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61. Add MS 88931/1/9/2

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Title:
Typescript and Synopsis: 'The Enthusiast or the Adventures of Footfruit'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: typescript with minor corrections in pencil; gaps left in text [for illustrations], 2 March; typescript of synopsis in red ink; newspaper cutting with pencil marks in gutters: 'Sub-think', News Chronicle, 25 September 1957 [Maeve Gilmore cites this article as inspiration for 'Footfrui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1961
Extent:
1 oversize file

62. Add MS 88931/1/9/3

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Title:
Illustrated Typescript: 'The Adventures of Footfruit or The Enthusiast'
Scope & Content:
With minor corrections to text in pencil and six illustrations in ink. Pencil notes in margin specify the width of illustrations for printed edition. With original folder inscribed: 'Pan Books 6 out of 29'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1961
Extent:
1 file

63. Add MS 88931/1/10

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Title:
The Bitch
Scope & Content:
Leaf with revised autograph draft of chapter 1 of a story, comprising a scene between Johnny Prawn and Marta[?]. Paper watermarked 'Hylton Bank'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

64. Add MS 88931/1/11

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Title:
Short Story ['Manifold Basket']
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph fragment of a story about Stagg College. Story later reworked as a play entitled 'Manifold Basket' - see Add MS 88931/3/4. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

65. Add MS 88931/1/12

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Title:
Autograph Fragments
Scope & Content:
Comprises two unrelated items in Mervyn Peake's hand, both undated: Leaf with revised autograph fragment on the imagination, 'Without a limitless theme the imagination boggles...'; Leaf with autograph fragment about the influence of Charles Dickens on George Bernard Shaw's work, copied from Char...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

66. Add MS 88931/2

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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

67. Add MS 88931/2/1

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Title:
'The Touch o' the Ash'
Scope & Content:
Complete autograph draft of narrative poem written in a juvenile hand. Editorial corrections in ink and pencil. Illuminated letters at the beginning of each paragraph.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 volume

68. Add MS 88931/2/2

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript and Typescript Leaves: 'Unpublished Poems'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Revised autograph manuscript in pencil and ink. 'Serious' poems are at the front of the volume; nonsense poems at the back. Some typescript and manuscript leaves pasted in. Includes drawing of Mervyn Peake's mother on her deathbed and related poem (1939). Includes a later note [in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 file

69. Add MS 88931/2/3

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:
Contains revised poems in autograph and typescript. Many leaves pasted in. Peake also lists categories for his poems: love, war-time, dejection, ego, objective poems, nature, abstract. There are numerous drawings of heads, figures (including sketches of his children and wife Maeve Gilmore), anim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-c 1946
Extent:
1 volume

70. Add MS 88931/2/4

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Title:
Manuscript and Typescript Poems
Scope & Content:
Various loose leaf poems by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1960s]
Extent:
3 files