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221. Add MS 88931/13/3/16

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Title:
General Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Letters to Maeve Gilmore, some of which have been addressed to Mervyn Peake but have been answered by Maeve. Each file contains multiple letters from many of the listed correspondents. There are a small number of copy letters in Maeve Gilmore's hand; these are noted in the description where pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1959-1982
Extent:
28 files

222. Add MS 88931/13/3/19/8

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Title:
Maeve Gilmore Exhibitions
Scope & Content:
Mostly contains letters from well-wishers to Maeve Gilmore on the subject of her exhibition at the Langton Gallery (February 1979). Correspondents are: Arts Council of Great Britain; Caryll Faraldi at the Observer; Three Counties Guide Dog Club; M Clare Cave; Langton Gallery; Ruth [Gilmore]; Mik...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1981
Extent:
1 file

223. Add MS 88931/1/3/36

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Title:
'Last Book: Titus' (Titus Alone chapters 108-122)
Scope & Content:
Revised autograph draft, in ink. Additional leaves pasted in. Notes on plot development towards end of manuscript. Dated 4 December 1957. Doodles and sketches: f.12: horse with two heads; f.25: two heads; f.30: two scenes with figures in a landscape; f.31: two heads wearing ornate helmets; fish...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1957-Jan 1958
Extent:
1 file

224. Add MS 88931/1/3/34

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Title:
'Titus Afar Book 3' (Titus Alone chapters 79-89)
Scope & Content:
Heavily revised autograph draft in different colour inks. Plot summary on f.35v. Dated September 1957, Wallington. Drawings in ink include: f.6: Cheeta; f.9v: Muzzlehatch with creature on shoulder; f.12v: female face; f.15: face; f.17: two faces; f.20: head and shoulders of two figures; crying ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957
Extent:
1 volume

225. Add MS 88931/1/3/7

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Title:
'Goremenghast continued - Book Seven' (Titus Groan chapters 47-57)
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in pencil. Includes notes on vocabulary at end of manuscript and drafts of poem to Maeve, 'What can I ever offer you...', (crossed through). Passage from 29 May is headed 'Southport Neu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1941-1 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 volume

226. Add MS 88931/13/3/18/1

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Title:
Titus Groan Trilogy 1967
Scope & Content:
Letters to Maeve Gilmore. Predominantly comprises letters from UK and USA publishers: Ballantine Books; Weybright and Talley; Doubleday & Company; Penguin; and Eyre & Spottiswoode. Other correspondents are: Clyde S Kilby, Wheaton College, Illinois; Howard Gotlieb, Boston University Libra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1974
Extent:
1 file

227. Add MS 88931/13/1/2

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Title:
Typescripts for A World Away
Scope & Content:
Three volumes stab-stitched in brown paper wrappers: 'Autobiography': clean copy typescript of partial draft, ending with Peake's poem 'Heads Float About Me', undated. 'A World Away. Maeve Peake': clean copy typescript of partial draft, ending with Peake's poem 'Heads Float About Me', undated. '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 file

228. Add MS 88931/13/6/2

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Title:
Ride a Cock-Horse: Mother and Child
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of woman holding baby. Published in Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Chatto & Windus, 1940). Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 file

229. Add MS 88931/13/6/11

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Title:
Household Tales: 'The Singing, Soaring Lark'
Scope & Content:
Printing plate etched with image of a girl and a prince riding a griffin. Published in Jacob Grimm, Household Tales, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946). Dated 1974 [presumably this was when the block was reused, probably to produce a print for a greetings card].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1946]
Extent:
1 item

230. Add MS 88931/12/2/2

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Title:
Plain Words (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948)
Scope & Content:
With ink drawing by Mervyn Peake of female figure and wolf on the front cover
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1948
Extent:
1 volume