1. 20:07 21st Dec 2010

    notes: 5

    tags: AshfordThe Young VisitersBarrie1919preface

    The Ethel of this story is a fascinating creature who would have a good time wherever there were a few males, but no longer could she voyage through life quite so jollily without attracting the attention of the censorious. Chaperon seems to be one of the very few good words of which our authoress had never heard.

    - J.M. Barrie, Preface to The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (age 9) (1919)  [full text]

     

  2. 15:06 20th Dec 2010

    notes: 16

    tags: AshfordThe Young Visiters1919

    I say said Mr Salteena excitedly I have had some tea in bed.

    - Daisy Ashford (age 9), The Young Visiters (1919) [full text]

    Thanks to Katie Coyle for this wonderful find.

     

  3. 21:21 19th Dec 2010

    notes: 5

    tags: AshfordThe Young Visiters1919manuscript

    Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty. He was middle sized and he had very pale blue eyes. He had a pale brown suit but on Sundays he had a black one and he had a topper every day as he thorght it more becoming. - Daisy Ashford (age 9), The Young Visiters (1919) [full text] Thanks to Katie Coyle for this wonderful find.

    Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty. He was middle sized and he had very pale blue eyes. He had a pale brown suit but on Sundays he had a black one and he had a topper every day as he thorght it more becoming.

    - Daisy Ashford (age 9), The Young Visiters (1919) [full text]

    Thanks to Katie Coyle for this wonderful find.