From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 929
Image Count:
32
Description:
Typescript, with autograph revisions and manuscript revisions in Hilda Trevelyan's hand; in gray paper wrappers. Published in When Wendy Grew Up, an Afterthought (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1957). Accompanied by a typed letter, signed, to Sydney Blow from the Assistant Comptroller (name illegible) in the Lord Chamberlain's office (May 22, 1956).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 928
Image Count:
52
Description:
Autograph manuscript, with revisions, of an epilogue to the play Peter Pan, with an autograph inscription on the first leaf: "To Hilda Trevelyan, my incomparable Wendy, from J. M. B. March 1908." It was produced on one night only, February 22, 1908, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Published in When Wendy Grew Up, an Afterthought (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1957). Accompanied by a signed manuscript in the hand of Hilda Trevelyan explaining how the play came to be written and produced and how the manuscript was given to her, and an undated typed transcript in an orange wrapper.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1927
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 942
Image Count:
27
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed, of a speech based on a short story "Jas Hook at Eton" and delivered to the First Hundred at Eton College on July 7, 1927. Published in the London Times, July 8, 1927. and in M'Connachie and J. M. B. (London: Peter Davies Limited, 1938). Accompanied by a typescript of the speech with autograph revisions.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
[1904]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 925
Image Count:
116
Description:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, of a condensed score featuring performance notes and markings. For the Charles Frohman production starring Maude Adams with music by John Crook, of the Duke of York's Theatre, London, and Gustav Saenger, of the Empire Theatre.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1935
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 50, folder 1047
Image Count:
8
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a speech in which Barrie tells how he lost the use of his right hand and how he learned to use his left hand; the speech ends with a toast to Dr. A. Logan Turner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1925 Jan
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 938
Image Count:
15
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a short story originally written for publication in The Flying Carpet, which was replaced by "Neil and Tintinnabulum." It appears later in a speech, "Capt. Hook at Eton," delivered by Barrie to the First Hundred at Eton on July 7, 1927.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1928 July 18
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 945
Image Count:
126
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed, of the five-act version prepared for publication. The sixteen preliminary leaves contain Barrie's dedication/preface "To the Five," dated May 9, 1928. There are alterations in the work as published. The title inscribed on the flyleaf continues "to Cynthia Asquith from her affectionate J. M. Barrie Dec 1928" with a second presentation inscription on verso of free front endpaper: "for Simon Asquith from his mother Cynthia Asquith." Bound in brown morocco by Douglas Cockerell & Son; signed "DC & Son 1928" and enclosed in a wooden box.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1907
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 926
Image Count:
3
Description:
Autograph notes describing the curtain to be used in the 1908 production of Peter Pan. The curtain, designed to resemble a sampler, was a gift from Barrie to Charles Frohman. An image of the curtain appears in Roger Lancelyn's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1878
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 56, folder 1152
Image Count:
40
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a chapter of a story to be written in collaboration with James McMillan, a Dumfries classmate. Initialed and dated. This story is referred to in a speech given by Barrie at Dumfries Academy, June 30, 1893, and on page 17 of the manuscript "A School Revisited," in Box 55. The notebook also contains notes for a story about a minstrel (pages 51-57) and notes for an essay, "The Reliability of Consciousness" (pages 58-72, verso). Bound in green paper.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1921
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 937
Image Count:
86
Description:
Two typescripts (variants) with autograph revisions in one; in gray paper wrappers. Published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 53, folder 1110
Image Count:
7
Description:
Autograph manuscript with autograph cover letter on stationery of The Grand Hotel, Sheringham, from "C. Greene" to Gordon Robbins. Accompanied by an envelope inscribed in unknown hand: "MS of Barries' anonymous article to Times."
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1928
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 44, folder 943
Image Count:
27
Description:
Preface/dedication prepared for the publication of the play. Accompanied by leaves 4, 5, 6, 7, and 15 of another manuscript version of the "dedication" and by one leaf of notes.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 927
Image Count:
12
Description:
Autograph manuscript, incomplete, of an epilogue to the play Peter Pan. Produced as "An After-thought" on one night only, February 22, 1908, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Accompanied by five pages of autograph notes including ideas for sequels to the Peter Pan story and for the development of the character of Peter Pan.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1895
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 59, folder 1178
Image Count:
2
Description:
Ink on Bristol board, signed lower left in monogram: "WFT." Barrie sits in an open window smoking a pipe and drawing a portrait of a gentleman. At lower right is a telegram addressed to "Walker London." A clipped signature of Barrie is affixed to the upper right corner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1889
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 30, folder 791
Image Count:
1
Description:
Containing of the greater part of the novel, accompanied by printed text clipped from magazines with autograph corrections and additions. Bound in brown levant morocco by Riviere, with photographic frontispiece bound in; inscribed on flyleaf: "T. L. Gilmour from J. M. Barrie 1890."
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1920
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 40, folder 890-891
Image Count:
216
Description:
Presentation inscription: "To Cynthia Asquith from J. M. Barrie (the M.S. of 'Mary Rose') May 9, 1920." Accompanied by four leaves of autograph manuscript numbered 15, 16, 17, and 17 which correspond to leaves 17, 18, 19, and 20 of Act II of the autograph manuscript. Bound in blue morocco by Douglas Cockerell & Son; signed "DC & Son 1929" and enclosed in a wooden case.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 913
Image Count:
9
Description:
Scene 2 is similar to the text of the same scene in the 1904-1905 three-act version (typescript) of the play entitled "Anon." Most of the text of Scene 4 is published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954), pages 66-67.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1877 February 12
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 32, folder 804
Image Count:
25
Description:
Autograph manuscript of Barrie's first play, signed and dated. Performed December 29, 1877, at the Dumfries Academy. Pasted in are ten leaves of newspaper clippings relating to the controversy generated by the Rev. D. L. Scott's criticism of theatricals at Dumfries Academy.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1911
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 59, folder 1180
Image Count:
1
Description:
Portrait by Lizzie Caswall Smith, signed by Barrie. Accompanied by an autograph letter, signed, from Nicholas Llewelyn Davies (November 9, 1950) suggesting a date for the photograph.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1892
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 570
Image Count:
4
Description:
Accompanied by an envelope with a note in the hand of Lady Cynthia Asquith: "Letter from Margaret Ogilvie." Published in Letters of J. M. Barrie, edited by Viola Meynell (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1918
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 74
Image Count:
2
Description:
Copper and enamel pendant made by the Artificers’ Guild Ltd., London. It was presented by Barrie to his friend Elizabeth Lucas who was for fifteen months director of an orphanage she founded in a château at Bettancourt, near Rheims, France; Barrie had partially funded her work. The inscriptions "JMB / Vive la France / EL" and "Chateau de / Bettancourt / 1915-16" are worked in copper wire set in blue enamel on opposite sides of the pendant. Accompanied by two notes of explanation and five photographs of the children and their nurses.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1922
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 78, folder 1255
Image Count:
2
Description:
Two sonnets published posthumously in the Eton College Chronicle, no. 1815 (June 15, 1922), with a manuscript correction by Barrie. Accompanied by an envelope addressed by Barrie to Charles Scribner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1880
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 56, folder 1150
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph entries made in Campbell's Victoria Diary and Almanac for 1880 (Glasgow: Duncan Campbell & Son). The diary contains entries covering January 1 through May 17, during Barrie's second year at the University of Edinburgh. The manuscript text, annotated by Denis Mackail, is published in his The Story of J.M.B.: a Biography (London: Peter Davies, 1941).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1901
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 65 (Oversize), folder 1215
Image Count:
2
Description:
Caricature of Lord Rosebery, ink on Bristol board, signed lower right: "E. T. Reed." Reproduced in Punch, November 20, 1901. The caricature is based on Barrie's character Gavin Dishart in The Little Minister.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 60, folder 1191
Image Count:
1
Description:
Nine illustrations on one sheet, ink on Bristol board, signed at lower right: "Frank Gillett." From the 1905 production starring Cecilia Loftus as Peter Pan and Hilda Trevelyan as Wendy.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1906–1914
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 6, folder 188
Image Count:
46
Description:
Including letters containing references to Maude Adams and to Barrie's Peter Pan and The Dramatists Get What They Want (enclosure—copy of script for The Dramatists—wanting).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1918–1921
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 8, folder 231
Image Count:
78
Description:
Some letters containing references to the filming of Peter Pan, Quality Street, The Little Minister, The Admirable Crichton, What Every Woman Knows, and Sentimental Tommy; the production of the plays The Truth About the Russian Dancers, A Well-remembered Voice, and Mary Rose; and to the people involved in those productions, including Maude Adams, Gerald du Maurier, David Wark Griffith, Jesse Louis Lasky, and other theater and cinema personalities.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1937 June 10
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 54, folder 1121
Image Count:
3
Description:
Manuscript document on parchment in an unidentified hand naming Her Royal Highness, the Princess Margaret as collaborator with Barrie on The Boy David. Signed by Barrie and the Princess, and witnessed by Queen Elizabeth and Sir Reginald Poole.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1903
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 74
Image Count:
3
Description:
Steel key with "E R / Kensington Gardens" and "J.M.B." engraved on either side of the bow. The key was secured for Barrie's use by Lord Esher, Secretary to His Majesty's Office of Works. Accompanied by a typed letter, signed and dated October 30, 1903, from A. I. Durrant, H. M. Office of Works. See also the letter from Lord Esher in Series I, Box 6.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1917–1935
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 324
Image Count:
10
Description:
Containing a reference to letters submitted by Barrie to the Dumfries and Galloway Standard while a student at Dumfries Academy. Accompanied by a typed tribute to Charles Lamb with autograph revisions.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1896 July 11
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 52, folder 1091
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed and dated, of a biography of Barrie's mother published in New York by Scribner's (November 1896), and in London by Hodder and Stoughton (December 1896).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1880–1885
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 21, folder 719-720
Image Count:
117
Description:
Signed on flyleaf. Autograph manuscript of a three-act comedy, Bohemia, A New and Original Comedy in Three Acts, written on rectos, with sketches for stage settings facing pages 2, 37, and 71. Versos contain: The Men, The Real over pressure, The Cricket Spell, Freeman, Mark Tapley, M.P., The Body in the Black Box, The Trade of Bookmaking, An analysis of prefaces, Cricket at our village and four untitled items. Accompanied by an index. Bound in purple cloth; with autograph manuscript notes and parts for Bohemia. [216] p., 21 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1892
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 23, folder 736
Image Count:
117
Description:
Signed and dated March 28, 1892. A partial list of contents: Robert Louis Stevenson's address ; Bkwm [A Professor's Love Story]; S.T. [Sentimental Tommy]; Why Men Smoke; Find The Woman; P.M.&B.; and notes relating to the death of William Winter, May 1892. [228] p., 12 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1892-1902?
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 23, folder 737
Image Count:
11
Description:
A partial list of contents: The Case Is Altered [The Admirable Crichton]; Ghost Story; WEWK [What Every Woman Knows]; Fairy Tales; LWB [Little White Bird]; Phoebe [Quality Street]; Brookfield Story; and Adventurers Play. [116] p., 10 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1902?
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 24, folder 742
Image Count:
49
Description:
A partial list of contents: LWB [Little White Bird]; [The] Man Who Came Back; Napoleonic Wars play; The Thrums Fairy Tales; Boys; Babies Pantomime; A Frenzy of Grandeur; Fairy Play; On The Attractiveness of Old Ladies; Should Literary Men Wear Uniforms?; Four Plays in 30 Minutes; and the complete plot of The Admirable Crichton under the headings of Irene Play, The Smart Set, The Island, and The Case Altered. [90] p., 9 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1902
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 24, folder 744
Image Count:
65
Description:
Signed and dated [March] 13, 1902. Partial list of contents: Case Altered [The Admirable Crichton]; The Little White Bird; The Man Who Came Back; and Quality Street. [122] p., 9 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1902
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 24, folder 745
Image Count:
3
Description:
Signed and dated October 1902. A partial list of contents: Fairy Play [Peter Pan]; Maartens Play; The Chemists Daughter [Little Mary]; Theatrical Essay a la Lamb; Play Parents return [Alice Sit-By-The-Fire]; Book of people coming back from the grave and resuming life [Dear Brutus]. [134] p., 9 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 24, folder 748
Image Count:
61
Description:
Signed and dated November 1904. A partial list of contents: Curly short stories (of a stage child); Peter Pan (revise); 1000 Nightingales; The Ladies Shakespeare; Good Ghost Stories; Theatrical People; Schoolboy; and one act play “A Bit of Colour.” [114] p., 8 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 750
Image Count:
94
Description:
Signed and dated 1905. A partial list of contents: Crichton (revise); Labour Member [play]; Cinderella play; Peter Pan Sketch Book; Taming of the Shrew; God-child play; The Ibsen Girls; and Charles Lamb theatre. [180] p., 9 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1906
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 751
Image Count:
44
Description:
Signed and dated 1906. A partial list of contents: Revise Crichton character; 1000 N's; Voices; The Stolen Wood; Father and Son; Peter Pan; Schoolboy Papers; and Novel on The Accursed Thing. [78] p., 12 cm.
