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Add MS 88931/13/3/1/3
- Record Id:
- 040-001120138
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000383.0x00017c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/13/3/1/3
- Title:
- Letters From Mervyn Peake (part 3)
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph letters to his wife Maeve Gilmore.
To 70 Glebe Place, Chelsea:
- 'My own sweet wife': inscribed ‘Clos de Bas, 2nd' [Sark] (5 leaves plus envelope postmarked 3 June 1946).
- 'My Maeve, my artist-girl': undated [1946? Letter addressed to 'companion of ten years' so probably sent to Maeve whilst she was living at Glebe Place] (1 leaf).
To 12 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea:
- 'Dearest little abducto ad absurdum': inscribed 'Edinburgh' [where Peake was to design sets for an unrealised theatrical adaptation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]; postmarked 4 February 1950 (6 leaves plus envelope).
- 'MaeveMaeveMaeveMaeveMaeve'; with illustrations of Maeve, Mervyn? with giant bird's head and their daughter Clare; undated [1950? Written on Sark] (9 leaves plus envelope).
- ‘Dearest girl’: contains drawing of cupid firing arrow at target; inscribed ‘Châlet’, Sark; 17 August (1 leaf plus envelope)
- Additional envelope postmarked 18 August 1950.
Valentine:
- ‘Sweetest of all girls is mine, So for my Maeve a valentine’: with coloured drawings of flowers and a heart on an easel; 14 February 1953 (1 leaf plus envelope).
To 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey from Budra, Yugoslavia:
- 'Maeve': undated [Easter 1955?] (1 leaf).
- ‘My dearest sweet’: with drawings of palm trees and figures fighting with palm fronds; 14 April 1955 (2 leaves plus envelope).
- ‘Sweet Maeve’: postmarked 19 April [1955] (3 leaves plus envelope).
To 55 Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey from Ireland:
- ‘Most darling’: inscribed 'The same day as I saw you'; postmarked 5 July 1956 (1 leaf plus envelope).
- ‘My darling and sweet Maeve’: inscribed ‘Saturday, 1956’; postmarked 7 July 1956 (1 leaf plus envelope).
- ‘My sweet tender girl’: inscribed ‘Sunday’; postmarked 9? July 1956 (1 leaf plus envelope).
- ‘My own love’: contains illustration of horse with green wash; inscribed ‘Tuesday’; postmarked 10 July 1956 (2 leaves plus envelope).
- ‘Maeve’: inscribed ‘Wednesday’; postmarked 12 July 1956 (3 leaves plus envelope).
- ‘Maeve my deepest of all in the heart of me’: [July 1956] (4 leaves).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
033-001119927
036-001120125
037-001473627
040-001120138 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/13 : Papers of Maeve Gilmore and the Mervyn Peake Estate
Add MS 88931/13/3 : Letters to Maeve Gilmore
Add MS 88931/13/3/1 : Letters From Mervyn Peake
Add MS 88931/13/3/1/3 : Letters From Mervyn Peake (part 3) - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0013]/033-001119927[0003]/036-001120125[0001]/037-001473627[0003]/040-001120138
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1946
- End Date:
- 1956
- Date Range:
- 1946-1956
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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