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1. Add MS 88931/1

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Title:
Prose
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts and typescripts of novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction fragments. Some of the typescripts may have been made posthumously. See Add MS 88931/6 for Peake's notes towards an autobiography.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1921-c 1978
Extent:

59 files

2. Add MS 88931/1/6

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Title:
Mr Pye
Scope & Content:
Fragments of drafts for novel. Chapters given in title field relate to the published version, not to original numbering of the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1951
Extent:
2 volumes

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Add MS 88931/1/5

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Title:
I Bought a Palm Tree
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft of short story set on Sark [based on truth]. Unidentified typescript on reverse of two leaves.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1948
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 88931/1/11

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Title:
Short Story ['Manifold Basket']
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph fragment of a story about Stagg College. Story later reworked as a play entitled 'Manifold Basket' - see Add MS 88931/3/4. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88931/1/12

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Title:
Autograph Fragments
Scope & Content:
Comprises two unrelated items in Mervyn Peake's hand, both undated: Leaf with revised autograph fragment on the imagination, 'Without a limitless theme the imagination boggles...'; Leaf with autograph fragment about the influence of Charles Dickens on George Bernard Shaw's work, copied from Char...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 20th century
Extent:
1 file

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