Letters (mostly typescript) from the founder of the Mervyn Peake Society. Enclosed are the Society's Constitution and a photocopy of the minutes from the inaugural meeting of the Mervyn Peake Society on 8 February [1975]. See also Add MS 88931/13/3/11/3/3 for more letters from Austen Wilks.
Letters from Society members and the public to Maeve Gilmore regarding talks, events, publications and visits to the Peake residence at 1 Drayton Gardens among other subjects. The last file in this series contains records relating to the administration of the Society.
Letters From G Peter Winnington Re Mervyn Peake Review
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Mostly signed typewritten letters from G Peter Winnington in his capacity as Editor of the Mervyn Peake Review [a role he continued in until resigning in 1984]. Letters also cover personal subjects. Files contain drafts of articles for publication in the Review.
Mervyn Peake Society: Correspondence and Administration
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Letters from: Laurence Bristow-Smith; Marilyn Brooks; Jane Goff; Alan Brooks; Jonathan K Rosser; and a copy letter from John Watney to Peter [Winnington]. Also includes: membership lists; AGM agendas of 1977 and 1979; minutes, 8 February 1975, 7 April 1979, 10 May 1980; balance sheet, 1978-1979...
Correspondents: L: David Lister. M: Christopher Morrell. Mc: Hazel McKinley. O: Margaret Ochoki; Paul Osborne; Dr Cyril Bibby; Anthony O’Brien. P: Lance Platt. R: Raphael Rish; D[-] Radisford. Also includes copy of edited typescript article ‘Peake at Edinburgh’ by Edwin Morgan.
Correspondents: S: Richard Swan; Robert Smith; Glenn Sadler; Colin Storey, Norwich City College. T: T Gardner Scott; K Takagi. W: Austen [Wilks]; Nick Wadham; Ingrid Waterhouse; Michael Wood; Ian D Whiteley.
Correspondents: A-B: Sally Albrow; Dee Berkeley (with draft letter to Dee in Maeve’s hand); Martin Booth; Marilyn Brooks, Secretary of the Mervyn Peake Society. C: Rachel Campbell Johnston; M Clare Cave; Thomas Collins. D: Eric Drake. G-H: N Newell; Howard B Gotlieb, Boston University Specia...
Letters to Maeve Gilmore. Includes: transcripts of Mervyn Peake's radio talks, 'The Artist's World' and 'Book Illustration', from the programme 'As I See It'; copy of review of Peake's Letters From a Lost Uncle and J R R Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters entitled 'Peake's Polar Regions: In ...
Letters to Maeve Gilmore. Subjects include the editing of Peake's Progress (including G P Winnington's lists of corrections) and the Society's financial difficulties. Also includes: Winnington's typescript draft entry for Mervyn Peake in the Dictionary of Literary Biography; correspondence bet...