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Title:
Prose
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and typescripts of novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction fragments. Some of the typescripts may have been made posthumously. See Add MS 88931/6 for Peake's notes towards an autobiography.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921-c 1978
Extent:

59 files

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Title:
Poetry
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and typescripts of 'serious' poetry and nonsense verse. Some of the typescripts were probably produced by Peake's own typist and others may have been made or commissioned posthumously by Maeve Gilmore.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1970s
Extent:

15 files

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Title:
Plays
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and typescripts of complete and unfinished plays, with working notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950-1970s
Extent:
38 files

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Title:
Dramatisations
Scope & Content:
Dramatisations for stage and radio of Peake's novels and his poem The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1964
Extent:
7 files

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Title:
Ideas for Television
Scope & Content:
Working notes for proposed television programmes and other projects.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
2 files

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Title:
Notes and Research Material for Autobiography
Scope & Content:
Preparatory work for Peake's fictionalised account of his childhood [working title 'China to Eltham']. Although the earliest material dates from 1939, Peake probably started work on his autobiography in 1950; see Maeve Gilmore, Peake's Progress (Middlesex: Penguin, 1981), p.470.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939-1960s]
Extent:
5 files

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Title:
Alice Illustrations
Scope & Content:
All sixty four extant finished drawings plus rough sketches and proofs for Mervyn Peake's illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, commissioned by Zephyr Books of Stockholm, Sweden in 1945. Mervyn Peake revised his drawings for the 1954 edi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1954
Extent:
11 files

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Title:
Sketchbook: 'Roehampton 1965'
Scope & Content:
Sketches by Mervyn Peake, made whilst he was hospitalised at Roehampton. Mostly consisting of drawings of heads in pencil and crayon. Some drawings dated October 1964 [in Maeve Gilmore's hand].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964-1965
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Waddington Galleries Exhibitions
Scope & Content:
Ephemera relating to two different exhibitions of Peake's drawings at the Victor Waddington Galleries, London: printed brief catalogue for a 1951 exhibition, with an introduction by Maurice Collis (annotation in Mervyn's hand notes the money made from the sale of works); press cutting with revie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-1958
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Texts for Illustration by Mervyn Peake
Scope & Content:
Typescripts for books written by Peake's friend Gordon Smith and former teacher Burgess Drake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929?-1945?
Extent:
2 files