starring Peter O'Toole as the curmudgeonly lighthouse keeper

No. 1 — Letter to Mr. John Couper, Commercial Road, London: “Paid.” (AGC/36/1/1)

1. “Limbo” | Eliza Carthy I am a brisk lad and my fortune is bad And if e’er I get rich it’s a wonder I’ve spent all my money on girls and strong beer What riches I had are all plundered

No. 2 — Record of Peglar’s Service (AGC/36/1/2)

2. [went?/now?] in the [Terror?] — “The bonny ship the Diamond” Well don’t you weep, my bonny lass Though you’ll be left behind For the rose will bloom on Greenland’s ice Before we change our mind

No. 3 — Fragment of Envelope with Illegible Address (AGC/36/1/3)

3. “I Am Mine” | Beta Radio Apples and pears rotten lie The eulogy itself can write

No. 4 — Apr. 21 1847 — The C the C the open C (AGC/36/1/4)

4. It was too [whide? which?] — “The Water is Wide” | Karla Bonof A ship there is and she sails the sea  She’s loaded deep as deep can be  But not so deep as the love I’m in

5. I love dear a young and Hopen C — “Love We Are We Love” | The Sea The Sea  Love we are young too old too soon Love we are wise too late to know

No. 5a — Fragment — Lines on the Party wot happened in Trinidad (AGC/36/1/5/1)

6. “Song That I Heard” | The Barr Brothers I came to scatter ashes Of the bridges I had burned And to know the name Of the song that I heard

No. 5b — Badly Decayed Fragment Written Backwards (AGC/36/1/5/2)

7. “Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still” | The Teacups At the first sweet dawn of light When I gaze upon the deep Her form still greets my sight While the stars their vigil keep

No. 5b — Fragment — Has my littel bark was drifting down (AGC/36/1/5/3)

8. My crew they went to sleep / While .[I?]. keep a Lookout — “Fires” | Allman Brown Voices tell me a truth I nearly know This will all soon be memory

No. 6 — Fragment — Sir in colonne in the [north?] (AGC/36/1/6)

9. “Sitting Room” | Beta Radio In the living room, in the sitting room I will wait for you in the hollow I have hewn

No. 7 — Fragment — O death [where is] thy sting (AGC/36/1/7)

10. “Where O Death Is Now Thy Sting?” | Mise [instrumental]

11. The Harmonic I have wander[ed] — “Odyssey” | Talos It’s hard to leave I hold at the breach I’ve got my reasons I’m cast out in the cold

12. You [are?] peglar — “Bury Me Smiling” | The Ballroom Thieves A heart like a wild sea No man could own me Won’t be the words Upon my stone

No. 8 — Fragment with Writing Resembling an Address (AGC/36/1/8)

13. “The God of Loss” | Darlingside Yes, we will leave here without a trace Take a new name and an old shape

No. 9 — Fragment Labelled Only “Sentimental Song” (AGC/36/1/9)

14. “Nothing Arrived” | Villagers I waited for something, and something died So I waited for nothing, and nothing arrived

No. 10 — Leather Wallet (AGC/36/1/10 — AAA2114) 

15. “My Arms Were Always Around You” | Peter Bradley Adams Let’s go back to the days beneath the northern lights When we danced so free like a little child

16. “The Fear” | Ben Howard My, my cold hearted child, tell me where it’s all gone All the luster of your bones, those arms that held you strong

No. 11 — Fragments from Leather Wallet (AGC/36/1/11)

17. “Anchors” | The Ballroom Thieves This nest of bones reveals my parchment heart  Inkwell eyes have tried and failed to pull it all apart

No. 12  — Peglar’s Seaman’s Certificate (AGC/36/1/12) 

18. “John My Beloved” | Sufjan Stevens Beloved of John, I get it all wrong I read you for some kind of poem Covered in lines, the fossils I find Have they no life of their own?

No. 13 — Various Transcripts of the Peglar Papers, 1850s-1950s (AGC/36/1/13) 

19. “We Are” | Peter Bradley Adams We are blind in the darkness Crawling on our hands We are born in the sunlight We love the ones we can

[No. 14] — Stenton et al. 2026