Barrie Letter to Michael 17 May 1921

[Dani1923]

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