Does anyone know the result of this auction, please?

When I visited Cudlow House a few years ago the owners kindly explained how the Llewellyn Davies family came to spend summer holidays there:  Arthur and Sylvia first visited Rustington in 1891 as guests of their friend Sir Hubert Parry, the composer, who had lived at Cudlow House between 1878 and 1881, and then had moved into a new house (Knightscroft House) on the other side of Sea Road. Evidently, Parry provided the new owners of Cudlow House (the Hoper ladies: Dorothea, Edith, Emma Grace, and Mary Winifred) with some of their visitors, although this wasn't made clear to me.  Other visitors to Cudlow House in those days included Thomas Hardy.

In the summer of 1906 it was Sylvia's mother, Emma du Maurier, who rented Cudlow House, and the Llewellyn Davies family, plus Barrie, were therefore Emma's guests.  The Davies boys spent much of the time playing cricket and tennis on the lawn, and playing on the pebbly beach and in the sea just a few hundred yards away.  My grandmother, Mabel Llewellyn, was also there for about three weeks during that long holiday, As Barrie's housekeeper, Mabel was summoned by Barrie to leave Black Lake Cottage and come and work at Cudlow House, reportedly* to teach  the younger of the Davies boys to swim because their nursery governess, who had gone with them, couldn't swim.  While Barrie doubtless organised and joined in the games of cricket, it seems that the seaside was not to his liking: the one holiday more miserable than all the others when you "wander along the weary beach, fling pebbles at the sea and wonder how long it will be until dinner time".

*Source: "More about Barrie and Hanny", John o' London Weekly, November 13th, 1953.

I might go along to this play. 

For those intending to go, here is the phone number for the Riverside Studios box office:
020 8237 1111

The review in The Times cannot be read online unless you pay a subscription, but it (and other reviews) has been reproduced within Belt Up Theatre's blog, here:
http://beltuptheatre.blogspot.com/2011/01/few-more-reviews-inlcuding-times.html

You're correct, Andrew. Page 508 of The Story of J. M. B:

"Barrie, however, had the best part of a week only just behind the lines, in the middle of July (1917). He climbed the Messines Ridge, or what remained after the terrific explosion which had led to its capture last month. He saw balloons being brought down by German aeroplanes, and their observers floating to earth. He managed to get forty-eight hours' leave for Peter. And - this time in very considerable danger  - he sought and finally discovered George's grave, among thousands of others, near Ypres."

I am interested in seeing, or reading transcripts of, any correspondence between James or Mary Barrie and any of their domestic staff apart from Mary Hodgson.

Thanks Andrew. Sorry, but I do not know when this photo was taken. I think your estimated date is good.

I have a jpeg file of just this photo.