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BARRIE'S "FAIRY NOTES" FOR PETER PAN
October 14th, 1903
1
No one has grown up ideas (not parents or anyone)
2
Cupids teaching girl to fly away.
3
Dog - best to be dog again - (bark left in prince)
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This idea first appears in Barrie's Notebook [#20] for 1901 under the heading The Thrums Fairy Tales: "The dog's hour (dog that became dog again after being boy - St Bernard of the Park (Porthos)". Porthos - Barrie's own St Bernard - died in 1901, to be replaced by a Newfoundland called Luath: the prototype of Nana in the play.
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4
The Dog's Hour (or Animals - domestic)
5
Little girl telling stories to Fairy Kings, &c - They have never heard a story before - she in middle of adults all entranced.
6
Boy who is good ag[ain]st will - fury - makes other boys good out of malice ag[ain]st them (fury of them). Might be Xmas fairies.
7
The little house
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The Little House first appeared in the Peter Pan chapters of The Little White Bird [1902] in which Maimie - the forerunner of Wendy - falls asleep in Kensington Gardens and the fairies build a house around her.
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8
Girl & boy meeting - shyness &c.
9
The Prodigal Son story - end bringing baby.
10
The mother - treated from child's point of view - how mother scolds, wheedles, &c - children must be tickled by recognising truth of scenes. Interior.
11
"Mother, how did you get to know us?" (or we to know you?)
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The line appears in Notebook #23 [1902], attributed to Peter Llewelyn Davies, then aged six.
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12
Ghost mother of LWB.
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LWB = The Little White Bird [1902]. The idea for a story about a ghost mother first appears in Barrie's notebook for 1892. Although mentioned briefly in The Little White Bird, the ghost-mother story did not reach its final form until Mary Rose in 1920.
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13
Children's talking of new baby.
14
Michael dancing at tolling funeral of another child.
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Michael Llewelyn Davies, not the Michael Darling of the play (who was named Alexander at this stage). Michael was then aged six.
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15
Sh[oul]d girl (& boy) run away from growing up? Want always to be children. This later?
16
Parents looking at children in bed.
17
The Hyphen - Jones's.
18
Peter Pan.
19
Peter is sprite inveigling children away from becoming grown up?
20
Peter's return to mother's bed, &c w[oul]d interest children.
21
Or Peter takes place of child in sleeping mother's arms to see what it is like (he likes it a bit).
22
Peter a sprite whom all mothers fear {because} of his drawing away children.
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Barrie used occasional shorthand in his notes for words like because, therefore, having, something, etc. The full word is substituted between {brackets}.
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23
Chaucer's lines, "Will not be a wife" &c.
24
Clown harlequin story. Peter origin of Harlequin.
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The idea for a Clown/Harlequin story was incorporated into the first draft of Peter Pan, but later cut. In 1905, Barrie developed the idea into a one-act play, Pantaloon.
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25
In Cinderella ballet of ¿Pigeon & Fox good - similar {thing} in Bluebell. [ADDED: Underground stream]
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An inverted question-mark before a word indicates a possible reading of an otherwise illegible word. ¿¿¿ = One completely illegible word; ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ = Two illegible words, etc.
| | Bluebell in Fairyland (1901) - a "Musical Dream Play" Seymour Hicks, which prompted Barrie to write a fairy play of his own.
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26
Peter is rebel agst mothers - admits attractions but tyrants, take away yr independence - earnestly teach you things, &c.
27
Alphabetical biscuits &c.
28
Peter in love - yet tragic horror of matrimony.
29
Peter trying on garments of ordinary children - night gowns &c - stifle him - horror of sleeping in rooms, &c.
30
Peter says nothing really means anything - whirls & skips in middle of sad & serious scenes &c - just {because} must whirl & skip - mustn't think.
31
He is agst parents {because} they make you think.
32
How abt Peter {having} effect of making all people feel like children? Parents, &c.
33
Thus severe father (Kemble) or schoolmaster in harlequinade.
34
Peter in air with strings attached to adults - seems to be making them dance up & down in wild abandon. [ADDED: Pirates (he might dunk Hook into Sea)]
35
Peter might be oldest child of this family - mother's secret sorrow that he flew away.
36
Mother to father abt babes "Rather sweet, isn't he John" &c (touching
37
Father tends to say "less noise there", &c.
38
Dog licking.
39
Peter might also hold children up by hair to dance.
40
Fun is all Peter wants.
41
Little boy who does à la Michael [Llewelyn Davies] in bed - Look! (turns somersault) Look favver favver look, look favver! &c. (doggedly)
42
Children leaving - discuss wht ought to give the servants.
43
King (?) going about with card telling guests who they are to take in to dinner.
44
Midget tailors measuring girl for clothes 42.3 - 18.9 &c.
45
An explosive man's remarks burst from him like buttons off a coat.
46
Play funny but not light measure.
47
Self conscious people are always in prison.
48
Giving dog medicine.
49
Prince kicks servant, who says "Thank you - this is a great day for me."
50
Prince can't love.
51
Cupid shooting arrows into prince.
52
Prince & beauty competition.
52
Child - "Are you bigger than favver?" (or adapt)
53
Probably the whole family of children shd go off on adventures.
54
To boy prince it wd be romantic & lovely to be among poor & see their pleasures - all unreal to him - they have to invent & make believe - it is all done for him.
55
Striking proof of children's innocence & detachment their playing in grim places (scaffold &c.) funeral.
56
They might dive into sea to save dog.
57
He might be turned into a boy in water - then rescued.
58
Taking children off to bath them.
59
Dramatic entrance of Peter - window - night light - enters ordinary way - dog growls - Peter jumps on wardrobe.
60
Peter angry at their being other children - wanted mother to himself - had meant to stay - won't now - plays trick in taking them.
61
Dog licking from water-jug.
62
Dog commissioned by mother to keep them in bed - he does so as usual like a nurse.
63
Window always kept open by mother for them to fly back by.
64
Peter's shadow flung before he appears - dog sees & looks vainly for original - how abt eating or cutting off shadow? (parents examine shadow left) see it was son (keep shadow like photograph). Peter tugged at it & had to leave it like a cloak.
65
Girl like Angela.
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Angela du Maurier, Gerald du Maurier's daughter, then aged 3. Wendy was subsequently christened Wendy Moira Angela Darling in Angela's honour.
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66
In Fairyland they only have ½ a crown & when anybody wants to buy anything it is lent to him.
67
Child - football blazer - other boy had it - "it's all quite dig now"
68
The songs in any are "Gather ye roses" &c - really sad for grown ups & all in notion youth short & has to be paid for - but bright to children. [ADDED: Sally [in our Alley] Bright - dramatic.]
69
Marriage of children - Peter wd attend in black (end of procession)
70
Dancing at funeral of child might be unholy mind but beautiful & finest mourning (bell tolling)
71
Play might be founded on ghost-mother in LWB - she comes & watches children at night, &c - examines clothes, sews, puts in order - saves from fire - children know but know must pretend not see - adult audience know she's dead - juveniles think she is a prisoner somewhere.
72
If so the old man her son - they talk - end that he says will go with her - darkness - when it clears she is gone, he is sitting dead.
73
The shadows haunting him - she tells him he is wrong thinking he left sins - it was sins left the sinner - they have returned to wait his end, must go into his grave.
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This cd be a Mrs [Patrick] Campbell play.
75
She says shadows waiting to accompany his spirit when it takes flight - When he is dead they have gone as well as she.
76
The shadows to convey his soul to Maker.
77
Perhaps girl has reputation for telling stories & Peter comes to hear or is sent by fairies to bring her to them to tell them stories.
78
The aged fairies, kings &c sit around her entranced listening to stories & asking questions as in Greedy Dwarf.
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The Greedy Dwarf: a pantomime written by Barrie for the Davies children and performed in the drawing-room of his home on January 7th, 1901.
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79
Perhaps she shd be little nurse instead of daughter of house (more Cinderella attractions)
80
King [ADDED: Hook] has magic tailors &c in prison {because} cannot make a story. They try - sewing &c. Girl puts the {thing} together & tells a story from them - prisoners released.
81
How abt the fairies (Cinderella &c) being told the stories abt {themselves}? Their tragic plight is that all others know but they don't.
82
Wicked fairy [ADDED: Hook] whom girl won't tell story to tries to kill her. (Little House)
83
Tailors &c can ¿hiss abt they "sew" into boys ¿canvas - That easy but no story. Girl (excitedly) "That is a story!"
84
Shd contain new idea of fairies - helplessness, limitations.
85
Peter tricks girl by telling of tailors &c sentenced to death if no story.
86
Way to fairyland second to the left.
87
Dog putting child to bed (undressing &c) acting as nurse.
88
Fairies really much more helpless than children - can't take off their own clothes &c {therefore} never taken off - all this distressing to girl (they can't read or write &c).
89
She tells them - kings &c [ADDED: Peter] of the alarums of her baby brother & they are [ADDED: he is] frightfully jealous & sulks [ADDED: (goes & kicks boy out of bed)]
90
Cd anything be done with glasses to make fairies look small? (as in looking thro' other end of telescope)
91
Opening scene - dog in nursery, preparations for night - airing nightgowns, looking at clock &c - turning up light. (At each strike of clock he wags tail once)
92
Woodmen & gnomes instead of fairies? (or reverse them for wood scene?)
93
King produces his crown from pocket after marbles &c.
94
Marriages before clergyman as L.W.B.
95
Girl suffering from want of her shadow - shadow also suffers, dwindles &c.
96
It might be Peter's shadow.
97
Suppose you cd hurt Peter by hurting his shadow, &c. (as in Indian fairy tale)
98
Mother taking the shadow to bed.
99
Similarly in last scene (nursery) shadow seen quivering {therefore} original is suffering somewhere.
100
Rolling up shadow to take to get it sewn on (or cd it be rolled up without Peter being rolled up?)
101
P angry at other children - addresses mother (sleeping) bitterly "You've a nicer one" &c.
102
P calls nestling beside mother "giving her a dream" - he does it & she in sleep is ecstatic.
103
How abt his giving dreams to women who {have} no children.
104
Villain [ADDED: Pirate] trying to get girl to tell him story - she refuses - his entreaties - threatens - tortures her &c for story of Babes in Wood. She yields to torture, tells a bit - stops - he in tears &c - then to kill her - (all serious as in novels - Ivanhoe)
105
Cinderella, &c in the fairy lands - never had pleasure of meeting her - knew her aunt (one of the T¿¿ G¿¿) excellent woman.
106
Perhaps P demon comes frightens all abt growing up especially youngest - puts clock on to go fast & shows them {themselves} growing up - horrified - then turns it back to make younger (eventually runs off with them).
107
End Mother in distress - in bed sleeping - P comes to jeer at her - he is gradually melted by her woe, decides to bring them back - they come one by one - creeps in beside sleeping mother - Her rapture when wakes - great sacrifice by Peter {because} very lonely now - mother wd keep him but he flies away.
108
Father haughtily pretending not to know children when they come back (like a stiff father & eloped daughter).
107
Youngest (also others) believes he has forgot ever had children - does "Look favver - favver look" to remind him.
108
Cd the harlequin in Problem Plays come into fairy part (inconsequential fairy ways)
109
Father testy to mother in Act 1 abt {having} a dog-nurse - when out walking other people put out tongue, turn up noses at them &c. (all matter-of-fact talk) Mother says it might have been a crumb on his cheek - Father says "True".
110
P (or other) can blow people against the wall, &c.
111
2d each time audience laugh & a pork-pie when they cheer.
112
Father feels dog looks on his charges as puppies.
113
Dog wheeling pram.
114
Wife says no, dog knows they have souls.
115
How abt "The Dogs House" being subject of story? The moral that there's a risk having dog-nurse.
116
Father foolishly insists on dog not sleeping in room. Mother agst this, afraid of Peter when father doesn't believe in - Children say often hear P trying to get in - father says it's the wind - then P comes (father's fault).
117
Father suspects dog of licking the glasses, &c. (Mother uncomfortable)
118
Father has dog put on chain in kennel - it barks - mother sure it sees something. Father says it's merely angry {because} chained - it has really seen P - it bursts in with broken chain.
119
Perhaps father to punish self takes dog's place in kennel & won't come out till children return - also seen thus at end (kennel brought in) - this melts P's heart.
120
Kennel might be in bedroom. Only tho' ¿¿¿ is chained.
121
His going to kennel not told till last act.
122
Clerks come to kennel for business instructions.
123
Father's agonised cry "My fault - mea culpa!"
124
At end he is almost reluctant to leave kennel - had found it rather jolly in there.
125
Three acts:
1) Nurseries - open air
2) Fairyland - several scenes
3) Nurseries (perhaps a fairy scene first)
126
Act 1 - P had {thing} about says nothing abt mothers - derides - But in Act 3 it all comes - pathetic - the mother telling him & showing him what mothers love like - hugs, kisses &c - awful {knowing} that the girl &c are missing - he gives in.
127
The whole cd be "A Further Adventure of Peter Pan's".
128
Mother appealing to husband to come out of kennel - sometimes makes the sounds & actions with which we cajole a dog - similarly he sometimes replies in dog manner.
129
Child blowing out father's match.
130
Kennel not destroyed but kept for any father who interferes in nursery.
131
Child always asks meaning of words - "What's remorse" &c.
132
Bathroom seen with door open - Dog turns on water - takes child off, &c.
133
When dog on hind legs shd walk with grt difficulty.
134
Cupid playing Blind Man's Buff.
135
Work shadow figures (moving frieze?)
136
Fathers well enough, but mothers are the important thing.
137
"One for all & all for mother."
138
Father will interfere in nursery arrangements - criticises, &c. - the play is a warning to such.
139
Child unconsciously imitates father's language - "¿hypnotic" &c. (he cd do this in fairy land)
140
Father's plight in kennel shd affect children in audience as well as P.
141
He philosophises from kennel abt how little one really needs here below, &c.
142
Dog sitting puts one hand on girl's knee.
143
Parents shd be young.
144
Mrs Darling - The darlings - The Darling Mother.
145
Girl unseen calling "Dearest" - all ¿men ¿stand up - one marches out - the others ¿¿¿.
146
Perhaps father is carried to office &c in kennel. [ADDED: Cab] (clients talk)
147
He perhaps speaks blank verse when arriving in kennel.
148
Kennel emptied - pipe, French novel &c. (pack of cards)
149
Character - a man with a passion for tripe - lives in terror that some one will tell him what it is made of.
150
Boy & fairies [ADDED: Pirates] Dark & sinister man - proud & haughty boy.
151
How abt getting Pepper's Ghost effect with fairies - by a mirror?
152
A ¿Compton ¿Count who is ostracised {because} he has such a hard ¿wicked face (really looks benevolent)
153
P first teaches them how to fly. Then reveals that all who hear him play must follow. The little boy cd be caught fluttering about. [ADDED: Peter's Pipes]
154
Children - each in own bed - won't go - he malevolently plays to boy - boy struggles - pulls clothes on self &c - is yielding - girl gets into bed to hold back both boys - eventually all fly after P. (Dramatic struggle) [ADDED: Mother]
155
Perhaps P shd go off with boys - parents rush in - girl goes off to try to bring back (seen next scene in chase - joining on &c - then dog)
156
¿¿Coutle¿ considered overbearing, &c - what ¿life woman wd ¿¿¿ at him - nagging - masterful (Pilkington & ¿Arthur)
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Pilkington is the schoolmaster in The Little White Bird.
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157
P's appeal to girl to come & mend his socks, &c - not a fairy can sew a thing. This is a strong touching appeal to her (he shows her his socks, &c)
158
Character - An author reading his MS to his wife.
159
Children discussing parents in same tone & manner as parents discuss children - Has so & so got any mother? One. How droll their way of doing so & so - don't let them see you're amused, &c.
160
Kennel - The Return to Nature - the simpler life.
161
Proposal that instead of father leaving, they shd all join him in kennel. (Enlarge it - fling out wings, &c)
162
P has too much pride to ask fairies to help him or to mend own clothes.
163
A Cab[inet] Minister who wears an orchid in his eye.
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A burlesque on Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies in Balfour's Conservative Government. Chamberlain wore a monocle, as well as a daily orchid in his buttonhole.
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164
P tells children Cinderella became dull & ordinary - doesn't know she's a story, &c.
165
Fairies play golf without a ball (never thought of having a ball - having child say "¿¿Done in¿ 2" & go on to the next hole. [ADDED: Peter might go to animals for help & it is their "Home" - or Nana might come & guide.]
166
The Boy Who Hated Mothers. (Title?)
167
Dogs (and other domestic animals) in their hour - not only sport with humans but to kill them. It is know that if they can be prevented till the hour strikes then all the animals will be obed[ien]t again. This contrived by the humans singing, dancing &c - dramatic - ends with humans triumphing.
168
Girl &c had delighted on hearing they were to be ¿¿¿ in charge of the dogs. Then dog (?) finds its {self} in dogs hour - horror!
169
The animals revert to their wild state.
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The Return to Nature is exemplified in P children, animals & father (sarcasm on this idea) - this wd give an idea behind the story - viz that we've climbed out - better not fall back.
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The Return to Nature had been the central theme of Barrie's The Admirable Crichton [1902].
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171
If P a demon boy (villain of story) he is got round by the mother at end.
172
Suppose mother gradually realises P is her boy - she had forgotten abt {having} him. It now all comes back to her, &c. [ADDED: this the Beautiful Mother.] [Additional note illegible]
173
Suppose after the escape she remembers how had had a boy & barred windows when he escaped, &c. This she sees is her punishment (that told in last act) - Then when P comes she gets to know that he is the boy - gives him hugs &c - & he loves it - but in the end he flies away.
174
Thus in first act it isn't known why P so cruel & villainous.
175
Beaut[iful] Mothers in last act recalls loss of P to father's recollection.
176
P admonishing mother strongly abt he remembered - how she ought to have left window open, &c - she cowers before him.
177
P is sitting on end of bed when he lectures mother - she is in it.
178
In Dogs Hour, the animals remember the indignities, cruelties &c infected on them by human beings. That is why they are so terrible (Even children had neglected to give dogs food, had tied {thing} to cat's tail, &c - This all remembered agst them now.
179
Perhaps this not P's mother but sister grown up - it was all so long ago. P: "Where is my pretty mother?" "Even I not a little boy ¿now!" &c.
180
Then "Granny" character introduced - P's real mother.
181
Hiding Granny's ¿staff.
182
Old boys for New, Hawker selling, trying to get these children - mother indignant, father (superior) on her unreasonableness - may at least look at them, &c. - They are not exchanged - hawker's discomfiture - evidently there is a plot to get the children. [ADDED: P or fairies instead of hawker]
183
One of "new" children has pretty manners & father says to mother "You said wished yours had pretty manners" &c - Terror of children.
184
Hawker is advised to go to people next door whose children are bad.
185
Perhaps scene of P {having} to find which was his mother from a n[umber] of women - the way you know ¿can dance, sit, &c on real one - she never says you hurt her or were too heavy, &c.
186
Cd Hans Anderson be a figure in play?
187
When mother refuses to exchange children for new, she shd have a grand speech (à la melodramatic plays) that wd make children in audience burst into applause. [ADDED: This still used in big way]
188
Husband says of hawker to wife: "You mustn't blame him - this is his bread & butter. [ADDED: This cd be pirates' excuse]
189
Might get Protection & Fair Trade into exchange - import & export.
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Protection versus Fair Trade was a major political issue in the autumn of 1903, with Joseph Chamberlain staunchly in favour of the former.
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Mother called Mummy. [ADDED: W called this by the Seven]
191
Mother is going out to dinner in first act - so beautifully dressed - showing self to children - father comes to have his tie tied.
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Father stumbles & hurts himself. Child: "Do it again favver!"
193
Child immediately repeats father's words.
194
Hawker arguing protection is like Chamberlain & has orchid in eye.
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Father can't think who it is hawker is like.
196
Fairies don't really know what time is. They {have} watches but they don't wind up. They watch you when you ask time & are very gratified if you believe they know.
197
Suppose animals, like fairies (or instead of fairies) fond of stories & never heard any. [ADDED: Peter cd tell story to animals] - girl tells them stories to save life when waiting for twelve to strike, & they can't kill her till reach the end. (Shd be as full of suspense as husband mad with drink to kill wife - she to have hair brushed for last time.) [ADDED: Act 1 Father says if Michael doesn't tell abt milk he'll let him see him shaving.]
198
How abt all children being origin of Harlequin? (P) Clown dog columbine girl &c (father Pantaloon?)
199
Clothes &c gradually changing till audience realise - will surprise that it has all come abt naturally.
200
If so, programme cd describe play as making public for first time the origin of certain celebrated persons.
201
Girl had given woodman thread from her hair to sew a rope - hence gratitude of woodmen.
202
P leaves children in wood dying - gloats - goes off (tell mother).
203
Girl cd rescue dog by his broken rope. They get on rock in sea & others fly away.
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The Lagoon Scene, in which Peter and Wendy are marooned on a rock, was not incorporated into the play until 1905.
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204
Cupids bring back children (several bring dog who when landed licks them gratefully)
205
Last Act. P sorrowful believes children destroyed - then knows if girl's shadow left behind is still warm = healthy - it is {therefore} she must be - mother & he excitedly regard shadow - it limps, &c showing girl hurt foot.
206
P pretends at first merely came to teach children to fly.
207
He shows holes in socks, &c.
208
They discuss mothers - P horribly cynical - "That's all you know."
209
P touchingly ignorant abt childish {things} even while villain.
210
Shadow of girl - P expected to find it cold - it's warm! Then she's not dead, &c.
211
Perhaps P if made human must become real age - clock rushes on (strikes at birthdays). He is seen changing, becomes a little old man - Tragic - reverts to youth, or accepts & behaves like elderly gent.
212
If position accepted, wife is light to him - They cd wed, bring in baby.
213
The little house given them as wedding present - Scene in last act complete house - bigger than before but absurdly small - it's still large enough to hold them - P standing at door, mother with baby - garden &c all complete on ludicrously small scale.
214
A fairy wedding at end?
215
Dog & puppies - (a puppy at house at end)
216
Best effect of lighting house &c might be at end instead of in first little house scene.
217
Shd have also the effect of house disappearing when human people pass & then there again when they are gone.
218
Thus P left ½ fairy (appearance young) so can marry girl.
219
P might fly about (also wife) to get twigs for fire, &c.
220
Cupids &c flying home wish them goodnight &c (all in matter of fact way)
221
Best {having} said by baby - only seen in Little House scene.
222
End music from house (Peter's pipes) wife & baby dancing (shadows on blind)
223
Dog hits agst father's leg - father angry - dog brings brush in mouth - father takes as matter of course, brushed - returns.
224
Mother can't tie tie on man, can on bedpost - does - he says (pointing to bedpost) "Can't go out like that".
225
Father has little cold - has to take medicine - his fuss over it - interest in children.
226
He has previously said how brave he was when a boy - doesn't know what children are coming to - took medicine without a murmur.
227
Children encourage him to take it as adults encourage them.
228
Wife flatters when taken - he pleased & silly like child in same encounters.
230
If dog had medicine to take - won't - mother pretends it's some delicious expensive drink. Then he takes it ¿eagerly - father ¿reproven - it's ¿dreaming - what will dog think when wakes up in night & finds medicine working.
231
Father had said he takes medicine well thinking there are none of his powders - Then one found.
232
Possibly try fairies worked by ventriloquism.
233
Or the midget troupe as the fairies (or as the woodsmen).
234
In absence of mother & dog, father pours his medicine into dog's platter & dog takes it (father says aloud it's fine treat) makes children promise not to tell - says did it for joke on dog. Dog after drinking looks suspicious - father brazens out - angry - revenges self on dog by sending away.
235
He said to children wdn't it be big joke if gave dog the medicine? - They remain wholly disapproving. [ADDED: P says he remembers Washington ¿Court &c - always a boy - "There always was a boy playing abt having fun throughout exciting history & are ¿pokered]
236
They might be clown &c in end in Little House. [ADDED: Police & Press]
237
Kick one on wires (Pantaloon?) & he cd be lifted across stage.
238
P made clown always laugh so that didn't weep.
239
If P to be clown he paints face to make self like little boy - all pretend he has succeeded.
240
When you want to go upstairs, the house goes up instead (saves you trouble) i.e. it rises & settles on branches of tree - low branch for first floor - higher for second, &c. (Fairies had forgotten to give it more than one floor & they get out of trouble in this way). This gives more room - study upstairs, &c.
241
Woodmen calling on each other - knock at tree trunk & go in, &c.
242
Squirrels nightingales rabbits at end.
243
A glade in the forest - The same glade in another forest.
244
Act 1. P can't play - children teach - pathetic.
245
Girl turns out at end (by strawberry mark) not to be child of these people {therefore} can marry P.
246
Mother cd still be P's mother - born long ago before other children - why she forgot.
247
P cd climb in as hawker - then take off beard.
248
The 20 beautiful Mothers.
249
Or P comes {to} be told stories.
250
Father annoyed (Act 1) because another father put out tongue at him for having dog to nurse children - "I was offended - my amour propre" &c.
251
The children P tried to exchange in Act 1 cd be woodsmen's children & they recognise that girl had been kind to them - later scene in wood.
252
Suppose Act 1 P has never heard of mothers - distress of girl who explains what they are - Peter thirsts to have one - "You must have had one" &c.
253
How to know Mother:
1) However little & weak they are they can carry you about & love to do it.
2) Let you sit on them - sprawl - hit.
3) Think (really) you are ever so much prettier than others.
4) Snatch you up in danger (tho' timid of others). [ADDED: W explains Animal instinct]
5) See at once that you have cut your hand.
6) When look at you, radiance in face.
7) If you hit the ¿¿¿ they hope you have not hurt yr hand.
8) Say your name (when they are asleep or awake) & they smile rapturously.
9) When asleep if you say feel flushed they wake at once.
10) When you sleep they come on tiptoes - wipe eyes in joy - kiss you (one kisses - P excited - girl scornful - that's not very ¿soft or sweet - it shd be kiss that doesn't waken - also shd put your hand beneath coverlet.
11) Their anxiety when say "I have a pain".
12) Always go on tying yr bootlace again & again.
13) Patience - "I have no patience with you" - "Then you are not my mother."
14) Ruin their dress - angry but you say feel a pain & then they forget dress (one does it - angry still - run out of room)
15) Ask great many questions à la scene in "Greedy Dwarf" - If they grow impatient = not your mother.
16) Poor mother to surrender to rich beauty if best for boy (a sign she is your mother).
17) Radiance - a light that came into the world when the first mother looked at her first child.
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If fairies tiny dolls seen at a feast - P warns girl must not speak else they will disappear - girl crouches watching - P sits among fairies - singing & dancing - girl cries out something - all vanish (Pepper's Ghost) End.
255
Suppose P [ADDED: All boys] after he finds mother has to go thro' all stages of childhood beginning at few months old - must be done in privacy ("Little House") - Girl to "mother" him?
256
P amazed at child's rattle, &c.
257
P in agony to be man - {having} affair, &c. Want to be happy boy all life (not see people dying &c that he loves - (this shd be good speech) - is going off - then girl on he must love ¿love &c.
258
Suppose Peter alone in house - to go to them "tomorrow" - {has} a suspicion that tomorrow never comes - or P really dies - adults only understand.
259
The horror of growing up root idea of P.
260
Suppose humans wanting P & fairies wanting P - antagonism - each side showing what can give him in future - humans love &c - but fairies show age & growing up must go with it - This shd be pictorial.
261
Father tells children have to hang heads &c when ashamed of a person - afterwards they do it when ashamed of him.
262
Wedding presents - toys, &c.
263
Clown one who never grows up. [ADDED: Wendy says Scene 1]
264
If P young baby at end he is put to bed in cot.
265
Possible parents or at least father put to bed, bathed &c by dog (this to let P off). Fairies decree.
266
The 20 Mothers brought to Fairyland?
267
P tells often crawled into room - flung baby out & took its place. Girl horrified.
268
P is flinging youngest out of window to take its place when girl wakes - scares, &c (audience understands what he is about from previous talk) - he pushes up chimney, &c.
269
P had taken the two (or one?) youngest to die, but dragged away girl to love him - she returns - he doesn't know - or he comes back but the fairies make nothing there - he thinks all lost - goes away - house returns. P had only meant to frighten her & come back for children.
270
Children thinking there are not really any fairies - P amused - shows them size (I'll show them to you).
271
Two fairies (dolls) in front of glass quarrelling - worked à la Punch & Judy.
272
How if poor old woman servant in 20 Beauties scene turned out to be P's mother? ["P" OVERWRITTEN: Slightly] Demon had had to grant mother must be in room but made her servant so that they didn't guess - when they think everybody gone this woman says one left &c - the others return & all are willing to take P & give him glorious wealthy life but he sticks to own mother.
273
End of the scheme might be P a little old man.
274
Father who had been poor & not in grand society - has become rage since taking to kennel - asked everywhere (in kennel) writes life - go on [music] halls &c.
275
Father questions whether story of P true - questions even whether there are fairies - there may be a few, &c.
276
P pushes child out of bed, gets in himself & is found by girl.
277
If smallest child became Pantaloon, it was thro' always imitating father.
278
Harlequin cd be tall youth (Miss [Sable] Fern?)
279
Father keen to have P's autograph (or get demand for father's autograph since took to kennel)
280
P looking at girl in bed, only head seen - "Is there more of you than that?" Girl "I'm all the way down to here" (indicating feet)
280
Peter climbs in like burglar - flies about curiously - with childish glee turns on water &c - sees boys, doesn't think much of them, sees girl, crows with delight & settles on end of her bed & pipes to her. (He has kicked boys out or blows [them] out)
281
Perhaps he turns on water, plays with baby rattle, &c - later to pain of girl she says these for mere babies only.
282
P wakens her piping & then first scene is her in bed & him on end.
283
P can blow {because} wind godfather, &c. (so other qualities)
284
P comes to be told a story - that what he misses most. Fairies know no stories - hungering for them - king & queen, &c. Cinderella &c there but don't know own story - know there is one. This pathetic to girl.
285
P's mission from the fairies to go & tell them stories - this entrancing to girl - But I can't fly. I can teach you.
286
How abt {having} some one to act Chorus as in greek drama - telling children across footlights - "Wendy" by name.
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The first mention of Wendy as a name. It was coined by W E Henly's 6 year old daughter Margaret who called Barrie "my friendy" but it came out sounding like "my Wendy".
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287
As the Beautiful Mothers come in one by one, P ["P" OVERWRITTEN: boys]
thinks excitedly each is the one - girl has to restrain them.
288
1st P tells his story of how ran away. (2) Love scene between P & girl as in LWB & he teaches them to fly. (3) They are going when he admits they can't return. (4) They won't - tie selves so that he can't take them, bursts bonds & fly away.
289
Fairies looking in at window listening for stories.
290
Instead of woodmen they might be children who have been lost. They lead happy life but have no mother - P is one of them - he is sent to try & catch a mother for them - One (¿Coutts) quite old, &c but she is seen bathing them, telling stories &c.
291
Nests (for people) in trees as well as doors & windows in trunks.
292
The children (woodmen) in bed - girl sings over cradle (This exquisite to all)
293
P can only remember {something} a month, {therefore} if month elapses he cd not guide her home - others turn fierce - he's rather kill her than let her go - P sees she is unhappy & defies others.
294
All dressing in black (mourning) {because} she has to leave.
295
They will forget all stories in a month.
296
P's worst agony of all that he will forget girl in a month.
297
P different from others in that he ran away while they were lost.
298
End parents consent to girl going away & being his (p's) mother - she strangely holds back - it's another relationship she wants (wife) - something sweeter 7 dearer. The meaning has to be explained to P & he hugs her & cries it is ever so much sweeter.
299
The others build (seen finished) house for P & girl. [ADDED: Tippy says will make it a disappearing house if P ¿only W's son.]
300
Girl cd be called Wendy.
301
Perhaps only P puts on black.
302
Wendy says to others not to dress - her mother will excuse their pyjamas.
303
Woodmen have all characters - one gets a doubtful mother - not quite right - Wendy says probably his aunt but this is good enough (near enough) for him.
304
Wendy (if Cissy Loftus gives imitations of people - acts dif[ferent] persons when telling stories (actors &c?)
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Cissie (Celia) Loftus - an actress famous as a mimic. Though never Wendy, she played Peter Pan in the 1905 revival.
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305
Two of the woodmen cd be twins (in rage {because} can't get a mother each - or innocently they do get one each) [ADDED: Despised {because} one mother takes 2]
306
P's pathos abt always wanting {to} be little boy, not grow old &c - shd come now when he is leaving all happy.
307
Perhaps instead of being in black so early P shd {have} his blacks in bag & change into them when leaving others happy.
308
Perhaps what frightens Wendy is P admitting to her nobly that mothers shut you out (his case).
309
Probably W takes them all home, confident her mother will take them all - she hides them under the bed & produces them one by one, & mother & father are very uncomfortable - woodmen gloomy & stiff - P exults saying this is what mothers are like - Then the 20 beautiful mothers idea.
310
The boys cd live among the woodmen - this gives woodmen {reason} for building house - listening to story, &c.
311
In hut scene a long string tied to girl so that she can't fly away.
312
The woodmen find lost children & take them far away to home.
313
The most favoured woodman gets into cradle (Peter) - Scene of agony - him in it - she out. He & she discussing her returning home.
314
Thro' room runs a stream & it rocks cradle - or seven cradles?
315
A tree grows in room & its branches are roof of house.
316
They go to bed in tree.
317
When all go away it is either flying upward, or in boat (like thrush's nest) on stream - P & Wendy, shirt as sail.
318
The scene cd turn into lake or sea - P saving Wendy, cupids drawing boat, &c - (or the seven doing so) they flying & it in water.
319
P blows tree round to send them to sleep.
320
P bravely pretending can do without Wendy in hut scene - breaks down, &c - all break down. [ADDED: We are gentlemen, must help lady, &c - all agree.]
321
The seven at tea, with Wendy presiding - teaching manners, &c.
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The seven: ie the Lost Boys
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322
Punishment for wrong-doing that not allowed to hear end of story. She is firm.
323
They lose power to fly if return to parents.
324
They have picture books, toys &c made under her instructions & are seen playing with them.
325
Suppose Twins given separate mothers - this pointed out to Wendy. She hadn't thought of that. Best begin it over again - scene begins again from the beginning (this shd be artless & childlike)
326
Father & mother sit as judges for appealing to.
327
There is again a stick at twins but Wendy cleverly gets over it (not same twins? Other twins by then?)
328
You only have twins if frightfully fond of children.
329
A monkey cd frighten them in beds in tree, played by acrobat.
330
The Seven finding W sleeping try to waken her by telling their story - we are twins, &c. fell out of prams, &c. - Oh, come & take care of us & tell us stories!
331
Not one of us knows what day his birthday is. (Age?)
332
Whey they find mothers the latter know their ages - some {have} to go off to offices, &c. P having expected it gloats over this.
333
the Seven finding her measure her to see if she's a woman - one inch too short - will grow into woman if fed well. They rush of for food, &c.
334
They return with food when house completed & leave it.
335
Woodmen's wives (if any) too small {to} be mothers to humans.
336
Girls don't get lost - too clever.
337
The few children's fashions, manners, &c remembered by the Seven have "quite gone out". Don't call nurse "nanny" &c except in 2nd class families.
338
If cupids get into nests, the Seven push them out, &c.
339
Or eagles.
340
Might be scene of eagles pouncing on one of the seven who had flung their eggs out of nest - dramatic. [ADDED: Animals hour]
341
A Page instead of servant?
342
Scene 1) Home (Nursery)
2) Wood
3) House of the Seven
4) House (Drawing-room) or Nursery again.
5) P & W's House in Wood.
343
There might also be (1½) The Flight & (3½) The Homeward Journey. The Flight by flying, the Homeward Journey by water (P with oar defending w from great birds - also attack by pirates. P takes command of Pirate Ship.
344
If done in Tableaux when blackness in, chorus cd be telling awful things to follow.
345
No sail! Shirt! "I shall retire for a moment & presently return with a sail". [ADDED: Or island that sinks - my melodrama]
P & W in nest (with shirt sail) - the others in raft.
347
Peter & Pirate Captain - "Proud & presumptuous youth" - "Dark & sinister man" &c.
348
Peter blows them overboard.
349
P threatens to blow up powder magazine (blow with mouth).
350
P walks deck of pirate ship like Napoleon.
351
At last London appears.
352
The 20 Mothers cd also be pirates.
353
W cd get into raft after bird flight - Then she is upturned with raft crew - the P comes alone.
354
W planning beds for the Seven at her house - one or two in drawing-room &c.
355
Pirate Captain - Miss Dorothea Baird ("See how he scowls", &c.) This character instead of Coutts thus treated as awful to look on (Does he come to sell old for new children in Act 1? His awful ugliness much insisted on (it is what made him late to arrive)
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Dorothea baird played Mrs Darling in the 1st 1904 production. This is the only time Barrie appears to have contemplated Hook (as yet unnamed) being played by a female.
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356
At end, pirates &c search in vain for Little House (Pepper's Ghost). It can only be seen by good people.
357
P's flight & taking of ship shd be very dramatic & real.
358
Coutts [ADDED: Tootles] cd be nice boy (poor) made a sort of Cinderella by the others (gets a specially good mother)
359
Michael ¿Uglii (Machiavelli) was name given to Maitland in Queen Mary's days. [ADDED: Pirate Capt.]
360
P pulls down skull & Crossbones & hoists Union Jack.
361
Dog might be with P (or have been flung overboard & climb back) & help in great fight.
362
P in black a stern figure of Fate - after success is drunk in himself a la Tommy - struts deck with others staring at him - like Napoleon on bellerophon.
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Tommy Sandys - the main character in Barrie's two earlier novels Sentimental Tommy (1896) and Tommy and Grizel (1900).
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363
The Jolly Roger grim vessel - seen as Houseboat in "Walker" - prisoners & pirates in cabins beneath scene while terrible things doing on deck.
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Walker, London (1892) - Barrie's first successful West-End play, set on a houseboat.
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364
There might be a chase on deck after P on masts, &c - a la David in Treasure Island - this wd enable an acrobat of same size to personate him.
364
P tends to boastfulness when does big {thing}. W sees this but thinks it right to humour a man - He can be abjectly humble also.
365
Clock striking 12 affects pirate to tears.
366
Pirates punishment to write imposition by 500 lines - to be caned, &c.
367
P [OVERWRITTEN: Michael] in sailor's pea-jacket as big as self at wheel on bridge, &c.
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Barrie was only five foot three inches tall.
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368
The Seven become nautical - hitch trousers, &c.
369
Shadows on blinds perhaps more effective than seeing real pirates below.
370
P kills each man sent on watch - terror strikes them - they have to be driven with whips
- later he is seen in shadow doing for them below.
371
Effective for audience never to know where P is to appear from & kill next (Once in chair-couch?)
372
When all gone up but one - P climbs in at porthole & kills him.
373
Slides down mast once (& up) (by wire?)
374
How abt the idea [of a] wreck - all must leave scene on boat - not big enough - P remaining grandly behind.
375
Or wreck & P as capt[ain] insists on leaving last - "Put in women & children first" (Nana, &c)
376
When Union Jack hoisted all sing "God Save the King" (end of act) - ship disappears - London is in sight - {have} prisoners seen in shadow.
377
The Seven &c are impressed to find the pirates have a man cook - great swells, &c.
378
If villain {to} be shown in nursery, mother complains - father says never done 0 ¿imply ashamed children ¿been.
379
If Coutts tragic finds ¿out old mother - he's an old man - This frightens Peter - perhaps he is old man also.
380
"God Save King" - Prisoners seen below writing impositions. Smallest of Seven with musket keeping guard.
381
Imposition to write 500 times "England Home ¿of ¿Beauty"
382
Suppose [Beerbohm] Tree played father - a child cd speak in same voice - suppose it was P (Cissy L[oftus]) - Father wonders where has heard that voice before - strangely familiar.
383
W understands abt twins but P doesn't - it is he who after one twin has got mother says now must get a mother for other one - awkward position for W who is afraid to hurt his feelings. P can't understand but ultimately pretends to (all try to explain to him but break down)
384
When W hugs P to show what love is, he cries like a child "Do it again!"
385
Suppose P born 29 Feb - Leap Year- thus only birthday once in four years - thus counts up as if 2 when really 8 &c. W: "Then you're nearly---" P: "Stop it!"
386
How abt scenery, effects, dressing, &c all being as if painted by children - ordinary chairs upside down - ship a toy model, &c as if inspired infant doing it out of his head. (Thus scenic artists, dressmakers, &c wd be approaching subject from artless imaginative child's point of view - like author).
387
Some of this cd be done at least - to get make-believe into play - Villain saying "Don't look" &c before gets behind curtain, &c.
388
P & W tiffs - "If you don't want me I shall withdraw", &c.
389
W horrified at his rags, &c - he indifferent - then sees that he can play on her with them.
390
Her pain in hearing they have no mugs to drink out of (P mortified, sobs). He never knows till sees her face whether he is great or shamed. When great he swaggers.
391
W discovers they cough on table (into plate).
392
Sitting on mantlepiece - they cd talk sit & chat there.
393
The pirates play Bridge.
394
If C. Loftus [plays] P, she cd imitate captain's voice, &c.
395
Pirate Capt's horrid song & dance among prisoners in hold.
396
Perhaps the Seven shd be galley slaves chained to oars.
397
Father in kennel reminds mother he'll only respond to her if she whistles to him or makes the sounds with which one appeals to dogs.
398
The poor attendant shd get one child - scholarly author (Coutts)
399
Pirates capture to make W tell stories. P has said in previous act that they want her.
400
Act 1 she gives fairy tales book to P (pathetic agony of proud P who can't read) {therefore} she must come.
401
Perhaps shadow of robber had been caught - now framed on wall. He is supposed often to come after it &c {therefore} window guarded. Fairy? Father cynical on fairer - it is really P's - he comes, gets it, flies about happy (ties on - lightning effects). Dog had caught shadow.
402
Suppose he rolled it up - then got W to sew it on him.
403
P curiosity on entrance - bath - clock, &c.
404
Act 1, P & W "If she knew &c - you say nothing" &c - might come in a la burlesque.
405
"Fling out my shadow in ¿there"
"If you don't, go ¿home"
Father never believes in poets - haphazard - no profession, &c.
406
Delight of P when w shows him how to blow out match.
407
Real fairies (Pepper) at end?
408
In Hut scene P addresses the Seven on how they as gentlemen must let W go. They agree sadly - they try pretend to her won't miss her very much - all break down. This up to exeunt the more simple & childish the better.
409
Hut - the woodmen come in to listen to stories.
410
Chorus little boy (G. Hersee?) takes all credit for play - "I made it all up, &c takes¿endless calls - breaks from others when they restrain him & runs forward to boy gloriously &c. Between acts tells story, shouts to them to go ahead &c, At beginning explains that he did it.
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George Hersee played John Darling in the 1st 1904 production.
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411
Chorus confides he's playing a woodman - (or one of the Seven) - wanted to be Peter.
412
He brings them on for applause, &c.
413
W examining chins of Coutts, Peter, &c for age (also teeth)
414
W teaches the Seven reading, writing &c.
415
Title - Little Mother (or A Nice Mothering ¿Person)
416
End- P's terror of love - die (as he is old_ if loves - W pities & is mother to him tho' wd rather be wife.
417
Curtain of House building - the 7 siting round with soup &c, waiting her to wake.
418
The Seven only too happy to meet W's wishes in any way, &c.
419
7 might build the house
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Barrie's handwriting changes at this point, being similar to that of the revisions and additions made to the earlier notes. Since much of what follows indicates an advance in plot and character development, it would seem that he had already started writing the first draft of the play, and had probably completed the first two acts.
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420
Also might be a tiny real house - they put furniture in first so as to make good impression on her when she wakes - hold umbrella over her till roof on. Doctor comes, "only a woodman but he has a black coat" - their anxiety listening while she is ¿in &c. He says fallen into health-giving sleep: food ¿¿¿ work. Curtain then all sitting round with food inside waiting - guard white with sun.
421
John & Alex here to help build - "You are no importance, you are just boys."
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Fist mention of the Darling boys' names (though alexander was later changed to Michael after Michael Llewlyn Davies).
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422
Tippytoe - 3 inches high - scene of plotting with pirates - house disappears.
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Tippytoe became Tinkerbell.
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423
In interior scene expulsion of T[ippytoe] - W has told P how T hates her - does things to her - changes her - {¿} ¿woke in fit with a wooden leg ¿another a red rose &c. P can't understand why T does these {things}. W knows by won't say.
424
Later in same scene - the Parting - P on loves her like devoted son - greatest of all loves. w not so sure now but he can't understand & she in modesty can't tell him - she doesn't give him thimbles now - he thinks {therefore} doesn't love him so much. She Not in same way. He Don't you feel so like a mother to me? She No. he in agony. She can't explain.
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Fist mention of thimbles (ie. kisses). Since there is no earlier note to explain this, Barrie had perhaps already written Act one (in which the meaning of thimbles is made clear).
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425
Same scene he brings T, orders her to go with Wendy & 7 to make way up safe - she sulky but glad to get rid of W consents. Peter left alone. T returns - rage of P - T says wants them to be captured {because} otherwise sure w will return or P go to her. P: Why shdn't she? T is pathetic - her delicacy makes her refrain to explain. P {to} go & see - she wants to accompany - he refuses, locks her in - her agony (curtain).
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"Up" would indicate that Barrie has now fixed on the idea of the Underground Home.
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426
She calls W a great big ugly creature, &c.
427
Scene 1 Act 1 - Peter expl[ains] to W how T saves hares &c by making disappear from wolves &c - gr[ea]t at making disappear - cd make you suddenly disappear - not be here.
428
When ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ fairies did.
429
"You silly ass" - audience shd know this sound of T's before she says it last time (last words as dying) - they know it without T interpreting - also to Tootles who ¿¿¿.
430
Return home - 3 children to sleeping mother. Father i kennel hears &c but won't come out {because} sure they can't forgive. They coax out with whistling & other dog sounds.
431
Dipping pirates to make them sing "Rule Britannia" - a forbidden song (make them swear allegiance to Edward King of England - they do so - then sing "Rule Britannia).
432
Tootles - so awful to look at (they say) that meant for a pirate - (heart soft, &c)
433
Act 1 - Revise Children lost in [Kensington] Gardens if not claimed sent far away to defray expenses.
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Note 433 ends at the foot of a page, the next page beginning with note 436. The handwriting hereafter is in various styles and in both pen and pencil: from the content of the notes it would appear that Barrie had finished the first draft up the Return Home, but still lacked an ending.
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436
(Revise - Inside Trees) This the opportunity for Wendy to tell abt the little ways of parents.
437
Pirates called after boys, Cecco &c.
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The writer Maurice Hewlett's son Cecco, who was then four years old.
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438
If Gerald Pirate Capt - his imitations of actors (other villains he has killed)
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Gerald du Maurier, who was to play the as-yet-unnamed Captain Hook, was renowned for his impersonations of Henry Irving and others.
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439
Revise Slightly always patronises Tootles who accepts it - End Slightly honoured by any attention from Tootles - sixpence &c.
440
Tootles tells S not Tootles now but Indian ¿Magic &c. but by & by ¿all forget & even Tootles &c.
441
Inside Tree Scent Revise - rehearsing bring in boat - sinking. P as Capt. "Put all the women & children into boats first, &c. Ay ay sir. (also other similar scenes - P very noble)
442
Revise "What's remorse" &c once in each scene at important point.
443
End - Ken[sington] Gardens, sort of burlesque of transformation scenes - 1st a front scene - ¿¿¿ face revealing ¿¿¿ Slightly selling balloons - a ¿ball & keeper revealed &c.
444
Little House might be a toy at first, then blows out like balloon, collapses with them inside it - they go small too, &c (balloon figures of themselves?)
445
End - must do something for a living (clown & columbine). This origin of those people?
446
How abt angel voices at times singing in play?
447
Pirate name - Starkey (¿¿¿) - & Smee & Maw.
448
Red Indians?
449
Revise - Peter keeps the boys helpless so that they have to look to him for everything (Captain)
450
Wendy & Peter as parents revise Interior - Scene.
451
Nobody really knows what twins are. (Twins)
452
Revise River in Scene 1 Act 2 might be frozen. If so House cd (if desired) be built on the river. (How abt ice breaking up & Seven being carried down river?)
453
If so, W must fall in river {because} house has to built round her.
454
Indians with their squaws might come into this scene - going down river, &c.
455
Ice River - Nibs, Curly, &c all arrive dramatically on river pursued &c - wolves? Bear? (He is saved by others {having} idea ¿famous of frightening wild animals by looking at them through your legs.
456
Peter shd {have} dramatic entrance (Sc 1 Act 2)
457
Beavers
458
One-armed (or Hook-armed) cab driver, Act 3 Sc 1.
459
"One crowded hour of glorious strife".
460
Interior - Wendy singing Sally in Our Alley - Child walks strutting as they conceive it (Pirates above doing ditto)
461
Scene 1 - Peter smashing clock, dropping jug &c like Jack [Llewelyn Davies].
462
Peter cd have Tootles scene abt blooding those who wd keep W.
463
Cd Peter tell the story (or part of it?)
464
How abt P playing on pipes to W in little house, act 2 - or Doctor scene.
465
P shd arrive with John & Michael flying Act 2. Also in underground scene P shd arrive flying.
466
In Beasts Hour speech must come to them also.
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