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JMBarrie => JMBarrie => Topic started by: Allahakbarrie on May 05, 2009, 02:07:26 PM

Title: The Dead Donkey
Post by: Allahakbarrie on May 05, 2009, 02:07:26 PM

Has anyone come across a Barrie work which he calls 'The Dead Donkey' in a letter to Mary de Navarro from 1923? He writes that it is now lost but I cannot find reference to it anywhere else either. He writes that he once showed it to Mary and that it is about himself.

Title: Re: The Dead Donkey
Post by: andrew on May 09, 2009, 09:57:02 PM

Never heard of it, but would be most intrigued to know more! Have you tried Beinecke??

Title: Re: The Dead Donkey
Post by: Robert Greenham on June 03, 2009, 05:32:16 PM

Could it be that Barrie coined the phrase 'dead donkey', and hence 'drop the dead donkey', referring to journalists/editors rejecting a written item?  Perhaps it was used in his early working life.  Just a thought.