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by Andrew Birkin


  Llewelyn Davies, Laura (Nico's daughter) (now Mrs David Duguid), (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Margaret (sister of Arthur), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); Arthur's letters to, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); Sylvia's letters to, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Michael's letter to, (i); concern at Barrie's extravagance over boys, (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Margaret (née Ruthven) (wife of Peter), (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Mary (mother of Arthur), (i); affection for Sylvia, (i), (ii), (iii); letters to Sylvia, (i), (ii); with Arthur, (i); death, (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Mary (née James) (wife of Nico), (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Maurice (brother of Arthur), (i), (ii)

  Llewelyn Davies, Michael, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); birth, (i); with Sylvia, (i), (ii), (iii); instinctive appeal to Barrie, (i); early illnesses, (i), (ii), (iii); aged one, (i); a spectator in Boy Castaway games, (i), (ii); alleged creation of Tinker Bell, (i); Barrie's joint letter to Peter and, (i); aged four, (i); with brothers and Arthur, (i); Dives holiday, (i); at Black Lake, (i); as Allahakbarries mascot, (i); nightmares, (i), (ii), (iii); Barrie's ‘alphabet poem’ to, (i); with Nico, (i), (ii); nursery performance of Peter Pan for, (i), (ii); question of Barrie being platonically ‘in love’ with, (i); fifth birthday, (i); last page of Sylvia's birthday letter to, (i); in Peter Pan costume, (i), (ii); photographs intended as model for Peter Pan statue, (i), (ii), (iii); fishing at Fortingal, (i); fear of water and inability to swim, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); first surviving literary effort, (i); letter to Peter Pan, (i); wish for immortality, (i); Arthur's last letter to, (i); at Ramsgate, (i), (ii), (iii); elements of, in Peter Pan, (i); Barrie's notes on, (i), (ii), (iii); portrayed in Neil and Tintinnabulum, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); aged seven, (i); at Norland Place school, (i); eighth birthday, (i); entry in Barrie's Querist's Album, (i); at Wilkinson's, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); aged nine, (i); and Sylvia's illness, (i); suspected tuberculosis, (i)n; and Sylvia's death, (i), (ii); fishing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); adoration of Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii); their close, complex relationship, (i), (ii), (iii); devotion to Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii); ‘Record of Breaks’ at billiards, (i); at Scourie Lodge, (i), (ii); entry in Barrie's Querist's Album, (i); athletic prowess, (i); Outer Hebrides holiday, (i), (ii); aged twelve, (i), (ii); brief return to belief in fairies, (i); Barrie's concern for, (i); at Eton, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); homesickness, (i); extreme sensibility, (i); concealed emotions, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); daily correspondence with Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Paris visit, (i); Auch Lodge Holiday, (i), (ii); entry in Nico's ‘Confession Book’, (i); Barrie's mixture of paternal, maternal and lover affection for, (i); only surviving letter to George, (i); ‘dark and dour and impenetrable’, (i), (ii); romantic charm, (i); wit, (i); playing clock golf, (i); brilliance, (i), (ii), (iii); essay on ‘What makes a Gentleman’, (i); friendship with Senhouse, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); at Glan Hafren, (i), (ii), (iii); with house cricket cup, (i); as ‘sternest of [Barrie's] literary critics’, (i); only surviving Eton letter to Barrie, (i); at Public Schools camp, (i); subdued by prospect of trenches, (i); first glimpse of Gerrie Gibb, (i); considers Dear Brutus ‘not so bad’, (i); in fancy dress, (i); and domestic crisis over Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii); ‘minute thoughtfulness for others’, (i); makes Barrie's flat his home, (i), (ii); in Pop at Eton, (i); Barrie's only surviving letter to, (i); in Eton O.T.C., (i); on Armistice night, (i); desire to roam before deciding on future, (i); concedes defeat and goes to Oxford, (i); at Christ Church, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); effect on contemporaries, (i); possible fleeting homosexuality, (i), (ii); Paris holiday, (i); restlessness and moodiness, (i), (ii); friendship with Buxton, (i), (ii); efforts to establish independence, (i); decision to leave Oxford for University of Paris, (i); at Eilean Shona, (i), (ii), (iii); his sonnet, (i), (ii); decision to return to Oxford, (i), (ii), (iii); reading-party in Dorset, (i), (ii); last letter to Nico, (i); drowning, (i); possible suicide, (i); effect of his death, (i), (ii), (iii); memorial to, (i); Barrie's dream about his ‘extra year’, (i); Barrie's notebook entry on, 297. Letters: from Arthur, (i), (ii); from Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); to Barrie, (i), (ii); to Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); to Eiluned Lewis, (i); from Sylvia, (i), (ii)

  Llewelyn Davies, Moya (wife of Crompton), (i)

  Llewelyn Davies, Nicholas (‘Nico’), (i), (ii); birth, (i); choice of name, (i); with Sylvia, (i); with Peter, (i); as Barrie's godson, (i)n; with brothers and Arthur in 1905, (i); with Michael, (i); on Barrie's feelings towards George and Michael, (i); with Michael in Egerton House garden, (i); aged three, (i); being carried to bed, (i); at Norland Place School, (i); on Jack's attitude to Barrie, (i); with chauffeur Alphonse, (i); on Barrie's innocence, (i); lugeing at Caux, (i), (ii); fury at ‘lovely boy’ compliment, (i); birthday card to Barrie, (i); aged four, (i); Sylvia's letter to, (i); and Sylvia's illness and death, (i), (ii), (iii); picture-letter to Barrie, (i); extrovert personality, (i); attitude to Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n; devotion to Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii); at Scourie Lodge, (i), (ii); at Wilkinson's, (i); magnetic personality, (i); entry in Barrie's Querist's Album, (i); on Barrie as ‘most wonderful of all companions’, (i); Outer Hebrides holiday, (i), (ii), (iii); and Lord Lucas's wooden leg, (i); and Barrie's baronetcy, (i); Auch Lodge holiday, (i), (ii); ‘Confession Book’, (i), (ii); enthusiasm for Chaplin, (i), (ii); letter to George, (i); and George's death, (i), (ii); delight at Rosy Rapture, (i); Scottish hoidays, (i), (ii), (iii); playing clock golf, (i); at Glan Hafren, (i), (ii); at Eton, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Barrie's serial story for, (i); his own ‘Dynamite King’ saga, (i); Etonian letter to Eiluned Lewis, (i); Jack's favourite, (i); at Public Schools camp, (i); first glimpes of Gerrie Gibb, (i); Etonian letter to Barrie, (i); makes Barrie's flat his home, (i), (ii); in O.T.C., (i); problem of Eton friendship, (i); denies Barrie's influence as ‘unhealthy’, (i)n; Michael's last letter to, (i); and Michael's death, (i), (ii), (iii); at Oxford (i); marriage, (i); and Barrie's death, (i); Letters: to Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); from Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Llewelyn Davies, Peter, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); at Barrie's funeral, (i); suicide, (i); loathing of association with Peter Pan, (i), (ii); named after Peter Ibbetson, (i), (ii); birth, (i); Rustington holidays, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); on Arthur's attitude to Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); with George and Jack in wheelbarrow, (i); in petticoats, (i); Isle of Wight holiday, (i); with George and Jack, (i); outside Tilford Cottage, (i); at Black Lake, on Boy Castaway adventures, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Barrie's joint letter to Michael and, (i); on Little White Bird, (i); with Nico, (i); P.S. from Barrie, (i); with brothers and Arthur, (i); description of Peter Pan in letter to grandfather, (i); on Arthur's illness, (i), (ii), (iii); fishing at Fortingal, (i); and Arthur's death, (i), (ii); on Ramsgate beach, (i); Dolly Ponsonby letter to, (i); on Sylvia's attitude to Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii); Dhivach holiday, (i); and new house on Campden Hill, (i); at Wilkinson's, (i), (ii), (iii); New Forest holiday, (i); encounter with Highlanders, (i); Swiss holiday, (i); and Sylvia's illness, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Postbridge holiday, (i); on Barrie's role as guardian angel, (i); Eton scholarship, (i); and Sylvia's death, (i); sceptical of her betrothal to Barrie, (i); at Eton, (i), (ii), (iii); ragged as ‘the real Peter Pan’, (i); aged twelve, (i); at Scourie Lodge, (i); and ‘water-closet’ talk, (i); burns Michael's correspondence with Barrie, (i); Paris visit, (i); on Barrie's discouragement of ‘real culture’, (i); commissioned in 60th Rifles, (i); training at Sheerness, (i), (ii), (iii); George's letter to, (i); at Chatham, (i); and George's death, (i), (ii), (iii); visit to grave, (i); at Glan Hafren, (i); invalided home after Somme, (i); mental stress, (i), (ii); as uncle Crompton's favourite, (i); affair with married woman, (i), (ii); demobilized, (i); and Michael's death, (i), (ii), (iii); engagement to Margaret Ruthven, (i); and Barrie's death, 299. Letters: from Barrie, (i), (ii), (iii),
(iv); from Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); To Mary Hodgson, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Llewelyn Davies, Sylvia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); first meeting with Barrie, (i), (ii); Du Maurier family background, (i); engagement to Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii); affection for his mother, (i), (ii); her appearance, (i), (ii); work for theatrical dressmaker, (i), (ii); marriage, (i); with Arthur in 1893, (i); birth of children, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); with Arthur and George in 1893, (i); legacy from father, (i); with George and Jack in 1895, (i); with Peter in 1896, (i); with George, (i); whimsical belated wedding gift from Barrie, (i); incorporated into character of Grizel, (i); portrait by Furse, (i); Rustington holidays, (i), (ii), (iii); birthday gift from Barrie, (i); ‘Jocelyn’ as Barrie's pet name for, (i); desire for daughter, (i), (ii); with George in 1900, (i); in ‘The Greedy Dwarf’, (i), (ii); Isle of Wight holiday, (i); Tilford holiday, (i); with Peter, Jack and George, (i); at Black Lake, (i); Paris trip with Barries, (i); move to Berkhamsted, (i), (ii); Barrie's post-script sketch of her and boys, (i); at Peter Pan rehearsal, (i); less parental instinct than Arthur, (i); complex character, (i); with Michael, (i), (ii); with Barrie and boys in Dives, (i); and Arthur's illness, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); fishing at Fortingal, (i); with Jack (aged eleven), (i); anguish at Arthur's death, (i); inner life and ‘apprehensive imagination’, (i); with George at Egerton House, (i); at Dhivach Lodge, (i), (ii); her ‘Notes for a Will’, (i); hopes for the boys' future, (i), (ii), (iii); ‘special and peculiar’ attitude to Barrie, (i), (ii); buys new London home at Campden Hill Square, (i), (ii); visits to Norland Place School, (i); New Forest holiday, (i); alleged encouragement of Cannan's affair with Mary, (i); becomes unwell, (i); and collapse of Barrie's marriage, (i); fishing near Postbridge, (i); discovered to have cancer, (i); increasing weakness, (i), (ii); sketch of Nico, (i); utilizes Barrie as boys' guardian angel, (i); realizes her serious illness, (i), (ii); last days in Devon, (i); her second Will, (i), (ii); death, (i); her ‘engagement’ ring, (i); possible betrothal to Barrie, (i); desire for boys to remain together, (i); Barrie's annual reports on boys to her after her death, (i). Letters: from Barrie, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); from George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Llewelyn Davies, Theodore (brother of Arthur), (i)

  Lloyd George, David, contrasted with Churchill, (i)

  Loftus, Cecilia, as Peter Pan, (i)

  Löhr, Marie, (i), (ii)

  Loosemore, Nurse, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Lord's Eton v. Harrow match at (1912), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lowndes, Marie Belloc, on prelude to Barries' marriage, (i)

  Luath (Newfoundland dog), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); coat copied for Nana in Peter Pan, (i)

  Lucas, Auberon Herbert, eighth Baron, (i), (ii); at Amhuinnsuidh, (i); Barrie's letters to, (i); death in action, (i)

  Lucas, Audrey, (i), (ii); on Peter Pan, (i); at Amhuinnsuidh, (i), (ii); at Eilean Shona, (i)

  Lucas, E. V., (i), (ii); and Allahakbarries, (i), (ii); at Amhuinnsuidh, (i), (ii); on Michael, (i), (ii)

  Lucas, Elizabeth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); organizes Barrie's move to Adelphi Terrace, (i), (ii); at Amhuinnsuidh, (i), (ii); sets up Bettancourt as orphanage, (i); Barrie's letters to, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); at Eilean Shona, (i)

  Lucas, Percy, (i)

  Lucerne, (i); Barrie's honeymoon at, (i)

  Lupino, Arthur, as Nana in Peter Pan, (i)

  Lusitania, s.s., (i)

  Maartens, Maarten, Barrie's letters to, (i), (ii)

  McAvey, Mary, as Grizel, (i)

  McCarthy, Lillah, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  MacDonald, George, (i)

  MacDonald, Ramsay, (i)

  Mackail, Clare, (i)

  Mackail, Denis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); at ‘The Greedy Dwarf’, (i); on Nina Boucicault as Peter Pan, (i); on Barrie's and Michael's relationship, (i); in Allahakbarries, (i)

  Mackay, Johnny (ghillie), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Mackenzie, Compton, (i), (ii)

  Macleod, Betty, (i)

  McMillan, James, (i)

  Macnaghten, Hugh, (i), (ii); as George's housemaster, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); as Michael's housemaster, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); as Nico's housemaster, (i), (ii)

  Male and Female (film based on Admirable Crichton), (i)

  Margaret, Princess, contributes two lines to The Boy David, (i)

  Margaret Ogilvy (Barrie), quoted, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); mixed reception for, (i); frontispiece, (i)

  Marjoribanks, Edward, (i)

  Mary, Queen, (i)

  Mary Rose (Barrie): ‘ghost mother’ theme, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); Mary Rose's island, (i), (ii); notes for, (i); rehearsals, (i); success of, (i)

  Mason, A. E. W., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); in ‘The Greedy Dwarf’, (i), (ii); in Allahakbarries, (i); election campaigns, (i), (ii); support for Barrie after marriage break-up, (i), (ii); at Amhuinnsuidh, (i), (ii); wartime American visit, (i), (ii)

  Massa Carrara, George at, (i)

  Maude, Cyril, (i), (ii); as Gavin Ogilvy in Little Minister, (i)

  Maude, Margery, (i)

  Maude, Pamela (Mrs W. Fraser): on Barrie, (i); on ‘The Greedy Dwarf’, (i)

  Medals (film version of Old Lady Shows Her Medals), (i)

  Meredith, George, (i), (ii)

  Meredith, George Jnr, (i)

  Meredith, Will, (i); in ‘The Greedy Dwarf’ (i); on collapse of Barrie marriage, (i); in Allahakbarries, (i)

  ‘Michael Pan’, title of intended sequel to Peter Pan, (i)

  Millar, Charles Hoyer, (i)

  Millington-Drake, Eugen (later Sir), (i)

  Milne, A. A., (i)

  Mitchell-Innes, Gilbert, (i)

  Mitchell-Innes, Josephine, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); courted by George, (i); Barrie's letter to, (i); unofficially engaged, (i)

  Mitchell-Innes, Norma, (i), (ii)

  Mons, Battle of (1914), (i)

  Moore, Unity, as Peter Pan, (i)

  Morecambe, (i)

  Morgue (Peter's compilation of family letters and papers), (i)n; quoted, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii)

  Morrell, Julian (Mrs I. Vinogradoff), (i)

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline, (i)

  Morrow, George, (i)

  Muir, Molly, (i)

  Murray, Madge (Barrie's niece), (i); in What Every Woman Knows, (i); as Mrs Darling, (i)

  Murry, John Middleton, (i)

  ‘My Confession Book’, Nico's, (i)

  ‘My Ghastly Dream’ (Barrie), quoted, (i)

  My Lady Nicotine (Barrie), nephew Charlie depicted in, (i)

  Nares, Owen, (i)

  National Observer, (i); on Little Minister, (i)

  Neil and Tintinnabulum (Barrie), quoted, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); Michael portrayed in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Nettleship, Mrs (dressmaker), (i), (ii)

  New Word, The (Barrie), (i), (ii), (iii); quoted, (i), (ii)

  New York: Barrie's plays in, (i), (ii); his 1914 visit to, (i)

  New York Herald, on Barrie's 1914 visit, (i)

  New York Times: on Peter's death, (i); interview with Barrie (1914), (i)

  New York Tribune, on Barrie's 1914 visit, (i)

  Nicholson, William, (i); portraits of Barrie, (i), (ii); designs for Peter Pan, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Nicoll, W. Robertson, (i), (ii)

  Norland Place School, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Nottingham Journal, Barrie as leader-writer on, (i)

  Octavia, H.M.S., (i)

  Ogilvy, Dr David (Barrie's uncle), (i)

  Ogilvy, Margaret (Barrie's mother), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); protracted g
rief over David's death, (i); in 1871, (i); childhood and Auld Licht Memories, (i), (ii), (iii); and Barrie's enthusiasm for literature, (i); desire for him to become a minister, (i); blamed for his inhibitions, (i); with Barrie in 1893, (i); only surviving letter to Barrie, (i); Barrie's observations of, for introduction to Sentimental Tommy, (i), (ii); death, (i); her grave, (i); Barrie's memoir of, (i)

  Old Lady Shows Her Medals, The (Barrie), (i)

  Oliver, F. S., (i)

  Oliver, Mrs F. S., Barrie's letter to, (i), (ii)

  Osborne Naval College, Jack at, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Outlook, on Peter Pan, (i)

  Oxford: Michael at Christ Church, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); his drowning at Sandford Pool, (i), (ii); Nico at, (i)

  Palace Theatre, Gaby Deslys at, (i)

  Pall Mall Gazette, Barrie's ‘open letter’ on sister's bereavement published in, (i)

  Palmer, Minnie, (i)

  Pan and the Young Shepherd (Hewlett), (i)

  Pantaloon (Barrie), (i)

  Paris, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Barrie's visit with Frohman, (i); Peter Pan in, (i), (ii); Davies boys in, (i); Michael's desire to lead Bohemian life in, (i), (ii); his visits to, (i), (ii)

 

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