Gormenghast Klavierauszug (London: Spoon-Records UK and Messer Music Publishing). Piano score with libretto [in English] by Duncan Fallowell, based on the novel by Mervyn Peake. Inscribed to Sebastian [Peake] on front page.
Printing plate etched with image of child standing beneath a tree. Published in Jacob Grimm, Household Tales, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946). Undated.
Letters From Patrick and Françoise Reumaux Re French Translation
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Letters from Patrick Reumaux, Mervyn Peake’s French translator, and his wife Françoise. Letters predominantly relating to five projects: French translation of Gormenghast and its adaptation for radio; French radio and stage adaptations of Titus d’Enfer [Titus Groan]; French radio adaptation of ...
Letters (mostly typescript) from the founder of the Mervyn Peake Society. Enclosed are the Society's Constitution and a photocopy of the minutes from the inaugural meeting of the Mervyn Peake Society on 8 February [1975]. See also Add MS 88931/13/3/11/3/3 for more letters from Austen Wilks.
Autograph and typescript letters largely concerning Peake's illustrations of Lewis Carroll's work. Includes: Brian Sibley, ed., Bandersnatch, The Lewis Carroll Society Newsletter, 10 (June 1975); Brian Sibley, ed., Bandersnatch, The Lewis Carroll Society Newsletter, 11 (Aug 1975); drafts of Si...
'Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Goremenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 38-45)
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Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editorial?] pencil corrections. Original title 'Titus Knell' crossed out. Character notes on f.68. Notes at end of volume include draft of poem 'The satyrs sprawl along my limbs'. Dated 14 April 1941, Blackpo...
Articles, Introductions and Forewards Re Mervyn Peake
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Comprises clean copies of Maeve Gilmore's writings on Mervyn Peake (with some minor revisions): Typescript introduction [to Mervyn Peake Reader, later published as Mervyn Peake, Writings & Drawings, ed. by Maeve Gilmore and Shelagh Johnson (London: Academy Editions, 1974)]. Autograph and typ...
Typescripts of selected works by Mervyn Peake, compiled by Maeve Gilmore with her autograph introductory notes for each section. Includes: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs'; 'The Touch o' the Ash'; 'Mr Slaughterboard'; 'The House of Darkstones'; 'The Weird Journey'; 'I Bought a Palm ...
Typescripts of selected works by Mervyn Peake, compiled by Maeve Gilmore with her autograph introductory notes for each section. Includes: 'Mr Loftus' or 'And a Horse of Air'; 'Anima Mundi' or 'The Cave'; 'Noah's Ark'; 'Titus Groan' radio play; 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'; 'A Reverie of Bone...