I distinctly remembered meeting this man Scudamour at Paris during the time that Alexander and I were there for a week's pleasure, and quarrelled every day. Strange though it may seem, I was my own brother Henry. When I heard this I probably frowned for then I knew who my brother Henry was. Scudamour was the name, and the gentleman had met my brothers Alexander and Henry some six years previously in Paris.

'Yes,' said Fenton, 'but he spoke of Alexander also.' Even this did not convince me that I had a brother Henry, and I asked Fenton the name of his friend. My only brother, I pointed out with the suavity of manner that makes me a general favourite, was called Alexander. Not having a brother Henry, I felt that there must be a mistake somewhere so I suggested that Fenton's friend had gone wrong in the name. About a year and a half ago I was at Fenton's, and he remarked that he had met a man the day before who knew my brother Henry. His house is so conveniently situated that I can go there and back in one day. It came about in this way:-I have a friend of the name of Fenton, who, like myself, lives in London. It is just fifteen months since I began to acknowledge that there was such a person. Strictly speaking, I never had a brother Henry. For some time, however, Henry had been annoying me. The hospital continues to benefit from this generous gift.At first sight it may not, perhaps, seem quite the thing that I should be hilarious because I have at last had the courage to kill my brother Henry. He gave the rights to his Peter Pan works to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital before his death in 1937. They are far deeper, darker, more cynical views of adulthood and more humorous than his land of Neverland.īarrie unofficially adopted the Llewelyn Davies boys after their parents' death. It's a shame that his lesser known short stories, such as The Inconsiderate Waiter (1920), and the The Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell do no not get more recognition. Peter Pan quickly grew acclaim as a play in 1904, followed by Barrie's novel, Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in 1911. It is there he befriended and was inspired by the Llewelyn Davies boys, to write about a baby boy who never grew up in Neverland, a 'fairy play' which included the unusually named heroine, Wendy. Raised in a family of country weavers, Barrie finishing his education in Scotland, then moved to London to develop his career as a novelist and playwright. Barrie, born in 1860, was best remembered for creating the beloved Peter Pan.

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