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41. Add MS 88931/13/6

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Title:
Printing Plates
Scope & Content:
Plates for letterpress printing etched with illustrations and drawings by Mervyn Peake. Some, if not perhaps all of these plates, were used to produce Christmas cards and other greetings cards sent by Maeve Gilmore on behalf of the Peake family.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940-1981?]
Extent:
26 items

42. Add MS 88931/13/5

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Title:
Proofs
Scope & Content:
Proofs for publications by and about Mervyn Peake (including illustrations and dust-jackets designed by Peake).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1962-2000
Extent:

9 files

43. Add MS 88931/6/3

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Title:
Printed Source Material
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A: Newspaper cutting of obituary for Mervyn Peake's father, Dr E C Peake [1950]; B: Cutting from London Missionary Society magazine of a photograph annotated 'sunhats on the river' in Mervyn Peake's hand; C: Printed leaves with black and white photographs of China and Japan by B T Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-c 1950
Extent:
1 oversize file

44. Add MS 88931/4/2/1

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Title:
Titus Groan
Scope & Content:
Typescript by Peake inscribed 'TRANSMISSION. BBC Third Programme: Wednesday 1st February 1956'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
1 file

45. Add MS 88931/6/4

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Title:
Notes and Draft Manuscript
Scope & Content:
Comprises four parts: A: 'Chinese Puzzle'. Loose leaves with notes and draft of chapter 1 of Peake's memoir about his childhood in China. Inscribed 'Smarden 1951 July'. B: Autograph notebook with notes on Tientsin Grammar School, Eltham College, Kuling, the Compound, Shanghai and various childho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1951-c 1960
Extent:
2 files

46. Add MS 88931/13/16

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Title:
Scores
Scope & Content:
Scores to accompany Mervyn Peake's poems by two different composers
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974-1976
Extent:
2 oversize files

47. Add MS 88931/2/8

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Title:
Corrected Typescripts: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves, some with autograph corrections. There are multiple versions or copies of many of the poems. Some supplementary typescript and manuscript leaves have been pasted in. Original dates and places of composition have been inscribed in Maeve Gilmore's hand (these range from 1937-1960). Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 file

48. Add MS 88931/2/2

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript and Typescript Leaves: 'Unpublished Poems'
Scope & Content:
Comprises: A. Revised autograph manuscript in pencil and ink. 'Serious' poems are at the front of the volume; nonsense poems at the back. Some typescript and manuscript leaves pasted in. Includes drawing of Mervyn Peake's mother on her deathbed and related poem (1939). Includes a later note [in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
1 file

49. Add MS 88931/7/2

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Title:
Drawings for Through the Looking Glass
Scope & Content:
Comprising thirty one finished illustrations by Mervyn Peake and one rough sketch. Lacking drawings of Tweedledum and Tweedledee fighting and the head of the White Queen [these two illustrations were seemingly never returned by the original publishers, Zephyr Books; they do not appear on Maeve Gi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1945-1954]
Extent:
5 files

50. 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