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51. Add MS 88931/3/6/3

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Clean copy inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’ consisting of one complete version and an alternative typesetting of Act II and part of Act III. With four leaves of handwritten and typewritten instructions by Mervyn Peake, headed ‘The action takes place in a cave’. Includes original file cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1961]
Extent:
1 file

52. Add MS 88931/3/6/5

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Inscribed ‘1 Drayton Gardens’. Undated [but appears to have been produced on an electronic typewriter].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Cuttings From Newspapers and Journals
Scope & Content:
Articles and reviews relating to Mervyn Peake and his work: Tom Pocock, ‘Hitler’s Problem Children’, with drawings by Mervyn Peake, Leader, 30 June 1945. Tom Driberg, ‘European Notebook’, with drawings by Mervyn Peake, Leader, 4 August 1945. Reviews of Titus Groan: New York Times, 11 October 194...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1984
Extent:
1 oversize file

54. Add MS 88931/5/2

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Title:
Ideas For Television: "Just a Line"
Scope & Content:
Comprises working notes for 'Just a Line', an unrealised animated television programme with drawings and commentary by Mervyn Peake: Autograph notebook entitled 'Re Diffusion'. Comprises draft fragments of 'Just a Line' and a few line drawings. Undated. Loose leaves with ideas for 'Just a Line'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1955
Extent:
1 oversize file

55. Add MS 88931/7/2/2

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Title:
Drawings (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Ten pen and ink drawings, with inscriptions in Mervyn Peake's hand: White kitten: drawing on paper pasted onto bigger leaf; inscribed ‘Ch 1 “heading”’ (f.1); White Queen: drawing on water-colour board; inscribed ‘White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel’ [in Maeve Gilmore's hand] (ff.2-3); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 file

56. Add MS 88931/3/3/5

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus' Act I Scene 1
Scope & Content:
Later version of scene. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1970s]
Extent:
1 file

57. Add MS 88931/4/2/2

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Title:
For Mr Pye - An Island
Scope & Content:
Typescript by Peake [lacking end of script?]. Inscribed: 'TRANSMISSION: HOME SERVICE: Wednesday, 10th July 1957'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957
Extent:
1 file

58. Add MS 88931/13/4/3

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Title:
Loans Notebook
Scope & Content:
Disbound writing pad detailing drawings, manuscripts and other items loaned out for publication, exhibition and other purposes. Information recorded includes dates of loans, return of items and, in one case, missing items. Loans listed include: Pan Books (poems and drawings for A Book of Nonsen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1977
Extent:
1 file

59. Add MS 88931/10/1

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Title:
'The Dusky Birron' by Gordon Smith
Scope & Content:
Clean copy typescript of a story written by Peake's former school friend with 'pictures by Mervyn Peake' (although there are no illustrations with this typescript). The character of the Dusky Birron was invented by Smith and Peake for an earlier collaboration, 'The Moccus Book'. Peake's Wallingt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929?-1939?
Extent:
1 file

60. Add MS 88931/2/6/1

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Title:
Autograph Drafts: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Contains original folder inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [where he lived from 1953 to 1960] but poems appear to have been written earlier. Inside folder is inscribed with the line 'I sometimes think of old tomes and [illegible: not 'weeds']' ['I sometimes think of old tombs and weeds' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1950s]
Extent:
1 oversize file