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101. Add MS 88931/7/2/3

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Title:
Drawings (part 3)
Scope & Content:
Nine drawings in pen and ink, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Red King: drawing on water-colour board; with caption inscribed ‘Ch 4. “He had a tall red nightcap on, with a tassel, & he was lying crumpled up…’ (ff.1-2); Tweedledum and Tweedledee under umbrella; drawing on water-colour b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 file

102. Add MS 88931/7/2/4

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Title:
Drawings (part 4)
Scope & Content:
Nine drawings in pen and ink, with captions in Mervyn Peake's hand: Lion: drawing on card; with caption inscribed ‘Ch 7. ”What’s this?” he said, blinking lazily at Alice.’ (ff.1-2); Alice: drawing on paper pasted onto card; with caption inscribed ‘Chapter 8. … with such fury that Alice got behin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
1 file

103. 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

104. Add MS 88931/3/6/4

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Typescript: ‘Anima Mundi or The Cave’
Scope & Content:
Lacking the end of Act III. Inscribed ‘I, Drayton Gardens’. Stamp for David Higham Associates Ltd has been crossed through. Loose front sheet inscribed in Maeve Gilmore’s hand in red ink, ‘This play was written between 1957 and 1959 – unpublished and unperformed’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 file

105. Add MS 88931/13/6/7

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Title:
Alice: Border Illustration
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with decorative border by Mervyn Peake drawn for the cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (London: Allan Wingate, 1954), featuring characters from Through the Looking Glass. Block inscribed 'Mrs Peake'. Card stuck to reverse of block featur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1954]
Extent:
1 item

106. Add MS 88931/1/3/43

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Title:
'Titus Four'
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph manuscript in different colour inks and crayon. Contains first draft of beginning of fourth Titus novel [published as Titus Awakes], with working notes and a list of possible titles. Starting on f.32 is a draft of the beginning of Titus Alone. Inscribed 'Wallington', later cros...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1960
Extent:
1 volume

107. Add MS 88931/3/5

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Title:
The Voice of One’ and ‘The Eye of the Beholder
Scope & Content:
Comprises two typescript versions of a radio play by Mervyn Peake for the BBC Home Service: A: ‘Writing For Sound: The Voice of One’. B: ‘Writing For Sound: The Eye of the Beholder’. This script appears to be the later version as it contains minor revisions in pencil. Both typescripts marked...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

108. 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

109. Add MS 88931/2/7

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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

110. Add MS 88931/13/15/2

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Title:
Radio Adaptations
Scope & Content:
Scripts based on the works of Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1980s
Extent:
2 files