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eventually I’m going to start talking about Boothby here and I’m never going to stop

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On this day in 19 May 1921, Michael Llewelyn Davies (left) and Rupert Buxton (right) were drowned together at Sandford Lock. Their deaths were ruled an accident by authorities though rumors persisted they committed suicide together in a lover’s pact. Michael was the favorite adopted son of J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. They were not yet 22 years old.

From a letter by Barrie to Lady Buxton shortly after their deaths:

[O]ne of my grand ambitions for Michael was that he should form a deep friendship for someone who was worthy of him. This was slow in coming, for tho’ there were a few at Eton for whom he had a warm attachment, continued at Oxford and elsewhere, Rupert was the one great friend of his life. He has often talked to me about this, sometimes for hours, far into the night, reappearing to do it after he had gone to bed, and the last letter I had from him, on the day they died, was largely about your boy. Rupert treated me quite differently from any other of my various boys’ friends. They were always polite and edged away from me, as of a different generation, but he took for granted that Michael’s friend should be mine also. Michael knew me and my ways as no other person did, and he was more amused than words can tell by the way Rupert took me in hand.

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Just finished reading 'The Ghost of Buxton Manor' and no, I'm not crying. YOU'RE CRYING.

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HOPE Shall we meet again, dear friend, When the Winter’s at an end, And Spring goes dancing down the woodland ways: When the old grey tired earth Wakens at her sunny mirth And smiles to think of golden Summer days? Shall we meet again, dear friend, When the blossomed branches bend And woo the earth with perfumed sighs, and weep Their beautiful starry tears: When the last red sunbeam peers At the first red rose of summer in her sleep? Shall we meet again, dear friend, When the leaves of Autumn blend Their fiery tints with evening skies of gold, When the dews are on the grass, And the west winds softly pass And breathe no whisper of the Winter’s cold? We shall meet again, I’m sure, For the gifts of God endure Eternally, beyond the reach of pain; And, if you should die, I know, Ere the light of hope burns low, Your spirit will come back to me again.

Rupert Buxton

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HISTORY MEME - WORLD VERSION ♛ [02/07] pairings : Michael Llewyn Davies & Rupert Buxton (1910’s)

Michael Llewelyn Davies was – along with his four brothers – the inspiration for J. M. Barrie’s characters Peter Pan, the Darling brothers, and the Lost Boys. After finishing at Eton, Davies attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he continued to correspond regularly with Barrie. He briefly decided to study art at the University of Paris, but returned to Oxford. Several friends from Eton joined him there, but he also became very close to Rupert Buxton, the son of Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet and a former pupil of Harrow School. The two became inseparable friends, spending time both at the university and on holiday together. Buxton was also a poet, and had an interest in acting. Buxton was one of the few friends of Davies whom Barrie reported getting along with. In an interview taped in 1976, Conservative politician Robert Boothby, who had been a close friend of Davies at Eton and Oxford, spoke about Davies’ relationships during this time. When asked if Davies were homosexual, Boothby replied it was ” phase… I think he might have come out of it.” Boothby reported that he had discouraged Davies’ relationship with Buxton, warning of “a feeling of doom” he had about him. He volunteered that there had been a sexual relationship between Davies and Buxton. Shortly before Davies’ 21st birthday, he and Buxton drowned together in Sandford Pool, a body of water formed by a weir near Sandford Lock on the River Thames, a few miles from Oxford. The closeness of Davies and Buxton, combined with the uncertain circumstances of their deaths, led to speculation that the pair had died in a suicide pact. Dangerous currents in the Sandford Pool had made it notorious as a drowning hazard – there were warning signs and a conspicuous, 19th century memorial to previous victims. Despite this, the pair had gone swimming there before. The water was 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 m) deep, but calm. Buxton was a good swimmer, but Davies had a fear of water and could not swim effectively. A witness at the coroner’s inquest reported that one man was swimming to join the other, who was sitting on a stone on the weir, but he experienced “difficulties” and the other dived in to reach him. However, the witness also reported, when he saw their heads together in the water they did not appear to be struggling. Their bodies were recovered “clasped” together the next day. The coroner’s conclusion was Davies had drowned accidentally, and Buxton had drowned trying to save him. Some later accounts report that their hands were tied to each other’s, though surviving contemporary accounts do not report this. Davies’ brothers Peter and Nico each later acknowledged suicide as a likely explanation, as did Barrie. Although Boothby, in 1976, described Buxton as having “an almost suicidal streak about him”, he did not take a definite stand on whether Buxton had died trying to save Davies and/or impulsively joined him going under, or whether they had in fact died as the result of a suicide pact.