Well, perhaps burning Barrie's letters might have been unselfish, but why burn his brother's, I wonder? My nephew was killed at the age of 15, and I've kept everything I can find---I know people behave differently, but you mentioned in your book that Michael's drawings and poetry are also missing/destroyed. That is a terrible shame. However, I did read the the letter Peter wrote to Mary (on this site) when he burned the letters, and when he said "it was too much" I had a different feeling about what he meant than when I read the same quote in the book (ah---the luxury of access to original documents). This time I felt he meant it was too much emotionally for him to deal with, I felt quite sorry for him.