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Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1860-1937 (Baronet, playwright and novelist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1860 - 1937

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence from J.M. Barrie, 11 Oct. 1916-23 Sep. 1932 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8990/40-45
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters to Owen Seaman, many accepting or declining invitations to a dinner of the Royal Literary Fund in 1912.

Dates: 11 Oct. 1916-23 Sep. 1932 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Journal, 8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/17
Scope and Contents The volume is a plain notebook titled 'Journal 1921', written while living at 54 Tufton Street. It is entirely comprised of diary entries in an unusually fair hand together with many later annotations and expurgated sections. It includes: - quotations from Conrad, Sir J. Davies, Pope, Bertrand Russell, Goethe and Stendhal: /1b (r)-1b(v). - list of social engagements: /7r, 8r. - mention of the suicide of young Holloway at Nellie Burton's...
Dates: 8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)
Conditions Governing Access: This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
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Letter from Sir J.M. Barrie, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9774/1/5/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises primarily the correspondence of Louisa Baldwin, née Macdonald (mother of Stanley Baldwin, first Earl Baldwin), with her mother and sisters; and correspondence and papers of her grandson Windham, third Earl Baldwin, concerning his group biography of the Macdonald sisters and his interest in his father's cousin Rudyard Kipling. It also includes letters and papers of members of the Kipling, Burne-Jones and Poynter families, into which three of Louisa Baldwin's sisters...
Dates: 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters received, mostly from prominent people, 1903-1922 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9774/3/3/1-19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises primarily the correspondence of Louisa Baldwin, née Macdonald (mother of Stanley Baldwin, first Earl Baldwin), with her mother and sisters; and correspondence and papers of her grandson Windham, third Earl Baldwin, concerning his group biography of the Macdonald sisters and his interest in his father's cousin Rudyard Kipling. It also includes letters and papers of members of the Kipling, Burne-Jones and Poynter families, into which three of Louisa Baldwin's sisters...
Dates: 1903-1922 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sir James Matthew Barrie: Letter from Charles Sayle, 1912

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/63
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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‘Souvenir of The Admirable Crichton, Duke of York’s Theatre’, 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 10138/2/2/11
Scope and Contents Comprises a souvenir of the 200th performance of “The Admirable Crichton” by J. M. Barrie, produced at the Duke of York’s Theatre under Charles Frohman on 4 Nov 1902.Contains reproductions of oil paintings of characters in the play by Chas A. Buchel, a map of Crichton’s Island and a reproduction of a signed list of the cast and others involved with the play. The signed list includes the signatures of Charles Frohman, J. M. Barrie, Henry Kemble, Gerald du Maurier, Clarence Blakiston,...
Dates: 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The MS Add.10138 Edward Rose papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/. Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Edward Rose: Writings and family correspondence, Add. 10138