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.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1922
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 78, folder 1255
Image Count:
2
Description:
Two sonnets published posthumously in the Eton College Chronicle, no. 1815 (June 15, 1922), with a manuscript correction by Barrie. Accompanied by an envelope addressed by Barrie to Charles Scribner.
From the Collection: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Published / Created:
1880
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1400
Container / Volume:
Box 56, folder 1150
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph entries made in Campbell's Victoria Diary and Almanac for 1880 (Glasgow: Duncan Campbell & Son). The diary contains entries covering January 1 through May 17, during Barrie's second year at the University of Edinburgh. The manuscript text, annotated by Denis Mackail, is published in his The Story of J.M.B.: a Biography (London: Peter Davies, 1941).
