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71. Add MS 88931/1/3/43

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Title:
'Titus Four'
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript in different colour inks and crayon. Contains first draft of beginning of fourth Titus novel [published as Titus Awakes], with working notes and a list of possible titles. Starting on f.32 is a draft of the beginning of Titus Alone. Inscribed 'Wallington', later cros...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1960
Extent:
1 volume

72. Add MS 88931/3/5

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Title:
The Voice of One’ and ‘The Eye of the Beholder
Scope & Content:
Comprises two typescript versions of a radio play by Mervyn Peake for the BBC Home Service: A: ‘Writing For Sound: The Voice of One’. B: ‘Writing For Sound: The Eye of the Beholder’. This script appears to be the later version as it contains minor revisions in pencil. Both typescripts marked...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

73. Add MS 88931/2/4/1

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Title:
Autograph Poems
Scope & Content:
Includes notes made in pencil by 'J.C., 1982' [presumably of the Bodleian Library] suggesting volumes from which individual leaves were torn. Contains poems: 'Satan'; 'Who Can Find?'; 'Onetime my notes would dance to any theme...'; 'Out of the chaos of my doubt...'; 'Conceipt' [Conceit] ['Poem'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

74. Add MS 88931/2/7

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Title:
The Rhino and the Lark' and 'The Bull-Frog and the Flies
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph drafts of two nonsense poems with edited and fair copy typescripts of both. The manuscript for 'The Bull-Frog and the Flies' [published as 'The Bullfrog and the Flies'] is inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [suggesting a date between 1953 and 1960]. Includes envelope ent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

75. Add MS 88931/1/2

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Title:
'Mr Slaughterboard' (and 'The House of Darkstones')
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript of novella in ink and pencil. Complete draft in three chapters of the story that was later reworked as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Inscribed 'Trinity College Hotel, Chestnut Walk, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire'. Dated 1935 (f.53). Starting from the end of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 volume

76. Add MS 88931/7/1/4

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Title:
Drawings in Larger Mounts (part 1)
Scope & Content:
Comprises eight drawings. Rough sketches: 'Queen of Hearts'; crayon, ink and wash on paper (f.1); Queen of Hearts; pen and ink on brown paper (f.2); White Rabbit down the rabbit hole; watercolour and crayon on water-colour paper (f.3). Finished illustrations in pen and ink, with captions in Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 oversize file

77. Add MS 88931/13/17/2

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Title:
'Gormenghast' abridged by James Park
Scope & Content:
Word processed text. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s]
Extent:
1 file

78. Add MS 88931/2/4/2

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Title:
Poems to Maeve
Scope & Content:
Typescript and facsimiles of: 'Maeve: If when I married you I was in love'; 'FOR MAEVE. Now with the rain about her I can see', July 1960 (facsimile of autograph draft and typescript); 'Leave Train'; 'Troop Train'; 'And I thought you beside me...' (two typescript versions); 'In the fabric of thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1960s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

79. Add MS 88931/13/5/3

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Title:
Proofs for Household Tales
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for Brothers Grimm, Household Tales (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Also includes full colour proofs for Eyre and Spottiswoode jacket illustration and two different proofs for Methuen jacket.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1972
Extent:
1 file

80. Add MS 88931/13/5/6

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Title:
Proofs for Treasure Island
Scope & Content:
Page proofs for Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (London: Methuen, 1976) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1976
Extent:
1 oversize file