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PETER PAN AND ALICE

the map of Kensington Gardens which appeared on the front end-paper:

 

 

‘Dear Mr Rackham,

‘The sheep shearing nowadays is done where I put the cross (behind the cottage at that point.) Fairies Basin south of Baby Walk.

‘I haven’t seen a dummy book but H. & S. sent me some specimen pictures which I liked hugely.

‘Yours sincerely,

J. M. Barrie’

 

In the next two letters Barrie referred to the exhibition of Rackham’s Peter Pan pictures at the Leicester Galleries:

 

 

‘Dear Mr Rackham,

‘Unfortunately I am going out of town Sat^y till Monday, otherwise I shd have accepted your invitation with much pleasure. However I have accepted a proposal from the Gallery to go in & see the pictures before the opening day. May it all be a great triumph for you.

‘Yours sincerely,

J. M. Barrie’

 

 

‘My dear Rackham,

‘It was immensely good of you to put that delicious little picture in my copy of “Peter”. I have been a wreck with colds & coughs for

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