"M.S. of Peter Pan. The only one in existence so far as I know"

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Title
"M.S. of Peter Pan. The only one in existence so far as I know"
Creator
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Contributor
From the Collection: Alvaro, Corrado, 1895-1956
From the Collection: Anderson, Wellwood, 1859-1940
From the Collection: Ashford, Daisy, -1972
From the Collection: Asquith, Cynthia, Lady, 1887-1960
From the Collection: Bentley, Nicolas, 1907-1978
From the Collection: Beresford, G. C. (George Charles), 1864-1938
From the Collection: Buchel, Charles A.
From the Collection: Caswall Smith, Lizzie, 1870-1958
From the Collection: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
From the Collection: Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966
From the Collection: Crook, John, -1922
From the Collection: Donnison, T. E.
From the Collection: Downey, Thomas, 1897-1950
From the Collection: Dunbar, Janet
From the Collection: Furst, William, 1852-1917
From the Collection: Gillett, Frank, 1874-1927
From the Collection: Hatherell, William, 1855-1928
From the Collection: Hollyer, Frederick, 1837-1933
From the Collection: Komisarjevsky, Theodore, 1882-1954
From the Collection: Lambda, Peter, 1911-1995
From the Collection: MacGeachy, Cora L., 1894-1960
From the Collection: May, Phil, 1864-1903
From the Collection: Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908
From the Collection: Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton), 1853-1934
From the Collection: Murfin, Jane, 1892-1955
From the Collection: Nicholson, William, 1872-1949
From the Collection: Blount, Melisina Mary
From the Collection: Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945
From the Collection: Pielmeier, John
From the Collection: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
From the Collection: Reed, Edward Tennyson, 1860-1933
From the Collection: Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931
From the Collection: Saenger, Gustav, 1865-1935
From the Collection: Scott, Peter, 1909-1989
From the Collection: Simpson, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1878-
From the Collection: Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
From the Collection: Artificers' Guild Ltd
From the Collection: Charles Scribner's Sons
From the Collection: Walt Disney Productions
From the Collection: Carter, David Broadfoot, approximately 1878-1946
Published / Created
1928 July 18
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.
Provenance
The J. M. Barrie Collection is made up of a number of acquisitions. The core of the collection—and its largest component—was accumulated by and given to the library by Walter Beinecke Jr. An overview of this material can be found in Howard S. Mott's article, "The Walter Beinecke, Jr., J. M. Barrie Collection" in the Yale Library Gazette 39, no. 4 (April 1965). After Mr. Beinecke slowed his collecting in the late 1960s, the Beinecke Library continued to add items to the Barrie collection, in some instances with funds provided by Mr. Beinecke and in other instances with monies used to support the General Collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts. Mr. Beinecke gave the library occasional gifts of material up through the 1970s; most of the material acquired after 1980 was purchased directly by the library. All of the archival material related to J. M. Barrie that came into the library before 2011 has now been gathered into this collection, with the exception of a few prominent acquisitions such as the Llewelyn Davies Family Papers (GEN MSS 554) and the Quiller-Couch Family Papers (GEN MSS 551). Individual donations of material, such as those made to Yale University Library in the 1940s and 1950s from W. Robert Blum (Yale 1916) and Henry C. Taylor (Yale 1917), have been acknowledged in the finding aid, when known. The printed collection of works by Barrie, also gathered in large part by Walter Beinecke Jr. and which built upon an earlier gift to the library by Mr. Taylor, were described separately in the library’s online catalog.
Extent of Digitization
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Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS 1400
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Container / Volume
Box 44, folder 945

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Citation
J. M. Barrie Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
3970116
Object ID (OID)
17476337

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