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Nico agreeing with me that the end of "The Lost Boys" should be at Michael's death in 1920.

Nico took the photo of Barrie on EIlean Shona allegedly writing "Mary Rose" (see JMB&TLB p287 or the database). Nico now thinks he's writing "A Kiss for Cinderella", but he might just as easily have been writing the screenplay for "Peter Pan" (the one

How Gilmour used to "drive Uncle Jim absolutely batty" by calling "A Kiss for Cinderella" The Kiss...

"However conceited or vain it may be," says Nico, "it completely made his life having these five boys"...

Barrie's love of games in general and cricket in particular

Nico telling how Barrie used to predict the length of a cold by how far he cough out his false tooth - only to find that the story is in "The Little White Bird". [Apologies for poor sound]

Nico's wife Mary talking about Michael.

Nico talking about Peter's three sons: Rivvy, George and Peter (jnr). All three were doing well - in 1978. Tragically, all three inherited their mother's wasting disease, Huntington's chorea, and by 1995, all three were dead: most tragically, Peter jnr,

Nico showing us the "Record of Breaks" between Michael and Barrie, recorded in the front of "The Complete Billiard Player" in 1912 (see margin illustration in JMB&TLB, p197)

Nico’s belief that all Michael’s letters were destroyed

Boothby castigating Rupert Buxton, who drowned with Michael at Oxford. Nico didn't agree with a word Boothby said, and the obituary for Buxton in The Harrovian (in the database) paints a very different portrait to the one presented here by

Nico emphasizing Barrie's love of games, in particular, "eggcap" ...

Nico talking about Mary Hodgson - "a wholly unique woman. ... She was unquestionably the most important person in my life." Nico hesitates in telling a ghastly story about her - until encouraged by Sharon and I (continues on next clip)

Nico remembering Mary Rose's island - "far too small to land on". Not so - Sharon and I did just that in 1978, though admittedly there was barely room for the pair of us - see photos in the database.

Nico describes Barrie's occasional moods, and the hope that he'd be in a good one when bringing a friend back to the Adelphi