Copy of earlier version of the script (as at Add MS 88931/3/3/3) seemingly produced on an electronic typewriter. First leaf inscribed in red ink in Maeve Gilmore’s hand ‘This play was written between circa 1954-55, and was based on a theme suggested to Mervyn by Aaron Judah.’ [Copy presumably ma...
Manuscript: ‘Loftus, The Catalyst' Act III Scene 1
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Comprises two parts: A: Notebook originally titled ‘Peradventure’ [the title of Peake's fourth Titus book]. Notes and summary of action [apparently in Aaron Judah’s hand]. At the back of the volume there are notes for a story about Zenobia and Odaenathus. Undated. B: Twenty eight loose leaves ...
Autograph notebook, with minor revisions and pencil annotations [some apparently in Aaron Judah’s hand]. There are four sides of text [crossed out] entitled ‘My Home, My Wilderness: a play to show conflict between instinctive belief and inner reality – and rationalism’. Undated [but inscribed wi...
Typescript: [‘Mr Loftus or:’] ‘And a Horse of Air’
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Includes minor authorial revisions throughout [by Mervyn Peake and Aaron Judah]. There are more significant revisions to Act II with a number of leaves torn out and an additional autograph leaf pasted in with revised speech for Posgate. Inscribed ‘Typed by Peter Jones, Secretarial Bureau, 39 Cad...
Typescript: ‘Mr Loftus by Mervyn Peake in conjunction with Aaron Judah’
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Includes authorial revisions, mostly in Peake’s hand. Original title ‘And a Horse of Air’ has been erased. Inscribed ‘Mervyn Peake 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Sy’ on f.1 and ‘Maeve Peake 1 Drayton Gardens’ on inside front cover. Undated.