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'.