JMBarrie

JMBarrie => Peter Pan => Topic started by: andrew on November 06, 2009, 05:22:06 PM

Title: Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Post by: andrew on November 06, 2009, 05:22:06 PM

Christine Pootere of GOSH sent me the various letters to and from Barrie re his gift of Peter Pan to the hospital.  A search for "Ormond" in the database should bring them up...

Title: Re: Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Post by: ecb on November 06, 2009, 08:23:55 PM

How fascinating Andrew!  I'm so glad people are sending new documents to you to be scanned for the database.  It is best to have as much material as possible in one place!

And I'm very glad that at least some of the letters are typed!  Barrie's handwriting resembles some strange early alphabet, maybe Ogham! :D

Title: Re: Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Post by: mikey2573 on November 11, 2009, 02:01:42 PM

I went to the rare books library at Yale and held many of Barrie's notebooks in my hands.  All I can say is, I have NO IDEA how anyone could read anything this man wrote!! 90% of it was completely illegible.

Title: Re: Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital
Post by: andrew on November 14, 2009, 09:02:18 PM

Practise! I found it almost illegible in 1975, but a year later I could more or less sail through!