Editing Mervyn Peake (section)

==Archive==
In 2010 an archive consisting of 28 containers of material, which included correspondence between Peake and [[Laurie Lee]], [[Walter de la Mare]] and [[C. S. Lewis]], plus 39 Gormenghast notebooks and original drawings for both ''Alice Through the Looking Glass'' and ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', was acquired by the [[British Library]].<ref name="Thorpe">{{cite web |first=Vanessa|last=Thorpe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/04/alice-wonderland-illustrations-mervyn-peake |title=How the devastation caused by war came to inspire an artist's dark images of Alice|date=4 April 2010|access-date=12 August 2014|work=[[The Observer]] }}</ref> Access to the Archive is available through the British Library website.<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-000897929 Mervyn Peake Archive], archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 13 May 2020</ref> In July 2020, the British Library acquired from the Peake Estate a visual archive consisting of 300 of Peake's original illustrations for children's stories, ''Gormenghast'', and other works including ''Treasure Island''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Visual Archive of Mervyn Peake acquired for the nation, including original illustrations, preliminary drawings and unpublished early works|url=https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2020/july/visual-archive-of-mervyn-peake-acquired-for-the-nation}}</ref>