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21. Add MS 88931/1/9

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Title:
Footfruit
Scope & Content:
Short story. See Add MS 88931/3/7 for early notes towards 'Footfruit'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1961
Extent:
3 files

22. Add MS 88931/1/3

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Title:
Titus/Gormenghast Series
Scope & Content:
Drafts of first three novels and beginning of fourth book. Lacking the first eleven chapters of Titus Groan. Comprises thirty four notebooks plus typescripts and loose autograph leaves. In addition to text, drawings and poems, the notebooks include details of appointments, lists of current proje...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939-c 1962
Extent:

44 files

23. 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

24. 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

25. Add MS 88931/4/1

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Title:
'Gormenghast' Opera
Scope & Content:
Adaptation of Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake [for which he hoped Benjamin Britten would compose the music].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949-1950s
Extent:
3 files

26. Add MS 88931/4/2

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Title:
BBC Radio Adaptations
Scope & Content:
Dramatisations by Mervyn Peake of his own works
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956-1964
Extent:
4 files

27. 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

28. Add MS 88931/3/8

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Title:
‘The Teddy Boy: TV’
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in exercise book (originally inscribed with Peake's daughter's name ‘Clare Peake’) with notes and revised draft of unfinished television play. Also includes epilogue [for his play ‘Noah's Ark’ - see Add MS 88931/3/10 for typescript of the rest of this play]. Includes sketche...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

29. 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

30. Add MS 88931/5/1

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Title:
Ideas for TV
Scope & Content:
Autograph notebook. Contains lists of ideas for projects with potential commercial value (not all for television). Includes loose leaf with fragment of verse, 'I'm just a Line...'. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file