah’
Scope & Content:
Includes authorial revisions, mostly in Peake’s hand. Original title ‘And a Horse of Air’ has been erased. Inscribed ‘Mervyn Peake 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Sy’ on f.1 and ‘Maeve Peake 1 Drayton Gardens’ on inside front cover. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-early 1960s]
Extent:
1 volume

124. Add MS 88931/13/3/15/6

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Title:
Greetings Cards
Scope & Content:
Greetings cards, postcards and ephemera sent to Maeve Gilmore from: Beverly; Michael Howard (formerly of Jonathan Cape Publishers); Ronald Moody; Rudolph Dunbar; Ian and Sue; Keith and Carole; Naomi; Methuen Children's Books; John and Mave [Grome]; Margaret and Giles [Gordon]; Marius and Pru Gori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1980s
Extent:
1 file

125. Add MS 88931/3/1/20

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Title:
Typescript: '"The Wit to Woo" by Mervyn Peake'
Scope & Content:
Clean copy seemingly produced on an electronic typewriter. Inscribed with name and address of agent Maurice Michael and Maeve Peake [Maeve Gilmore]. Appears to be the version from which Maeve Gilmore compiled the text for Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978) as this is the only typescript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 volume

126. Add MS 88931/1/3/20

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Title:
'Labyrinth' (Gormenghast chapters 67-75)
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft, in ink. 'Notes on final chapters' on f.26. Lists of possible titles on f.73. Dated 29 July 1949, Sark. Drawings in ink include: f.9: bird flying; f.30: male figure [Bright Carver?]; f.43: boy with arrow and Native American headdress; f.69v: the Thing holding a bird (full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1949-Aug 1949
Extent:
1 volume

127. Add MS 88931/1/3/22

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 77-78)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft, in ink. Sketch diagrams of Titus and Steerpike in the flood (ff.25-26). Dated 13 August 1939, Sark.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1949
Extent:
1 volume

128. Add MS 88931/2/6/3

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' [or Songs of Nonsense]
Scope & Content:
Contains fair copies of poems with minor revisions [probably from the late 1950s - see Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense, ed by R W Maslen and G Peter Winnington (Manchester: Carcanet, 2011), p.2]. Label on cover partly obscures old title 'The Parting of the Way'. Towards the back of the volume ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1966]
Extent:
1 volume

129. Add MS 88931/13/3/4

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Title:
Letters From Family Members
Scope & Content:
Letters from Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake's family. Correspondents are: Lonnie [Ernest Leslie] and Ruth Peake; Ruth Gilmore; János and Vicki [-]; Christopher [Kit] Peake; and Maeve and Mervyn's children Fabian [Peake] and Clare [Peñate née Peake].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1961-21 Dec 1981
Extent:
1 file

130. Add MS 88931/13/5/1

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Title:
Proofs for The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Scope & Content:
Unpaginated page proofs (including illustrations) presumably for Mervyn Peake, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (London: J M Dent and Sons, 1962) comprising a gathering of four leaves corresponding to pp.1-8 of the printed edition (though two pages are out of sequence).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1962]
Extent:
1 file