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1. Add MS 88931

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Title:
Mervyn Peake Archive
Scope & Content:
The archive contains original literary and artistic works, correspondence, published items and other working papers created by or belonging to Mervyn Peake, including juvenilia and late works. The archive covers the majority of Peake’s literary output, including all extant manuscripts for his Ti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1921-2001
Extent:
325 units

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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:
The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs
Scope & Content:
Juvenile short story
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921-c 1978
Extent:

2 files

4. Add MS 88931/1/1/1

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs'
Scope & Content:
Complete draft of manuscript in juvenile hand. There are three illustrations in ink and pencil: 'The Hottentots Attack', 'A Picture of an Umzimbooboo Kaffir and a Hottentot' and 'Born Enemies'. Inside back cover has lists of chapters, illustrations and characters. Undated [Maeve Gilmore suggests...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 88931/1/1/2

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Title:
Typescript: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs by Mervyn Peake circa 1921'
Scope & Content:
Fair copy. Undated [perhaps produced prior to publication in Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978)].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1978]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
'Mr Slaughterboard' (and 'The House of Darkstones')
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript of novella in ink and pencil. Complete draft in three chapters of the story that was later reworked as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. Inscribed 'Trinity College Hotel, Chestnut Walk, Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire'. Dated 1935 (f.53). Starting from the end of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 88931/1/3

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Title:
Titus/Gormenghast Series
Scope & Content:
Drafts of first three novels and beginning of fourth book. Lacking the first eleven chapters of Titus Groan. Comprises thirty four notebooks plus typescripts and loose autograph leaves. In addition to text, drawings and poems, the notebooks include details of appointments, lists of current proje...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939-c 1962
Extent:

44 files

8. Add MS 88931/1/3/1

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Title:
'Goremenghast continued' (Titus Groan chapters 12-16)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in ink and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editor's?] corrections in red pencil. This is the second volume of Peake's manuscript (cover is labelled '11' [II]). There are oddments of verse on f.103 and f.104. Dated 3 October 1940, Dartford. Drawings in ink and pencil: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 88931/1/3/2

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Title:
'Goremenghast' (Titus Groan chapters 17-24)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil, with authorial revisions and [editor's?] corrections in pencil. As noted on the spine, this is the third volume of Peake's manuscript. Includes list of 'chapters already completed in the rough' on frontispiece. Notes on plot, vocabulary, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 88931/1/3/3

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Title:
'Goremenghast: Swelter (revised)' (Titus Groan chapters 2-3)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript written in pen and ink on foolscap leaves, with authorial [and editorial?] corrections. Sub-title 'The Province of Swelter' crossed out. Rough sketch of Swelter in ink on p.15. Dated 28 November 1940, Blackpool.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 oversize file