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1. Add MS 88931/9

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Add MS 88931/9
Title:
Waddington Galleries Exhibitions
Scope & Content:
Ephemera relating to two different exhibitions of Peake's drawings at the Victor Waddington Galleries, London: printed brief catalogue for a 1951 exhibition, with an introduction by Maurice Collis (annotation in Mervyn's hand notes the money made from the sale of works); press cutting with revie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1958
Extent:
1 file

2. Add MS 88931/8

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Title:
Sketchbook: 'Roehampton 1965'
Scope & Content:
Sketches by Mervyn Peake, made whilst he was hospitalised at Roehampton. Mostly consisting of drawings of heads in pencil and crayon. Some drawings dated October 1964 [in Maeve Gilmore's hand].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-1965
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 88931/3/4

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Title:
‘Manifold Basket’
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Notebook made from typescript and manuscript leaves pasted into a copy of The British Countryside in Pictures. Consists of Act I and beginning of Act II. Includes drawings of characters Manifold Basket and Bellgrove. Undated. B: Five loose leaves with f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[mid 1950s]
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 88931/3/7

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Title:
The Greenhorn
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Loose leaves with autograph notes for the first five scenes and the beginning of Act I Scene 1. Undated [although one leaf is inscribed 'A LINE' which suggests that this may be contemporaneous with Peake's idea for television 'Just a Line', circa 1955 -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88931/1/10

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Title:
The Bitch
Scope & Content:
Leaf with revised autograph draft of chapter 1 of a story, comprising a scene between Johnny Prawn and Marta[?]. Paper watermarked 'Hylton Bank'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 88931/3/2

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Title:
'Isle Escape'
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises: A: Loose leaves with autograph working notes and dialogue for a play entitled ‘Isle Escape’. Originally the idea appears to have consisted of vignettes with an assortment of characters. These early fragments of manuscript are variously entitled ‘Six Little Satires on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1951?-1956?]
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 88931/3/8

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Title:
‘The Teddy Boy: TV’
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in exercise book (originally inscribed with Peake's daughter's name ‘Clare Peake’) with notes and revised draft of unfinished television play. Also includes epilogue [for his play ‘Noah's Ark’ - see Add MS 88931/3/10 for typescript of the rest of this play]. Includes sketche...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 88931/2/3

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:
Contains revised poems in autograph and typescript. Many leaves pasted in. Peake also lists categories for his poems: love, war-time, dejection, ego, objective poems, nature, abstract. There are numerous drawings of heads, figures (including sketches of his children and wife Maeve Gilmore), anim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-c 1946
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 88931/5/1

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Title:
Ideas for TV
Scope & Content:
Autograph notebook. Contains lists of ideas for projects with potential commercial value (not all for television). Includes loose leaf with fragment of verse, 'I'm just a Line...'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88931/1/8

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Title:
Boy In Darkness
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript draft with autograph corrections of novella about Titus Groan's journey out of Gormenghast. See also Add MS 88931/1/2 and Add MS 88931/1/3 for the rest of the Titus manuscripts. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956?
Extent:
1 volume