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1. Add MS 88931/3/1

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Title:
The Wit To Woo
Scope & Content:
Script of Peake's verse play which was performed at the Arts Theatre Club, London in 1957. According to Maeve Gilmore, Peake begun writing 'The Wit to Woo' circa 1950: 'The Wit to Woo', Peake's Progress (London: British Library, 2011), p.267. Typescripts Add MS 88931/3/1/16-19 are identical as ty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950-1970s
Extent:
20 files

2. Add MS 88931/3/2

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Title:
'Isle Escape'
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises: A: Loose leaves with autograph working notes and dialogue for a play entitled ‘Isle Escape’. Originally the idea appears to have consisted of vignettes with an assortment of characters. These early fragments of manuscript are variously entitled ‘Six Little Satires on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1951?-1956?]
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 88931/3/3

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Title:
Mr Loftus
Scope & Content:
Complete play. Maeve Gilmore's notes for Peake's Progress [see Add MS 88931/13/4/5] state that the play 'was written between circa 1954-55'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1970s
Extent:
6 files

4. Add MS 88931/3/4

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Title:
‘Manifold Basket’
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Notebook made from typescript and manuscript leaves pasted into a copy of The British Countryside in Pictures. Consists of Act I and beginning of Act II. Includes drawings of characters Manifold Basket and Bellgrove. Undated. B: Five loose leaves with f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[mid 1950s]
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88931/3/5

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Title:
The Voice of One’ and ‘The Eye of the Beholder
Scope & Content:
Comprises two typescript versions of a radio play by Mervyn Peake for the BBC Home Service: A: ‘Writing For Sound: The Voice of One’. B: ‘Writing For Sound: The Eye of the Beholder’. This script appears to be the later version as it contains minor revisions in pencil. Both typescripts marked...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 88931/3/6

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Title:
The Cave
Scope & Content:
Complete play. Maeve Gilmore's introductory note for 'The Cave' in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written between 1957 and 1959' [see Add MS 88931/13/4/5].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1957-1970s]
Extent:

5 files

7. Add MS 88931/3/7

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Title:
The Greenhorn
Scope & Content:
Unfinished play. Comprises two parts: A: Loose leaves with autograph notes for the first five scenes and the beginning of Act I Scene 1. Undated [although one leaf is inscribed 'A LINE' which suggests that this may be contemporaneous with Peake's idea for television 'Just a Line', circa 1955 -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 88931/3/8

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Title:
‘The Teddy Boy: TV’
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in exercise book (originally inscribed with Peake's daughter's name ‘Clare Peake’) with notes and revised draft of unfinished television play. Also includes epilogue [for his play ‘Noah's Ark’ - see Add MS 88931/3/10 for typescript of the rest of this play]. Includes sketche...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 88931/3/9

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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

10. Add MS 88931/3/10

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Title:
‘Noah’s Ark: A Play For Children’
Scope & Content:
Typescript for a finished play, with minor corrections in Mervyn Peake’s hand. Wallington address crossed out and replaced with Drayton Gardens. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore's introductory note in Peake's Progress states 'This play was written for children circa 1960' - see Mervyn Peake, Peake's P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1960]
Extent:
1 file

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