Chapter 1 (1860–1885)
1. All quoted extracts in this chapter are from Margaret Ogilvy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1896) unless otherwise indicated below.
2. Barrie, The Greenwood Hat (privately printed, 1930), pp. 1–2.
3. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy (Cassell, 1896), p. 335.
4. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911), p. 10.
5. Speech at the Prize-Giving at Dumfries Academy, 30 June 1893: M‘Connachie and J.M.B.: Speeches by J. M. Barrie (Peter Davies, 1938), p. 4. Hereafter referred to as Speeches.
6. Speech on being awarded the Freedom of Dumfries, 11 December 1924. Speeches, pp. 83–4.
7. The Greenwood Hat, pp. 64, 67.
8. Dumfries Herald, 24 January 1877.
9. Prize-Giving at Dumfries Academy, Speeches, pp. 5–6.
10. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 2.
11. Freedom of Dumfries, Speeches, p. 88.
12. ibid., pp. 88–9.
13. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 44.
14. ibid.
15. Hammerton, Barrie: The Story of a Genius, p. 74.
16. The Greenwood Hat, pp. 132, 134, 214.
17. Nottingham Journal, 28 January 1884.
18. The Greenwood Hat, p. 7.
Chapter 2 (1885–1894)
1. Speech at the Authors' Club Dinner, 12 December 1932. Speeches, pp. 248–9.
2. The Greenwood Hat, p. 178.
3. Blake, Barrie and the Kailyard School, p. 64.
4. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, IV, p. 273.
5. ibid., p. 274.
6. Speech to the Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, 28 November 1928. Speeches, p. 156.
7. Peter and Wendy, p. 267.
8. Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, 6 November 1889.
9. Letter to Mrs Fred Oliver, 21 December 1931.
10. Jerome, My Life and Times, p. 133.
11. Letter to Maarten Maartens, 20 November 1893.
12. British Weekly, 19 May 1892.
13. Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, 21 September 1887.
Chapter 3 (1894–1897)
1. Sketch, 4 July 1894.
2. Ansell, Dogs and Men, p. 26.
3. Letter to Cynthia Asquith, 10 November 1935.
4. Unpublished, in the possession of the Quiller-Couch family.
5. Margaret Ogilvy, pp. 193–4.
6. ibid., pp. 201–2.
7. Letter to Maarten Maartens, 17 December 1893.
8. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 26 March 1895.
9. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, pp. i–iv, 255.
10. ibid., p. iii.
11. Tommy and Grizel: reproduced as a frontispiece to Vol. IV of the American Peter Pan Edition of The Works of J. M. Barrie (Scribner, 1929).
12. Maude, Worlds Away, pp. 137–45.
13. Robbins, Maude Adams, p. 41.
14. Told by Barrie to Peter Llewelyn Davies's wife, Margaret.
1. Quoted by Peter Davies in his Morgue. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 1.
2. Millar, George du Maurier, p. 34.
3. Letter from du Maurier to Tom Armstrong, 25 March 1890.
4. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby (née Parry) to Peter Davies, December 1946.
5. Entry in Dolly Ponsonby's diary, see Sources: Unpublished Sources, 10.
6. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 71.
7. Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, op, cit.
8. Peter Pan, Act I.
Chapter 5 (1898–1900)
1. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 12 February 1899.
2. ibid., 11 December 1896.
Chapter 6 (1900–1901)
1. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 300.
2. Maude, Worlds Away, pp. 144–5.
3. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 306. All further extracts and quotations by Denis Mackail come from this source.
4. Barrie, The Little White Bird (Hodder & Stoughton, 1902), p. 110.
Chapter 7 (1901–1904)
1. Ansell, Dogs and Men, p. 42.
2. Dedication to Peter Pan.
3. ibid.
4. Letter from Mary Hodgson to Nico Davies, November 1946.
Chapter 8 (1904–1905)
1. Robbins, Maude Adams, p. 90.
2. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, p. 362.
3. Blow, Through Stage Doors, p. 162.
4. Green, Fifty Years of Peter Pan, p. 73.
5. Blow, op. cit., p. 162.
6. Dedication to Peter Pan.
7. Anon: A Play. See Sources: Unpublished Sources, 9.
8. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 368.
9. Green, op. cit., p. 89.
10. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 110.
11. Lucas, E. V. Lucas, pp. 76–7.
12. Peter and Wendy, pp. 202–3.
13. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
Chapter 9 (1905–1906)
1. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, December 1946.
2. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976.
3. Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, op. cit.
4. The Morgue. All other comments by Peter Davies are from the same source, unless otherwise indicated.
5. Daphne du Maurier, to the author, March 1976.
6. Robbins, Maude Adams, pp. 90–1.
7. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 379.
8. Daphne du Maurier, Gerald, p. 111.
9. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
10. Robbins, op. cit., p. 93.
11. The Times, 1 June 1906.
Chapter 10 (1906–1907)
1. Daphne du Maurier, to the author, March 1976.
2. Chase, Peter Pan's Postbag, p. 19.
Chapter 11 (1907–1908)
1. Dedication to Peter Pan.
2. Blow, Through Stage Doors, p. 166.
3. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976. All other comments by Gerrie are from this source.
4. Letter from Nico Llewelyn Davies to the author, 1976. All other comments by Nico are from letters written by him to the author or his co-researcher between 1975 and 1978.
5. Diana Farr, Gilbert Cannan, p. 30.
6. Beerbohm, Last Theatres, p. 387.
Chapter 12 (1908–1910)
1. Taped interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, March 1976.
2. Letter to Sylvia, 3 April 1909.
3. The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, 14 October 1909.
4. Letter to Pauline Chase, 8 October 1909.
5. Darlington, J. M. Barrie, p. 109.
6. Will Meredith to Scribner, 9 November 1909.
7. Roger Lancelyn Green, to the author, December 1975.
8. Barrie, Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 65.
9. Dunbar, J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image, p. 181.
10. Mary Barrie to H. G. Wells, 21 October 1909.
11. Interview in Homes & Gardens, Aug–Nov 1942.
12. Taped interview with Mrs Norma Douglas Henry, March 1978.
13. Letter from Dolly Ponsonby to Peter Davies, December 1946.
14. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 426.
15. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, June 1977.
16. Letter to Peter Davies, 1952.
17. Interview with Geraldine Llewelyn Davies, op. cit.
Chapter 13 (1910–1914)
1. Neil and Tintinnabulum, pp. 77–8.
2. Speech to Wallasey High School for Girls, 26 February 1924. Speeches, p. 64.
3. Day Lewis, The Buried Day, pp. 72–4.
4. Taped interview with Sebastian Earl, May 1976.
5. Letter to Quiller-Couch, 7 March 1911.
6. Barrie's Notebook dated 6 October 1926.
7. Address to St Andrews University, 3 May 1922. Courage, p. 32.
8. Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 93
9. Letter to Elizabeth Lucas, 17 October 1920.
10. Letter from Peter Davies to Mary Hodgson, 11 June 1953.
11. Taped interview with Norma Douglas Henry, March 1978.
12. Beaton, The Rise and Fall of the Matinée Idol, p. 55.
Chapter 14 (1914–1915)
1. Neil and Tintinnabulum, p. 95.
2. Dictionary of National Biography, article on Barrie.
3. Letter to Pauline Chase, 24 December 1914.
4. Dedication to Peter Pan.
5. Macnaghten, Fifty Years of Eton, p. 84.
Chapter 15 (1915–1917)
1. Marcossin and Frohman, Charles Frohman, p. 384.
2. ibid., p. 386.
3. ibid., p. 182.
4. Letter to Pauline Chase, 12 May 1915.
5. Taped interview, April 1976.
6. Taped interview, May 1976.
7. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, September 1977.
8. Unpublished draft of the Dedication to Peter Pan.
9. Letter from Medina Lewis to the author, November 1977.
10. Letter to Kathleen Scott, 2 April 1917.
11. Thomas Hardy to Barrie, 24 June 1917.
12. Letter to Charles Turley Smith, 15 July 1917.
13. Asquith, Portrait of Barrie, p. 59.
14. Macnaghten, Fifty Years of Eton, p. 86.
Chapter 16 (1917–1921)
1. Letter from Nico to the author, January 1976.
2. Letter from Mary Hill to the author, January 1977.
3. Article in The Times, 21 May 1921.
4. Darlington, J. M. Barrie, p. 119.
5. Letter to Charles Turley Smith, 11 March 1918.
6. Letter to Nico, 9 May 1918.
7. Letter to Elizabeth Lucas, 12 May 1918.
8. Article in The Times, 21 May 1921.
9. Letters to Nico, 2, 23, 25 February, 10 March 1919.
10. Taped interview with Lord Boothby, December 1976.
11. ibid.
12. Taped interview with Clive Burt, May 1976.
13. Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, p. 1125.
14. Carrington, Letters and Diaries, p. 268.
15. ibid., p. 154.
16. Interview, op. cit.
17. Interview, op. cit.
18. Letter to Nico, 27 February 1919.
19. Letter to Nico, 29 April 1921.
20. Cynthia Asquith's diary, quoted by Janet Dunbar in J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image, p. 256.
21. Letter from Nico to the author, December 1975.
22. Oxford Times, 27 May 1921.
23. ibid.
Epilogue
1. Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, p. 1125.
2. Letter to Robin Dundas, 16 June 1922.
3. Letter to Elizabeth Lucas, 15 September 1921.
4. Letter to Robin Dundas, 15 November 1922.
5. Letter to Mrs F. S. Oliver, 21 December 1931.
6. Letter to Cynthia Asquith, 14 November 1924.
7. Mackail, The Story of J.M.B., p. 711.