I’m Your Guardian Now
Sadly, Arthur died of jaw cancer in 1907, and Sylvia died of lung cancer in 1910. Guess who the legal guardian was over the Davies boys? Uncle Jim, of course. Before she passed, Sylvia left behind a handwritten letter, saying, “What I would like would be if Jenny would come to Mary & that the two together would be looking after the boys & the house.”
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Mary was the boys’ nanny, and Jenny was Mary’s sister. She didn’t seem to want to leave Barrie with her boys; otherwise, she probably would have mentioned it in the letter. However, Barrie transcribed the will and changed “Jenny” to “Jimmy” before sending it to the Davies’ maternal grandmother. That way, it looked like Sylvia wanted him to be their guardian.