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, a...
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:
30
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, a...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 sequel...
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. G...
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 autog...
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), pag...
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 theatrica...
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 Crick...
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 1...
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 Uniform...
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 a...
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.” [1...
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.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1907
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 752
Image Count:
74
Description:
Signed and dated January 22, 1907. A partial list of contents: The Lovely Moment. Finest Dream in the World; Crichton (revise); The Voices; [A list of plays]; Peter Pan; 2nd Chance [Dear Brutus]; 1000 N 's; Toy Theatre; [Old Friends]; The Ladies Shake...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 753
Image Count:
56
Description:
Signed and dated June 2, 1908. A partial list of contents: Success Book; Peter Pan revise; 2nd Chance [Dear Brutus]; and 1000 Nightingales. [104] p., 11 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1910
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 25, folder 754
Image Count:
32
Description:
Signed and dated October 22, 1910. A partial list of contents: Second Chance [Dear Brutus]; [Ideas for a book about Peter Pan]; The Old Warrior; Puzzles; and Play, Haunted House. [56] p., 13 cm.
