Add MS 88931/11/3

Single letters or items received from:

• 'Goatie' [Peake's former school friend Gordon Smith] (in the form of a poem entitled 'Epistle to Mr Peake' re publication of Titus Groan);
• Bette L Wheeler;
• Lisl Drake Beer;
• Antony Borrow (with pencil sketch by Mervyn on reverse showing a man holding a sword, with his arm around a smaller figure);
• Enid [Bagnold];
• Norman Hudis;
• Michael Ayrton;
• Sandy Wilson;
• Paul Scofield;
• Roy [Walker];
• Eunice [-] of Penguin Books;
• The Horn Book inc;
• Kenneth Tynan;
• Victor Gollancz;
• International Copyright Bureau;
• Geoffrey A J Farmer;
• Jan [Janice Thompson] (name inscribed on envelope in Maeve's hand);
• J Taylor (pencil sketch 'Portrait of Mrs Peake' inscribed 'To M Peake and wife');
• Hazel McKinley;
• and the first page of a letter with the address 84 Redcliffe Gardens, sender unknown.

Multiple letters received from:

• John Clements (3);
• J M Dent & Sons Ltd (17);
• Eyre & Spottiswoode (8 letters plus a note in Mervyn's hand regarding the poor quality of an edition of Letters From a Lost Uncle);
• The Folio Society (5);
• Alec Guinness (2);
• David Higham (4);
• David Jones of the BBC (2);
• Edwin Mullins (2);
• John Bell of Oxford University Press (2);
• Royal Society of Literature (1 letter; 2 invitation cards);
• Stephen Spender at Encounter (4);
• Town & Country (2);
• Henry Treece (3);
• Colin [Smythe?] (2).