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 Ernest Brown and Phillips of the Leicester Galleries, who arranged a meeting between Rackham and Barrie for a preliminary discussion in June 1905:

‘Black Lake Cottage, Nr. Farnham, Surrey.

‘Dear Mr Rackham,

‘Let us say about five o’clock on Thursday as that day suits you. I shall expect you then at Leinster Corner, which is the first house past Lancaster Gate in the Bayswater Rd. It’s round the corner.

‘Yours sincerely,

J. M. Barrie’

Rackham worked steadily on the book for the next year, making many sketches in Kensington Gardens, and then wrote to propose another meeting at which he could show the author his finished pictures. He found Barrie pre-occupied by the illness of his friend Arthur Llewelyn Davies:

‘Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W.

‘Dear Mr Rackham,

‘I am so much at present with a friend who is dangerously ill that I have not seen my letters till now, so kindly excuse this delay in answering. I want so much to see the pictures, and thank you heartily for your letter. Could you come on Wednesday about six o’clock? I shall be here if this suits you.

‘Yours sincerely,

J. M. Barrie’

A few months later he gave Rackham some last-minute advice about