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:
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:
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).
