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31. Add MS 88931/1/1

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Title:
The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs
Scope & Content:
Juvenile short story
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921-c 1978
Extent:

2 files

32. Add MS 88931/1/8

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Title:
Boy In Darkness
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript draft with autograph corrections of novella about Titus Groan's journey out of Gormenghast. See also Add MS 88931/1/2 and Add MS 88931/1/3 for the rest of the Titus manuscripts. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956?
Extent:
1 volume

33. 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

34. 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

35. Add MS 88931/13/2

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Title:
Titus Awakes
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and typescripts of Maeve Gilmore's continuation of Peake's Titus books, including a brief list of ideas by Peake. For Peake's draft beginning of the novel see Add MS 88931/1/3/43.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-c 1995
Extent:
5 files

36. Add MS 88931/13/10

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Title:
Publications
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Michael Moorcock, Ergo Ego (London: MJM Publications, 1962) - includes recommendation for the work of Mervyn Peake on back cover. B. Stephen R Sanderson, The Collector’s Bulletin, 10 (Newport News, Virginia: Purple Mouth Press, April 1969) - includes Mervyn Peake bibliography by Le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962-1979
Extent:
1 oversize file

37. Add MS 88931/13/17

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Title:
Abridgements
Scope & Content:
Text for the Gormenghast trilogy, abridged by James Parks
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1980s]
Extent:
3 files

38. Add MS 88931/11/4

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Title:
Letters of Appreciation
Scope & Content:
Fan mail (re Titus Groan, Gormenghast and other works) from friends, acquaintances and members of the public: Ruth Lonergan and James Dugan; Elizabeth Hare; Ethel Fairchild (2 letters); Billy [Thorne?]; 'Hutch'; Olwen T? Brown, Leicester Galleries; R- J Daingerfield Jr; Frances Grigsby; Jean Coo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1946-17 Feb 1960
Extent:
1 file

39. Add MS 88931/12/2

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Title:
Publications Belonging to Mervyn Peake
Scope & Content:
Reference works used by Peake, with doodles
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
3 volumes

40. 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