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Add MS 88931/2/10
- Record Id:
- 040-001001001
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x000361
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/2/10
- Title:
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Autograph Drafts and Fragments
- Scope & Content:
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Includes notes on 'alternative ending of act 2' [for 'The Wit To Woo', written in the early 1950s] and draft of speech for the same play [spoken by Percy Trellis]. There are possible titles [presumably for Peake's drawings 'The Works of Adolf Hitler', 1940] alongside a doodle of a man slaying another figure. There are a few doodles, including an anthropomorphic fish. Undated.
Contains the poems:
- 'O love, the steeple jack, can climb...';
- 'Uproarious the callow lions...';
- 'Midnight-ranging...';
- 'Love is an angry weather...';
- 'At such an hour as this...';
- 'Oh love, O death, O ecstasy!' ['O love! O death! O ecstasy!'];
- 'Lost in the venal void...' [which became the latter part of the poem 'White Mules at Prayer'];
- unidentified fragment with lines 'There is no Jericho to storm with bugles' and 'There is no rival to the match-stick thought';
- 'My malady is this';
- an early draft of what later became 'Snow in Sark';
- 'A presage of death';
- 'For God's sake draw the blind...';
- 'Staring in madness';
- 'The Skeletons' [crossed through];
- two versions of 'I cross the narrow bridges to her love';
- 'Blue as the indigo and fabulous storm';
- 'We are the lifeless gipsies'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001000926
040-001001001 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/2 : Poetry
Add MS 88931/2/10 : Autograph Drafts and Fragments - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0002]/036-001000926[0010]/040-001001001
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1959
- Date Range:
- [1940s-1950s]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)