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ALTENBERG, PETER.Autograph Note Signed and dated, in German, concerning the
suffering of poets. Signature and date on verso. 1 page, 16mo. Np, December 1908
[400/600]
“
A poet perceives hysterically—Everything a thousand times more horribly! For example, that
one wakens children from sacred sleep in the morning in order to send them to school! Now you
can more or less imagine what
else
makes him suffer in this
living hell.”
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BARRIE, J.M. Autograph Letter Signed, to Joan Armitage, crediting her as a
collaborator on
Peter Pan
. 1
page, small 8vo; horizontal fold.With the original envelope.
[
London], 21 September 1924
[700/1,000]
“. . .
I expect you are right about the button thing. I had not thought of it.This makes you my
collaborator in P. Pan, and I accept with pleasure. But I now send my riposte.You have . . . a share
in Mary Rose also as the day after your letter arrived the publishers announced its immediate
production . . . .”
The “button thing” refers to chapter six in
Peter Pan
, “
The Little House,” in whichWendy is
saved from a Lost Boy’s mistakenly fired arrow by a button given to her by Peter earlier in the story.
Although Barrie’s 1919 play,
Mary Rose
enjoyed success both in the United States and Britain,
it could never match the success of
Peter Pan
.
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LOTS 235-280