Fine Autograph Letter Signed with his intimate nickname "Muffin" to his old friend [Helene] Lanie Bruce "Lanie dear" (Mervyn, 1911-1968, Writer, Artist, Poet and Illustrator)

by PEAKE

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starting you must think me very dreadful! I have been delighted thrilled to know you are in England have meant to write - but knew I d see you procrastinated. But how lovely to see you! I m in town now - at 3 Trafalgar Studios it was lovely getting your letter here... Darling, I ll ring you... and we ll fix when we can meet. Do you arrive from Devon at Victoria (what a sentence). If so - shall I meet you for a few minutes before you have to catch a train to Mayfield or are you going by car. Lots of the original love to you, darling... , with a postscript that they were awfully sorry about your little boy that you weren t able to come to Sark. Give him my love. I hope he s better... , 2 sides 8vo., 3 Trafalgar Studios, Chelsea, no date but circa Peake returned from Sark in 1936 and was commissioned to design the sets and costumes for The Insect Play and his work was acclaimed in The Sunday Times. He also began teaching life drawing at Westminster School of Art where he met the painter Maeve GILMORE (1917-1983, Painter, Sculptor and Writer) whom he married in 1937. They had three children, Sebastian (1940 2012), Fabian (b. 1942), and Clare (b. 1949). He worked at Trafalgar Studios for some years in the 1940s. Letters from Helene Bruce to both Mervyn and Maeve Peake can be found in the Mervyn Peake archive at the British Library He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the co

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