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| jmbarrie.co.uk is the Scots author J M Barrie's official non-profit making website, sanctioned by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. It contains thousands of scans from Andrew Birkin's "Peter Pan" collection, bought from Nico Llewelyn Davies in 1979 while Birkin was writing his trilogy of plays for the BBC, "The Lost Boys". The same story has recently been dramatised as "Finding Neverland" with Johnny Depp as J M Barrie, and Kate WInslett as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Birkin donated the entire collection to the Hospital in 2003, in memory of his son Anno. The scans include unique photographs of the Llewelyn Davies and Du Maurier families, as well as hundreds of letters from Arthur, Sylvia, George, Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico; the boys' nurse Mary Hodgson; and other family members and friends, including Daphne Du Maurier, Thomas Hardy, Maude Adams and others. In addition there are hundreds of audio clips with Nico Llewelyn Davies, Lord Boothby, Elisabeth Bergner, Daphne Du Maurier and others who knew Barrie. Andrew Birkin's transcriptions of Barrie's notebooks are also on line, with notes for "The Little White Bird", "Peter Pan", "Dear Brutus", "The Admirable Crichton", "Mary Rose", "Quality Street" and other works. "The Boy Castaways" is also on line, both as a slide-show and a short movie (with music by KJD) |
