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Add MS 88931/12/1
- Record Id:
- 040-001104305
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x000195
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/12/1
- Title:
- Published Items by Mervyn Peake
- Scope & Content:
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Comprises four parts:
- A. News From Afar [London Missionary Society] (Jan 1924), pp.1-15, containing article ‘Ways of Travelling’ (p.9) by Mervyn L Peake about different modes of transport in China, written at the age of 12.
- B. Cuttings of poems by Peake published in various periodicals (most pasted onto loose album pages), with captions in Peake's hand, dating from 1937 to 1941 ('Rhondda Valley', 'Poplar', 'The Meeting at Dawn', 'Autumn', 'Spring', 'El Greco', 'Watch, Here and Now...', 'Au Moulin Joyeux', 'I Burgled Beauty in the Night', 'The Crystal', 'Coloured Money', 'The Metal Bird', 'The Two Fraternities', 'The Cocky Walkers', 'Sing The Fickle Fit-for-Nothing Fellows' and 'Overture').
- C. Dust-jacket with illustrations by Peake for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (London: Chatto & Windus, 1943).
- D. Illustrated prose piece by Peake about London street life: ‘London Fantasy', World Review New Series, 6 (Aug 1949), pp.55–59.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001612290
040-001104305 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/12 : Published Items
Add MS 88931/12/1 : Published Items by Mervyn Peake - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0012]/036-001612290[0001]/040-001104305
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1924
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1924-1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- Bodleian ref for 'Ways of Travelling': Dep. Peake 2
- Arrangement:
- British Library arrangement: items grouped together by the archivist and arranged chronologically
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)