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71. Add MS 88931/3/1/14

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Add MS 88931/3/1/14
Title:
Autograph Notebook: Act III
Scope & Content:
Partial draft, with revisions and additional manuscript and typescript leaves pasted or sellotaped in. Drawing of figure in armchair towards end of volume. Appears to be later draft than Add MS 88931/3/1/13. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 1950s
Extent:
1 volume

72. Add MS 88931/13/7

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Add MS 88931/13/7
Title:
Reproductions of Drawings and Paintings
Scope & Content:
Photostats, photocopies and photographs of various works by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1980s]
Extent:
3 files

73. Add MS 88931/4/1/2

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Add MS 88931/4/1/2
Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera (part two)
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves. Undated. Includes: prologue (two versions); Act I Scene 1 between Flay and Rottcodd; Act I Scene 2 between Swelter, Steerpike and Flay; notes for Scene 1. Drawings in ink and pencil: lectern and book; window shattering; Swelter raising glass with kitchen staff gathered around an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

74. Add MS 88931/3/3/6

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Add MS 88931/3/3/6
Title:
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus’
Scope & Content:
Copy of earlier version of the script (as at Add MS 88931/3/3/3) seemingly produced on an electronic typewriter. First leaf inscribed in red ink in Maeve Gilmore’s hand ‘This play was written between circa 1954-55, and was based on a theme suggested to Mervyn by Aaron Judah.’ [Copy presumably ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 file

75. Add MS 88931/1/7

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Add MS 88931/1/7
Title:
J Butterfield' and 'The Story of the Gray Horse
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript with semi-autobiographical story about an artist named Johnny Butterfield. Consists of draft of chapter 1 and beginning of chapter 2, followed by notes for development of the story. The notes refer to real people, places and events in Peake's life. There are two illustration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1952-c 1953
Extent:
1 volume

76. Add MS 88931/13/15

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Add MS 88931/13/15
Title:
Adaptations and Dramatisations by Others
Scope & Content:
Scripts (produced and unproduced) and associated correspondence with Maeve Gilmore regarding dramatic adaptations of Mervyn Peake's work
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1973-2001
Extent:
25 files

77. Add MS 88931/7/1/1

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Add MS 88931/7/1/1
Title:
Unmounted Rough Sketches
Scope & Content:
Comprises three leaves with the following drawings: f.1: rough pencil outline of figure [possibly the Duchess?]; f.1v: part of pencil drawing of head; f.2: sketch in ink of Queen of Hearts pointing, inscribed 'Collar that Dormous [Dormouse], the Queen shrieked out'; f.2v: sketch in ink inscribed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945]
Extent:
1 file

78. Add MS 88931/7/2/1

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Add MS 88931/7/2/1
Title:
Drawings (part 1)
Scope & Content:
One drawing of Alice materialising through the looking glass, in pen and ink on water-colour board. Inscribed 'Full ?page'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 file

79. Add MS 88931/7/2/5

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Add MS 88931/7/2/5
Title:
Drawings (part 5)
Scope & Content:
Comprises four drawings. Rough sketch: White King struggling with pencil drawn beside reproduction of earlier sketch of King and pencil (f.1). Finished Drawings: Walrus and Carpenter; drawing in pen and ink on water-colour board (f.2); Humpty Dumpty sat on wall; drawing in pen and ink on water-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 file

80. Add MS 88931/3/1/9

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Add MS 88931/3/1/9
Title:
Notebooks With Alterations and Revisions
Scope & Content:
Comprises three parts: A: Revised autograph manuscript featuring scene between Hodgekins and Jenkins. Notes on plot development at end of volume, as well as a sketch of October Trellis. Undated. B: Autograph manuscript comprising ‘Phrases from act 2 scene 2’ and brief notes on structure. First l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Dec 1952
Extent:
1 file