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81. Add MS 88931/13/3/18/6

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Add MS 88931/13/3/18/6
Title:
Letters From Publishers: M
Scope & Content:
Letters to Maeve Gilmore from Eyre Methuen, Methuen London, Methuen Children's Books and Associated Book Publishers. Letters pertain to both Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore's literary and artistic works, including the intended edition of Bleak House, illustrated by Mervyn, that was not ultimately...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1983
Extent:
1 file

82. Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4

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Add MS 88931/13/15/1/4
Title:
BBC Adaptation: 'Gormenghast'
Scope & Content:
Script for television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, broadcast on the BBC in the UK and PBS in the USA.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1998-2001
Extent:
4 files

83. Add MS 88931/13/1/1

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Add MS 88931/13/1/1
Title:
Autograph Manuscripts for A World Away
Scope & Content:
Comprises four notebooks containing two drafts: A. Draft in pencil with minor revisions. Invoice at end dated 18 October 1967. B. Continuation of pencil draft, undated. C. Later revised draft, in ink, March 1968-April 1968. D. Continuation of later draft to end, May 1968.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1967-1968
Extent:
1 file

84. Add MS 88931/13/6/8

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Add MS 88931/13/6/8
Title:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: White Rabbit
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole. Mervyn Peake's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were first published by Zephyr Books, Stockholm in 1946 and in Britain by Allan Wingate, London in 1954. This image was also u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1954?
Extent:
1 item

85. Add MS 88931/13/2/5

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Add MS 88931/13/2/5
Title:
Fragments Re Fourth Titus Book [later entitled Titus Awakes]
Scope & Content:
Comprises: list in Mervyn Peake's hand of possible ideas, chapters or titles, headed 'Titus among the -' (pasted onto leaf from diary for 7 January 1963); p.135 of typescript draft [conversation between Mrs Sempleton? and Titus]; undated [1970s?]; photocopy of Peake's prologue and first chapter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-c 1995
Extent:
1 file

86. Add MS 88931/13/3/3

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Add MS 88931/13/3/3
Title:
Letters Re Mervyn Peake's Medical Care
Scope & Content:
Three letters from Mervyn's doctor, J M Northcliffe Roberts. Also includes letters regarding care homes and vacancies from: The Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick; George Rettie MD; John Harvard-Watts; St John of God's Hospital, Yorkshire; Bon Secours Nursing Home, Berkshire. Further letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1961-7 May 1975
Extent:
1 file

87. Add MS 88931/13/6/17

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Add MS 88931/13/6/17
Title:
Figure Wearing Bobble Hat Holding Mirror or Frame
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 item

88. Add MS 88931/13/6/23

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Add MS 88931/13/6/23
Title:
Triptych: Two Cats and a Head With Horns
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1980 [see Add MS 88931/13/12]. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1980?
Extent:
1 item

89. Add MS 88931/13/16/2

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Add MS 88931/13/16/2
Title:
'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' by Langdon Jones
Scope & Content:
Photocopy of score 'for piano, baritone, soprano and narrator'. See Add MS 88931/13/3/15/3 for letter from Langdon Jones to Maeve Gilmore which dates this score at July 1976. See Add MS 88931/4/2/3/2 for Tristram Cary's original score.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Jul 1976]
Extent:
1 oversize file

90. Add MS 88931/13/3/16/4

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Title:
General Correspondence Vol 2 A-D
Scope & Content:
Letters to Maeve Gilmore, 1967-1969. Correspondents A-D: A: Allison & Busby Ltd; Ronald Apps of Westminster Bank; The Actors Workshop; B: Charlotte Brunsdon; E D Barlow; Tony, The Dean of Guildford; Walter Hooper on behalf of the Bodleian Library; Roger Brunsdon of Rose, Johnson & Hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1963-1969
Extent:
1 file