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

‘Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W.

‘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:

‘Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W.

‘Dear Mr Rackham,

‘Unfortunately I am going out of town Saty 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’

‘Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W.

‘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