Our Family Letters from JM Barrie

[DTR]

Our family has 2 letters from J M Barrie to M J Goldsmith (Nee Gosling) sent in 1905, it seems a bit odd for a Gentleman to send letters to domestic staff, we can not decipher the letters and would be interested to know if someone could decipher them for us and maybe comment on their authenticity but we know for certain that she lived at 133 Gloucester Road at the time of her Marriage in 1898.

Please contact me for more informaton.

Regards

DTR

[Robert Greenham]

M J Goldsmith was Mary Jane Goldsmith.  In my book, I explained that two Gosling sisters - Mary Jane (known as Jane) and Esther Annie (known as Annie) - both worked as domestic servants for the Barries in their London home.  Jane was the first to be employed, and Annie was taken on later. Jane left when she married Edward Goldsmith in 1898, and Annie left later (I think when she married Thomas Archer).

I should be very interested indeed to see the letters you mention, and hope that I might help decipher them for you and, hopefully, for the benefit of Andrew's database.  My grandmother worked for the Barries at Black Lake Cottage from 1903 to 1909 but, to date, and to my great disappointment, I have discovered no correspondence between them.

[Robert Greenham]

To DTR: I wish to reiterate my request to you that you please let me see copies of these letters.  Thank you.

[andrew]

I have seen these letters, which were written by Barrie's wife Mary, not Barrie.

[Robert Greenham]

I am interested in seeing, or reading transcripts of, any correspondence between James or Mary Barrie and any of their domestic staff apart from Mary Hodgson.

[alicia45]

To DTR: I wish to reiterate my request to you that you please let me see copies of these letters.  Thank you.

I want also read these transcript.. But couldn't...



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