Ride a Cock-Horse: Type for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
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Printing plate etched with type for nursery rhyme from Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Letters to Maeve Gilmore. Correspondents J-W: J-K: J W Jefferson-Loveday; Ellen Jaffe; Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea; Elena Jeronimidis, University of Reading; Oliver Jay. L-M: Michael Levien; London Library; City of Leicester College of Education; Stephen Welton [City of Leiceste...
Printing plate etched with image of a boy in bed, holding up a candle to illuminate a large Babylonian figure. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Eight finished drawings in pen and ink on water-colour paper, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Caterpillar; with caption 'Chapter Five. "Who are you said the caterpillar" (2nd paragraph)' (ff.1-2); Father William and son; with caption 'Chapter Five. "You are old, Father William" the young m...
Autograph letters to his wife Maeve Gilmore. To 70 Glebe Place, Chelsea: 'My own sweet wife': inscribed ‘Clos de Bas, 2nd' [Sark] (5 leaves plus envelope postmarked 3 June 1946). 'My Maeve, my artist-girl': undated [1946? Letter addressed to 'companion of ten years' so probably sent to Maeve wh...
Letters from: Edwin Morgan; Tom Pocock; Jennie Chilcott; Hilary Spurling; Alun Lewis; Jonathan Williams of The Jargon Society; Gillian Raffles of the Mercury Gallery; Laura [Elsie Laura Beckingsale] (2 letters); Paul [Chown]; Christopher Leach; Ruth [Peake]; Anthony Walker; [Hazel McKinley]; Peg...
Letters from: Katie; Billy Thorne; Helena Vernon; Mary Clifford Wolff; Ann; W Bronzwaer (2 letters); Stanley E Waits; D Cook; Laura [Elsie Laura Beckingsale]; Walter F Daisley; John Feisenberger?; Gordon [Smith]; Colin Manlove; D Peach; Joyce Hines; Cynthia; Josephine Baxter; Molly Patterson; Cha...
Letters from: Eileen Hewson (2 letters); Julyan; Robert Holden; Glyn Brokenslie; Catriona Macindoe; A Clifford Morris; Camilla; Chaz Morrow; Michael Levien of Peter Owen Ltd; Patricia McAlister; Susan Hill (postcard and letter); Eric Schilsky; Jane Allerton (2 letters); Gwen Brown; F Kehoe; Kathl...
Letters from Society members and the public to Maeve Gilmore regarding talks, events, publications and visits to the Peake residence at 1 Drayton Gardens among other subjects. The last file in this series contains records relating to the administration of the Society.