From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1910
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 48, folder 1006
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph inscription on title page: "Property of J. M. Barrie" and "The Twelve Pound Look"; label on cover and stamp on title page of the British Drama League, London. In brown paper wrappers.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 919-920
Image Count:
207
Description:
Two typescripts (variants) with autograph revisions, from the five-act version, prepared for the first American production in Washington, November 1905. One typescript is accompanied by a carbon copy of Acts III and IV.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1920
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 41, folder 893
Image Count:
139
Description:
Acts I and III typescript and Act II typescript carbon, commercially bound with "Mary Rose" stamped in gold on front cover. Stamped on title page: "From Charles Frohman, Empire Theatre Building, Broadway & 40th Street, New York." Inserted in front: ca...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1920
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 41, folder 894-896
Image Count:
81
Description:
Six copies of Act I, four copies of Act II, two copies of Act III, all with autograph revisions. Some copies have ground plans. In gray paper wrappers.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 918
Image Count:
33
Description:
From the five-act American production, in gray paper wrappers. Second preliminary leaf: "A Note On the Acting of a Fairy Play"; published in Roger Lancelyn Green's Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954), page 105.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 917
Image Count:
3
Description:
With autograph revisions. A version or possible ending of the early version of the play, this leaf could be the variant copy Roger Lancelyn Green speaks of in his Fifty Years of Peter Pan (London: Peter Davies, 1954).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1904–1905
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 42, folder 914-916
Image Count:
273
Description:
The three-act version of the play, with manuscript revisions in an unidentified hand and interleaved with lighting plots, stage business, and prompt cues in several unidentified hands. First preliminary leaf: "A Note On the Acting of a Fairy Play." Us...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
circa 1917
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 45, folder 964
Image Count:
64
Description:
All scenes bound together; Scene 4 (ballet) has been cut out. Accompanied by one leaf of typed directions for stage business. In a gray paper wrappers.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1901 December 30
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 27, folder 778-779
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph manuscript, signed and dated. Last leaf is missing. Accompanied by eighteen leaves of another version, numbered 211-228. First published in New York in Scribner's Magazine, August-November 1902.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1899
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 50, folder 1051
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph manuscript, with author's corrections and markings for the printer. Inscribed to Charles P. Johnson, January 24, 1918, and bound with Barrie's autograph letter, signed, to Johnson, dated January 25, 1918. Accompanied by printed version.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1908
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 930
Image Count:
10
Description:
Autograph manuscript with notes on first and last leaves: "I think this was done as a leaflet for the Paris production" and "Written for the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris where (translated into French) it was given away with the programmes. The London com...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1912
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 932
Image Count:
11
Description:
Autograph manuscript of a speech written by Barrie and probably delivered by Hilda Trevelyan at the Playgoers' Club "Peter Pan Dinner" on December 22, 1912; accompanied by the printed program for the dinner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1920
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 43, folder 934
Image Count:
33
Description:
Typescript, with autograph inscription on title page: "Private Property - J. M. Barrie"; in gray paper wrappers. Accompanied by a typed transcript of a note to Maude Adams (original note not present).
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1885-1888?
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 22, folder 728
Image Count:
69
Description:
A partial list of contents: Why Men Smoke; Better Dead; Advice To Those Who Write to the Editor; Gretna Green; Vagabond Students; When A Man's Single; My Popular Sister; and ideas for the Auld Licht stories. [125] p., 13 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1903–1906
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 22, folder 726-727
Image Count:
44
Description:
Contents: Problem Play [A Slice of Life], One Act from my WEWK idea [What Every Woman Knows]; The Tin Wedding; Peter Pan revise, May 7, 1906; Barrister play; Drink play [Old Friends]; and The Sabine Women. Accompanied by an index. Bound in red cloth. ...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1876–1877
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 26, folder 769
Image Count:
51
Description:
Notebook containing poems and parodies of poems written by Barrie and other Dumfries Academy students; physics notes and fishing and walking statistics in Barrie's hand. Signed and dated. Thirty-one pages contain manuscript French exercises in Margare...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1877–1925
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 26, folder 767-768
Image Count:
242
Description:
Scrapbook kept by Wellwood Anderson in a lined notebook bound in red with a gold-stamped title: "Early Articles by Sir James Barrie, Bart., O.M. Contributed to The Edinburgh 'Evening Dispatch' 1887-1889." It contains Anderson's manuscript copies of ar...
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1932
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 26, folder 764
Image Count:
43
Description:
Initialed and dated October 14, 1932. A partial list of contents: Band Bazaar; Fairy Farm; [The Boy David]; and notes for speeches to the Authors Club and for the University of Edinburgh's 350th Anniversary. Many pages are blank. [142] p., 14 cm.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1922
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 26, folder 762
Image Count:
73
Description:
A partial list of contents: Laura; Shall We Join The Ladies; [a dream about Michael Davies, dated November 7, 1922]; ideas for an address at the University of St Andrews]; and [a play about Christ staying in Hell thru Eternity]. [138] p., 16 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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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...
