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Davies Family / Re: Trying to find the post 1897 Morgue Material... Please help!
« Last post by Contor on February 21, 2025, 03:29:05 PM »Amazing! Thank you Brutus for the response! Very helpful!
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Davies Family / Trying to find the post 1897 Morgue Material... Please help!
« Last post by Contor on February 15, 2025, 07:35:09 PM »Hello all!
I would love to read the second section of the Morgue that "ecb" has mentioned in another thread about the Morgue. (Jan 13 2021)
"I just finished the first two sections of Peter's Morgue with his annotations and comments- right up to to Arthur's death. Thank you so much for uploading this Andrew. What a sad story and how perfectly the letters and comments bring their world and the people in it to life. And thank you Peter - although I know it cost you tremendously to do this."
I found "Some Davies Letters and Papers (aka the Morgue) 1889-1897" in the database and thoroughly enjoyed it... I tried searching the "morgue" and a few other word combinations such as "Peter Davies Collection" (referencing the seven volumes of the Morgue that are mentioned in the site's introduction page) but the "1889-1897" is the only page that comes up in the search engine for me... any leads or links would be greatly appreciated to be able to find the post-1897 collected material!
I'm so impressed and thankful for the resources and discussion posted on this forum! An invaluable resource. Thank you!
Josh
I would love to read the second section of the Morgue that "ecb" has mentioned in another thread about the Morgue. (Jan 13 2021)
"I just finished the first two sections of Peter's Morgue with his annotations and comments- right up to to Arthur's death. Thank you so much for uploading this Andrew. What a sad story and how perfectly the letters and comments bring their world and the people in it to life. And thank you Peter - although I know it cost you tremendously to do this."
I found "Some Davies Letters and Papers (aka the Morgue) 1889-1897" in the database and thoroughly enjoyed it... I tried searching the "morgue" and a few other word combinations such as "Peter Davies Collection" (referencing the seven volumes of the Morgue that are mentioned in the site's introduction page) but the "1889-1897" is the only page that comes up in the search engine for me... any leads or links would be greatly appreciated to be able to find the post-1897 collected material!
I'm so impressed and thankful for the resources and discussion posted on this forum! An invaluable resource. Thank you!
Josh
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Davies Family / Re: The Morgue
« Last post by Contor on January 11, 2025, 03:15:52 AM »Hello!
I would love to read the second section of the Morgue that "ecb" mentions in this thread. I found "Some Davies Letters and Papers (aka the Morgue) 1889-1897" in the database and thoroughly enjoyed it... I tried searching the "morgue" and a few other word combinations such as "Peter Davies Collection" (referencing the seven volumes of the Morgue that are mentioned in the site's introduction page) but on the database the first one is the only page that came up in the search engine... any leads or links would be greatly appreciated!
I'm so impressed and thankful for all the hard work you've put into this site, Andrew. It truly is an astonishing feat and allows us to really appreciate this family's incredible history in an unprecedented way. Thank you!
I would love to read the second section of the Morgue that "ecb" mentions in this thread. I found "Some Davies Letters and Papers (aka the Morgue) 1889-1897" in the database and thoroughly enjoyed it... I tried searching the "morgue" and a few other word combinations such as "Peter Davies Collection" (referencing the seven volumes of the Morgue that are mentioned in the site's introduction page) but on the database the first one is the only page that came up in the search engine... any leads or links would be greatly appreciated!
I'm so impressed and thankful for all the hard work you've put into this site, Andrew. It truly is an astonishing feat and allows us to really appreciate this family's incredible history in an unprecedented way. Thank you!
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JMBarrie / J.M. Barrie?s Lost Macbeth Satire Film, ?The Real Thing At Last?
« Last post by Dani1923 on January 10, 2025, 08:34:42 PM »Information on ?The Real Thing At Last?, a 30-minute film Barrie wrote and directed (the film actually had an ?official? director, L.C. MacBean, but according to A.E. Matthews, one of the actors in the film, ?Barrie did all the work ? MacBean just looked on admiringly??.) in 1916 as a parody of what if an American film company made a film of Macbeth. I just discovered today that this film existed! So sad that it?s lost!
https://thebioscope.net/2008/05/30/pen-and-pictures-no-3-jm-barrie/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Thing_at_Last
http://neverpedia.com/pan/The_Real_Thing_at_Last
https://thebioscope.net/2008/05/30/pen-and-pictures-no-3-jm-barrie/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Thing_at_Last
http://neverpedia.com/pan/The_Real_Thing_at_Last
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Davies Family / Re: More Yale Archives Finds
« Last post by Dani1923 on January 10, 2025, 08:29:02 PM »Transcription of Barrie?s picture letter to Peter or Michael:
November 3, 1904:
My dear (Peter or Michael),
Do you know who is writing to you? It is Mr. (Barrie).
I hop you are good (boy) at (school).
I hop you don?t need to be (caned).
? ?, ? I am coming to see you in the (train) and we shall go a ? in the (carriage) and I shall (fall) out of it, and you shall (fall) out of it and (George) and (Jack) and (either Peter or Michael) and (Nico) will ? out of it and (your mother) will ? out of it and the (horse) will ? out of it I think we shall go to (a restaurant) to (eat).
Your admirer
(Scribble signature)
November 3, 1904:
My dear (Peter or Michael),
Do you know who is writing to you? It is Mr. (Barrie).
I hop you are good (boy) at (school).
I hop you don?t need to be (caned).
? ?, ? I am coming to see you in the (train) and we shall go a ? in the (carriage) and I shall (fall) out of it, and you shall (fall) out of it and (George) and (Jack) and (either Peter or Michael) and (Nico) will ? out of it and (your mother) will ? out of it and the (horse) will ? out of it I think we shall go to (a restaurant) to (eat).
Your admirer
(Scribble signature)
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Davies Family / Re: More Yale Archives Finds
« Last post by Dani1923 on January 10, 2025, 08:26:50 PM »Transcriptions of the Mrs. Pearsall letters:
20 June, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you very much for your kind letter about Mr. Davies. It was a great happiness to me that you made him so comfortable and he loved to tell me how nice you were to him. I saw it too for myself. I am at present so broken by this blow that I cannot attend to things, but if you will be so good as just to keep his rooms closed for a time ? all the matters will be attended to by and by. I know he had furniture stored at ? ? and that will be seen by ? also. Also kindly let me know of expenses. ? I do very much like your letter, which is full of tender feeling.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
9 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you very much for sending on the trunk with clothes by which has searched me safely.
Would you know kindly get all the books packed in boxes and have them sent on here. Also anything else such as pictures, ornaments, papers or letters of ?, ? ? ??that is, everything ? except furniture, ? and bed clothes, which I want to store at Oxford for Mr. Davies?s brother, who may be going up as an undergraduate in a year?s time. They could be stored at the place where there are already some of his things stored and I would be much obliged if you can put that ? in communication with me about the matter, as I do not have their name and address. They could do the packing also of the things to be sent here.
You have been so very kind in all matters that I am always afraid of trying you too hard.
Thank you for your kind messages about myself. I am as well as one can expect who has lost the dearest person in life to him. I always want to come to Oxford and then I feel I can?t.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
P.S The rugs should also be sent here.
20 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
My hearty thanks to you for sending on the things so carefully. They have all arrived safely.
I do not know about those curtains I think they were sent from us, but it is possible they were got in Oxford to match the sofa.
Only in that case I should have thought they would have been bought by Mr. Davies. However the shop people should have some proof of the transaction if any, and if they do belong to them should get them back.
Please thank Mr. Pearsall from me for so kindly seeing ? ? ? ? about storing the furniture, I expect to hear from them.
You will of course let me know about all your expenses in these matters. But apart from that altogether, please let me have the pleasure of sending you the enclosed cheque for ?50, in memory of your great kindness to my adopted son. I am indeed most grateful to you.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
22 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Yes, it will be a pleasure to me if you will keep the ? in memory of Mr. Davies and I thank you for all you say. I have not yet heard from ? Arthur ? ? and hope they will write soon.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
18 November, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you for your letter about those extra things of Mr. Davies which I shall be glad to have at your convenience. I am not certain about the ? but I think it also must be his as he ? had me at Oxford. Perhaps you can find out for certain that it is not Mr. ?. With kindest regards.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
9 October, 1922:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you for your kind letter. I have not been able to answer ? ? because I am not very well. Mr. Davies?s brother goes up on Thursday to New College, but kindly send the things to him at Mrs. Bird?s 108 Abingdon Road, where he will be resident with a friend at first. Would you also be so good as to tell the firm who are storing some furniture to send it to that address. I should be much obliged. With best regards.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
20 June, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you very much for your kind letter about Mr. Davies. It was a great happiness to me that you made him so comfortable and he loved to tell me how nice you were to him. I saw it too for myself. I am at present so broken by this blow that I cannot attend to things, but if you will be so good as just to keep his rooms closed for a time ? all the matters will be attended to by and by. I know he had furniture stored at ? ? and that will be seen by ? also. Also kindly let me know of expenses. ? I do very much like your letter, which is full of tender feeling.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
9 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you very much for sending on the trunk with clothes by which has searched me safely.
Would you know kindly get all the books packed in boxes and have them sent on here. Also anything else such as pictures, ornaments, papers or letters of ?, ? ? ??that is, everything ? except furniture, ? and bed clothes, which I want to store at Oxford for Mr. Davies?s brother, who may be going up as an undergraduate in a year?s time. They could be stored at the place where there are already some of his things stored and I would be much obliged if you can put that ? in communication with me about the matter, as I do not have their name and address. They could do the packing also of the things to be sent here.
You have been so very kind in all matters that I am always afraid of trying you too hard.
Thank you for your kind messages about myself. I am as well as one can expect who has lost the dearest person in life to him. I always want to come to Oxford and then I feel I can?t.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
P.S The rugs should also be sent here.
20 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
My hearty thanks to you for sending on the things so carefully. They have all arrived safely.
I do not know about those curtains I think they were sent from us, but it is possible they were got in Oxford to match the sofa.
Only in that case I should have thought they would have been bought by Mr. Davies. However the shop people should have some proof of the transaction if any, and if they do belong to them should get them back.
Please thank Mr. Pearsall from me for so kindly seeing ? ? ? ? about storing the furniture, I expect to hear from them.
You will of course let me know about all your expenses in these matters. But apart from that altogether, please let me have the pleasure of sending you the enclosed cheque for ?50, in memory of your great kindness to my adopted son. I am indeed most grateful to you.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
22 September, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Yes, it will be a pleasure to me if you will keep the ? in memory of Mr. Davies and I thank you for all you say. I have not yet heard from ? Arthur ? ? and hope they will write soon.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
18 November, 1921:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you for your letter about those extra things of Mr. Davies which I shall be glad to have at your convenience. I am not certain about the ? but I think it also must be his as he ? had me at Oxford. Perhaps you can find out for certain that it is not Mr. ?. With kindest regards.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
9 October, 1922:
Dear Mrs. Pearsall,
Thank you for your kind letter. I have not been able to answer ? ? because I am not very well. Mr. Davies?s brother goes up on Thursday to New College, but kindly send the things to him at Mrs. Bird?s 108 Abingdon Road, where he will be resident with a friend at first. Would you also be so good as to tell the firm who are storing some furniture to send it to that address. I should be much obliged. With best regards.
Yours Sincerely
J.M. Barrie
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Davies Family / More Yale Archives Finds
« Last post by Dani1923 on January 10, 2025, 08:19:23 PM »The Barrie and Michael letter from 17 May 1921 was the most important find in the archive, but I also found other interesting finds!
An inscription on a front page of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Barrie to Michael. He gave Michael the book for his tenth birthday. Also, I?m not completely sure, but I think Mark Twain actually first gave this book to Barrie.
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008266
A few letters from Barrie to a Mrs. Pearsall, who I think was Michael?s matron at Oxford:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11788236
A script page from ?The Yellow Week at Stanway? The notes and markings presumably written by Barrie:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33099971
The portrait of Barrie painted by Peter Scott:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2042461
A picture letter by Barrie to either Peter or Michael:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2014680
An inscription on a front page of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Barrie to Michael. He gave Michael the book for his tenth birthday. Also, I?m not completely sure, but I think Mark Twain actually first gave this book to Barrie.
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008266
A few letters from Barrie to a Mrs. Pearsall, who I think was Michael?s matron at Oxford:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11788236
A script page from ?The Yellow Week at Stanway? The notes and markings presumably written by Barrie:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33099971
The portrait of Barrie painted by Peter Scott:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2042461
A picture letter by Barrie to either Peter or Michael:
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2014680
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Peter Pan / 100th Anniversary of the 1924 Peter Pan Film!
« Last post by Dani1923 on December 29, 2024, 10:17:07 PM »Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the Peter Pan film released on December 29, 1924, directed by Herbert Brenon, written by Willis Goldbeck, and starring Mary Brian, Ernest Torrence, and Betty Bronson as Peter Pan himself!
This film is, so far, the best direct adaptation of Peter Pan ever made! Even all these years later and with many film adaptations being made after this one!
This is also the only Peter Pan film J.M. Barrie was involved in. Paramount may not have used Barrie?s script, which is unfortunate, but I still think this movie was very well done!
If you?ve never seen this film before, or you want to re-watch it, here?s a link below to watch the film for free! Enjoy!
https://archive.org/details/PeterPan1924
This film is, so far, the best direct adaptation of Peter Pan ever made! Even all these years later and with many film adaptations being made after this one!
This is also the only Peter Pan film J.M. Barrie was involved in. Paramount may not have used Barrie?s script, which is unfortunate, but I still think this movie was very well done!
If you?ve never seen this film before, or you want to re-watch it, here?s a link below to watch the film for free! Enjoy!
https://archive.org/details/PeterPan1924
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Davies Family / Barrie Letter to Michael 17 May 1921
« Last post by Dani1923 on December 27, 2024, 05:59:22 PM »I?m very late in posting this! I originally found this amazing letter on the Yale Archive website back in the summer time.
This letter was written by Barrie two days before Michael?s death.
This is the transcript of the letter, and the link to the actual letter is below.
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/2177689
17 May, 1921
Dearest Michael,
The Mill House sounds like a good place, and you had lovely weather for it. As for me, I am very glad to have got Whitsun behind me. I don?t think the buying of car would be a wise thing just now. Let?s think of other possible presents for the great occasion. I agree about the bar, as a prudent measure. Certain about landing money, not that in this case if small it?s not all right but troubles arise for both out of such affairs, and often the loss of the friendship they should seem to cement.
I have heard from Brinton that he has a vacancy for Peter Lewis in Sept, and he will go there unless he gets a scholarship. He is going up for the scholarships exam in a fortnight and he and his mother are to be staying in Windsor.
I don?t think ?Shall We Join the Ladies?? will be at all sufficiently rehearsed and I?ll possibly find it would have been better played had I had Tom Jones and Mary Brown instead of the galaxy of stars. Hawtrey however is still a bright spot in the gloom.
Nico had Mary down at Eton and had a good time.
I have been urging the Famous P to have real children for the children in P.P. with a boy for Peter, but they are too much against it as a practical matter for me to insist. I?ll leave them to arrange the cast themselves. Mr. Zukor was in favour of Miss Strut, but he has gone now and given all powers to a producer from U.S.A. who I think is more for an American cinema star. They haven?t decided yet whether to do it here or Los Angeles, and there is some talk of France or Italy.
Loving
JMB
This letter was written by Barrie two days before Michael?s death.
This is the transcript of the letter, and the link to the actual letter is below.
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/2177689
17 May, 1921
Dearest Michael,
The Mill House sounds like a good place, and you had lovely weather for it. As for me, I am very glad to have got Whitsun behind me. I don?t think the buying of car would be a wise thing just now. Let?s think of other possible presents for the great occasion. I agree about the bar, as a prudent measure. Certain about landing money, not that in this case if small it?s not all right but troubles arise for both out of such affairs, and often the loss of the friendship they should seem to cement.
I have heard from Brinton that he has a vacancy for Peter Lewis in Sept, and he will go there unless he gets a scholarship. He is going up for the scholarships exam in a fortnight and he and his mother are to be staying in Windsor.
I don?t think ?Shall We Join the Ladies?? will be at all sufficiently rehearsed and I?ll possibly find it would have been better played had I had Tom Jones and Mary Brown instead of the galaxy of stars. Hawtrey however is still a bright spot in the gloom.
Nico had Mary down at Eton and had a good time.
I have been urging the Famous P to have real children for the children in P.P. with a boy for Peter, but they are too much against it as a practical matter for me to insist. I?ll leave them to arrange the cast themselves. Mr. Zukor was in favour of Miss Strut, but he has gone now and given all powers to a producer from U.S.A. who I think is more for an American cinema star. They haven?t decided yet whether to do it here or Los Angeles, and there is some talk of France or Italy.
Loving
JMB
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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan Day
« Last post by Dani1923 on December 27, 2024, 02:51:13 PM »Happy Peter Pan Day 2024!
Happy Holidays! Have a wonderful day!
Happy Holidays! Have a wonderful day!