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JMBarrie / Daphne du Maurier Literary Festival May 14 2011
« on: May 10, 2011, 02:35:12 PM »
I will be giving a talk on my book Peter Pan's First XI (on the subject of Barrie's cricket team the Allahakbarries) at the Daphne du Maurier Literary festival in Fowey, Cornwall, on May 14 at 10am.

Details are here:

http://www.dumaurierfestival.co.uk/devents.php?session=1955036&ev=158

Come along if you can.

Kevin Telfer
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JMBarrie / The Yellow Week at Stanway
« on: July 19, 2010, 11:19:32 AM »
An excerpt from a film made by J. M. Barrie called The Yellow Week at Stanway has been posted on the Amazon page for my book Peter Pan's First XI:

http://amzn.to/bMLbIc

This excerpt was shot in 1923 and shows Nico Llewelyn Davies and friends playing cricket at the Stanway ground where Barrie spent many of his summers in the 1920s.

I believe that this is the only place on the internet where any part of this film can be viewed.

There is more information about the film on the BFI website:

http://bit.ly/8YZyIn



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JMBarrie / Frank Thurston (& Peter Pan's First XI)
« on: March 23, 2010, 04:06:17 PM »
Hi Andrew.

I've just returned from India where I've been for the past six months, hence my absence from this message board.

I have been thinking about Frank Thurston quite a bit in recent weeks and wondering what happened to him. He sounded like a fascinating character and P. G. Wodehouse mentioned him in a late interview in the 1970s as being rather like a real-life Jeeves. Do you know anything about his life after Barrie? Was he with him until the end? I was planning on doing a bit more digging around this, but please let me know if you have any information that you're able to share with me.

Other news is that Peter Pan's First XI, the account of the Allahakbarries and their adventures, is being published on May 13 by Hodder. People in Kirrieimuir are trying to organise a cricket match but there is certainly going to be a re-enactment of the 'test match' between Mary de Navarro's side and the Allahakbarries taking place in Broadway on June 20 as part of the Broadway Arts Festival: http://www.broadwayartsfestival.com/2010.php

I hope to make it to some of the Barrie 150 events in Kirriemuir myself and it would be a privilege to meet you there.

I'll update the forum with any further news about the cricket match.

All best wishes,
Kevin Telfer
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Davies Family / Mary Hodgson's name
« on: May 15, 2009, 10:48:53 AM »
I just bought a 1922 copy of Barrie's Courage address. Inside it there is an inscription:

Dorothy Mary Hodgson
Her Book

With Barbara's Love
Christmas 1929

The coincidence is impossible to overlook. Is this THE Mary Hodgson (and her real first name Dorothy) or is this someone else completely?

Please let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks.

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JMBarrie / The Dead Donkey
« 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.
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JMBarrie / Allahakbarrie photographs
« on: February 19, 2009, 05:15:46 PM »
I am writing a book at the moment about Barrie's cricket team the Allahakbarries. I am trying to track down some pictures that were taken at Barrie's country hideaway Black Lake Cottage in 1905 by Edgar Horne. In the 2003 Yale University Press edition of The Lost Boys one of these photos appears on p.123. But Mackail, in his biography of Barrie, alludes to the fact that there were many more pictures taken on this occasion.

Please let me know if you have any idea where I can find these photographs or, indeed, any other photos of the Allahakbarries at play.

Many thanks,
Kevin Telfer

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