How Gilmour used to "drive Uncle Jim absolutely batty" by calling "A Kiss for Cinderella" The Kiss...
How Gilmour used to "drive Uncle Jim absolutely batty" by calling "A Kiss for Cinderella" The Kiss.. (Read More)
"However conceited or vain it may be," says Nico, "it completely made his life having these five boys"...
"However conceited or vain it may be," says Nico, "it completely made his life having these five boy (Read More)
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 telling how Barrie used to predict the length of a cold by how far he cough out his false tooth (Read More)
Barrie's love of games in general and cricket in particular
Barrie's love of games in general and cricket in particular (Read More)
Nico's wife Mary talking about Michael.
Nico's wife Mary talking about Michael. (Read More)
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 talking about Peter's three sons: Rivvy, George and Peter (jnr). All three were doing well - in (Read More)
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 showing us the "Record of Breaks" between Michael and Barrie, recorded in the front of "The Com (Read More)
Nico’s belief that all Michael’s letters were destroyed
Nico’s belief that all Michael’s letters will have been destroyed - although it was months before we (Read More)
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
Boothby castigating Rupert Buxton, who drowned with Michael at Oxford. Nico didn’t agree with a word (Read More)
Nico emphasizing Barrie's love of games, in particular, "eggcap" ...
Nico emphasizing Barrie's love of games, in particular, "eggcap" ... (Read More)