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Title:
Nonsence
Scope & Content:
Autograph and typescript drafts of nonsense poems by Mervyn Peake
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1970s
Extent:
4 files

2. Add MS 88931/2/6/4

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Title:
Typescript: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Loose leaves found in envelope inscribed 'For Maeve' (envelope has printed label 'Ordinary Level Human Biology, Paper I' dated 19 Nov 1975). There are multiple copies of many of the poems. There are autograph corrections to one of the typescripts for 'It Worries Me to Know'. Undated. Poems: ‘O’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1960s-c 1970s
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 88931/2/6/1

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Title:
Autograph Drafts: 'Nonsence Poems'
Scope & Content:
Contains original folder inscribed with Peake's Wallington address [where he lived from 1953 to 1960] but poems appear to have been written earlier. Inside folder is inscribed with the line 'I sometimes think of old tomes and [illegible: not 'weeds']' ['I sometimes think of old tombs and weeds' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940s-1950s]
Extent:
1 oversize file

4. Add MS 88931/2/6/2

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' ['Verse' partially visible]
Scope & Content:
Revised nonsense poems. Drawing pasted to cover depicts artist at his easel. Includes doodles of heads, figures and animals. Notes [perhaps for a play] about an old man on inside back cover. Undated [but Maeve Gilmore suggests that 'The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb' was written on Sark, where the fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[late 1940s]
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 88931/2/6/3

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Title:
Autograph Manuscript: 'Nonsence' [or Songs of Nonsense]
Scope & Content:
Contains fair copies of poems with minor revisions [probably from the late 1950s - see Mervyn Peake, Complete Nonsense, ed by R W Maslen and G Peter Winnington (Manchester: Carcanet, 2011), p.2]. Label on cover partly obscures old title 'The Parting of the Way'. Towards the back of the volume ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1950s-1966]
Extent:
1 volume

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