Loose Leaves: 'When Irma returned to her guests...'
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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).
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.
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.
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)'....
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...
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.
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 ...