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211. Add MS 88931/13/7/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/7/3
Title:
Photographs of Drawings and Paintings
Scope & Content:
Reproductions of a variety of Peake's works, including a sketch of Flay and Rottcodd from the manuscript of Peake's stage adaptation of Titus Groan [see Add MS 88931/4/1], paintings of glass blowers and various nudes and other studies from life. Photographs found in envelope sent by Methuen's Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1981
Extent:
1 file [18 photographs]

212. Add MS 88931/1/3/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/10
Title:
'New Chapter "Gone"' (Titus Groan chapters 62-65)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in various colours of pencil and ink, with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Contains draft of poem 'If I would stay what man call sane' (f.38v) and list of expenses for London and Burpham homes (f.42v). Undated. Drawings in pencil, ink and cra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1943
Extent:
1 volume

213. Add MS 88931/1/9/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/9/1
Title:
Manuscript: 'Footfruit various drafts - final writings - circa 1960'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: revised autograph fragments in ink and pencil on various sizes of paper. Includes original envelope and folder. Also includes ten illustrations in ink and pencil. Some leaves have unidentified typescript on reverse. Notes on plot are headed 'Metamorphosis'. Circa 1960. autograph noteb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960-1961]
Extent:
1 oversize file

214. Add MS 88931/1/9/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/9/2
Title:
Typescript and Synopsis: 'The Enthusiast or the Adventures of Footfruit'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: typescript with minor corrections in pencil; gaps left in text [for illustrations], 2 March; typescript of synopsis in red ink; newspaper cutting with pencil marks in gutters: 'Sub-think', News Chronicle, 25 September 1957 [Maeve Gilmore cites this article as inspiration for 'Footfrui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1961
Extent:
1 oversize file

215. Add MS 88931/1/3/24

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/24
Title:
Early Fragments, Drafts and Notes for Titus Alone
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves (in manuscript unless otherwise stated): ff.1-7: 'Dream Sequences of Gormenghast' and 'Dreams to be Infiltrated', revised typescript and manuscript leaves; ff.8-9: 'Titus Far From Home', draft of passage describing Titus looking down on the city from a window on the thirtieth floor,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
mid 1950s
Extent:
1 file

216. Add MS 88931/1/3/38

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/38
Title:
‘1st (Discarded) Typescript of Titus Alone’ (chapters 69-89)
Scope & Content:
Typescript with author's revisions and editor's corrections in red ink. Manuscript concludes with a chapter which succeeds chapter 89 (although this text is not present in the published version). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

217. Add MS 88931/1/3/39

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/1/3/39
Title:
‘1st (Discarded) Typescript of Titus Alone’ (chapters 93-122)
Scope & Content:
Typescript with author's revisions and editor's corrections in red ink. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 file

218. Add MS 88931/13/6/15

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/6/15
Title:
Figure Wearing Pointed Hat Holding Sword
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake used for his daughter Clare Peake's twenty first birthday invitation. Undated [Clare Peake was twenty one in 1970].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1970?
Extent:
1 item

219. Add MS 88931/13/16/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/16/1
Title:
'Five Poems of Peake' by Nigel Virley
Scope & Content:
Copy of handwritten score for unaccompanied choir. The five nonsense poems are: 'The Trouble With Geraniums', 'O'er Seas That Have No Beaches', 'It Makes a Change', 'O Little Fly' and 'O Here It Is! And There It Is'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1974
Extent:
1 oversize file

220. Add MS 88931/13/6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88931/13/6/1
Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Title Illustration
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of woman riding a horse. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). This image was also used on the Peake family's 1979 Christmas card - see Add MS 88931/13/12. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 item