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291. Add MS 88931/13/4/1

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Title:
Notebooks and Lists
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Typewritten and autograph lists of published works and various projects by Mervyn Peake, including names of contacts (mostly written by Maeve Gilmore but with some notes in Mervyn Peake's hand) [1950s?-1970s?]. B. Notebook containing lists of manuscripts, drawings and other items...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1970s]
Extent:
1 file

292. Add MS 88931/13/4/2

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Title:
Articles, Introductions and Forewards Re Mervyn Peake
Scope & Content:
Comprises clean copies of Maeve Gilmore's writings on Mervyn Peake (with some minor revisions): Typescript introduction [to Mervyn Peake Reader, later published as Mervyn Peake, Writings & Drawings, ed. by Maeve Gilmore and Shelagh Johnson (London: Academy Editions, 1974)]. Autograph and typ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1972-1980]
Extent:
1 file

293. Add MS 88931/13/4/3

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Title:
Loans Notebook
Scope & Content:
Disbound writing pad detailing drawings, manuscripts and other items loaned out for publication, exhibition and other purposes. Information recorded includes dates of loans, return of items and, in one case, missing items. Loans listed include: Pan Books (poems and drawings for A Book of Nonsen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1977
Extent:
1 file

294. Add MS 88931/13/4/4

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Title:
Typescripts for Peake's Progress (part 1)
Scope & Content:
Typescripts of selected works by Mervyn Peake, compiled by Maeve Gilmore with her autograph introductory notes for each section. Includes: 'The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs'; 'The Touch o' the Ash'; 'Mr Slaughterboard'; 'The House of Darkstones'; 'The Weird Journey'; 'I Bought a Palm ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1977
Extent:
1 file

295. Add MS 88931/13/4/5

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Title:
Typescripts for Peake's Progress (part 2)
Scope & Content:
Typescripts of selected works by Mervyn Peake, compiled by Maeve Gilmore with her autograph introductory notes for each section. Includes: 'Mr Loftus' or 'And a Horse of Air'; 'Anima Mundi' or 'The Cave'; 'Noah's Ark'; 'Titus Groan' radio play; 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'; 'A Reverie of Bone...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1977
Extent:
1 file

296. Add MS 88931/13/5

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Title:
Proofs
Scope & Content:
Proofs for publications by and about Mervyn Peake (including illustrations and dust-jackets designed by Peake).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1962-2000
Extent:

9 files

297. Add MS 88931/13/5/1

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Title:
Proofs for The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
Scope & Content:
Unpaginated page proofs (including illustrations) presumably for Mervyn Peake, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (London: J M Dent and Sons, 1962) comprising a gathering of four leaves corresponding to pp.1-8 of the printed edition (though two pages are out of sequence).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1962]
Extent:
1 file

298. Add MS 88931/13/5/2

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Title:
Proofs for A Reverie of Bone
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for Mervyn Peake, A Reverie of Bone And Other Poems (London: Bertram Rota, 1967) with drawings by the author
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967
Extent:
1 file

299. Add MS 88931/13/5/3

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Title:
Proofs for Household Tales
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for Brothers Grimm, Household Tales (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1973) with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Also includes full colour proofs for Eyre and Spottiswoode jacket illustration and two different proofs for Methuen jacket.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1972
Extent:
1 file

300. Add MS 88931/13/5/4

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Title:
Proofs for John Batchelor's Biography
Scope & Content:
Galley proofs for John Batchelor, Mervyn Peake, A Biographical and Critical Exploration (London: Duckworth, 1974). See Add MS 88931/13/3/16/13 for Maeve Gilmore's corrections and comments on the text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1974
Extent:
1 file