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81. Add MS 88931/2/8

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Title:
Corrected Typescripts: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves, some with autograph corrections. There are multiple versions or copies of many of the poems. Some supplementary typescript and manuscript leaves have been pasted in. Original dates and places of composition have been inscribed in Maeve Gilmore's hand (these range from 1937-1960). Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 file

82. Add MS 88931/2/9

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Title:
Typescript: 'Selected Poems'
Scope & Content:
Almost complete set of poems as published in Mervyn Peake, Selected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1972), lacking only 'Thunder the Christ of it'. With editorial corrections. Includes original folder.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1972
Extent:
1 file

83. Add MS 88931/2/10

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Title:
Autograph Drafts and Fragments
Scope & Content:
Includes notes on 'alternative ending of act 2' [for 'The Wit To Woo', written in the early 1950s] and draft of speech for the same play [spoken by Percy Trellis]. There are possible titles [presumably for Peake's drawings 'The Works of Adolf Hitler', 1940] alongside a doodle of a man slaying an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1950s]
Extent:
1 file

84. Add MS 88931/3

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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

85. 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

86. Add MS 88931/3/1/1

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Title:
Autograph Notebook: Act III Scene 1
Scope & Content:
Revised early draft of Act III Scene 1 [which later became the middle of Act II]. Towards the end of the volume there is a draft letter to John [Clements?]. Notes on plot development on end piece. Undated. Drawings in ink and pencil include: Old Devius on bed looking down at Humphrey Trellis; h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 volume

87. Add MS 88931/3/1/2

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Title:
Autograph Notebook: Act II and Act III Scene 1
Scope & Content:
Comprises revised early draft of the beginnings of Act II and Act III. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand. Notes on plot at beginning of volume. Drawings include pencil sketches of Percy Trellis, Shirt? and stage setting for Act I and Act II. Notes and fragments of dial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 volume

88. Add MS 88931/3/1/3

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Title:
Manuscript and Typescript Leaves
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves including: manuscript fragments from early draft (including Dr Moulter's speech and drawings of Moulter and Old Devius in bed pointing shotgun); song lyrics for the undertakers, Sally and Percy and Dr Willy; character notes; part of corrected typescript from Act III, plus manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1950-1962
Extent:
1 file

89. Add MS 88931/3/1/4

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Title:
‘Sally Devius, A Comedy by Mervyn Peake' Act I
Scope & Content:
Complete revised autograph draft in various coloured inks. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand. List of ‘dramatis personae’ on title verso. Sketch [of Percy Trellis] with sweat dripping from brow on original cover (leaf with new cover loosely attached over the top). ‘Not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1950
Extent:
1 file

90. Add MS 88931/3/1/5

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Title:
‘Sally Devius' Act II
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft in various coloured inks. Some typescript leaves pasted in and revised in Peake’s hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1950
Extent:
1 volume