Letter from J. M. Barrie, London, to Margaret Henley, 1892 December 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "I thank you for letting me know you as you are before it was too late. I wish you joy & your Parker and his gold hearts. I say nothing against him but I do not believe he has paid for that heart. Keep it, mdm, I say until you tire of it and fling it away as you have flung away mine. But don't flatter yourself that you have succeeded in making me wretched. I smile at your vain endeavours. Mdm, I feel like a man groping in the blackness for his lost faith. I believed in you - oh, my [illegible] how I believed in you - and because of that it seemed to me that all the world was fair. In adoring you I adored all womankind and let them know it. And now the brazen mirage shows its cloven-foot. Tis woeful, t'were beautiful it shant occur again. But why shd I wish these things to you, actress as you are. Tah! I return you your presents. Send them to Parker [...] Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. This postage stamp! Do you remember it? Have you forgotten the time when we licked it together - bond of affection that was never to be sundered [...] This vesta - you gave it to me because I said that you were one also. The end is charred - symbol of our love. It has burned out - farewell. Your eyes are haunting me. Oh, how they mock me. There is a cruel light in them now. Tell Parker, or whatever his ridiculous name is, to light his pipe at them. Tho' I were wrecked with [illegible] on a desert isle I wd keep apart from you. Mdm, the next time we meet we are strangers. When you look at me, on this wreck, what was once so fair and loving know it for your handiwork."