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Add MS 88931/1/3/9
- Record Id:
- 040-000897952
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000147.0x00035f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/1/3/9
- Title:
- 'Ideas for Book Two' (Titus Groan chapters 60-61)
- Scope & Content:
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Working notebook for what Peake referred to as Book 1 and Book 2 [two parts of Titus Groan], in pencil, crayon and ink. Includes continuation of manuscript with authorial revisions and [editorial?] corrections in red pencil. Also includes drafts of introduction (crossed out) and chapter listing. Insert has scene between 'Fuschia' [Fuchsia] and 'Moistwrattle' (f.59). Notebook dated 15 June 1943 but some drawings are upside down, suggesting that notebook had been used previously, possibly dating from 1939/1940 due to the presence of a sketch for one of the Ride a Cock-Horse illustrations.
Drawings in charcoal, pencil, crayon and ink include:
- f.1: cleavers/axes;
- f.2v: bolt, screw and washer;
- f.3: arm and hand;
- f.5v: prostrate female figure;
- f.6v-7: winged creature with head of horse and winged creature with skull for head;
- f.12: two sketches of Dr Prunesquallor's head and further detail of his jaw;
- f.15: Steerpike seated; outline of twins, Cora and Clarice Groan;
- f.18: study from life of two figures in armchairs;
- f.19: profile of head underneath text;
- f.21: studies for the twins, Cora and Clarice Groan (three figures in total);
- f.22: two sketches of Prunesquallor's head; Flay's knee wrapped in cloth;
- f.23v: head of young man;
- ff.23-24: two drawings of head of sleeping child;
- f.24v: Flay;
- f.25: Flay striding;
- f.26: female facial features;
- f.26v: Flay's hand holding sword;
- f.28v: rough sketch of two figures;
- f.29: rough sketch of scene (subject unclear);
- ff.30v-31: two studies from life of man with hands held behind his back;
- f.32: three studies of faces;
- f.35: male figure;
- f.36: Flay;
- f.36v: male figure;
- f.47v: ?Maeve in glasses; robotic-looking headless figure; sketch for butcher in tub from Ride A Cock Horse;
- f.51v: rough sketch underneath text (subject unclear);
- f.52v: female head wearing headscarf;
- f.54v: figure drawing underneath text;
- f.58: man wearing suit and hat with hands in pockets;
- f.iii: rough sketches including serpent-like monster.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-000897930
037-000897931
040-000897952 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/1 : Prose
Add MS 88931/1/3 : Titus/Gormenghast Series
Add MS 88931/1/3/9 : 'Ideas for Book Two' (Titus Groan chapters 60-61) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0001]/036-000897930[0003]/037-000897931[0009]/040-000897952
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1934
- End Date:
- 1943
- Date Range:
- c 1939-1943
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: hard-bound volume.
Dimensions: 227mm x 175mm.
Foliation ff.iii+59+38*,43*.
- Former External References:
- UCL ref: MS ADD 234 2 (viii)
- Information About Copies:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)