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Add MS 88931/2/4/3
- Record Id:
- 040-001000954
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x000325
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/2/4/3
- Title:
- Poems Written at Virginia Water Hospital circa 1960-1961. Holloway Sanatorium
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph and typescript poems:
- 'Heads move ['float' inserted] about me...';
- 'Swallow the sky: chew up the stars...';
- 'Course [Coarse] as the sun is blatant...' (with two sketches of heads);
- 'Through the voluminous foliage of the mind...';
- 'On fishing up a marble head';
- 'That lance of light that slid across the dark';
- 'Poem: When I was wounded...';
- Poem: Out of the overlapping...';
- Poem: 'As though it was not his...';
- 'Break Through Naked'.
Maeve Gilmore has dated these poems as circa 1960-61 but the date remains uncertain as there is no documentary evidence [Peake was, however, a patient at Holloway Hospital from March to August 1958 - see his letters to Maeve Add MS 88931/13/3/1/4].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001000926
037-001000948
040-001000954 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/2 : Poetry
Add MS 88931/2/4 : Manuscript and Typescript Poems
Add MS 88931/2/4/3 : Poems Written at Virginia Water Hospital circa 1960-1961. Holloway Sanatorium - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0002]/036-001000926[0004]/037-001000948[0003]/040-001000954
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 oversize file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1959
- End Date:
- 1961
- Date Range:
- 1960?
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- Bodleian ref: Dep. Peake 12
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)