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81. Add MS 88931/13/6/18

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Add MS 88931/13/6/18
Title:
Figure With Snake
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of oriental figure wearing a loin cloth and a pointed hat kneeling next to a snake wearing a crown. This image was published in Poems and Drawings by Mervyn Peake (London: Keepsake Press, 1965). Block inscribed 'Peake'. The image is dated 1956 bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1956
Extent:
1 item

82. Add MS 88931/1/3/16

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Add MS 88931/1/3/16
Title:
Loose Leaves: 'When Irma returned to her guests...'
Scope & Content:
Foolscap additional leaves accompanying autograph manuscript Add MS 88931/1/3/15. Sketch of Irma Prunesquallor holding a flower in ink on f.3v (originally marked as p.267).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file

83. Add MS 88931/3/1/13

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Add MS 88931/3/1/13
Title:
Autograph Notebook: Act III 'Synopsis’
Scope & Content:
Comprises summary of Act II and synopsis for Act III. There are many drawings of fantastical figures at the back of the volume. Revisions to the text would suggest that this is a later draft than Add MS 88931/3/1/12. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:

1 volume

84. Add MS 88931/13/6/24

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Add MS 88931/13/6/24
Title:
Nude Boy Holding Branch
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. This image was used for a greetings card from Mervyn and Maeve Gilmore [see Add MS 88931/13/12]. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item

85. Add MS 88931/4/1/3

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Add MS 88931/4/1/3
Title:
'Titus Groan' Opera
Scope & Content:
Comprises two parts: A: Foolscap leaves corresponding to the opening scenes of Titus Groan, with minor revisions only. Undated. B: Autograph notebook. Some leaves pasted in. First half of the manuscript is crossed through; second half inscribed 'please continue here from the foolscap (page 14)'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

86. Add MS 88931/4/1/1

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Add MS 88931/4/1/1
Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera (part one)
Scope & Content:
Three autograph working notebooks: A: 'Gormenghast'. Opening scenes of the play corresponding with beginning of the novel Titus Groan. Includes designs for the Countess's bedroom and a drawing of Rottcodd in his hammock. Also contains a leaf of tracing paper with symbols drawn in pencil, entitle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1950s
Extent:
1 file

87. Add MS 88931/1/3/23

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Add MS 88931/1/3/23
Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 78-80)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft. Dated 16 August.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug [1949]
Extent:
1 volume

88. Add MS 88931/13/6/20

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Add MS 88931/13/6/20
Title:
Human-Animal Hybrids (large)
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of human-cat hybrid and human-donkey? hybrid, both raising their arms over their heads. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card 1968. Larger version of Add MS 88931/13/6/21. Block inscribed 'Peake'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968?
Extent:
1 file

89. Add MS 88931/13/7/1

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Add MS 88931/13/7/1
Title:
Transatlantic Review Photostats
Scope & Content:
Comprises: letter from Heathcote Williams of the Transatlantic Review to Maeve Gilmore; Maeve's list of drawings; photostats of fifteen of Mervyn Peake's drawings of various people, animals, hybrid creatures, Aunty Jill from 'Aunts and Uncles', Judy Smallweed from Bleak House and a drawing that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

90. Add MS 88931/13/8

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Add MS 88931/13/8
Title:
Copies of Article and Talk by Mervyn Peake
Scope & Content:
Comprises: photocopy of article by Mervyn Peake, 'What Is Drawing?', Athene, Vol 8 No 3 (April, 1957); photocopy of printed transcript of radio talk by Mervyn Peake, 'Alice and Tenniel and Me', broadcast on the BBC Home Service (12 December 1954), marked '© Maeve Gilmore 1978'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file