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241. Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4

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Title:
BBC Adaptation: 'Gormenghast'
Scope & Content:
Script for television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, broadcast on the BBC in the UK and PBS in the USA.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1998-2001
Extent:
4 files

242. Add MS 88931/13/1/1

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Title:
Autograph Manuscripts for A World Away
Scope & Content:
Comprises four notebooks containing two drafts: A. Draft in pencil with minor revisions. Invoice at end dated 18 October 1967. B. Continuation of pencil draft, undated. C. Later revised draft, in ink, March 1968-April 1968. D. Continuation of later draft to end, May 1968.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1968
Extent:
1 file

243. Add MS 88931/13/6/8

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Title:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: White Rabbit
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole. Mervyn Peake's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were first published by Zephyr Books, Stockholm in 1946 and in Britain by Allan Wingate, London in 1954. This image was also u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1954?
Extent:
1 item

244. Add MS 88931/1/1/2

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Title:
Typescript: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs by Mervyn Peake circa 1921'
Scope & Content:
Fair copy. Undated [perhaps produced prior to publication in Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1978]
Extent:
1 file

245. Add MS 88931/2/4/3

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Title:
Poems Written at Virginia Water Hospital circa 1960-1961. Holloway Sanatorium
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript poems: 'Heads move ['float' inserted] about me...'; 'Swallow the sky: chew up the stars...'; 'Course [Coarse] as the sun is blatant...' (with two sketches of heads); 'Through the voluminous foliage of the mind...'; 'On fishing up a marble head'; 'That lance of light that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960?
Extent:
1 oversize file

246. Add MS 88931/1/3/9

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Title:
'Ideas for Book Two' (Titus Groan chapters 60-61)
Scope & Content:
Working notebook for what Peake referred to as Book 1 and Book 2 [two parts of Titus Groan], in pencil, crayon and ink. Includes continuation of manuscript with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Also includes drafts of introduction (crossed out) and chapter listing....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939-1943
Extent:
1 volume

247. Add MS 88931/1/3/11

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Title:
'Titus Groan Part 1 (Continued) - Gormenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 65-68)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in various colour inks, with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Dated August 1943. Drawings in ink include: front cover: Steerpike; f.12: doodle of legs and feet; f.15: rough sketches [perhaps of nun]; ff.40v-f.41: satyrs [may be preparatory ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943
Extent:

1 volume

248. Add MS 88931/13/2/5

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Title:
Fragments Re Fourth Titus Book [later entitled Titus Awakes]
Scope & Content:
Comprises: list in Mervyn Peake's hand of possible ideas, chapters or titles, headed 'Titus among the -' (pasted onto leaf from diary for 7 January 1963); p.135 of typescript draft [conversation between Mrs Sempleton? and Titus]; undated [1970s?]; photocopy of Peake's prologue and first chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-c 1995
Extent:
1 file

249. Add MS 88931/13/3/3

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Title:
Letters Re Mervyn Peake's Medical Care
Scope & Content:
Three letters from Mervyn's doctor, J M Northcliffe Roberts. Also includes letters regarding care homes and vacancies from: The Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick; George Rettie MD; John Harvard-Watts; St John of God's Hospital, Yorkshire; Bon Secours Nursing Home, Berkshire. Further letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1961-7 May 1975
Extent:
1 file

250. Add MS 88931/13/6/17

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Title:
Figure Wearing Bobble Hat Holding Mirror or Frame
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item