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111. Add MS 88931/3/3/4

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus by Mervyn Peake in conjunction with Aaron Judah’
Scope & Content:
Includes authorial revisions, mostly in Peake’s hand. Original title ‘And a Horse of Air’ has been erased. Inscribed ‘Mervyn Peake 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Sy’ on f.1 and ‘Maeve Peake 1 Drayton Gardens’ on inside front cover. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-early 1960s]
Extent:
1 volume

112. Add MS 88931/3/3/5

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus' Act I Scene 1
Scope & Content:
Later version of scene. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s-1970s]
Extent:
1 file

113. Add MS 88931/3/3/6

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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

114. 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

115. 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

116. 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

117. Add MS 88931/3/6/1

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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

118. Add MS 88931/3/6/2

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
With handwritten revisions and additions. Includes original loose cover. Front sheet inscribed 'I, Drayton Gardens' [in Maeve Peake's hand]. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1961]
Extent:
1 file

119. Add MS 88931/3/6/3

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Clean copy inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’ consisting of one complete version and an alternative typesetting of Act II and part of Act III. With four leaves of handwritten and typewritten instructions by Mervyn Peake, headed ‘The action takes place in a cave’. Includes original file cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1961]
Extent:
1 file

120. Add MS 88931/3/6/4

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Title:
Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Lacking the end of Act III. Inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’. Stamp for David Higham Associates Ltd has been crossed through. Loose front sheet inscribed in Maeve Gilmore’s hand in red ink, ‘This play was written between 1957 and 1959 – unpublished and unperformed’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 file