Series 02: Sheila Hawkins' sketchbooks and illustrated typescripts of "Pepito" and "Appleby John", c.1938

PXE 1443/Box 1

series

c.1938

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings

414333

Drawings - 3 Sketchbooks - 28 x 21 cm. - 29 x 23 cm. - Spiral bound. Binding is rusty in parts
Drawings - Loose sketches and manuscript pages - 30 x 21 cm. or smaller
Textual Records - 2 illustrated typescripts with manuscript annotations - 32 x 30 cm. and 29 x 27 cm. - Both unbound and held with 2 cloth ties at centre left

Sketchbooks:
1. Spanish Sketchbook, 1934, from which "Pepito" was born [46 pages of sketches in various mediums such as ink, pencil, charcoal, crayon. Mostly human figures. 1 loose sketch in back of book. Includes b&w photograph of a painting which inspired some of the sketches, on inside front cover]

2. Spirax Sketch Book [46 pages of sketches in various mediums as above. 1 loose sketch in back of book]

3. Open flat sketch book [123 pages of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of birds, including related notes. Also 42 loose sketches, mostly of birds and fauna, removed from Sketchbook + a set of handwritten notes about the platypus + a letter from the British Museum to Hawkins re: an appointment to view fauna specimens, dated 1960]

Illustrated typescripts:
4. Original MSS of Appleby John the Miller's Lad by Sheila Hawkins [children's story of a boy who is apprenticed to a miller]

5. Pepito by Sheila Hawkins [children's story of the adventures of a Spanish boy called Pepito]

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years