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21. Add MS 88931/13/11

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Title:
Sale Catalogues
Scope & Content:
Comprises: Christie's catalogue, 28 May 1975, with a covering letter to Maeve - lots include Mervyn Peake's portraits of Graham Greene, Laurence Olivier, Sir Winston Churchill, Humbert Wolfe, David Jones, Dame Flora Robson, Kurt Toller and two portraits of Mark Gertler. Sotheby & Co catalogu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972-1975
Extent:
1 file

22. 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

23. 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

24. Add MS 88931/3/10

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Title:
‘Noah’s Ark: A Play For Children’
Scope & Content:
Typescript for a finished play, with minor corrections in Mervyn Peake’s hand. Wallington address crossed out and replaced with Drayton Gardens. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore's introductory note in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written for children circa 1960' - see Mervyn Peake, Peake's P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1960]
Extent:
1 file

25. 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

26. Add MS 88931/11/1

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Title:
Letters From Family and Maeve Gilmore
Scope & Content:
Contains the following autograph letters: Postcard from Mervyn Peake to his brother E L Peake [Ernest Leslie Peake] interned as prisoner of war in Singapore, postmarked 28 April 1945, stamped: 'returned in undelivered [illeg] from territory formerly [occupied] by Japanese forces'. Airmail letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943?-1962
Extent:
1 file

27. Add MS 88931/3/1/15

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Title:
Typescript: Act III
Scope & Content:
Clean copy lacking ending of Act III
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 file

28. Add MS 88931/13/14

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Title:
Passports and Identity Cards
Scope & Content:
Contains: British passport belonging to Mervyn Peake, 1951-1956; British passport belonging to Maeve Peake [née Gilmore], 1972-1982; Travel Identity Card belonging to Mervyn Peake; National Registration identity card belonging to Maeve Peake, 1943-1950; photocopy of British passport for Ernest C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1980s
Extent:
1 file

29. Add MS 88931/1/4

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Title:
Letters From Lost Uncle
Scope & Content:
Fair copy typescript of early draft of the story published as Letters From a Lost Uncle. Comprises fourteen letters from Lost Uncle, without illustrations. Includes original file cover. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948?
Extent:
1 volume

30. Add MS 88931/7/1/6

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Title:
Proofs
Scope & Content:
Pulls (first proofs) of illustrations, cut and pasted onto card with captions in pencil in Mervyn Peake's hand. Proposed dimensions of printed drawings have been inscribed on mount. Partial set comprising 25 of the 31 illustrations: King of Hearts: 'Frontispiece'; Crocodile: 'Chapter 2. How dot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:

1 file