Collection name. Barrie, James, Matthew, Sir, Baronet
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Early version of ‘What every woman knows’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, consisting of Act II, stage directions for Act III, and Act IV.
The final version of the play produced in 1908 is almost entirely rewritten, but the main characters and situations are recognizable in this early version: John and Maggie Shand correspond to John and Anna Wetheral here, Lady Sybil Lazenby to Lady Sybil Tenterden, and the Comtesse de la Brière to the Duchess of Uplands.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, and Sir J M Barrie.
Manuscript and page-proofs of parts of ‘Better dead’, Sir James Matthew Barrie's first book, published at his own expense in November 1887.
Manuscript of chapter I (folios 1-11) and page-proofs of chapter I and part of chapter II (folios 12-19 verso). There are considerable differences between the texts of the manuscript and the proof, the latter being generally condensed. There are two corrections in the page-proof (folio 15 verso) which are incorporated into the final text.
Pages 11-22 of the unauthorised American edition of ‘Two of them’ (New York, 1893), a short story by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the author's hand.
In addition to the many revisions in the author's hand, there is an entirely new opening (folio 1) in manuscript, taking the place of the first ten pages of the original printed text. Otherwise the most important alteration is the change from the first to the third person throughout the narration.
Six notebooks, with lecture notes in longhand and shorthand, taken by Sir James Matthew Barrie when an undergraduate at Edinburgh University.
Typescript draft of "Ibsen's ghost" by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
"Ibsen's ghost" was the first play written entirely by Sir James Matthew Barrie to be publicly performed; it was staged in 1891 at "Toole's Theatre", hence the alternative title given in the typescript, and cancelled, 'or Toole-up-to-date'. It has not been published. Many of the alterations in this draft are in the nature of cuts; in particular the rhyming finale has been cut.
Typescript draft of ‘The will’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with some revisions in Barrie's hand, and with others (in blue pencil, mostly cuts) that may be in another hand.
This version is very close to that printed in ‘The definitive edition of the plays of J M Barrie’, page 809, but with fewer details of setting and stage direction. Corrections made in the draft have been incorporated into the printed text.
Typescript drafts of act 1 of ‘Shall we join the ladies?’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Typescript drafts of ‘The twelve-pound look’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with corrections and revisions in the hand of the author.
Typescript drafts, undated, of ‘Old friends’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the hand of the author.
Notes discussing the relationship of the drafts in greater detail, and a provisional stemma, will be found inside the front cover of MS.6636.