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1. Add MS 88931/6

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Title:
Notes and Research Material for Autobiography
Scope & Content:
Preparatory work for Peake's fictionalised account of his childhood [working title 'China to Eltham']. Although the earliest material dates from 1939, Peake probably started work on his autobiography in 1950; see Maeve Gilmore, Peake's Progress (Middlesex: Penguin, 1981), p.470.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939-1960s]
Extent:
5 files

2. 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

3. 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

4. Add MS 88931/6/1

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Title:
'Interim Report on the Nethersole Hospital...' by Ernest Cromwell Peake
Scope & Content:
Autograph report by Mervyn Peake's father in his capacity as Acting Medical Superintendent of a Hong Kong hospital in 1946.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88931/6/2

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Title:
'Memoirs of a Doctor in China' by Ernest Cromwell Peake
Scope & Content:
Typescript with annotations [by Mervyn Peake?]. Mervyn Peake's father's memoirs of his life in China from 1898 through the early 1900s. Includes inserted loose leaf with notes in a different hand [Maeve Gilmore's?]. Undated (but date inferred from text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1948]
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 88931/6/4/1

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Title:
Loose Leaf: 'Bias Bay'
Scope & Content:
Undated loose leaf mounted on card. Contains drawing of a Chinese man with a pigtail and autograph notes about the Latin master stealing money from the Compound.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

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