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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/6/4
Title:: Ride a Cock-Horse: Image for 'I Had a Little Nut Tree'
Scope & Content:: Printing plate etched with image of boy showing nut tree to the King of Spain's daughter. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [1940]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/3/2/1
Title:: Letters of Appreciation to Mervyn Peake (part 1)
Scope & Content:: Mostly autograph. Multiple letters from some correspondents. Letters from: Edwin Morgan, University of Glasgow; Judith Brown; George E[-]; John Kilburn; Billy and Joyce; Jeanette P H? Fisher; J L Backhouse; Susan Bowman, Westfield College; John Hardy; Mary I Paton; Peter McKenzie; Severn Darden...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1959-1965
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/3/2/2
Title:: Letters of Appreciation to Mervyn Peake (part 2)
Scope & Content:: Mostly autograph. Multiple letters from some correspondents. Letters from: Jennifer Rowles; Nicolas Jowett; Hamish Halls; John Furnival; David Miller; John Hewitt; Dainis Bisenieks; Joyce Hines; Paul Chown; Derek Carver; Robert Booth; Maurice Barlow; J C Gallogher; Leslie J Sklaroff; Sylvia Pas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1966-1970s
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4/2
Title:: BBC 'Gormenghast' Concept Drawings
Scope & Content:: Photocopies of drawings [by Christopher Hobbs]. Cover drawing is in colour; all others in black and white. List of contents at front.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Dec 1998
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/3/17/1
Title:: Letters From Academics and Students (A-H)
Scope & Content:: Correspondents A-H: A: Angie Avraamids. B: Brian Bristow; Dainis Bisenieks; Laurence Bristow-Smith; Hugh Brogan, Editor of the Cambridge Review; Marilyn [Brooks], Mervyn Peake Society; Sharon Baxter; Brian E Belet. C: Jacquelyn Colesby; Rosa Gonzalez Casademont. D: Paul Davies. E: Extrapo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1973-1981
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/15/1/1
Title:: Red Rook Films Adaptation: 'Titus Groan'
Scope & Content:: Unrealised adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast. It is unclear whether this project was always intended as a television serial, or whether a full-length film was considered.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [late 1970s]
Extent:: 5 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/15/2/2
Title:: Adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast for BBC Radio
Scope & Content:: Comprises the following scripts by Brian Sibley [broadcast by the BBC in 1984] based on Mervyn Peake's books: Word processed draft of 'The History of Titus Groan' (with enclosed letter from Sibley to Maeve Gilmore, 9 August 1982). Typewritten script of 'Titus Groan' [appears to be later draft of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [early 1980s]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/3/6/1
Title:: Condolence Letters to Maeve Gilmore A-K
Scope & Content:: A: Allison & Busby Ltd Publishers; Ronald Apps of Westminster Bank; M Asherson; Renée and Harold Ayers. B: Betty from Ballantine Books; Arabella Boxer; John Bright-Holmes; Brigid Brophy; Biddy and E(-); Judy [Maeve's niece]; Laura [Elsie Laura Beckingsale]; Norton; Elizabeth Blennerhassett;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1968
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4/1
Title:: BBC 'Gormenghast' Scripts
Scope & Content:: Word processed scripts by Malcolm McKay, in four parts. Adaptation based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. [Front pages incorrectly state that scripts are based on Titus Alone and Gormenghast.] Undated.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: late 1990s
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88931/13/3/19/6
Title:: Posters for 'The Voice of a Pencil' Exhibition
Scope & Content:: Two identical posters for Mervyn Peake exhibition at Oldham Art Gallery, 31 May [1980] to 19 July [1980]. Posters feature Peake's illustration of a Moccus from The Moccus Book. See Add MS 88931/13/3/19/5 for Maeve Gilmore's correspondence regarding this exhibition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1980]
Extent:: 1 oversize file

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