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71. Add MS 88931/2/4/1

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Title:
Autograph Poems
Scope & Content:
Includes notes made in pencil by 'J.C., 1982' [presumably of the Bodleian Library] suggesting volumes from which individual leaves were torn. Contains poems: 'Satan'; 'Who Can Find?'; 'Onetime my notes would dance to any theme...'; 'Out of the chaos of my doubt...'; 'Conceipt' [Conceit] ['Poem'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

72. Add MS 88931/2/4/2

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Title:
Poems to Maeve
Scope & Content:
Typescript and facsimiles of: 'Maeve: If when I married you I was in love'; 'FOR MAEVE. Now with the rain about her I can see', July 1960 (facsimile of autograph draft and typescript); 'Leave Train'; 'Troop Train'; 'And I thought you beside me...' (two typescript versions); 'In the fabric of thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1960s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

73. Add MS 88931/2/4/3

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Title:
Poems Written at Virginia Water Hospital circa 1960-1961. Holloway Sanatorium
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript poems: 'Heads move ['float' inserted] about me...'; 'Swallow the sky: chew up the stars...'; 'Course [Coarse] as the sun is blatant...' (with two sketches of heads); 'Through the voluminous foliage of the mind...'; 'On fishing up a marble head'; 'That lance of light that...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960?
Extent:
1 oversize file

74. Add MS 88931/2/5

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Title:
'Vally of Bones' (A Reverie of Bone)
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript of the poem published as A Reverie of Bone. Complete draft written in a Stationery Office book, 'Supplied For the Public Service', when Peake was stationed at Larkhill. Includes small detailed illustration of a bearded man and various other sketches of skulls, heads ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 volume

75. Add MS 88931/2/6

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Title:
Nonsence
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript drafts of nonsense poems by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1970s
Extent:
4 files

76. Add MS 88931/2/6/1

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Title:
Autograph Drafts: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Contains original folder inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [where he lived from 1953 to 1960] but poems appear to have been written earlier. Inside folder is inscribed with the line 'I sometimes think of old tomes and [illegible: not 'weeds']' ['I sometimes think of old tombs and weeds' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1950s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

77. Add MS 88931/2/6/2

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' ['Verse' partially visible]
Scope & Content:
Revised nonsense poems. Drawing pasted to cover depicts artist at his easel. Includes doodles of heads, figures and animals. Notes [perhaps for a play] about an old man on inside back cover. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore suggests that 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' was written on Sark, where the fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1940s]
Extent:
1 volume

78. Add MS 88931/2/6/3

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' [or Songs of Nonsense]
Scope & Content:
Contains fair copies of poems with minor revisions [probably from the late 1950s - see Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense, ed by R W Maslen and G Peter Winnington (Manchester: Carcanet, 2011), p.2]. Label on cover partly obscures old title 'The Parting of the Way'. Towards the back of the volume ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1966]
Extent:
1 volume

79. Add MS 88931/2/6/4

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Title:
Typescript: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves found in envelope inscribed 'For Maeve' (envelope has printed label 'Ordinary Level Human Biology, Paper I' dated 19 Nov 1975). There are multiple copies of many of the poems. There are autograph corrections to one of the typescripts for 'It Worries Me to Know'. Undated. Poems: ‘O’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1960s-c 1970s
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
The Rhino and the Lark' and 'The Bull-Frog and the Flies
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph drafts of two nonsense poems with edited and fair copy typescripts of both. The manuscript for 'The Bull-Frog and the Flies' [published as 'The Bullfrog and the Flies'] is inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [suggesting a date between 1953 and 1960]. Includes envelope ent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file