Edmund Blampied elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. Later that year he was asked to prepare some new illustrations for a lavish edition of Peter Pan, the rights to which had been bequeathed by J. M. Barrie to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The "Blampied Edition of Peter and Wendy" was published in 1939 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Scribners in the US, and is one of the finest illustrated editions of this book. By the time "Peter and Wendy "was published Blampied had moved from London to Jersey with the intention of settling there.
St Christopher's Chapel, Great Ormond Street Hospital rear of the chapel is a row of teddy bears and other soft toys, provided by families of ill children, known as the Teddy Bear Choir. In addition, the chapel has a prayer tree where messages of hope and support can be written for sick children at the hospital, and placed on the tree. The chapel has been described as of the Franco-Italianate style and was influenced by the Renaissance Revival. The chapel "is divided by four columns, and has a central dome, with an apse at the east end". The terrazzo floor was designed by Antonio Salviati, an Italian