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11. Add MS 88931/2/9

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Title:
Typescript: 'Selected Poems'
Scope & Content:
Almost complete set of poems as published in Mervyn Peake, Selected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1972), lacking only 'Thunder the Christ of it'. With editorial corrections. Includes original folder.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972
Extent:
1 file

12. Add MS 88931/2/10

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Title:
Autograph Drafts and Fragments
Scope & Content:
Includes notes on 'alternative ending of act 2' [for 'The Wit To Woo', written in the early 1950s] and draft of speech for the same play [spoken by Percy Trellis]. There are possible titles [presumably for Peake's drawings 'The Works of Adolf Hitler', 1940] alongside a doodle of a man slaying an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1950s]
Extent:
1 file

13. Add MS 88931/13/10

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Title:
Publications
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Michael Moorcock, Ergo Ego (London: MJM Publications, 1962) - includes recommendation for the work of Mervyn Peake on back cover. B. Stephen R Sanderson, The Collector’s Bulletin, 10 (Newport News, Virginia: Purple Mouth Press, April 1969) - includes Mervyn Peake bibliography by Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1979
Extent:
1 oversize file

14. Add MS 88931/11/4

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Title:
Letters of Appreciation
Scope & Content:
Fan mail (re Titus Groan, Gormenghast and other works) from friends, acquaintances and members of the public: Ruth Lonergan and James Dugan; Elizabeth Hare; Ethel Fairchild (2 letters); Billy [Thorne?]; 'Hutch'; Olwen T? Brown, Leicester Galleries; R- J Daingerfield Jr; Frances Grigsby; Jean Coo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1946-17 Feb 1960
Extent:
1 file

15. Add MS 88931/6/3

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Title:
Printed Source Material
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A: Newspaper cutting of obituary for Mervyn Peake's father, Dr E C Peake [1950]; B: Cutting from London Missionary Society magazine of a photograph annotated 'sunhats on the river' in Mervyn Peake's hand; C: Printed leaves with black and white photographs of China and Japan by B T Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-c 1950
Extent:
1 oversize file

16. Add MS 88931/4/2/1

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Title:
Titus Groan
Scope & Content:
Typescript by Peake inscribed 'TRANSMISSION. BBC Third Programme: Wednesday 1st February 1956'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Notes and Draft Manuscript
Scope & Content:
Comprises four parts: A: 'Chinese Puzzle'. Loose leaves with notes and draft of chapter 1 of Peake's memoir about his childhood in China. Inscribed 'Smarden 1951 July'. B: Autograph notebook with notes on Tientsin Grammar School, Eltham College, Kuling, the Compound, Shanghai and various childho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-c 1960
Extent:
2 files

18. Add MS 88931/2/8

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Title:
Corrected Typescripts: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves, some with autograph corrections. There are multiple versions or copies of many of the poems. Some supplementary typescript and manuscript leaves have been pasted in. Original dates and places of composition have been inscribed in Maeve Gilmore's hand (these range from 1937-1960). Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 file

19. Add MS 88931/2/2

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript and Typescript Leaves: 'Unpublished Poems'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Revised autograph manuscript in pencil and ink. 'Serious' poems are at the front of the volume; nonsense poems at the back. Some typescript and manuscript leaves pasted in. Includes drawing of Mervyn Peake's mother on her deathbed and related poem (1939). Includes a later note [in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
I Bought a Palm Tree
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft of short story set on Sark [based on truth]. Unidentified typescript on reverse of two leaves.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1948
Extent:
1 file