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61. Add MS 88931/7/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/7/1
Title:
Drawings for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Scope & Content:
Thirty three finished drawings, eight rough sketches and a partial set of pulls (first proofs) of Mervyn Peake's illustrations, some with captions in Peake's hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
6 files

62. Add MS 88931/7/1/6

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Add MS 88931/7/1/6
Title:
Proofs
Scope & Content:
Pulls (first proofs) of illustrations, cut and pasted onto card with captions in pencil in Mervyn Peake's hand. Proposed dimensions of printed drawings have been inscribed on mount. Partial set comprising 25 of the 31 illustrations: King of Hearts: 'Frontispiece'; Crocodile: 'Chapter 2. How dot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:

1 file

63. Add MS 88931/13/12

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Add MS 88931/13/12
Title:
Peake Family Greetings Cards
Scope & Content:
Comprises: two printed cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of a nude boy holding a branch, from Maeve and Mervyn Peake, 1 Drayton Gardens, London SW10, undated [1960-1968]; two printed Christmas cards with illustration by Mervyn Peake of face [for Oscar Wilde's poem 'Madonna Mia'], 1967; pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1980
Extent:
1 file

64. Add MS 88931/13/13

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Add MS 88931/13/13
Title:
Maeve Gilmore's Sketchbooks
Scope & Content:
Two sketchbooks: one mostly containing pencil drawings of cats; the other containing several sketches in ink of various subjects, with newspaper cuttings of images from 1969-1973[presumably for inspiration].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s-1970s
Extent:
1 oversize file

65. Add MS 88931/3/6/1

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Add MS 88931/3/6/1
Title:
Manuscript: 'The Cave'
Scope & Content:
Comprises three parts: A: Loose leaves of handwritten notes with stage directions, summaries, character notes and exposition of themes. B: Loose leaves of revised manuscript, entitled ‘Act Two’. C: Notebook entitled ‘Act 3’. Manuscript with minor revisions. At the end of the volume there are not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1957-1959]
Extent:
1 file

66. Add MS 88931/2/6/4

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Add MS 88931/2/6/4
Title:
Typescript: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves found in envelope inscribed 'For Maeve' (envelope has printed label 'Ordinary Level Human Biology, Paper I' dated 19 Nov 1975). There are multiple copies of many of the poems. There are autograph corrections to one of the typescripts for 'It Worries Me to Know'. Undated. Poems: ‘O’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1960s-c 1970s
Extent:
1 file

67. Add MS 88931/3/9

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Add MS 88931/3/9
Title:
‘The Widowers’ or 'The Four Old Men'
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play for television or film. Comprises two autograph notebooks: A: ‘The Four Old Men’, entitled ‘The Widowers’ inside the volume. Heavily revised. Includes small detailed drawings of characters and other figures. There are screen directions [in Maeve Gilmore’s hand]. Undated. B: ‘The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1950s]
Extent:
1 file

68. Add MS 88931/3/1/3

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Add MS 88931/3/1/3
Title:
Manuscript and Typescript Leaves
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves including: manuscript fragments from early draft (including Dr Moulter's speech and drawings of Moulter and Old Devius in bed pointing shotgun); song lyrics for the undertakers, Sally and Percy and Dr Willy; character notes; part of corrected typescript from Act III, plus manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1950-1962
Extent:
1 file

69. Add MS 88931/3/1/11

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Add MS 88931/3/1/11
Title:
Manuscript and Typescript Leaves
Scope & Content:
Includes: manuscript fragments including ideas for beginning of Act III; typescript parts of Act I, II and III.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 file

70. Add MS 88931/3/1/12

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Add MS 88931/3/1/12
Title:
Autograph Notebook: Act III
Scope & Content:
Inscribed with Peake’s Wallington address. Revisions to the text would appear to suggest that this is a later draft than Add MS 88931/3/1/10. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 volume