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Add MS 88931/1/3/7
- Record Id:
- 040-000897950
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000147.0x00035d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/1/3/7
- Title:
- 'Goremenghast continued - Book Seven' (Titus Groan chapters 47-57)
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph manuscript in different colour inks and pencil with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in pencil. Includes notes on vocabulary at end of manuscript and drafts of poem to Maeve, 'What can I ever offer you...', (crossed through). Passage from 29 May is headed 'Southport Neurosis Hospital'. Dated 5 September 1941, Warningcamp.
Drawings in pencil and ink include:
- f.1: profile of female face [Keda?];
- f.7: margin doodle of female face in profile;
- f.8: margin doodle of male face in profile;
- f.8v: rough sketch of cat;
- f.10v: line drawing of curly haired male in ?toga;
- f.11: male child;
- f.15: detailed drawing of leg and foot;
- f.18: doodle of legs;
- f.32: sketch of rocky horizon;
- f.33: doodle of human body, emphasising muscles, with a flower instead of a head;
- f.37: partial sketch from life of a young female figure wearing blouse and skirt;
- f.38v: male head in profile;
- f.39: legs;
- f.39v: head of Swelter;
- f.44: female figure with arms raised; face among hair on crown of head; Swelter with cleaver and pleading kitchen boy;
- f.51: sketch of male head, appears to be drawn from life;
- f.52: four sketches of soldiers;
- f.53v: doodle of legs and feet;
- f.55: doodle of facial features underneath text;
- f.55v: doodles of figure in suit, man wearing hat and Chinese man's face;
- f.56: doodles of cartoon figures including figure in tall pointed hat and another blowing smoke from a pipe;
- f.56v: doodle, possibly sketch of 'The Breakfast' scene;
- f.58v: head of man wearing glasses;
- f.59: two heads of men with long hair;
- f.60: male figure [Lord Sepulchrave?];
- f.60v: head of female wearing headscarf;
- f.61: legs and feet with flowers on knees;
- f.61v: rough sketch of man looking through binoculars;
- f.65: side of face; diagram of table for 'The Breakfast'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-000897930
037-000897931
040-000897950 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/1 : Prose
Add MS 88931/1/3 : Titus/Gormenghast Series
Add MS 88931/1/3/7 : 'Goremenghast continued - Book Seven' (Titus Groan chapters 47-57) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0001]/036-000897930[0003]/037-000897931[0007]/040-000897950
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1941
- End Date:
- 1942
- Date Range:
- 5 Sep 1941-1 Jun 1942
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: hard-bound volume.
Dimensions: 227mm x 175mm.
Foliation: ff.iii+68.
- Former External References:
- UCL ref: MS ADD 234 2 (vi)
- Information About Copies:
- Digital images (made by the British Library in 2012) of this entire volume are available to consult in the Manuscripts Reading Room - please see staff for details
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)