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171. Add MS 88931/3/1/20

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/3/1/20
Title:
Typescript: '"The Wit to Woo" by Mervyn Peake'
Scope & Content:
Clean copy seemingly produced on an electronic typewriter. Inscribed with name and address of agent Maurice Michael and Maeve Peake [Maeve Gilmore]. Appears to be the version from which Maeve Gilmore compiled the text for Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978) as this is the only typescript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 volume

172. Add MS 88931/1/3/20

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/20
Title:
'Labyrinth' (Gormenghast chapters 67-75)
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft, in ink. 'Notes on final chapters' on f.26. Lists of possible titles on f.73. Dated 29 July 1949, Sark. Drawings in ink include: f.9: bird flying; f.30: male figure [Bright Carver?]; f.43: boy with arrow and Native American headdress; f.69v: the Thing holding a bird (full...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1949-Aug 1949
Extent:
1 volume

173. Add MS 88931/1/3/22

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/22
Title:
Autograph Manuscript (Gormenghast chapters 77-78)
Scope & Content:
Revised draft, in ink. Sketch diagrams of Titus and Steerpike in the flood (ff.25-26). Dated 13 August 1939, Sark.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1949
Extent:
1 volume

174. Add MS 88931/2/6/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/2/6/3
Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' [or Songs of Nonsense]
Scope & Content:
Contains fair copies of poems with minor revisions [probably from the late 1950s - see Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense, ed by R W Maslen and G Peter Winnington (Manchester: Carcanet, 2011), p.2]. Label on cover partly obscures old title 'The Parting of the Way'. Towards the back of the volume ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1966]
Extent:
1 volume

175. Add MS 88931/13/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/3/4
Title:
Letters From Family Members
Scope & Content:
Letters from Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake's family. Correspondents are: Lonnie [Ernest Leslie] and Ruth Peake; Ruth Gilmore; János and Vicki [-]; Christopher [Kit] Peake; and Maeve and Mervyn's children Fabian [Peake] and Clare [Peñate née Peake].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1961-21 Dec 1981
Extent:
1 file

176. Add MS 88931/13/3/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/3/7
Title:
Letters Re A World Away
Scope & Content:
Letters of appreciation for Maeve Gilmore's memoir of Mervyn Peake. For manuscripts, typescripts and letters concerning permission to publish A World Away see Add MS 88931/13/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1970-26 Jan 1982
Extent:
3 files

177. Add MS 88931/13/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/5/1
Title:
Proofs for The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Scope & Content:
Unpaginated page proofs (including illustrations) presumably for Mervyn Peake, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (London: J M Dent and Sons, 1962) comprising a gathering of four leaves corresponding to pp.1-8 of the printed edition (though two pages are out of sequence).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1962]
Extent:
1 file

178. Add MS 88931/13/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/15/1
Title:
Film and Television Adaptations
Scope & Content:
Screenplays based on the works of Mervyn Peake. In some cases it is difficult to ascertain whether screenplays were intended for television or film
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-2001
Extent:
11 files

179. Add MS 88931/13/5/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/5/7
Title:
Proofs of selected Bleak House illustrations
Scope & Content:
Contains three proofs of a drawing of Tuveydrop and two of a drawing of Snagsby by Mervyn Peake [presumably for The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (London: Davis-Poynter, 1974)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1974]
Extent:
1 oversize file

180. Add MS 88931/13/6/22

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Add MS 88931/13/6/22
Title:
Dog Jumping up at Man
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with sketch of man and dog by Mervyn Peake. Surface of wooden block inscribed 'Peake'. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1981. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981?
Extent:
1 item