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161. Add MS 88931/3/1/8

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Title:
Revised Typescript: ‘The Wit To Woo’
Scope & Content:
Comprises three parts: A: Act I; B: Act II Scene 1; C: Act II Scene 2; Incorporates additional manuscript leaves with revisions. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 file

162. Add MS 88931/1/3/13

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 1-14)
Scope & Content:
Draft with authorial revisions (some on supplementary leaves pasted in) and corrections. Includes 'The Colour Chapters'. Dated 12 Feb 1945 at front. Inscribed 'Moores Hotel Guernsey Sept 15th' on f.85. Drawings in ink include: f.3v: doodle of bird and face that looks like tribal mask; f.15: two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1948
Extent:
1 volume

163. Add MS 88931/1/3/17

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 36-38)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft. Dated Christmas Eve 1948. Drawings in ink include: f.4: head [Bellgrove?]; f.11: Bellgrove; f.23: primitive creature; winged creature wearing pointed hat next to a tree, island in the background; f.24v: man and child viewing giant horse on museum plinth; f.26: margin doodle of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1948-Mar 1949
Extent:
1 volume

164. Add MS 88931/13/3/10

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Title:
Letters Re Performing Rights and Productions
Scope & Content:
Letters predominantly relating to three projects: Readings of Gormenghast by the Western Australian Theatre Company (includes letters from director Lionel Farrell, programmes, poster and newspaper cuttings). British Theatre of the Deaf performance of 'Boy in Darkness' (includes story outline, sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1973-24 Sep 1982
Extent:
1 file

165. Add MS 88931/7/1/3

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Title:
Drawings in Smaller Mounts (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Eleven finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Duchess and the baby; with caption inscribed 'Chapter Six. While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song she kept tossing the baby violently up & down' (ff.2-3); Baby as a pig; with cap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 oversize file

166. Add MS 88931/13/5/5

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Title:
Proofs for Rhymes Without Reason
Scope & Content:
Contains: paste-up for jacket and black-and-white ozalid proofs for Mervyn Peake, Rhymes Without Reason (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1974), both with covering letter from editor Marcy Leavitt Thomas; full colour proofs with jacket proof.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1974-24 Apr 1974
Extent:
1 file

167. Add MS 88931/13/5/8

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Title:
Proofs of Gormenghast character drawings
Scope & Content:
Proofs of six black and white drawings by Mervyn Peake of characters from Gormenghast: Fuchsia Groan; Cora and Clarice Groan; Countess of Groan; Irma Prunesquallor; Dr Prunesquallor and Fuchsia; Abiatha Swelter and kitchen urchin. Printed underneath the drawings are quotes describing the charact...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1968]
Extent:
1 oversize file

168. Add MS 88931/3/1/4

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Title:
‘Sally Devius, A Comedy by Mervyn Peake' Act I
Scope & Content:
Complete revised autograph draft in various coloured inks. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand. List of ‘dramatis personae’ on title verso. Sketch [of Percy Trellis] with sweat dripping from brow on original cover (leaf with new cover loosely attached over the top). ‘Not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1950
Extent:
1 file

169. Add MS 88931/3/3/4

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus by Mervyn Peake in conjunction with Aaron Judah’
Scope & Content:
Includes authorial revisions, mostly in Peake’s hand. Original title ‘And a Horse of Air’ has been erased. Inscribed ‘Mervyn Peake 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Sy’ on f.1 and ‘Maeve Peake 1 Drayton Gardens’ on inside front cover. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-early 1960s]
Extent:
1 volume

170. Add MS 88931/13/3/15/6

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Title:
Greetings Cards
Scope & Content:
Greetings cards, postcards and ephemera sent to Maeve Gilmore from: Beverly; Michael Howard (formerly of Jonathan Cape Publishers); Ronald Moody; Rudolph Dunbar; Ian and Sue; Keith and Carole; Naomi; Methuen Children's Books; John and Mave [Grome]; Margaret and Giles [Gordon]; Marius and Pru Gori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1980s
Extent:
1 file