Barrie's early newspaper articles

[andrew]

The observant may have noticed that I've started uploading some of Barrie's early - and mostly anonymous - contributions to newspapers, principally the St James's Gazette, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, and a few from the Nottingham Journal. Many of these I had xeroxed at the old Colindale Newspaper Library in 1976. They have now been transferred to the British Library and some are available on the British Newspaper Archive's website. Although the Nottingham Journal appears in their index, it actually brings up the Nottingham Daily Express! Unfortunately a number of articles in the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch have been cropped vertically so that half of every line is missing.

Herbert Garland, in his 1928 bibliography, gives a useful list of Barrie's articles with dates, but it is by no means complete; Barrie himself also occasionally jots down titles and dates at the end of his notebooks. So one way and t'other there's plenty to be getting along with, and by the time I've finished uploading, hopefully the BNA will have added the Nottingham Journal as well as the British Weekly, the Scots Observer and the many others to which JMB contributed ...