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:
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:
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 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.