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101. Add MS 88931/3/1/16

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Title:
International Copyright Bureau Typescript: '"The Wit To Woo" by Mervyn Peake'
Scope & Content:
Cast list for 1957 Arts Theatre production inscribed next to list of dramatis personae. There are handwritten notes and deletions in the text in preparation for performance. Final pages have been torn out. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957?
Extent:
1 volume

102. Add MS 88931/3/1/17

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Title:
International Copyright Bureau Script (Prospect Productions)
Scope & Content:
Typescript of text for performance, labelled 'Script from Dr Czech [of the International Copyright Bureau] - on loan. Completely clean copy of second version'. With annotations in two different hands [one being Maeve Gilmore?]. Annotations mostly relate to the part of Dr Willy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1962
Extent:
1 volume

103. Add MS 88931/3/1/18

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Title:
International Copyright Bureau Script [Prospect Productions]
Scope & Content:
Typescript with annotations in three different hands [Mervyn Peake, Maeve Gilmore? and another]. Inscribed 'Donald' on first leaf. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1962
Extent:
1 volume

104. Add MS 88931/3/1/19

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Title:
International Copyright Bureau Script (Prospect Productions)
Scope & Content:
Typescript of text for performance, with annotations in two different hands [one being Maeve Gilmore's?]. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1962
Extent:
1 volume

105. Add MS 88931/3/1/20

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Title:
Typescript: '"The Wit to Woo" by Mervyn Peake'
Scope & Content:
Clean copy seemingly produced on an electronic typewriter. Inscribed with name and address of agent Maurice Michael and Maeve Peake [Maeve Gilmore]. Appears to be the version from which Maeve Gilmore compiled the text for Peake's Progress (London: Allen Lane, 1978) as this is the only typescript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1970s]
Extent:
1 volume

106. 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

107. 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

108. Add MS 88931/3/3/1

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Title:
Manuscript: 'Mr Loftus' Act I Scenes 1-2
Scope & Content:
Autograph notebook, with minor revisions and pencil annotations [some apparently in Aaron Judah’s hand]. There are four sides of text [crossed out] entitled ‘My Home, My Wilderness: a play to show conflict between instinctive belief and inner reality – and rationalism’. Undated [but inscribed wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954-1955]
Extent:
1 file

109. Add MS 88931/3/3/2

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Title:
Manuscript: ‘Loftus, The Catalyst' Act III Scene 1
Scope & Content:
Comprises two parts: A: Notebook originally titled ‘Peradventure’ [the title of Peake's fourth Titus book]. Notes and summary of action [apparently in Aaron Judah’s hand]. At the back of the volume there are notes for a story about Zenobia and Odaenathus. Undated. B: Twenty eight loose leaves ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954-1955]
Extent:
1 file

110. Add MS 88931/3/3/3

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Title:
Typescript: [‘Mr Loftus or:’] ‘And a Horse of Air’
Scope & Content:
Includes minor authorial revisions throughout [by Mervyn Peake and Aaron Judah]. There are more significant revisions to Act II with a number of leaves torn out and an additional autograph leaf pasted in with revised speech for Posgate. Inscribed ‘Typed by Peter Jones, Secretarial Bureau, 39 Cad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[mid 1950s]
Extent:
1 volume