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Add MS 88931/2/5
- Record Id:
- 040-001000956
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x000326
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/2/5
- Title:
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'Vally of Bones' (A Reverie of Bone)
- Scope & Content:
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Revised autograph manuscript of the poem published as A Reverie of Bone. Complete draft written in a Stationery Office book, 'Supplied For the Public Service', when Peake was stationed at Larkhill. Includes small detailed illustration of a bearded man and various other sketches of skulls, heads and figures, as well as doodles. Last leaf of manuscript is inscribed 'Written at a lecture on theodolites in a gas-mask' and contains poems, 'At a cold morning dark[?], on Salisbury Plain' and 'They loom enormous'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001000926
040-001000956 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/2 : Poetry
Add MS 88931/2/5 : 'Vally of Bones' (A Reverie of Bone) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0002]/036-001000926[0005]/040-001000956
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1942
- Date Range:
- 1942
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: soft-bound volume.
Dimensions: 240mm x 184mm.
Foliation: ff.19.
Condition: conservation work carried out by the Bodleian Library prior to acquisition by the British Library (paper repairs and custom-made four-flap folder with hard covers)
- Former External References:
- Bodleian ref: Dep. Peake 7
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)