British Library: Western Manuscripts

P.G. Wodehouse Archive (1894-2016) (Loan MS 129) Table of Contents

P.G. Wodehouse Archive (1894–2016)

Key Details...... 1

Arrangement...... 1

Provenance...... 2

Related Resources...... 2

Loan MS 129/1 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Manuscript Material (1900–2004)...... 2

Loan MS 129/2 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Wartime Material (1939–2015)...... 86

Loan MS 129/3 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Theatrical and Cinematic Work (1905–2008)...... 97

Loan MS 129/4 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence (1899–2010)...... 111

Loan MS 129/5 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Published Material (1899–2003)...... 187

Loan MS 129/6 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Biographical Material (1894–2001)...... 210

Loan MS 129/7 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Posthumous Material (1929–2016)...... 218

Loan MS 129/8 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Material by Others (1902–2003)...... 270

Loan MS 129/9 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Photographs (1970–2010)...... 279

Loan MS 129/10 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Black Books (1900–1977)...... 280

Loan MS 129/11 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Main Wodehouse Volumes (1920–1977)...... 283

Key Details

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129

Creation Date 1894-2016

Extent and Format 478 files and 3 volumes

Access Conditions Available for research unless otherwise stated

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive (1894-2016)

Former Internal Reference Loan 129

Scope and Content Papers of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse collected by Sir Edward Cazalet since 1975.

The papers mainly relate to Wodehouse's literary career, his theatrical and cinematic work, the Second World War period, and his private life. They also include material relating to fans of Wodehouse, research and articles about his writing, events and commemorations organised after his death, and adaptations of his work.

The collection includes:

• manuscript material; • material relating to his theatrical and cinematic work; • material relating to the Wartime period; • correspondence; • published material; • biographical material; • posthumous material; • material by others; • photographs.

Arrangement

The collection was boxed and the files were listed prior to being transferred to the Library. The files have been arranged in series, as follows:

• Loan MS 129/1: Manuscript Material • Loan MS 129/2: Wartime Material • Loan MS 129/3: Theatrical and Cinematic Work • Loan MS 129/4: Correspondence • Loan MS 129/5: Published Material • Loan MS 129/6: Biographical Material • Loan MS 129/7: Posthumous Material • Loan MS 129/8: Material by Others • Loan MS 129/9: Photographs • Loan MS 129/10: Black Books • Loan MS 129/11: Main Wodehouse Volumes

Series Loan MS 129/1-5 are based on the five areas of interest identified by Sir Edward Cazalet in his introduction to the collection (see file Loan MS 7/88, pages 4-6).

Page 1 2018-02-02 Provenance

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Immediate Source of The collection is currently a Loan. Lender: Sir Edward Cazalet. Acquisition

Custodial History Prior to being transferred to the Library, the collection was held at Sir Edward Cazalet's house.

Related Resources

Finding Aids An introduction to the collection written by Sir Edward Cazalet can be found in file Loan MS 129/7/88.

An introduction to the material relating to the Second World War period can be found in file Loan MS 129/2/19.

A list of the items included in the three main Wodehouse volumes (Loan MS 129/11/1-3) can be found in file Loan MS 129/7/88.

Loan MS 129/1 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Manuscript Material (1900-2004)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1

Creation Date 1900-2004

Extent and Format 150 files

Access Conditions Available for research unless otherwise stated

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Manuscript Material (1900-2004)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's fiction and essays, including holograph manuscript and typescript drafts of novels, stories, articles and plays, notes, and record of sales of his literary works.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 2 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/1-86 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Fiction (1942- 2004)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/1-86

Creation Date 1942-2004

Extent and Format 86 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Fiction (1942-2004)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's works of fiction, including drafts of novels and stories and notes.

The material has been arranged chronologically by date of publication of the work of fiction.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/1 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Full Moon (1942-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/1

Creation Date 1942-2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Full Moon (1942-2003)

Former External Reference BL433

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Full Moon (1947), including:

• photocopy of a page of holograph manuscript and a page of revised typescript draft, c. 1942;

• transcript of the above pages done by Marion Datten, Feb 2003.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 3 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/2-3 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Spring Fever (1948-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/2-3

Creation Date 1948-1980

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Spring Fever (1948-1980)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Spring Fever (1948).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/2 P.G. Wodehouse: Spring Fever - part 1 (1948-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/2

Creation Date 1948-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Spring Fever - part 1 (1948-1980)

Former External Reference BL325

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised typescript draft of Spring Fever, pages 1-96.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 4 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/3 P.G. Wodehouse: Spring Fever - part 2 (1948-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/3

Creation Date 1948-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Spring Fever - part 2 (1948-1980)

Former External Reference BL326

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised typescript draft of Spring Fever, pages 97-212.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/4-5 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Plum Pie (1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/4-5

Creation Date 1966

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Plum Pie (1966)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's collection of short stories Plum Pie (1966).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 5 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/4 P.G. Wodehouse: Plum Pie - part 1 (1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/4

Creation Date 1966

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Plum Pie - part 1 (1966)

Former External Reference BL277

Scope and Content Photocopy of late revised typescript draft of Plum Pie, pages 1-146.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/5 P.G. Wodehouse: Plum Pie - part 2 (1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/5

Creation Date 1966

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Plum Pie - part 2 (1966)

Former External Reference BL278

Scope and Content Photocopy of late revised typescript draft of Plum Pie, pages 147-317.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 6 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/6 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: A Pelican at Blandings (1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/6

Creation Date 1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: A Pelican at Blandings (1969)

Former External Reference BL68 OF91

Scope and Content Photocopies of first ten pages of heavily revised typescript draft of A Pelican at Blandings, with working title 'Guests at the Castle'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/7-13 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: The Girl in Blue (1968-1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/7-13

Creation Date 1968-1970

Extent and Format 7 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: The Girl in Blue (1968-1970)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Girl in Blue (1970).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 7 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/7 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Notes and Drafts (1968-1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/7

Creation Date 1968-1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Notes and Drafts (1968-1970)

Former External Reference BL98 OF121

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of 131 pages of holograph and typed notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for The Girl in Blue.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/8 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Notes and Drafts for 'Be My Guest' (1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/8

Creation Date 1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Notes and Drafts for 'Be My Guest' (1969)

Former External Reference BL102 OF125

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of 13 pages of typed and holograph notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for 'Be My Guest', working title for The Girl in Blue, 8-29 Sept 1969.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 8 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/9 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Rough Outline and Notes (1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/9

Creation Date 1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Rough Outline and Notes (1969)

Former External Reference BL101 OF124

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of 2 pages of typed rough outline and 2 pages of holograph notes for sequences for The Girl in Blue.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/10 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Drafts of Chapter 1 and 14 ([1968-1970])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/10

Creation Date [1968-1970]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Drafts of Chapter 1 and 14 ([1968-1970])

Former External Reference BL100 OF123

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of 22 pages of holograph drafts of dialogues and narratives for Chapter 1 and 14 for The Girl in Blue.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 9 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/11 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Early Draft of 4 First Chapters ([1970])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/11

Creation Date [1970]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Early Draft of 4 First Chapters ([1970])

Former External Reference BL104 OF127

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of heavily revised early typescript draft of first 4 chapters of The Girl in Blue (37 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/12 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Early Draft ([1970])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/12

Creation Date [1970]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Early Draft ([1970])

Former External Reference BL103 OF126

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of revised early typescript draft of parts of The Girl in Blue (24 pages, non-consecutive).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 10 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/13 P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Later Draft of Opening ([1970])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/13

Creation Date [1970]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl in Blue - Later Draft of Opening ([1970])

Former External Reference BL99 OF122

Scope and Content Colour photocopies of heavily revised later typescript draft of the opening of The Girl in Blue (10 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/14-19 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Much Obliged, Jeeves (1966-2004)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/14-19

Creation Date 1966-2004

Extent and Format 6 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Much Obliged, Jeeves (1966-2004)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) .

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 11 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/14 P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged, Jeeves - Notes and Drafts for 'Jeeves Novel' (1966-1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/14

Creation Date 1966-1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged, Jeeves - Notes and Drafts for 'Jeeves Novel' (1966-1967)

Former External Reference BL97 OF120

Scope and Content 85 pages of holograph and typed notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Much Obliged, Jeeves, 19 Dec 1966-9 Nov 1967.

The first page is entitled 'Jeeves Novel'.

On the back of the first page there is a rejected draft of the lyrics of a song entitled 'Song: Jeeves', which later became 'Brixton' and featured in Betting on Bertie.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/15 P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - 'Jeeves Notes' (1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/15

Creation Date 1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - 'Jeeves Notes' (1970)

Former External Reference BL447

Scope and Content A small school notebook labelled 'Jeeves Notes' in red felt-tip pen.

Headings of pages include: 'Skeleton for Jeeves story' (folio 10), 'Problems' (folio 15), 'Sequence' (folio 23), 'Characters' (back of folio 25).

The back of folio 11 and 28 are labelled 'Much Obliged, Jeeves'; folio 28 contains the first date in the notebook, 7 May 1970. The most recent date, 13 Jun 1970, can be found on folio 31.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 12 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/16 P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - Notes and Drafts (1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/16

Creation Date 1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - Notes and Drafts (1970)

Former External Reference BL448

Scope and Content 46 pages of holograph and typed notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Much Obliged, Jeeves.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/17 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Much Obliged Jeeves - Typescript and Manuscript' (1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/17

Creation Date 1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Much Obliged Jeeves - Typescript and Manuscript' (1970)

Former External Reference BL448

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of Much Obliged, Jeeves (177 pages).

The pages have typed numbers on the top right corner up to folio 27, at which point P.G. Wodehouse occasionally inserted retyped or holograph pages into the completed typescript, crossing out the existing numbers and replacing them in light pencil. None of the pages is dated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 13 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/18 P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - Christie's Catalogue (2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/18

Creation Date 2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Much Obliged Jeeves - Christie's Catalogue (2003)

Former External Reference BL449

Scope and Content Christie's Catalogue entitled Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts from the Library of the 17th Earl of Perth, 20 Nov 2003. Lot 229 consists of manuscript material relating to Much Obliged Jeeves (which can be found in files Loan MS 129/1/14-17).

The file also includes a letter from Rupert Neelands, of Christie’s book department, to Sir Edward Cazalet confirming the authenticity of the typescript of Much Obliged, Jeeves (in file Loan MS 129/1/17), 1 Dec 2003.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/19 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Review of the Manuscript of Much Obliged, Jeeves and Ancillary Notes' (2004)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/19

Creation Date 2004

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Review of the Manuscript of Much Obliged, Jeeves and Ancillary Notes' (2004)

Former External Reference BL450

Scope and Content Spiral-bound volume entitled 'Review of the Manuscript of Much Obliged, Jeeves and Ancillary Notes' by Tony Ring.

This is a detailed examination of working methods, sources of quotations, and comparisons with other Wodehouse works. The work is undated, but a cover letter accompanying it, addressed to Sir Edward Cazalet, is from 12 Aug 2004. The letter describes this document as a 'first draft of a first draft'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 14 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/20-40 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1968-1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/20-40

Creation Date 1968-1973

Extent and Format 21 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1968-1973)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/20 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Early Holograph Notes and Drafts (1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/20

Creation Date 1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Early Holograph Notes and Drafts (1968)

Former External Reference BL105 OF128

Scope and Content 9 pages of early holograph notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 15 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/21 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Holograph Notes and Drafts ([1968-1970])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/21

Creation Date [1968-1970]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Holograph Notes and Drafts ([1968-1970])

Former External Reference BL106 OF129

Scope and Content 51 pages of holograph notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/22 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Holograph Notes and Drafts (1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/22

Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Holograph Notes and Drafts (1971)

Former External Reference BL107 OF130

Scope and Content 59 pages of later holograph notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 16 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/23 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Notes and Drafts ([1970-1971])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/23

Creation Date [1970-1971]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Notes and Drafts ([1970-1971])

Former External Reference BL108 OF131

Scope and Content 52 pages of later holograph and typed notes in preparation of the novel's scenario and drafts of sequences, dialogues and narratives for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/24 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Notes and Drafts of Scenarios and Sequences (1971-1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/24

Creation Date 1971-1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Notes and Drafts of Scenarios and Sequences (1971-1972)

Former External Reference BL109 OF132

Scope and Content 31 pages of holograph and typed notes and drafts of scenarios and sequences for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, 6 May 1971-9 Feb 1972.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 17 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/25 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Notes and Drafts of Scenarios and Sequences (1971-1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/25

Creation Date 1971-1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Notes and Drafts of Scenarios and Sequences (1971-1972)

Former External Reference BL110 OF133

Scope and Content 17 pages of holograph and typed notes and drafts of scenarios and sequences for Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/26 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Drafts ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/26

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Drafts ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL111 OF134

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript drafts of parts of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (43 pages, many with holograph notes on the back).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 18 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/27 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 1 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/27

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 1 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL113 OF136

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 1 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (9 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/28 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 2 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/28

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 2 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL114 OF137

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 2 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (21 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 19 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/29 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 3 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/29

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 3 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL115 OF138

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 3 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (22 pages) and holograph manuscript of 6 pages from the same chapter.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/30 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 4 and 5 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/30

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 4 and 5 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL116 OF139

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 4 and 5 (labelled here as chapter 4) of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (21 pages), and holograph manuscript of 6 pages from the same chapter.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 20 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/31 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 6 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/31

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 6 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL117 OF140

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 6 (labelled here as chapter 5) of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (6 pages), and holograph manuscript of 9 pages from the same chapter.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/32 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 6 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/32

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 6 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL118 OF141

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 6 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (4 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 21 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/33 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 7 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/33

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 7 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL119 OF142

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of the first two pages of chapter 7 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/34 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 8 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/34

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 8 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL120 OF143

Scope and Content Heavily revised typescript draft of chapter 8 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (9 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 22 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/35 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Title Page ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/35

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Title Page ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL121 OF144

Scope and Content Clean typed title page of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/36 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 1 and 3 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/36

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 1 and 3 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL122 OF145

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft of chapter 1 and 3 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (27 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 23 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/37 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 4 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/37

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 4 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL123 OF146

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft of chapter 4 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (12 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/38 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 9 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/38

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 9 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL124 OF147

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft of chapter 9 and first two pages of chapter 10 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (13 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 24 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/39 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 2 and 5-12 ([1971-1972])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/39

Creation Date [1971-1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Later Draft of Chapter 2 and 5-12 ([1971-1972])

Former External Reference BL276

Scope and Content Photocopy of later revised typescript draft of chapter 2 and 5-12 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, undated (167 pages).

The working title 'The Luck of the Bodkins' appears crossed out on the first page.

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Loan MS 129/1/40 P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Copy- edited Title Page of The Plot That Thickened ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Copy-edited Title Page of The Plot That Thickened ([1973])

Former External Reference BL112 OF135

Scope and Content Copy-edited title page of The Plot That Thickened, the title of the American edition of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, published by Simon & Schuster, New York.

The working title 'The Honour of The Bodkins' appears crossed out.

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Page 25 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/41-68 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Bachelor Anonymous (1964-1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/41-68

Creation Date 1964-1973

Extent and Format 28 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Bachelor Anonymous (1964-1973)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Bachelor Anonymous (1973).

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Loan MS 129/1/41 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Notes for Novel (1964-1965)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1964-1965

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Notes for Novel (1964-1965)

Former External Reference BL64 OF87

Scope and Content 35 pages of holograph notes for a novel, 6 Mar 1964-7 Feb 1965. One page is entitled 'Girl Smoking Novel'.

This is a very early version of an idea used in Bachelors Anonymous, though most of the characters and situations are different.

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Page 26 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/42 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - 'Notes on New Novel. GB' ([early 1970s])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/42

Creation Date [early 1970s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - 'Notes on New Novel. GB' ([early 1970s])

Former External Reference BL125 OF148

Scope and Content Spiral notebook with 7 pages of holograph notes and draft dialogues and narratives for Bachelors Anonymous.

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Loan MS 129/1/43 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Early Notes (1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/43

Creation Date 1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Early Notes (1972)

Former External Reference BL126 OF149

Scope and Content 48 pages of handwritten notes around the idea of a legacy and an heir not smoking, eventually used in Bachelors Anonymous, 14 Jun–13 Sep 1972.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 27 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/44 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Notes and Drafts ([1972])

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Creation Date [1972]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Notes and Drafts ([1972])

Former External Reference BL128 OF151

Scope and Content 63 pages of holograph notes and draft of dialogues and narratives for Bachelors Anonymous, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/45 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Later Notes and Drafts (1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/45

Creation Date 1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Later Notes and Drafts (1973)

Former External Reference BL127 OF150

Scope and Content 21 pages of holograph notes and drafts of dialogues and narratives for early parts of Bachelors Anonymous. One page is dated 3 Feb 1973.

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Page 28 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/46 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Dedication and Drafts ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Dedication and Drafts ([1973])

Former External Reference BL367

Scope and Content Cover sheet of Bachelors Anonymous, with autograph dedication ‘The Property of Helen Wodehouse’ signed by P.G. Wodehouse, and 8 pages of handwritten draft text for the book, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/47 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 6 ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/47

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 6 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL373

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 6 of Bachelors Anonymous (5 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 29 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/48 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 7 and 14 (1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/48

Creation Date 1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 7 and 14 (1973)

Former External Reference BL129

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of chapter 7 and 14 (labelled here 6 and 13) of Bachelors Anonymous (17 pages).

The last page of chapter 14 is signed by P.G. Wodehouse and dated 15 Mar 1975.

The file also includes a holograph manuscript of the last page of chapter 8.

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Loan MS 129/1/49 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 8 ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/49

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 8 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL376

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of the central part of chapter 8 of Bachelors Anonymous (6 pages).

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Page 30 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/50 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript and Typescript of Chapter 8 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/50

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript and Typescript of Chapter 8 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL377

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 8 of Bachelors Anonymous (6 pages), and revised typescript of later draft of the same chapter (22 pages).

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Loan MS 129/1/51 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript and Typescript of Chapter 9 ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/51

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript and Typescript of Chapter 9 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL378

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 9 of Bachelors Anonymous (15 pages) and revised typescript of later draft of the same chapter (18 pages).

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Page 31 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/52 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 10 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/52

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 10 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL379

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 10 (labelled here as 9) of Bachelors Anonymous (7 pages).

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Loan MS 129/1/53 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 11 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 11 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL381

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 11 (labelled here as 10) of Bachelors Anonymous (9 pages), and photocopy of typescript of a later draft of the same chapter (10 pages).

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Page 32 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/54 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 12 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 12 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL382

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 12 (labelled here as 11) of Bachelors Anonymous (13 pages).

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Loan MS 129/1/55 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 13 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/55

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Manuscript of Chapter 13 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL384

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of early draft of chapter 13 (labelled as 12) of Bachelors Anonymous (6 pages), and photocopy of revised typescript of later draft of the same chapter (7 pages).

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Page 33 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/56 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 1 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 1 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL368

Scope and Content Revised typescript of an early draft of chapter 1 of Bachelors Anonymous (3 pages) and photocopies of 8 pages from a later draft of the same chapter.

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Loan MS 129/1/57 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 2 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 2 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL130 OF153

Scope and Content Revised typescript of first 4 pages of an early draft of chapter 2 of Bachelors Anonymous.

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Page 34 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/58 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Drafts of Chapter 2 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Drafts of Chapter 2 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL369

Scope and Content Revised typescript of two successive drafts of chapter 2 of Bachelors Anonymous (6 pages each).

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Loan MS 129/1/59 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/59

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL370

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 3 (labelled here as chapter 4) of Bachelors Anonymous (9 pages).

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Page 35 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/60 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 4 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 4 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL371

Scope and Content Revised typescript of two successive drafts of chapter 4 of Bachelors Anonymous (7 pages each).

The earlier draft, heavily revised, is labelled as chapter 3.

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Loan MS 129/1/61 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 5 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 5 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL372

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 5 of Bachelors Anonymous (14 pages).

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Page 36 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/62 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 6 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 6 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL374

Scope and Content Revised typescript of two successive drafts of chapter 6 of Bachelors Anonymous (the earlier draft is 11 pages, the later draft is 12 pages) .

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Loan MS 129/1/63 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 7 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/63

Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 7 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL375

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 7 of Bachelors Anonymous (12 pages).

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Page 37 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/64 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 10 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/64

Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 10 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL380

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 10 of Bachelors Anonymous (21 pages).

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Loan MS 129/1/65 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 12 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/65

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 12 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL383

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised later typescript draft of chapter 12 of Bachelors Anonymous (15 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 38 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/66 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 14 ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 14 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL385

Scope and Content Photocopy of later revised typescript draft of chapter 14 of Bachelors Anonymous (15 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/67 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3, 5, 11-14 ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/67

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3, 5, 11-14 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL132 OF155

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 3, 5, 11-14 of Bachelors Anonymous (72 pages) .

Chapter 3 and 5 are labelled here as chapter 2 and 4.

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Page 39 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/68 P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3-11 ([1973])

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/68

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Draft of Chapter 3-11 ([1973])

Former External Reference BL131 OF154

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised typescript draft of the end of chapter 2 and chapter 3 to 10 of Bachelors Anonymous (105 pages) and 1 page of handwritten notes (placed between page 85c and 86).

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Loan MS 129/1/69-79 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1970-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/69-79

Creation Date 1970-1974

Extent and Format 11 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1970-1974)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 40 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/69 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Early Ideas (1971)

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/69

Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Early Ideas (1971)

Former External Reference BL134 OF157

Scope and Content 2 pages of holograph notes including early ideas for Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/70 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Early Holograph Notes ([early 1970s])

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Creation Date [early 1970s]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Early Holograph Notes ([early 1970s])

Former External Reference BL133 OF156

Scope and Content 4 pages of early holograph notes on newsprint paper for Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Page 41 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/71 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notebook ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notebook ([1973])

Former External Reference BL135 OF158

Scope and Content Notebook containing holograph notes for various chapters of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/72 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notes (1973)

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Creation Date 1973

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notes (1973)

Former External Reference BL136 OF159

Scope and Content 32 pages of handwritten notes for sequences of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, 19 May-30 Jun 1973.

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Page 42 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/73 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notes and Draft Text ([1973])

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Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Notes and Draft Text ([1973])

Former External Reference BL138 OF161

Scope and Content 38 pages of handwritten notes and draft text for various chapters of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/74 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - 'Rough Notes and Rough Writing' (1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/74

Creation Date 1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - 'Rough Notes and Rough Writing' (1973)

Former External Reference BL139 OF162

Scope and Content 59 pages of holograph notes and draft text for various chapters of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. A few pages are dated Aug 1973.

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Page 43 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/75 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - 'Red Spots in the Morning' (1973)

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Creation Date 1973

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - 'Red Spots in the Morning' (1973)

Former External Reference BL137 OF160

Scope and Content Notes and draft text for chapter 1 and 2 of 'Red Spots in the Morning', working title for Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/76 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Manuscript of Chapter 4-20 ([1973-1974])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/76

Creation Date [1973-1974]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Manuscript of Chapter 4-20 ([1973-1974])

Former External Reference BL140 OF163

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of chapter 4-20 (labelled here as 3-10 and 12-19) of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 44 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/77 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Draft of Chapter 1-10 ([1973-1974])

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Creation Date [1973-1974]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Draft of Chapter 1-10 ([1973-1974])

Former External Reference BL141 OF164

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of chapter 1-10 (labelled here chapter 1 to 6) of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

The file also includes holograph manuscript of pages 32-34 and 2 pages of handwritten notes, placed between pages 16 and 17.

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Loan MS 129/1/78 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Later Draft of Chapter 1-10 ([1973-1974])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/78

Creation Date [1973-1974]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Later Draft of Chapter 1-10 ([1973-1974])

Former External Reference BL142 OF165

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft of chapter 1-10, with title page, of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Page 45 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/79 P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Later Draft of Chapter 11-20 ([1973-1974])

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Creation Date [1973-1974]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - Later Draft of Chapter 11-20 ([1973-1974])

Former External Reference BL143 OF166

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft of chapter 11-20 of Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, undated.

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Loan MS 129/1/80-86 P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Sunset at Blandings (1974- 1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/80-86

Creation Date 1974-1977

Extent and Format 7 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Fiction: Sunset at Blandings (1974-1977)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's unfinished Blandings novel, published posthumously as Sunset at Blandings in 1977.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 46 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/80 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Notes and Drafts (1974-1975)

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Creation Date 1974-1975

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Notes and Drafts (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL144 OF167

Scope and Content 106 pages of holograph and typed notes and draft text for Sunset at Blandings, 10 Jun 1974-16 Jan 1975.

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Loan MS 129/1/81 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 (1974-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1974-1975

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL145 OF168

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft and manuscript of parts of chapter 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 of Sunset at Blandings.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 47 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/82 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 2 and 13-16 (1974-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1974-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 2 and 13-16 (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL146 OF169

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of parts of chapter 2 and 13-16 of Sunset at Blandings.

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Loan MS 129/1/83 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 11 (1974-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/83

Creation Date 1974-1975

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 11 (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL273

Scope and Content Photocopy of holograph manuscript of parts of chapter 11 of Sunset at Blandings (5 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 48 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/84 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 1-16 (1974-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1974-1975

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Drafts of Chapter 1-16 (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL147 OF170

Scope and Content Later revised typescript draft, with numerous holograph corrections and additions, of chapter 1-16 of Sunset at Blandings.

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Loan MS 129/1/85 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Don R. Bensen (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1975

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Don R. Bensen (1975)

Former External Reference BL148 OF171

Scope and Content Material related to a proposed completion of P.G. Wodheouse's unfinished Blandings novel by Don R. Bensen, including a cover letter from Scott Meredith to Nella Wodehouse, 24 Jun 1975, with copy of Bensen’s outline of novel.

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Page 49 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/86 P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Richard Usborne ([1977])

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Creation Date [1977]

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Sunset at Blandings - Richard Usborne ([1977])

Former External Reference BL312

Scope and Content 13 pages of typed transcript of notes for an unfinished Blandings Castle novel, with Richard Usborne's holograph annotations.

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Loan MS 129/1/87-96 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Prefaces of Books (1970-1975)

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Reference Loan MS 129/1/87-96

Creation Date 1970-1975

Extent and Format 10 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Prefaces of Books (1970-1975)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to books' prefaces written by P.G. Wodehouse.

The material has been arranged chronologically according to the date of publication of the books.

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Page 50 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/87 P.G. Wodehouse: Bill the Conqueror - Preface (1970)

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Creation Date 1970

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Title P.G. Wodehouse: Bill the Conqueror - Preface (1970)

Former External Reference BL84 OF107

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of the preface to the 1970 edition of Bill the Conqueror (4 pages).

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Loan MS 129/1/88 P.G. Wodehouse: The Small Bachelor - Preface (1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/88

Creation Date 1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Small Bachelor - Preface (1970)

Former External Reference BL91 OF114

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of the preface to the 1970 edition of The Small Bachelor (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 51 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/89 P.G. Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet - Preface (1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/89

Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Man with Two Left Feet - Preface (1971)

Former External Reference BL90 OF113

Scope and Content Typescript draft (2 pages) and first page of holograph manuscript of the preface to the 1971 edition of The Man with Two Left Feet.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/90 P.G. Wodehouse: The Man Upstairs - Preface (1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/90

Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Man Upstairs - Preface (1971)

Former External Reference BL85 OF108

Scope and Content Revised typescript draft of a preface to the 1971 edition of The Man Upstairs (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 52 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/91 P.G. Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner - Preface (1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/91

Creation Date 1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner - Preface (1972)

Former External Reference BL87 OF110

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript (2 pages) and notes (1 page) for a preface to the 1972 edition of The World of Mr Mulliner.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/92 P.G. Wodehouse: The Golf Omnibus - Preface (1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/92

Creation Date 1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Golf Omnibus - Preface (1973)

Former External Reference BL88 OF111

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript and notes for a preface to the 1973 edition of The Golf Omnibus (6 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 53 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/93 P.G. Wodehouse: The Haunted Major - Preface (1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/93

Creation Date 1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Haunted Major - Preface (1973)

Former External Reference BL92 OF115

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of a preface to a book on golf by Robert Marshall, published 1902 and being reprinted, undated (7 pages).

In the manuscript P.G. Wodehouse refers to the book as 'The H.M.' which stands for The Haunted Major, a collection of golf stories considered to be forerunners of P.G. Wodeshouse’s own works in this genre, reprinted by the Scottish Academic Press in 1973.

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Loan MS 129/1/94 P.G. Wodehouse: Psmith Omnibus - Preface (1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/94

Creation Date 1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Psmith Omnibus - Preface (1974)

Former External Reference BL89 OF112

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript (3 pages) and first page of typescript draft for a preface to the 1974 edition of Psmith Omnibus.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 54 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/95 P.G. Wodehouse: A Damsel in Distress - Preface (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/95

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: A Damsel in Distress - Preface (1975)

Former External Reference BL93 OF116

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of preface to the 1975 edition of A Damsel in Distress (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/96 P.G. Wodehouse: The Luck of Bodkins - Preface (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/96

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: The Luck of Bodkins - Preface (1975)

Former External Reference BL86 OF109

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of a preface to the 1975 edition of The Luck of Bodkins (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 55 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/97-100 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Articles (1955-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/97-100

Creation Date 1955-1986

Extent and Format 4 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Articles (1955-1986)

Scope and Content Manuscript material relating to articles written by P.G. Wodehouse.

The material has been arranged chronologically according to the date of publication of the articles.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/97 P.G. Wodehouse: A Tithe for Charity and Archie Had Magnatism (1955-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/97

Creation Date 1955-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: A Tithe for Charity and Archie Had Magnatism (1955-1986)

Former External Reference BL279

Scope and Content Photocopy of typescript draft of A Tithe for Charity, a Ukridge short story, with no corrections or signature, published in Apr 1955 in Playboy.

Final typescript draft of Archie Had Magnatism, a reminiscence concerning P.G. Wodehouse’s early American agent, Archie Fitzmaurice, undated. Signed by P.G. Wodehouse and dedicated to an unidentified person. The file also includes a cover letter and receipt of purchase of the item by Edward Cazalet in 1986.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 56 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/98 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: My Banking Career ([1970s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/98

Creation Date [1970s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: My Banking Career ([1970s])

Former External Reference BL281

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised typescript draft entitled 'My Banking Career', probably written for the HSBC staff magazine (7 page ).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/99 P.G. Wodehouse: Personally Speaking (1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/99

Creation Date 1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Personally Speaking (1974)

Former External Reference BL327

Scope and Content Proofs of an autobiographical piece entitled 'Personally Speaking', transcribed by Pauline Blanc from a tape recording spoken by P.G. Wodehouse in 1974.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 57 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/100 P.G. Wodehouse: BBC Wodehouse Playhouse (1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/100

Creation Date 1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: BBC Wodehouse Playhouse (1974)

Former External Reference BL95 OF118

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of introductions to a set of stories used in the BBC Wodehouse Playhouse series, c. 1974 (3 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/101-103 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notebooks (1900-1911)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/101-103

Creation Date 1900-1911

Extent and Format 3 files

Access Conditions Reserved until 1st October 2019

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notebooks (1900-1911)

Scope and Content Photocopies of early notebooks by P.G. Wodehouse.

The material has been arranged chronologically by the dates of the notebooks.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 58 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/101 P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 1 (1900-1911)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/101

Creation Date 1900-1911

Extent and Format 1 file

Access Conditions Reserved until 1st October 2019

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 1 (1900-1911)

Former External Reference BL413

Scope and Content Photocopy of a notebook which contains holograph notes and phrases (104 pages).

Page 3 is entitled 'Private Views. Painful Necessities (for Person's Mag)' and contains a list of 22 ideas for articles in the Pearson's Magazine.

Page 4 is entitled 'Notes and Phrases' and phrases and notes included between page 4 and 104 are numbered 1 to 222.

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Loan MS 129/1/102 P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 2 - 'Phrases, notes etc.' (1902)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/102

Creation Date 1902

Extent and Format 1 file

Access Conditions Reserved until 1st October 2019

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 2 - 'Phrases, notes etc.' (1902)

Former External Reference BL411

Scope and Content Photocopy of a notebook entitled 'Phrases, notes, etc.' which contains holograph notes and phrases numbered 1 to 370 (139 pages). The first page is dated 9 May 1902.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 59 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/103 P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 3 ([1900-1905])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/103

Creation Date [1900-1905]

Extent and Format 1 file

Access Conditions Reserved until 1st October 2019

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notebook 3 ([1900-1905])

Former External Reference BL412

Scope and Content Photocopy of a notebook which contains holograph notes and phrases for stories entitled 'Notes', 'Sunshine and Chickens', 'Novel 'The Fighter', 'The Three Centuries', 'The Lost [Lands]', 'Strict Training', 'The Directors of Destinies', 'The Amateurs', 'The Black Sheep', 'The Bishop' (28 pages), undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/104-150 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notes (1900-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/104-150

Creation Date 1900-1975

Extent and Format 47 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notes (1900-1975)

Scope and Content Notes for or relating to literary works and other projects, many of which were never realised. The notes include the idea of the story and P.G. Wodehouse's own comments about it.

Ideas are often crossed out and marked 'used' or with comments such as 'very good', 'work on this', 'not used'.

The material has been arranged chronologically by the dates of the notes.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 60 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/104 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Money Received for Literary Work' (1900-1908)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/104

Creation Date 1900-1908

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Money Received for Literary Work' (1900-1908)

Former External Reference BL221 OF249

Scope and Content Photocopy of complete transcript of a notebook used by P.G. Wodehouse to record sales of his literary work, Feb 1900-Feb 1908 (15 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/105 P.G. Wodehouse: Holograph and Typed Notes for Stories ([1920s-1930s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/105

Creation Date [1920s-1930s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Holograph and Typed Notes for Stories ([1920s-1930s])

Former External Reference BL47 OF70

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes on many different stories, most never followed up (71 pages).

Headings include 'Jeeves story' (many instances of this), 'Erotic Poet Story', 'Jeeves and The Deadly Peril', 'Fireworks Story', 'Gone Native', 'Short Story', 'Short Short Story', 'Golf Stories'.

The files also includes pages of a letter from William Townend suggesting a plot for a Jeeves story (folios 61-63) and a similar letter from a fan, W. Vincent (folios 17-20), both undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 61 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/106 P.G. Wodehouse: Holograph and Typed Notes ([1920s- 1930s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/106

Creation Date [1920s-1930s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Holograph and Typed Notes ([1920s-1930s])

Former External Reference BL77 OF100

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for stories and novels (8 pages).

Headings include 'Novel Ideas', 'Novel', 'For Jeeves Story', 'Jeeves Novel', 'Novel D'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/107 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Help Yourself. A Rough Idea' ([1930s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/107

Creation Date [1930s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Help Yourself. A Rough Idea' ([1930s])

Former External Reference BL274

Scope and Content Photocopy of revised typescript draft of a nine-page summary for a story headed 'Help Yourself' (10 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 62 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/108 P.G. Wodehouse: Typed notes (1936-1937)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/108

Creation Date 1936-1937

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Typed notes (1936-1937)

Former External Reference BL48 OF71

Scope and Content Typed and holograph notes for various stories (5 pages).

All pages are dated, from 21 May 1936 to 14 Jul 1937.

Page with holograph notes dated 1 Apr 1937 is headed 'Soapy Story' and page dated 14 Jul 1937 is headed 'Ch 1' and includes ideas for a Jeeves Story with 'Stiffy', 14 Jul 1937.

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Loan MS 129/1/109 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Jeeves Ideas' (1937)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/109

Creation Date 1937

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Jeeves Ideas' (1937)

Former External Reference BL49 OF72

Scope and Content Typed notes with ideas for stories, numbered 1-17, with a cover page headed 'Jeeves Ideas', 18 Apr 1937 (3 pages, incomplete set).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 63 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/110 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes (1937-1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/110

Creation Date 1937-1939

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes (1937-1939)

Former External Reference BL263

Scope and Content Photocopies of typed and holograph notes (64 pages).

Much of this material consists of lists of plot ideas (numbered) and sentences P.G. Wodehouse wrote in the 1930s and referred to for decades thereafter for use in his writings.

Many ideas are crossed off and marked 'used' followed by the title of the novel in which they were used.

The file also includes a letter from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse regarding his stories and new ideas, 15 Jan 1939 (folios 27-29).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/111 P.G. Wodehouse: Ideas and Drafts (1937-1964)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/111

Creation Date 1937-1964

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Ideas and Drafts (1937-1964)

Former External Reference BL267

Scope and Content Photocopies of typed and holograph notes with ideas and draft text for novels and short stories (67 pages).

Many pages contain lists of ideas (numbered), some of which have been crossed off and marked 'used', and many have headings including 'Jeeves Story/Novel', 'Gold Story', 'Ideas Not Used in Quick Service', 'The Kissing Secretary Story', 'French Leave'.

Many pages are undated; some pages are written on the back of draft pages of the 'Camp Book'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 64 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/112 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Short Stories and Novels (1938-1941)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/112

Creation Date 1938-1941

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Short Stories and Novels (1938-1941)

Former External Reference BL52 OF75

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for various projects (23 pages).

Headings include 'Ideas for an Article or Short Sketch', 'Jeeves Novel', 'Short Story', 'Ukridge'.

One page is stamped 'Oflag VIII D' which suggests that it was written during P.G. Wodehouse's internment in Upper Silesia, Sept 1940-Jun 1941.

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Loan MS 129/1/113 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Jeeves and Blandings (1938-1961)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/113

Creation Date 1938-1961

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Jeeves and Blandings (1938-1961)

Former External Reference BL50 OF73

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes on ideas for novels (77 pages).

Headings include 'Jeeves Novel', 'Psmith Novel', 'Blandings Novel'.

Some notes refer to a story combining Jeeves and Blandings Castle (other notes for this project are preserved at Dulwich College), Feb 1948.

The file also includes a letter from 'Bobbie' to P.G. Wodehouse, undated, regarding an idea for a novel (folio 48) and a letter to P.G. Wodehouse from an unidentified person [Bobbie] regarding ideas of a Jeeves story, 17 Jan 1948 (folios 62-65).

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Loan MS 129/1/114 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Idea for Freddie Widgeon Story' ([late 1930s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/114

Creation Date [late 1930s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Idea for Freddie Widgeon Story' ([late 1930s])

Former External Reference BL79 OF102

Scope and Content Holograph notes headed 'Idea for Freddie Widgeon Story', undated (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/115 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred, Jeeves and Caddy Stories (1939-1940)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/115

Creation Date 1939-1940

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred, Jeeves and Caddy Stories (1939-1940)

Former External Reference BL53 OF76

Scope and Content Holograph notes for novels and stories with Uncle Fred and Jeeves, and for a story headed 'Caddy Story' (10 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 66 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/116 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Bingo Little Story (1939- 1940)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/116

Creation Date 1939-1940

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Bingo Little Story (1939-1940)

Former External Reference BL54 OF77

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for a story about Bingo Little's baby being up for election at the Drones Club (10 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/117 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel B ([1940s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/117

Creation Date [1940s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel B ([1940s])

Former External Reference BL70 OF93

Scope and Content Typed notes headed 'Novel B' for a Blandings novel, a sequel to Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend (never written).

On the back of the page is a discarded draft page of the end of Money in the Bank, c. mid-1940s.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 67 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/118 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novels on Newsprint Sheets ([1940s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/118

Creation Date [1940s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novels on Newsprint Sheets ([1940s])

Former External Reference BL72 OF95

Scope and Content Holograph notes (in pencil) on small newsprint sheets for novel projects, including a Blandings novel, undated (30 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/119 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Projects on Newsprint Sheets ([late 1940s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/119

Creation Date [late 1940s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Projects on Newsprint Sheets ([late 1940s])

Former External Reference BL71 OF94

Scope and Content Holograph notes (in pencil) on small newsprint sheets for various projects, including Jeeves novels, a golf story and a play (52 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 68 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/120 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novels ([1940s-1950s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/120

Creation Date [1940s-1950s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novels ([1940s-1950s])

Former External Reference BL59 OF82

Scope and Content Typed and holograph notes for various projects (69 pages), plus photocopies of 3 pages of notes.

Headings include 'Stark Novelist', 'Lost Keys', 'Oh, Kay', 'Uncle Fred Novel', 'Blandings Novel', 'Jeeves Novel', 'Black Comedy Scene for Novel', 'Girl's Father Novel'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/121 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Jeeves Story (1940)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/121

Creation Date 1940

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Jeeves Story (1940)

Former External Reference BL55 OF78

Scope and Content Page of holograph (pencil) notes for a Jeeves story, 13 Mar 1940.

One section is marked 'used'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 69 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/122 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Ukridge Story ([c. 1941])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/122

Creation Date [c. 1941]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Ukridge Story ([c. 1941])

Former External Reference BL264

Scope and Content Photocopies of notes for a Ukridge story (4 pages), undated, and 2 pages of a letter from an unidentified writer to P.G. Wodehouse regarding a Jeeves short story, [c. 1941].

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/123 P.G. Wodehouse: Outline for Novels (1942)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/123

Creation Date 1942

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Outline for Novels (1942)

Former External Reference BL56 OF79

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for outline of two novels, (2 pages, one dated 10 Jan 1942, one undated).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 70 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/124-125 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel (1942-1954)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/124-125

Creation Date 1942-1954

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel (1942-1954)

Scope and Content Notes for a novel, probably the basis of Ice in the Bedroom.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/124 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel - part 1 (1942)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/124

Creation Date 1942

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel - part 1 (1942)

Former External Reference BL57 OF80

Scope and Content Typed notes for a novel, with numerous holograph annotations, 6 Jun-27 Aug 1942 (12 pages).

These notes seem to relate to the same novel as in file Loan MS 129/1/125 and may be part of the early ideas later used for Ice in The Bedroom.

The first page is headed 'The Girl Next Door' and the second 'Valley Fields Novel'.

The notes are written on the back of pages from various wartime projects including 'The Shadow Passes', 'Full Moon', and what appears to be scattered pages of the lost 'Camp Book' or drafts of the Berlin Broadcasts.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 71 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/125 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel - part 2 (1942- 1954)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/125

Creation Date 1942-1954

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel - part 2 (1942-1954)

Former External Reference BL58 OF81

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for a novel, 1 Nov 1942-19 Aug 1954 (61 pages).

These notes seem to relate to the same novel as in file Loan MS 129/1/124 and are probably the basis of Ice in the Bedroom, where Leila Yorke wants to write a 'stark' novel.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/126 P.G. Wodehouse: Copies of notes (1942-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/126

Creation Date 1942-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Copies of notes (1942-1974)

Former External Reference BL96 OF119

Scope and Content Photocopies of notes for various projects.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 72 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/127 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred Story (1945- 1946)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/127

Creation Date 1945-1946

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred Story (1945-1946)

Former External Reference BL78 OF101

Scope and Content Handwritten notes for an Uncle Fred story about a greyhound and its friend, a stable cat (5 pages).

The file also includes two press cuttings about the Greyhound Derby 1945 and about a house haunted by ghosts, and a letter in French concerning P.G. Wodeshouse's arrest in France, 15 Mar 1946.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/128-130 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore Project (1948)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/128-130

Creation Date 1948

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore Project (1948)

Scope and Content Notes for a Joy Bells/Barrymore project.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 73 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/128 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project (1948)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/128

Creation Date 1948

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project (1948)

Former External Reference BL51 OF74

Scope and Content Holograph notes for the Joy Bells/Barrymore project, 22-23 Feb 1948 (3 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/129 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project - part 2 (1948)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/129

Creation Date 1948

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project - part 2 (1948)

Former External Reference BL265

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph notes for the Joy Bells/Barrymore project, 25 Jan – 21 Feb 1948 (29 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 74 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/130 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project - part 3 (1948)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/130

Creation Date 1948

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Joy Bells/Barrymore project - part 3 (1948)

Former External Reference BL266

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph notes for the Joy Bells/Barrymore project, 25 Jan – 21 Feb 1948 (4 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/131 P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notes for Blandings Story (1950s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/131

Creation Date 1950s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Manuscript Material: Notes for Blandings Story (1950s)

Former External Reference BL69 OF92

Scope and Content Handwritten and typed notes for a Blandings story, undated (9 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 75 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/132 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Glossop-Bertie Novel (1950s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/132

Creation Date 1950s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Glossop-Bertie Novel (1950s)

Former External Reference BL74 OF97

Scope and Content Holograph notes headed 'Glossop-Bertie Novel', undated (1 page).

The idea at the bottom of the page is used in Jeeves in the Offing (1960).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/133 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Plays (1950s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/133

Creation Date 1950s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Plays (1950s)

Former External Reference BL75 OF98

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes, mostly for plays (7 pages).

On the back of one page, there is a rejected draft of The Old Reliable, starting with the words 'I wish you would', c. 1950.

On the back of another page there is an handwritten note 'Material for packing PGW Royal Typescript'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 76 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/134 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Projects (1951-1964)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/134

Creation Date 1951-1964

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Projects (1951-1964)

Former External Reference BL62 OF85

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for various projects (59 pages). Some pages are dated, with dates ranging from 1951 to 1964.

Headings include 'Ideas for Musical Comedy', 'An Uncle Fred Story', 'Blandings Novel', 'Absent Treatment', 'Freddie Widgeon Story', 'Psmith Novel', 'Antiques Story', 'Golf Story', 'Jeeves Novel'.

The notes include ideas used in Jeeves and The Feudal Spirit, French Leave, and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. One pages is written on the back of a discarded draft page for Barmy in Wonderland, with revisions.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/135 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Founder's Day (1957)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/135

Creation Date 1957

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Founder's Day (1957)

Former External Reference BL60 OF83

Scope and Content Page of typed notes for a novel with working title 'Founder's Day', 25 Dec 1957.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 77 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/136 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Stories and Novels (1960s- 1970s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/136

Creation Date 1960s-1970s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Stories and Novels (1960s-1970s)

Former External Reference BL80 OF103

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes with ideas for novels and short stories (26 pages), including Jeeves, Ukridge, and Blandings stories.

Headings include 'Bunny's Story', 'Hats Off to Gally', 'Possible Short Story Ideas'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/137 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel (1960)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/137

Creation Date 1960

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for a Novel (1960)

Former External Reference BL63 OF86

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for an unidentified novel, 28-29 Apr 1960 (4 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 78 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/138-139 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project (1964-1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/138-139

Creation Date 1964-1966

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project (1964-1966)

Scope and Content Notes for a project involving a Cabinet Minster (referred to as 'Cab Min' in the notes).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/138 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project - part 1 (1964)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/138

Creation Date 1964

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project - part 1 (1964)

Former External Reference BL269

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph notes for a project involving a Cabinet Minster (referred to as 'Cab Min' in the notes), 20 Apr to 5 May 1964 (16 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 79 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/139 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project - part 2 (1964-1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/139

Creation Date 1964-1966

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project - part 2 (1964-1966)

Former External Reference BL268

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph notes for a project involving a Cabinet Minister (referred to as 'Cab Min' in the notes), 24 Mar 1964 to 2 Jan 1966 (15 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/140 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for two Novels (1964-1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/140

Creation Date 1964-1966

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for two Novels (1964-1966)

Former External Reference BL65 OF88

Scope and Content Holograph notes for a novel involving a fake necklace, 20 Sep 1964 (3 pages), and a Jeeves novel, 6 Dec 1966 (1 page).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 80 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/141 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel with Girl Secretly Engaged (1964-1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/141

Creation Date 1964-1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel with Girl Secretly Engaged (1964-1971)

Former External Reference BL61 OF84

Scope and Content Holograph notes for a novel involving a girl secretly engaged with a timid young man, 14 Apr 1964-15 Feb 1971 (3 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/142 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel with Young Architect (1965)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/142

Creation Date 1965

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel with Young Architect (1965)

Former External Reference BL66 OF89

Scope and Content Holograph notes for a novel (never written) about a young architect, 11 Nov 1965 (2 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 81 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/143 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred Story (1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/143

Creation Date 1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Uncle Fred Story (1967)

Former External Reference BL67 OF90

Scope and Content Holograph notes on an idea for the Junior Ganymede Book of Revelations being stolen (later the basis of Much Obliged Jeeves), experimented with as an Uncle Fred story, 12-13 Nov 1967 (4 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/144 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Algy Martyn Novel (1967- 1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/144

Creation Date 1967-1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Algy Martyn Novel (1967-1971)

Former External Reference BL271

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph notes headed 'Algy Martyn novel', 19 Jan 1967-27 Feb 1971.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 82 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/145 P.G. Wodehouse: Copies of Notes for Novel (1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/145

Creation Date 1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Copies of Notes for Novel (1969)

Former External Reference BL270

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph and typed notes on ideas for a novel, 10-27 Jan 1969 (14 pages).

The notes vaguely resembles ideas used in The Girl in Blue.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/146 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes on Block of Newsprint Sheet (1970s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/146

Creation Date 1970s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes on Block of Newsprint Sheet (1970s)

Former External Reference BL73 OF96

Scope and Content Holograph notes (in pen) on small newsprint block of sheets for novel projects, undated (8 pages only, the rest are blank), some possibly for Sunset at Blandings.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 83 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/147 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel A, B and C (1970s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/147

Creation Date 1970s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Novel A, B and C (1970s)

Former External Reference BL76 OF99

Scope and Content Holograph notes headed 'Novels A', 'Novel B', and 'Novel C', undated (5 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/148 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Articles (1970s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/148

Creation Date 1970s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Articles (1970s)

Former External Reference BL94 OF117

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript (10 pages) and typescript drafts (2 pages) and notes for articles.

The pages headed 'The Sunday Telegraph' are probably for the article 'That Ninety Feeling', written for P.G. Wodehouse's 90th birthday, which appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 10 Oct 1971.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 84 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/1/149 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes on Punch ([1970s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/149

Creation Date [1970s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes on Punch ([1970s])

Former External Reference BL272

Scope and Content Photocopy of a single page of notes on Punch, undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/1/150 P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Absent Treatment and Others ([1970s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/1/150

Creation Date [1970s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Absent Treatment and Others ([1970s])

Former External Reference BL275

Scope and Content Photocopies of holograph and typed notes for stories, mainly for Absent Treatment, with some material for a Blandings project, undated (23 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 85 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Wartime Material (1939-2015)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2

Creation Date 1939-2015

Extent and Format 19 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Wartime Material (1939-2015)

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse during the Second World War and the controversy surrounding the broadcasts which Wodehosue made in 1941 from Berlin.

The files have been arranged chronologically.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/1 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Camp Diary Manuscript (1940-1941)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/1

Creation Date 1940-1941

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Camp Diary Manuscript (1940-1941)

Former External Reference BL180

Scope and Content Holograph manuscript of the 'Camp Diary', written by P.G. Wodehouse during internment, 21 Jul 1940-21 Jun 1941 (51 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 86 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/2 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Camp Diary Transcript (1940-1941)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/2

Creation Date 1940-1941

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Camp Diary Transcript (1940-1941)

Former External Reference BL180

Scope and Content Typed transcript of the 'Camp Diary', written by P.G. Wodehouse during his time at Loos Prison and Tost internment camp, 21 Jul 1940-21 Jun 1941 (68 pages).

The file also includes a photocopy of some notes written by P.G. Wodehosue on the back fly-leaf of his copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, during his internment. These notes are primarily a record of dates and significant events and include a note about his passport.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/3 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Berlin Broadcasts (1941-1954)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/3

Creation Date 1941-1954

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Berlin Broadcasts (1941-1954)

Former External Reference BL183

Scope and Content Material relating to the 5 Berlin Broadcasts made by P.G. Wodehouse including:

• copies of official transcripts of the broadcasts, provided by the German Foreign Office, and further typescript of the first broadcast including an introduction to it by the German Radio announcer, 1941; • issues number 13 and 14 of Encounter magazine, Oct and Nov 1954, which include a published version of the 5 Berlin Broadcasts, amended by Wodehouse from his notes and his memory.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 87 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/4 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Recollections of Events (1939-1998)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/4

Creation Date 1939-1998

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Recollections of Events (1939-1998)

Former External Reference BL181

Scope and Content Material relating to the immediate pre-war period through to 1945, including:

• letter from P.G. Wodehouse to 'Mollie', Mrs William Cazalet, written after receiving the Honorary Degree from the University of Oxford, with reference to the war, 10 Jul 1939; • photocopies of several pages of what appears to be a rough draft of P.G. Wodehouse’s 'Camp Book'. Some pages have been crossed out and the backs have been used to write notes for various fiction projects, dated 7 Jun-27 Jul 1942 (originals of these notes are in file Loan MS 129/1/124); • printout of a long letter from Ethel Wodehouse to Diana and Denis Mackail in which she describes at length her experiences dating back to 1939, 26 Jun 1945 (the original letter is in file Loan MS 129/4/118); • photocopy of handwritten memoir of life in Le Touquet by Jacqueline Powell, 17 Aug 1998, and printout of a transcript of it.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/5 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Interviews, Petition and Flannery (1940-1959)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/5

Creation Date 1940-1959

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Interviews, Petition and Flannery (1940-1959)

Former External Reference BL182

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's internment and the book Assignment to Berlin by Harry Flannery, including:

• typescript of Angus Thuermer's article about his interview with P.G. Wodehouse on 26 Dec 1940, copy of photograph of Angus Thuermer and Wodehouse taken at the interview, and photocopy of Thuermer's article from The New York Times, 27 Dec 1940; • photocopy of a page from the 'Apologia' written by P.G. Wodehouse in 1945 quoting a letter he received on 12 Jan 1941 from Mrs Demaree Bess which made him aware of the public pressure for his release before he was 60; • photocopy of a petition with signatories submitted to the German Embassy in Washington, USA, asking for Wodehouse’s release, dated Jun 1940, and photocopy of further draft copy of the written request; • photocopy of typescript of interview of P.G. Wodehouse by Harry Flannery on 29 Jun 1941; • correspondence with Harry Flannery concerning the accuracy of his recollections published in Assignment to Berlin (1942), including a letter from

Page 88 2018-02-02 Flannery to Richard Usborne, 31 May 1959, and a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Michael Joseph (publishers of Assignment to Berlin), 16 Jul 1945, and Flannery's reply to Wodehouse, 5 Sept 1945.

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Loan MS 129/2/6 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Cassandra and the Berlin Broadcasts (1941-1995)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/6

Creation Date 1941-1995

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Cassandra and the Berlin Broadcasts (1941-1995)

Former External Reference BL184

Scope and Content Material relating to the article 'The Price is?' by Cassandra (William Connor) published in the Daily Mirror on 28 Jun 1941, including:

• transcript of part of the article, which is a photocopy from P.G. Wodehouse. The Authorised Biography by Frances Donaldson, pages 230-231; • two pages from You Simply Hit Them With An Axe by Tony Ring (1995), referring to the lunch arranged by Duff Cooper for journalists as a result of which Cassandra made his broadcast on BBC radio; • transcript of the BBC broadcast to the UK by Cassandra 'P.G. Wodehouse and His Recent Doings', 15 Jul 1941; • duplicate transcript of the BBC broadcast by Cassandra on the North America transmission, 15/16 Jul 1941; • photocopies of extracts from BBC files concerning their doubts as to the appropriateness of transmitting the broadcasts, including subsequent comment on the broadcasts to the BBC by the public; • copies of letters between Cassandra and Duff Cooper, 7-23 Jul 1941, and between Cassandra and P.G. Wodehouse, 6 May 1958 to 31 May 1961; • copy of telegrams to P.G. Wodehouse regarding the broadcasts, one from Brian Aherne, 28 Jun 1941, and two from Wesley Stout, 28 Jun 1941 and 1 Jul 1941; • photocopy of 2 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Stout, 29 Nov 1941 and 11 May 1942, and of part of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Reynolds, 27 Nov 1941, all regarding sales of Wodehouse's books in America after the Berlin Broadcasts.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 89 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/7 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Cussen Report (1940- 1978)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/7

Creation Date 1940-1978

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Cussen Report (1940-1978)

Former External Reference BL186

Scope and Content Material relating to the Cussen Report on P.G. Wodehouse following an investigation on his actions in 1941, 28 Sept 1944, including:

• photocopy of the Cussen Report 'Re Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville', 28 Sept 1944; • photocopies of formal statements by P.G. Wodehouse, 9, 14 and 15 Sept 1944, Ethel Wodehouse, 12 and 15 Sept 1944, Dorothy Bess (correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post), 11 Sept 1944, Marcel Vidal (manager at the Hotel Bristol, Paris), 13 Sept 1944, Aage Lonholt-Ipsen (a Dane residing in Paris), undated, and Gustav Elm (a Swede journalist residing in Paris), 14 Sept 1944 (26 pages); • photocopies of documents comprising a report of an interview between Wodehouse and Angus Thuermer, 12 Dec 1940; a BBC report of a Radio Interview between Wodehouse and Flannery, 29 Jun 1941; the scripts of five broadcasts by Wodehouse from Berlin, Jun/Aug 1941; a letter from Wodehouse to the Foreign Office, 21 Nov 1942; and a letter from Wodehouse to the Home Secretary, 4 Sept 1944; • photocopies of minutes relating to the Home Office’s consideration of Major Cussen report, along with a statement by Freddie Kraus, an Austrian who had met Wodehouse in Berlin, which was made on 10 Jan 1945, too late to be referred to by Major Cussen, 1944-1945.

The file also contains correspondence between Richard Usborne and people to whom he asked to provide clarification of certain matters for use in his biography of Wodehouse, 29 Aug 1956-28 Sept 1966, with a note by Usborne about his communications with Major Cussen, 13 Mar 1978.

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Page 90 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/8 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Government Correspondence (1944)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/8

Creation Date 1944

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Government Correspondence (1944)

Former External Reference BL192 OF220

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence between various government officials dealing with the question of whether P.G. Wodehouse should be prosecuted, concluding that he should not be (10 letters), Sept-Nov 1944.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/9 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Legal Opinions (1946-2015)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/9

Creation Date 1946-2015

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Legal Opinions (1946-2015)

Former External Reference BL188

Scope and Content Material relating to the position of P.G. Wodehouse after the War and his possible visit to England in 1965, including:

• two legal opinions regarding P.G. Wodehouse position after the War, including legal fee notes, 1946, with background note from Sir Edward Cazalet, c. 2015. This is P.G. Wodehouse’s own copy of the documents and contain a comment written in his own hand on page 1 of the first document; • photocopy of the two legal opinions; • photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse concerning a planned visit to England for Sir Edward Cazalet's wedding, 27 Jan 1965, and a letter from Sir John Hobson to Edward Cazalet regarding possible consequences of P.G. Wodehouse's return to England, 25 Mar 1965. These letters are accompanied by a note by Sir Edward Cazalet explaining the context of the letters, 10 Feb 2015; • photocopy of the obituary of P.G. Wodehouse entitled 'Blithe Spirit' written by Richard Usborne published in The Sunday Times, 18 Feb 1975.

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Loan MS 129/2/10 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: UK (1942-1947)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/10

Creation Date 1942-1947

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: UK (1942-1947)

Former External Reference BL185

Scope and Content Letters relating to the position of P.G. Wodehouse in Britain after the Berlin Broadcasts, including:

• copies of two letters from P.G. Wodehouse to the British Foreign Office and the Home Secretary, giving his version of the events after his release from internment, 21 Nov 1942 and 4 Sept 1944; • copy of a letter from Hesketh Pearson to Sir Frank Soskice (Solicitor-General), forwarded with comments to the Attorney-General, asking them to put an end to the state of uncertainty of P.G. Wodehouse, 3 Aug 1947, and copy of a note from the Attorney-General to the Solicitor-General in reply to Pearson stating that 'It is extremely unlikely that we should prosecute Wodehouse if he returns to this country', 8 Aug 1947.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/11 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: USA (1947)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/11

Creation Date 1947

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: USA (1947)

Former External Reference BL191 OF218

Scope and Content Correspondence of Watson Washburn, P.G. Wodehouse's American lawyer, with the US War Department, 22 Mar 1947-7 May 1947 (4 letters), and with L.L. Brozek, undated (1 letter), concerning the question of whether or to what extent the content of the Berlin Broadcasts might be seen as anti-Nazi.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 92 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/12 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Letters (1940-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/12

Creation Date 1940-1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Letters (1940-1977)

Former External Reference BL187

Scope and Content Correspondence relating to P.G. Wodehouse's internment and his position after the Berlin Broadcasts, including:

• copies of letters from Gladwyn Jebb to Mrs Cazalet-Keir, Mrs Cazalet-Keir to Anthony Eden, Ethel Wodehouse to Mrs Cazalet-Keir, Geoffrey Allchin to Mrs Cazalet-Keir, regarding P.G. Wodhouse's position during the War and immediately after, 31 May 1940-8 Feb 1945; • transcript of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse written on 25 Nov 1944 but only delivered in 1977, with covering letter explaining the delay, 12 Jul 1977; • four letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Mrs Cazalet-Keir, 1945-1946, regarding his visa to go to the US, and one to Peter Cazalet with the latest news, 1945; • copy of a letter from Scott Feldman (Scott Meredith) to [a newspaper] with a copy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Feldman regarding the Berlin Broadcasts and the sale of his books after that, 1945; • letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Doubleday of Doubleday and Company about the postponement of the publication of his 'Camp Book', 11 Mar 1946 and 28 Mar 1946; • letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Hesketh Pearson during the war and up to the day of P.G. Wodehouse’s departure for USA, 12 Nov 1944 to 17 Apr 1947; • copies of correspondence between Hesketh Pearson and the Solicitor General concerning a basis on which P.G. Wodehouse might be able to return to the UK, between 19 Jul 1947 and 12 Aug 1947.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 93 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/13 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Ziman and Iain Sproat (1945-1999)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/13

Creation Date 1945-1999

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Ziman and Iain Sproat (1945-1999)

Former External Reference BL189

Scope and Content Correspondence concerning P.G. Wodehouse’s wartime experiences, including:

• photocopy of a letter from David Maxwell-Fyfe (Home Secretary) to Thelma Cazalet-Keir regarding possible proceedings against P.G. Wodehouse should he return to England, 20 May 1952, with a photocopy of related pages from Iain Sproat’s Wodehouse At War and of an article in The Times Literary Supplement about the book, 1999; • photocopies of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and H.D. Ziman relating to the manuscript of P.G. Wodehouse's 'Camp Book' and Ziman's feedback on it (4 letters), 1945.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/14 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Late Material (1940- 2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/14

Creation Date 1940-2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Late Material (1940-2003)

Former External Reference BL190 OF216

Scope and Content Later correspondence concerning P.G. Wodehouse’s wartime experiences, including:

• transcript of a letter from Erik A Thomsen to Sven Sahlin, President of the Swedish P.G. Wodehouse Society, stating that Hitler detested P.G. Wodehouse, sent to Sir Edward Cazalet by Tony Ring, 8 Nov 2000; • photocopy of Iain Sproat’s article entitled 'In All Innocence' in The Times Literary Supplement, 1999; • photocopies of the Tost Times and Advertiser which includes a story by P.G. Wodehouse 'All's Well with Bingo', 1 Jun 1941, together with an article about it from Wooster Sauce, Jun 2003; • photocopy of the Internees’ Souvenir Hymnal, Dec 1940.

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Loan MS 129/2/15 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Articles (1941-2015)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/15

Creation Date 1941-2015

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Articles (1941-2015)

Former External Reference BL179

Scope and Content Articles written by P.G. Wodehosue and others during the War and after the Berlin Broadcasts, including:

• printout of article 'Wodehouse’s Actions During the War – Put In Context' from the website of The P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK), Mar 2015; • photocopy of 'Apologia' by P.G. Wodehouse, 1945, with a short introduction written by Tony Ring; • typescript draft entitled 'Now That I’ve Turned Both Cheeks', a draft of the first part of the 'Apologia', 1945; • typescript draft entitled 'Whither Wodehouse', an early draft of the article written by P.G. Wodehouse for the Saturday Evening Post and photocopy of the published article 'My War With Germany', 19 Jul 1941; • letter by P.G. Wodehouse to The Alleynian, published in Jul 1945; • photocopy of article 'I’ve Been a Silly Ass', in Illustrated, 7 Dec 1946; • photocopy of article 'My Year Behind Barbed Wire', in Cosmopolitan, Oct 1941.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/16 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: The Alleynian (1944-1945)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/16

Creation Date 1944-1945

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: The Alleynian (1944-1945)

Former External Reference BL296

Scope and Content Typescript of letters published in The Alleynian regarding the Berlin broadcats, Feb, Jun, and Jul 1944, and photocopy of P.G. Wodehouse’s letter giving his full explanation, published in the Jul 1945 issue.

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Loan MS 129/2/17 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: George Orwell (1945)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/17

Creation Date 1945

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: George Orwell (1945)

Former External Reference BL314

Scope and Content The Windmill, Vol. 1, no. 2 (1945), containing George Orwell’s essay 'In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/2/18 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Evelyn Waugh (1961)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/18

Creation Date 1961

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Evelyn Waugh (1961)

Former External Reference BL455

Scope and Content Original transcript of Evelyn Waugh’s radio broadcast 'P. G. Wodehouse: An Act of Homage and Reparation', BBC Home Service, 15 Jul 1961.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 96 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/2/19 P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Inventory (2014)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/2/19

Creation Date 2014

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Inventory (2014)

Former External Reference BL179a

Scope and Content Introductory notes to the Wartime Material (files Loan MS 129/2/1-18), including a Calendar of Important Occurrences in and around the years of the Second World War. Written by Sir Edward Cazalet.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Theatrical and Cinematic Work (1905-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3

Creation Date 1905-2008

Extent and Format 22 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Theatrical and Cinematic Work (1905-2008)

Scope and Content Papers relating to theatrical and cinematic work with which P.G. Wodehouse was involved, including a selection of published programmes of various productions.

The material has been arranged in sub-series by type (i.e. sheet music, vocal score, notes, scripts) and by date within subseries.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 97 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/1-8 P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Sheet Music (1906-1928)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/1-8

Creation Date 1906-1928

Extent and Format 8 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Sheet Music (1906-1928)

Scope and Content Collection of photocopies of P.G. Wodehouse sheet music.

The photocopies are filed in alphabetical order by the title of the play, with songs from each play filed as a group.

The files have been arranged chronologically.

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Loan MS 129/3/1 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 1 (1906-1923)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/1

Creation Date 1906-1923

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 1 (1906-1923)

Former External Reference BL282

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Ask Dad (1918), The Beauty of Bath (1906), and The Beauty Prize (1923).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 98 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/2 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 2 (1917-1922)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/2

Creation Date 1917-1922

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 2 (1917-1922)

Former External Reference BL283

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from The Cabaret Girl (1919-1922), The Canary (1918), and The Guy Gordons (1917).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/3 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 3 (1916-1921)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/3

Creation Date 1916-1921

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 3 (1916-1921)

Former External Reference BL284

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from The Golden Moth (1921) and Have a Heart (1916).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 99 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/4 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 4 (1917-1919)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/4

Creation Date 1917-1919

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 4 (1917-1919)

Former External Reference BL285

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Kissing Time (1919) and Leave It to Jane (1917).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/5 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 5 (1916-1926)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/5

Creation Date 1916-1926

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 5 (1916-1926)

Former External Reference BL286

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Little Miss Springtime (1917), Miss 1917 (1917), The Nightingale (1926), and Oh Boy! When I Met You (1917), My Castle in the Air (1916).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 100 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/6 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 6 (1917-1919)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/6

Creation Date 1917-1919

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 6 (1917-1919)

Former External Reference BL287

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Oh Lady! Lady! (1918), Oh, My Dear! (1919), and The Riviera Girl (1917).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/7 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 7 (1919-1928)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/7

Creation Date 1919-1928

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 7 (1919-1928)

Former External Reference BL288

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Rosalie (1928), The Rose of China (1919), and See You Later (1919).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 101 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/8 P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 8 (1924-1927)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/8

Creation Date 1924-1927

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Sheet Music: Part 8 (1924-1927)

Former External Reference BL289

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse sheet music from Show Boat (1927) and Sitting Pretty (1924).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/9-10 P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Vocal Scores (1919-1921)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/9-10

Creation Date 1919-1921

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Vocal Scores (1919-1921)

Scope and Content Original vocal score of musical plays by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 102 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/9 P.G. Wodehouse Vocal Score: Kissing Time (1919)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/9

Creation Date 1919

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Vocal Score: Kissing Time (1919)

Former External Reference BL452

Scope and Content Original vocal score publication of Kissing Time, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, music by Ivan Caryll (London: Chappell, 1919).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/10 P.G. Wodehouse Vocal Score: The Golden Moth (1921)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/10

Creation Date 1921

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Vocal Score: The Golden Moth (1921)

Former External Reference BL451

Scope and Content Original vocal score publication of The Golden Moth, book by Fred Thompson and P.G. Wodehouse, music by Ivor Novello (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, 1921).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 103 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/11-13 P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Notes (1968-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/11-13

Creation Date 1968-1969

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Notes (1968-1969)

Scope and Content Holograph and types notes for song lyrics and musical plays by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/3/11 P.G. Wodehouse Notes: Part 1 (1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/11

Creation Date 1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Notes: Part 1 (1968)

Former External Reference BL81 OF104

Scope and Content Typed notes and outline, by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, for Betting on Bertie, here entitled 'Leave it to Larry'.

These notes are probably from c. 1968, when Bolton and Wodehouse thought Tommy Steele was interested in playing the lead.

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Page 104 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/12 P.G. Wodehouse Notes: Part 2 (1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/12

Creation Date 1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Notes: Part 2 (1968)

Former External Reference BL82 BL105

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for song lyrics, including 'All’s Well That Ends Well' and 'You’re Here and I’m Here', undated (24 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/13 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Theatrical and Cinematic Work - Notes Part 3 (late 1960s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/13

Creation Date late 1960s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Theatrical and Cinematic Work - Notes Part 3 (late 1960s)

Former External Reference BL83 OF106

Scope and Content Holograph and typed notes for lyrics and scenes of Betting on Bertie including 'The Days of the Knights' (used) and discarded lyrics, undated [after 1966] (9 pages).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 105 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/14-20 P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Scripts (1905-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/14-20

Creation Date 1905-2008

Extent and Format 7 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Scripts (1905-2008)

Scope and Content Scripts of plays, films and musical plays to which P.G. Wodehouse collaborated.

The files have been arranged in chronological order.

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Loan MS 129/3/14 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Cricketing (1905)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/14

Creation Date 1905

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Cricketing (1905)

Former External Reference BL398

Scope and Content Photocopy of typescript of playlet entitled 'Cricketing' by Herbert W. Westbrook and P.G. Wodehouse, with autograph note on the front page 'Please Return to P.G. Wodehouse at the Theatre W.', c.1905.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 106 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/15 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Plays (1928-1956)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/15

Creation Date 1928-1956

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Plays (1928-1956)

Former External Reference BL155 OF178

Scope and Content Published scripts of A Damsel in Distress, by Ian Hay and P.G. Wodehouse (Samuel French, [c. 1928]), and Come on, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton (London: Evans Brothers, 1956), with handwritten annotations by actress who probably played Lady Carmoyle.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/16 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Those Three French Girls (1930)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/16

Creation Date 1930

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Those Three French Girls (1930)

Former External Reference BL419 BL399

Scope and Content Bound carbon copy of the filmscript of Those Three French Girls, with dialogue by P.G. Wodehouse, dated 8 Jul 1930.

The copy includes an handwritten note stating that this was the only film to which P.G. Wodehouse contributed substantially during his screenwriting time in Hollywood.

The file also includes a photocopy of the script.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 107 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/17 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Rosalie (1930-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/17

Creation Date 1930-2008

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Rosalie (1930-2008)

Former External Reference BL466

Scope and Content Photocopies of material from the MGM archives relating to the film Rosalie, to which P.G. Wodehouse contributed during both periods during which he worked in Hollywood. The first 8 pages consist of 'Notes on Story Conference' dictated by Irving Thalberg (one of the main unit producers at MGM in the 1930s), dated 18 Oct 1930. It presents a detailed plot synopsis. The rest consists of 57 pages of the original 117 pages of the script, dated 16 Aug 1930.

The material is accompanied by a cover letter from Tony Staveacre, of Tony Staveacre Productions for BBC Radio 4, to Sir Edward Cazalet regarding the script of Rosalie and the progress of a production of a radio play on P.G. and Ethel Wodehouse in Hollywood, 19 Nov 2008.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/18 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: The Riviera Girl (1930-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/18

Creation Date 1930-2008

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: The Riviera Girl (1930-2008)

Former External Reference BL465

Scope and Content Photocopy of some revised draft pages of script for the The Riviera Girl musical, including:

• title page, with the working title 'Love’s Summertime' crossed out and substituted with The Riviera Girl, with book and lyrics credited to Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse; • page with copyright-deposit stamp and date, 3 Aug 1917; • page with cast of characters; • page with 'Synopsis of scenes'; • first three pages of Act I.

The file also includes a cover sheet with a stamp 'Reproduced from the Collections of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress'.

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Loan MS 129/3/19 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Win with Wooster ([1966])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/19

Creation Date [1966]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Win with Wooster ([1966])

Former External Reference BL149 OF172

Scope and Content Clean copy of typescript of script of 'Win with Wooster', play by P.G. Wodehouse, c. 1966.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/20 P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Betting on Bertie (1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/20

Creation Date 1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Scripts: Betting on Bertie (1977)

Former External Reference BL150 OF173

Scope and Content Bound copy of clean typescript of script for Betting on Bertie, musical comedy by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, music by Robert Wright and George Forrest, 1977 (2 copies).

The musical was written in 1967 and revised thereafter.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 109 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/21-22 P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Additional Material (1919-1931)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/21-22

Creation Date 1919-1931

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Theatrical and Cinematic Work: Additional Material (1919-1931)

Scope and Content Additional material relating to theatrical and cinematic work by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/3/21 P.G. Wodehouse Additional Material: The Play Pictorial (1919-1921)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/21

Creation Date 1919-1921

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Additional Material: The Play Pictorial (1919-1921)

Former External Reference BL330

Scope and Content Two issues of The Play Pictorial, no. 207 (1919) and no. 236 (1921). They include details about cast, credits, and pictures for Kissing Time and Sally, plays which P.G. Wodehouse contributed to.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 110 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/3/22 P.G. Wodehouse Additional Material: Contract (1931)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/3/22

Creation Date 1931

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Additional Material: Contract (1931)

Former External Reference BL436

Scope and Content Photocopy of Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse’s signed contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for If I Were You, 1 Jun 1931.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence (1899-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4

Creation Date 1899-2010

Extent and Format 126 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence (1899-2010)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and family members, friends, fellow authors, theatrical colleagues, publishers, agents and fans, and correspondence about Wodehouse and his work.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 111 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/1-105 Correspondence to and from P.G. Wodehouse (1899- 2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/1-105

Creation Date 1899-2010

Extent and Format 105 files

Title Correspondence to and from P.G. Wodehouse (1899-2010)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and family members, friends, fellow authors, theatrical colleagues, publishers, agents and fans.

The material has been arranged alphabetically by the name of the correspondent. Files containing letters from more than one correspondents have been placed at the end of the series.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/1-11 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Bolton, Guy (1930- 1976)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/1-11

Creation Date 1930-1976

Extent and Format 11 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Bolton, Guy (1930-1976)

Scope and Content Photocopies of letters between P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton.

The letters contain information on their collaborations and Wodehouse's current writing projects, as well as personal and professional news. A few letters contain annotations made later by Bolton in relation to his claims concerning rights in his and Wodehouse's various collaborative works.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 112 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/1 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 1 (1930-1948)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/1

Creation Date 1930-1948

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 1 (1930-1948)

Former External Reference BL1 OF1

Scope and Content Photocopies of 30 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton, written before the Second World War from California (1930 and 1937) and Le Toquet (1939) and after the War from Paris (1945-1947) and New York (1947-1948), and a photocopy of one letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Virginia Bolton, 11 Nov 1947.

The letters concern Bolton and Wodehouse collaboration, Wodehouse work in Hollywood, the play The Code of the Wooster, the petition set up by Bolton to release Wodehouse from internment, the post war period in Paris and the difficulties relating to the Berlin Broadcasts, publication of Wodehouse's novels after the War, difficulties of Wodehouse in obtaining a visa to go back to the US, his return to the US and his work there.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/2 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 2 (1948-1949)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/2

Creation Date 1948-1949

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 2 (1948-1949)

Former External Reference BL2 OF3

Scope and Content Photocopies of 32 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton regarding their collaborations, Wodehouse's current writing projects, the latest Broadway productions, work opportunities, Wodehouse's financial affairs, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs, 15 May 1948-17 Nov 1949.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 113 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/3 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 3 (1950-1952)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/3

Creation Date 1950-1952

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 3 (1950-1952)

Former External Reference BL3 OF4

Scope and Content Photocopies of 26 letters and 1 telegram from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton regarding their collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, Wodehouse's current writing projects, story plots, the latest Broadway and London productions, work opportunities and offers received, Wodehouse's financial affairs, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs, 29 Jan 1950-21 Jan 1952.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/4 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 4 (1952-1954)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/4

Creation Date 1952-1954

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 4 (1952-1954)

Former External Reference BL4 OF5

Scope and Content Photocopies of 35 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton regarding their latest play, their book Bring on the Girls and a possible film based on it, Wodehouse's latest novel Ring for Jeeves, Bolton's latest musical, the latest Broadway productions, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs, 6 Feb 1952-24 Feb 1954.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 114 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/5 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 5 (1954-1959)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/5

Creation Date 1954-1959

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 5 (1954-1959)

Former External Reference BL5 OF6

Scope and Content Photocopies of 44 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton, 26 Feb 1954-16 Oct 1959, and one letter to Virginia Bolton, 13 Feb 1956.

The letters concern Wodehouse and Bolton collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, Wodehouse's novel French Leave, the revival of Leave it to Jane and Oh, Kay!, story plots, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/6 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 6 (1961-1962)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/6

Creation Date 1961-1962

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 6 (1961-1962)

Former External Reference BL6 OF7

Scope and Content Photocopies of 22 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton, 14 May 1961-12 Aug 1962.

The letters concern Wodehouse and Bolton collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, Evelyn Waugh's BBC programme regarding the Berlin Broadcasts, an American version of Performing Flea, the revival of Anything Goes and the revised lyrics of You're The Top, Bolton's novel The Enchantress, Wodehouse's latest writing projects, story plots, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 115 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/7 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 7 (1963-1965)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/7

Creation Date 1963-1965

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 7 (1963-1965)

Former External Reference BL7 OF8

Scope and Content Photocopies of 26 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton, 4 Feb 1963-21 Aug 1965.

The letters concern Wodehouse and Bolton collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, Bolton's novel The Enchantress, Wodehouse's latest writing projects, story plots, Bolton's musical Anya, the BBC series The World of Wooster with Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price, a possible Jeeves and Wooster play with Ian Carmichael, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/8 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 8 (1965-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/8

Creation Date 1965-1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 8 (1965-1969)

Former External Reference BL8 OF9

Scope and Content Photocopies of 37 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton, 30 Aug 1965-3 Dec 1969.

The letters concern Wodehouse and Bolton collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, Wodehouse's latest writing projects, story plots, Bolton's play Anastasia, a possible Jeeves and Wooster musical, as well as personal news including updates on Wodehouse's wife Ethel and his dogs.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 116 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/9 P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 9 (1971-1976)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/9

Creation Date 1971-1976

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Guy Bolton - Part 9 (1971-1976)

Former External Reference BL9 OF10

Scope and Content Photocopies of 32 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bolton, 16 Apr 1971-18 Sep 1974.

The letters concern Wodehouse and Bolton's collaborations, shares of profits from their works and royalty payments due to Bolton, plot, producers, staff and music for the Jeeves musical, Wodehouse's latest writing projects, Wodehouse's health, the book written in Wodehouse's honour with contributions by fellow authors in 1973, as well as personal news.

The file also includes:

• photocopies of 3 pages of draft lyrics for musicals; • photocopy of article by Guy Bolton 'Unforgettable P.G. Wodehouse' in Readers Digest, Feb 1976; • original typescript of Wodehouse's answers to 7 questions about his life by Guy Bolton, [1962].

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/10 Guy Bolton to P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1937-1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/10

Creation Date 1937-1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Guy Bolton to P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1937-1972)

Former External Reference BL11 OF12

Scope and Content Photocopies of 8 letters from Guy Bolton to P.G. Wodehouse. One is dated 23 Feb 1937, the other 7 are dated between late 1960s to Oct 1972, often with no year given.

The letters concern attempts to get the Jeeves musical and other plays produced, as well as personal matters.

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Loan MS 129/4/11 Guy Bolton to P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 ([late 1960s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/11

Creation Date [late 1960s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Guy Bolton to P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 ([late 1960s])

Former External Reference BL12 OF13

Scope and Content Typed preliminary notes for Lido Lady, written by Bolton and sent to P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/12 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Christie, Agatha (1969-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/12

Creation Date 1969-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Christie, Agatha (1969-1975)

Former External Reference BL471

Scope and Content Six letters (five holograph and one typed) and one copy of a telegram from Agatha Christie to P.G. Wodehouse, 16 Oct 1969-3 Jan 1975.

The letters concern the dedication of Hallowe'en Party to Wodehouse, their latest books and personal news.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 118 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/13 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Citrine, Walter McLennan (1960-1985)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/13

Creation Date 1960-1985

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Citrine, Walter McLennan (1960-1985)

Former External Reference BL260

Scope and Content Sotheby’s catalogue 'English Literature and History', describing item 203, a set of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Lord Citrine, 18 Dec 1985 (purchased by James Heinemen), and photocopies of the correspondence (29 letters), 17 Mar 1960 to 20 Jan 1971, and Christmas cards, 1965-1972.

The letters concern Wodehouse's early stories in The Captain, Acton's Feud and its author Frederick Swainson, their health and daily exercises, the plot of Wodehouse's latest Blandings Castle novel, his libel action against the Evening Standard for their defamatory article, the BBC Jeeves TV series, Lord Citrine's books Men and Work and Two Careers, the Jeeves musical, the possibility of public recognition of Wodehouse's literary merits, Tolstoy collection of bound volumes of The Captain, and Wodhouse's latest books.

The file also contain two letters from Harold Wilson to Lord Citrine concerning the possibility of recommending P.G. Wodehouse for a Companion of Honour, 1967-1968, and the sale of the letters, 17 May 1984.

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Loan MS 129/4/14 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Fonscolombe, Benoît de (1942-1963)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/14

Creation Date 1942-1963

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Fonscolombe, Benoît de (1942-1963)

Former External Reference BL473

Scope and Content Photocopies of 15 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Benoît de Fonscolombe, his French translator of the period 1942 to 1950s, 24 Sept 1942 to 31 Dec 1947, relating to translation of Wodehouse's books into French and sale of his books in Germany, sales of his books and writing projects after his move to New York, sales of his stories for films in France, Wodehouse's financial affairs, and personal news.

The file also includes photocopies of a letter from Wodehouse to M. le Bar, giving permission to translate Hot water into French, 24 Apr 1942, and of a letter from A. P. Watt to de Fonscolombe relating to French rights of Wodehouse's books, 18 Jun 1963.

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Loan MS 129/4/15 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Gershwin, Ira (1928- 1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/15

Creation Date 1928-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Gershwin, Ira (1928-1975)

Former External Reference BL319

Scope and Content Photocopies of 35 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Ira Gershwin, 4 from Gershwin to P.G. Wodehouse, 2 from Ethel Wodehouse to Gershwin (one after Wodehouse's death) and several undated Christmas cards with notes. One letter is dated 8 Nov 1928, the others date between 23 Dec 1945 and 9 Jan 1975.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest writing projects, him being placed on the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), changes in lyrics of modern songs, the possibility of Wodehouse to start writing lyrics again after the War, perception of Wodehouse's in the US after the Berlin broadcasts, Gershwin's latest shows, reminiscences of the old days, Wodehouse's financial affairs, plots for Wodehouse's stories, Wodehouse's visa, collaborative work of Bolton and Wodehouse, Gershwin's book Lyrics on Several Occasions, the revival of Oh, Kay! and Girl Crazy.

The file also includes:

• two letters between Ira Gershwin and Bly Production regarding the lyrics of songs in Oh, Kay!, being credited to Wodehouse, not him, Apr 1960; • some undated draft lyrics, apparently for Oh, Kay! and Rosalie with a handwritten note stating that they weren't used.

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Page 120 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/16 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Herbert Jenkins (1951-1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/16

Creation Date 1951-1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Herbert Jenkins (1951-1973)

Former External Reference BL322

Scope and Content Photocopies of 21 letters between P.G. Wodehouse and his editors at Herbert Jenkins (later Barrie & Jenkins, now Century-Hutchinson), J.D. Grimsdick and Christopher Maclehose, 1 Oct 1951-26 Jun 1973.

The letters concern reduction of Wodehouse's royalty on his books and book prices, his latest novelette, the re-issuing of a Jeeves omnibus, the short stories collection Plum Pie, the BBC series The World of Wooster, finding an actor for the Jeeves play, and Bachelors Anonymous.

The file also includes photocopies of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to a Miss Fletcher concerning the typing of a manuscript, 4 May 1972, and an undated Christmas card from P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/4/17-19 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Mackail, Denis (1921-1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/17-19

Creation Date 1921-1970

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Mackail, Denis (1921-1970)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Denis Mackail.

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Page 121 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/17 From P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail - Part 1 (1921- 1950)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/17

Creation Date 1921-1950

Extent and Format 1 file

Title From P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail - Part 1 (1921-1950)

Former External Reference BL320

Scope and Content 55 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail, 13 May 1921-19 Jul 1935 and 4 Jun 1945-25 Dec 1950, and photocopy of one letter from Ethel to Mackail, 4 Jan 1945.

The letters contain complimentary remarks on Mackail's latest books and information on Wodehouse’s latest projects and comments on his technique and style, complaints about negative reviews of their books, details about Wodehouse's financial affairs, opinions on contemporary writers and books, information on his time in France after internment, mentions to Don Iddon's Diary in the Daily Mail, news about publication of Wodehouse's 'Camp Book' and his novels in England after the War, explanation of issues with Wodehouse's typewriting, news about his daughter Leonora, the dogs and the parrot, as well as other personal news.

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Loan MS 129/4/18 From P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail - Part 2 (1951- 1963)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/18

Creation Date 1951-1963

Extent and Format 1 file

Title From P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail - Part 2 (1951-1963)

Former External Reference BL321

Scope and Content 55 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Denis Mackail, 25 Mar 1951-18 Jun 1963.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest books, his collaborative work with Guy Bolton, other contemporary authors, Wodehouse's financial affairs and sales of his books, the purchase of the house in Remsenburg, Wodehouse's typewriters, story plots and Wodehouse's difficulties in writing as he gets older, their dogs, their health, and family news.

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Page 122 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/19 From Denis Mackail to P.G. Wodehouse (1941-1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/19

Creation Date 1941-1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title From Denis Mackail to P.G. Wodehouse (1941-1970)

Former External Reference BL20 OF25

Scope and Content 8 letters from Denis Mackail to P.G. Wodehouse, 17 Mar 1955 to 26 Feb 1956.

The letters concern other contemporary authors, Wodehouse's autobiography Over Seventy and his latest books, Mackail's books, Richard Usborne's book about Wodehouse, the dogs, and personal news.

The file also includes an information sheet about Mackail taken from Who's Who 1970, and a letter from Denis Mackail to Leonora Cazalet regarding Wodehouse's internment and his means of corresponding with Leonora, 23 Jun 1941.

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Loan MS 129/4/20 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Meredith, Scott (1944-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/20

Creation Date 1944-1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Meredith, Scott (1944-1969)

Former External Reference BL33 OF44

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Scott Meredith (born Scott Feldman), including:

• letter from Scott Feldman to P.G. Wodehouse, 10 Dec 1944; • typescript of extracts from two letters from Feldman to Wodehouse, 17 Aug and 15 Oct 1945, all expressing admiration for his work; • 4 letters (3 original, 1 photocopy) from Scott Meredith to P.G. Wodehouse regarding publications of his articles [1950s].

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Page 123 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/21 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: O'Sullivan, Maureen (1944-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/21

Creation Date 1944-1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: O'Sullivan, Maureen (1944-1969)

Former External Reference BL435

Scope and Content Photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Maureen [O’Sullivan] in response to her birthday telegram, 22 Oct 1961.

Wodehouse mentions receiving a phone call from Maureen's husband, John Farrow, for his birthday and congratulates Maureen on her latest play.

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Loan MS 129/4/22 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Rubinstein, Hilary (1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/22

Creation Date 1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Rubinstein, Hilary (1972)

Former External Reference BL34 OF45

Scope and Content Photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Hilary Rubinstein, 24 Aug 1972, concerning sale to Souvenir publishers of his early works, with cover letter from Susan J. Fletcher of Barrie & Jenkins to Richard Usborne, 11 Sept 1972.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 124 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/23-24 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Schwed, Peter (1955-1996)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/23-24

Creation Date 1955-1996

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Schwed, Peter (1955-1996)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Peter Schwed, his American editor at Simon & Schuster and close friend.

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Loan MS 129/4/23 Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1956- 1996)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/23

Creation Date 1956-1996

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1956-1996)

Former External Reference BL396

Scope and Content Photocopies of 22 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Peter Schwed and 3 letters from Schwed to P.G. Wodehouse, 11 Dec 1956 to 27 Dec 1974, regarding Wodehouse's work in progress and personal news.

The letters are accompanied by brief typescripts by Schwed giving information on the letters.

The photocopies were sent to Sir Edward Cazalet for a proposal by Schwed of a publication of the letters by the Wodehouse Society. The file includes the cover letter from Linda Shaughnessy of A.P. Watt to Sir Edward describing the project, 26 Jan 1996.

The file also includes a photocopy of Wodehouse's obituary written by Schwed in The New Your Times and of the article by Schwed Wodehouse's Editor: A Painless Job.

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Page 125 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/24 Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 (1955- 1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/24

Creation Date 1955-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 (1955-1974)

Former External Reference BL430

Scope and Content Photocopies of 20 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Peter Schwed, 18 Apr 1955 to 11 Nov 1974, and one letter from Schwed to P.G. Wodehouse, 9 Jul 1973.

The letters concern the editing and publication of American editions of his books, including Over Seventy, Performing Flea, Much Obliged, Jeeves and Bachelors Anonymous, publicity, reviews and sales of his work, other contemporary authors' work, and personal news.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/25-51 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Simon & Schuster (1938-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/25-51

Creation Date 1938-1975

Extent and Format 27 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Simon & Schuster (1938-1975)

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Simon and Schuster, his American publishers, regarding publication of his work in the US.

Also included are photocopies of correspondence between Simon and Schuster and Scott Meredith, Wodehouse's literary agent, Barrie & Jenkins, his English publisher, and fans.

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Page 126 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/25 Simon & Schuster - Bring on the Girls! (1953-1955)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/25

Creation Date 1953-1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Bring on the Girls! (1953-1955)

Former External Reference BL199 OF227

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence between Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse (12 letters) relating to the editing, publication and sales of the American edition of Bring on the Girls! (1953), 8 Apr 1953-8 Dec 1954.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter from Peter Schwed to Guy Bolton regarding a book to commemorate the 10th anniversary since Jerome Kern's death with text from Bring on the Girls!, 13 Apr 1955.

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Loan MS 129/4/26 Simon & Schuster - The Return of Jeeves (1954)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/26

Creation Date 1954

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Return of Jeeves (1954)

Former External Reference BL217 OF245

Scope and Content Photocopies of a press release and a newspaper advert for the launch of The Return of Jeeves (1954), marked 'for PGW', May 1954.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 127 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/27 Simon & Schuster - America, I Like You (1955-1958)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/27

Creation Date 1955-1958

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - America, I Like You (1955-1958)

Former External Reference BL195 OF223

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (39 letters) relating to the editing and publication of America, I Like You (1956), 25 Jul 1955-20 Apr 1956, and stocking the British Book Centre in New York with copies the UK edition of the book, entitled Over Seventy (1957), 6 Dec 1957-15 Jan 1958 (3 letters).

The file also includes photocopies of press clippings and two Simon & Schuster editorial reports relating to the book, Aug 1955.

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Loan MS 129/4/28 Simon & Schuster - The Butler Did It (1956-1957)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/28

Creation Date 1956-1957

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Butler Did It (1956-1957)

Former External Reference BL201 OF229

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse, Scott Meredith and editors at Simon & Schuster (21 letters) relating to the editing, publication, promotion, distribution and French translation of The Butler Did It (1957), 11 Jun 1956-17 Apr 1957.

The file also includes press clippings relating to the book.

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Page 128 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/29 Simon & Schuster - Cocktail Time (1957-1958)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/29

Creation Date 1957-1958

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Cocktail Time (1957-1958)

Former External Reference BL203 OF231

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (9 letters) relating to Cocktail Time (1958), 7 Oct 1957-2 Oct 1958, and of production material including Peter Schwed's editorial report, 30 Oct 1957, and a 'pass for press' form, 27 Jan 1958.

The file also includes a photocopy of a caricature of P.G. Wodehouse, signed 'Val'.

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Loan MS 129/4/30 Simon & Schuster - A Few Quick Ones (1958-1959)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/30

Creation Date 1958-1959

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - A Few Quick Ones (1958-1959)

Former External Reference BL205 OF233

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (4 letters) relating to the editing and publication of A Few Quick Ones (1959), 9 Jan-25 Mar 1959, and production and publicity material, including a 'pass for press' form, 20 Nov 1958, a copyright information form and a review for Kirkus, 15 Feb 1959.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter from a reader to Simon and Schuster complaining that the story 'Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot' had already appeared in Carry On, Jeeves as 'Fixing it for Freddy', 18 May 1959.

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Page 129 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/31 Simon & Schuster - French Leave (1955-1959)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/31

Creation Date 1955-1959

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - French Leave (1955-1959)

Former External Reference BL206 OF234

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (17 letters) relating to the publication and promotion of French Leave (1959), 31 Mar 1955-16 Oct 1959, and of production material, including an editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 21 Mar 1955, and a 'pass for press' form, 14 Apr 1959.

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Loan MS 129/4/32 Simon & Schuster - How Right You Are, Jeeves (1959- 1960)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/32

Creation Date 1959-1960

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - How Right You Are, Jeeves (1959-1960)

Former External Reference BL209 OF237

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (4 letters) relating to How Right You Are, Jeeves (1960), 2 Jun 1959-15 Jan 1960, and of an editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 6 May 1959.

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Page 130 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/33 Simon & Schuster - The Most of P.G. Wodehouse (1959- 1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/33

Creation Date 1959-1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Most of P.G. Wodehouse (1959-1973)

Former External Reference BL212 OF240

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (22 letters) relating to The Most of P. G. Wodehouse (1960), 9 Nov 1959-28 Nov 1960, and of production material including the proposal to publish form and manufacturing cost analysis, Nov 1959.

The file also includes photocopies of correspondence relating to a paperback reprint of the book, 12-22 Aug 1969, and photocopies of 8 pages of an handwritten list of P.G. Wodehouse correspondence, undated.

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Loan MS 129/4/34 Simon & Schuster - The Ice in the Bedroom (1960)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/34

Creation Date 1960

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Ice in the Bedroom (1960)

Former External Reference BL210 OF238

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (3 letters) relating to The Ice in the Bedroom (1961), 3-9 May 1960, and of production material including the proposal to publish form, 9 May 1960.

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Page 131 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/35 Simon & Schuster - Service with a Smile (1961)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/35

Creation Date 1961

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Service with a Smile (1961)

Former External Reference BL218 OF246

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (5 letters) relating to Service with a Smile (1961), 6 Feb-19 Mar 1961, and of production material including the proposal to publish form and an editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 6 Feb 1961.

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Loan MS 129/4/36 Simon & Schuster - Author, Author! (1955-1962)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/36

Creation Date 1955-1962

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Author, Author! (1955-1962)

Former External Reference BL196 OF224

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (38 letters) relating to the editing, promotion and publication of Author, Author! (1962), 31 Mar 1955-15 Aug 1962.

The file also includes photocopies of an agenda for a meeting between Scott Meredith, Peter Schwed and P.G. Wodehouse, 15 Aug [1961], and of a review of the book by John Barkham.

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Page 132 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/37 Simon & Schuster - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1962)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/37

Creation Date 1962

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1962)

Former External Reference BL219 OF247

Scope and Content Photocopies of production material and publicity relating to Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963) including the editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 21 May 1962, the proposal to publish form, 22 May 1962, and the publisher's preview of the book, May 1962.

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Loan MS 129/4/38 Simon & Schuster - Biffen's Millions (1963-1964)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/38

Creation Date 1963-1964

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Biffen's Millions (1963-1964)

Former External Reference BL198 OF226

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (12 letters) relating to Biffen's Millions (1964), 24 Jul 1963-2 Sep 1964, and of production and publicity material including the editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 30 Jul 1963, and the publisher's preview.

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Page 133 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/39 Simon & Schuster - The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (1963-1965)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/39

Creation Date 1963-1965

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (1963-1965)

Former External Reference BL200 OF228

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (6 letters) relating to The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (1965), 19 Dec 1963-4 Feb 1965, of a review of the book, 2 Jul 1965, and of a press advert.

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Loan MS 129/4/40 Simon & Schuster - Plum Pie (1966-1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/40

Creation Date 1966-1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Plum Pie (1966-1968)

Former External Reference BL215 OF243

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (18 letters) relating to Plum Pie (1967), 1 Apr 1966-28 Feb 1968, and of production and publicity material including the editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 31 May 1966, the proposal to publish form, 1 Jun 1966, the 'pass for press' form, 13 Jun 1966, a press advert and press reviews of the UK edition (published in 1966).

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Page 134 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/41 Simon & Schuster - The Purloined Paperweight (1966- 1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/41

Creation Date 1966-1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Purloined Paperweight (1966-1967)

Former External Reference BL216 OF244

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (9 letters) relating to The Purloined Paperweight (1967), 14 Oct 1966-24 Aug 1967, and of production and publicity material including a proof of the dust jacket, a typescript of front and back flap copy, and the publisher's preview.

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Loan MS 129/4/42 Simon & Schuster - Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1966- 1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/42

Creation Date 1966-1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1966-1967)

Former External Reference BL204 OF232

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (9 letters) relating to Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968), 4 Sep 1967-30 Nov 1968, and of production and publicity material including the proposal to publish form, 16 Nov 1967, the 'pass for press' form, 28 Dec 1967, the publisher's preview, and a press review, Sept 1968.

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Page 135 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/43 Simon & Schuster - Reprints (1938-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/43

Creation Date 1938-1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Reprints (1938-1969)

Former External Reference BL220 OF248

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (10 letters) and publicity material concerning the reprinting of Fish Preferred, The Code of the Woosters, and Uncle Fred in the Springtime, 20 Nov 1968-19 Jun 1969.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Miss Ryan about Uncle Fred in the Springtime, 16 Nov 1938.

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Loan MS 129/4/44 Simon & Schuster - No Nudes is Good Nudes (1968- 1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/44

Creation Date 1968-1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - No Nudes is Good Nudes (1968-1970)

Former External Reference BL213 OF241

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (10 letters) relating to No Nudes is Good Nudes (1970), 14 Sept 1968-2 Apr 1970, and of production and promotional material including the editorial report by Simon and Schuster, 11 Apr 1969, a typescript of the flaps copy, and press clippings.

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Page 136 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/45 Simon & Schuster - The Girl in Blue (1970-1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/45

Creation Date 1970-1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Girl in Blue (1970-1971)

Former External Reference BL207 OF235

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (13 letters) relating to The Girl in Blue (1971), 4 May 1970-16 Apr 1971, and of production material including the proposal to publish form, 5 May 1970, and a proof of the dust jacket of the UK edition of the book.

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Loan MS 129/4/46 Simon & Schuster - Jeeves and the Tie that Binds (1971-1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/46

Creation Date 1971-1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Jeeves and the Tie that Binds (1971-1972)

Former External Reference BL211 OF239

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (17 letters) relating to Jeeves and the Tie that Binds (1971), 2 Feb 1971-20 Jun 1972, and of production and publicity material including manuscript planning and timetable, and press releases.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 137 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/47 Simon & Schuster - The Plot That Thickened (1972- 1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/47

Creation Date 1972-1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Plot That Thickened (1972-1973)

Former External Reference BL214 OF242

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (13 letters) relating to The Plot That Thickened (1973), 12 Sep 1972-20 Nov 1973, and of production and publicity material including the proposal to publish form, 29 Sept 1972, and press reviews.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/48 Simon & Schuster - The Golf Omnibus (1973-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/48

Creation Date 1973-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Golf Omnibus (1973-1974)

Former External Reference BL208 OF236

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (27 letters) relating to The Golf Omnibus (1973), 22 Mar 1973-21 Feb 1974, and of production material including flaps copy and proof of the dust jacket.

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Page 138 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/49 Simon & Schuster - Bachelors Anonymous (1973-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/49

Creation Date 1973-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - Bachelors Anonymous (1973-1974)

Former External Reference BL197 OF225

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (8 letters) relating to Bachelors Anonymous (1974), 9 Jul 1973-4 Mar 1974, and of production and promotional material including flaps and catalogue copy.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/50 Simon & Schuster - The Cat-nappers (1974-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/50

Creation Date 1974-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - The Cat-nappers (1974-1975)

Former External Reference BL202 OF230

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (4 letters) relating to The Cat-nappers (1975) 2 Jul 1974-9 Jan 1975, and of production material including the 'pass for press' form and press clippings.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 139 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/51 Simon & Schuster - General Correspondence (1956- 1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/51

Creation Date 1956-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Simon & Schuster - General Correspondence (1956-1975)

Former External Reference BL194 OF222

Scope and Content Photocopies of general correspondence between Simon & Schuster, P.G. Wodehouse, Scott Meredith and Charles E. Gould, 20 Aug 1956-10 Jan 1975, regarding ideas for new collections of Wodehouse's stories, promotional activities for Wodehouse's work, and suggestions and comments from fans (83 letters).

The file also includes photocopies of a press release for the launch of the record P.G. Wodehouse Speaking Personally, 1 Oct 1974, and of letters to Simon and Schuster after the death of Wodehouse, 15 Feb-24 Jun 1975.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/52 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Smith, Godfrey ([early 1970s])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/52

Creation Date [early 1970s]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Smith, Godfrey ([early 1970s])

Former External Reference BL38 OF55

Scope and Content Holograph letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Godfrey Smith, then editor of the Sunday Times magazine, regarding the ingredients of Jeeves's bracer.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 140 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/53-68 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William (1905-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/53-68

Creation Date 1905-1982

Extent and Format 16 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William (1905-1982)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and William Townend, a fellow student at Dulwich College and a lifelong friend and occasional collaborator.

The letters concern Wodehouse’s and Townend’s writings, their personal life, and their pets.

Townend worked in journalism with Wodehouse in the early 20th century and on Performing Flea, a book which consists of revised excerpts from many of these letters. The marks in the margins of some of the letters were made by Derek Grimsdick, the editor at Herbert Jenkins, indicating which passages were to be used in Performing Flea.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/53 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 1 (1905- 1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/53

Creation Date 1905-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 1 (1905-1982)

Former External Reference BL247

Scope and Content Photocopies of 7 holograph letters from P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend regarding Wodehouse's early work and Townend illustrations, 3 Mar 1905 to 6 May 1908.

The file also includes a photocopy of a cover letter written on the occasion of the originals of the letters being sent to Dulwich College, 30 Sept 1982.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 141 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/54 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 2 (1905- 1955)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/54

Creation Date 1905-1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 2 (1905-1955)

Former External Reference BL13 OF15

Scope and Content Photocopies of transcript of 3 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend, 1905-06, regarding his early works and illustrations of them by Townend, and of a portion of a letter regarding the article about Wodehouse written by Rene McColl in the Daily Express and Wodehouse's latest projects, 26 Jul 1955.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/55 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 3 (1920- 1925)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/55

Creation Date 1920-1925

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 3 (1920-1925)

Former External Reference BL248 BL256

Scope and Content Photocopies of 30 letters and 2 telegrams from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 28 Feb 1920 to 17 Dec 1925.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest projects and plots of his stories, Townend's stories including comments and suggestions by Wodehouse on them, and the work of other contemporary authors.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 142 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/56 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 4 (1926- 1929)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/56

Creation Date 1926-1929

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 4 (1926-1929)

Former External Reference BL249

Scope and Content Photocopies of 51 letters and 4 telegrams from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 29 Jan 1926 to 17 Dec 1929.

The letters concern Wodehouse's work in progress, plots of his stories, his travel plans, Townend's stories including Wodehouse's comments on them, publication of Townend's books in the US, personal news and news about the dogs.

The file also include two letters from Wodehosue to George [Doran] and Paul Reynolds, asking them for advice on publishing Townend's books, 11 Apr 1927.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/57 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 5 (1930- 1934)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/57

Creation Date 1930-1934

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 5 (1930-1934)

Former External Reference BL250

Scope and Content Photocopies of 58 letters and 1 telegram from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 8 Jan 1930 to 21 Dec 1934.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest novels and other projects, plots for his stories, his travel plans, his work in Hollywood and his house and life there, his return to England and subsequent move to France, his financial affairs, Townend's stories including Wodehouse's comments and suggestions on them, the work of other contemporary authors, personal news, Dulwich College football, and news about the dogs.

The file also includes photocopies of 3 pages of notes which include an index by subjects of the letters in the file [for Performing Flea].

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Loan MS 129/4/58 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 6 (1935- 1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/58

Creation Date 1935-1939

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 6 (1935-1939)

Former External Reference BL251

Scope and Content Photocopies of 62 letters and 8 telegrams from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 3 Jan 1935 to 8 Dec 1939.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest work, plots for his stories, sales of his books, his financial affairs, his travel plans, his work and life in Hollywood, his return to France, Townend's stories including Wodehouse's comments on them and his suggestions to him, the work of other contemporary authors, Performing Flea, personal news, horse races and Dulwich College cricket and football, and news about the dogs.

The file also includes 2 letters from Arthur Waugh to P.G. Wodehouse about Townend's books, 24 Jan and 12 Sept 1935.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/59 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 7 (1940- 1946)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/59

Creation Date 1940-1946

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 7 (1940-1946)

Former External Reference BL252

Scope and Content Photocopies of 32 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 23 Jan 1940 to 26 Dec 1946.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest novels and plots of his stories, Townend's stories, the War, Wodehouse's internment and his time in Berlin and Paris after his release, the reaction to the Berlin broadcasts, publication of his books after the War, the 'Camp Book', issues with his income tax in the US, work by other contemporary authors, Dulwich College cricket and football, personal news and news about the dogs.

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Loan MS 129/4/60 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 8 (1947- 1949)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/60

Creation Date 1947-1949

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 8 (1947-1949)

Former External Reference BL253 BL256

Scope and Content Photocopies of 45 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 31 Jan 1947 to 3 Dec 1949.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest work, plots of his stories, his American income tax trouble and his financial affairs, reaction to the Berlin Broadcasts, his arrival in New York, his new American editor Scott Meredith, his move from Doubleday to Didier as publishers, the New York theatrical business, paper shortage after the War, Townend's stories and his publishers, publication and sales of their work, the work of other contemporary authors, latest shows in New York, the state of American magazines, cricket and the Dulwich College football team, personal news and news about their dogs.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter from the editor of Ladies' Home Journal to Scott Meredith rejecting Birth of a Salesman for the magazine, 27 Apr 1949.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/61 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 9 (1950- 1952)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/61

Creation Date 1950-1952

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 9 (1950-1952)

Former External Reference BL254 BL256

Scope and Content Photocopies of 52 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 9 Jan 1950 to 14 Dec 1952.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest stories, novels and plays, plots of his stories, his theatre tour, his agent Scott Meredith, Townend's stories, publication and sales of their work, their health and age, the state of the writing market, the work of other contemporary writers, Herbert Wotton Westbrook, cricket and the Dulwich College football team, and Perform ing Flea.

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Loan MS 129/4/62 P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 10 (1953- 1956)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/62

Creation Date 1953-1956

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend - Part 10 (1953-1956)

Former External Reference BL255

Scope and Content Photocopies of 36 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Townend, 31 Jan 1953 to 21 Feb 1956.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest novels and theatre projects, his American publisher, sales and reviews of his books, plots of his stories, ideas for short stories, Performing Flea, Bring on the Girls, Townend's stories, work of other authors, the state of American magazines, Herbert Wotton Westbrook, personal news and news about their dogs.

The file also includes photocopies of 6 letters from readers to Wodehouse and Townend congratulating them on Performing Flea, Sept 1953-May 1954.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/63 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1942-1952)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/63

Creation Date 1942-1952

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 1 (1942-1952)

Former External Reference BL257

Scope and Content Photocopies of 4 letters from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, 10 Jun 1942, 7 Oct 1942, 4 Mar 1952 and 11 Apr 1952.

The letters concern Townend's books, personal news and Performing Flea.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 146 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/64 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 (1949-1950)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/64

Creation Date 1949-1950

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 2 (1949-1950)

Former External Reference BL14 OF16 BL19 OF23

Scope and Content 31 letters from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, 21 Nov 1949-29 Dec 1950.

The letters mainly relate to Townend's work, news about mutual friends, including schoolmates from Dulwich College and Herbert Wotton Westbrook, and reactions to P.G. Wodehouse's current work. A number of letters contain quotations from the letters of Raymond Chandler, who corresponded with Townend for a time.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/65 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 3 (1951-1952)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/65

Creation Date 1951-1952

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 3 (1951-1952)

Former External Reference BL15 OF17 BL19 OF23

Scope and Content 54 letters from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, 24 Jan 1951-30 Dec 1952.

In the letter from 5 Oct 1951, Townend broaches the idea of the book Performing Flea. The letters from this point on relate mainly to that project. Letters from 1952 talk about Performing Flea and Duff Cooper (4 Mar) and Dorothy L. Sayers (26 Mar).

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Loan MS 129/4/66 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 4 (1953)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/66

Creation Date 1953

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 4 (1953)

Former External Reference BL16 OF19 BL19 OF23

Scope and Content 12 letters from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, mainly regarding Performing Flea, 4 Jan-18 Dec 1953.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/67 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 5 (1954-1955)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/67

Creation Date 1954-1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 5 (1954-1955)

Former External Reference BL17 OF20 BL19 OF23

Scope and Content 27 letters from William Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, mainly regarding Performing Flea, 23 Feb 1954-24 Oct 1955.

The letter from 12 Apr 1954 regards Raymond Chandler.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 148 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/68 William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 6 (1954-1955)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/68

Creation Date 1954-1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title William Townend to From P.G. Wodehouse - Part 6 (1954-1955)

Former External Reference BL18 OF21 BL19

Scope and Content 94 letters from Townend to P.G. Wodehouse, 31 Dec 1956-27 Sept 1961.

The letters from 1956 to 1957 concern Richard Usborne's research for Wodehouse at Work and the letter from 11 May 1956 refers to Wodehouse's French Leave. The letters from 1958 to 1961 regard Usborne's research and material on the Berlin Broadcasts as portrayed in Performin g Flea.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/69-70 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Usborne, Richard (1952-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/69-70

Creation Date 1952-1975

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Usborne, Richard (1952-1975)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Richard Usborne.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 149 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/69 P.G. Wodehouse to Richard Usborne (1952-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/69

Creation Date 1952-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Richard Usborne (1952-1975)

Former External Reference BL21 OF26

Scope and Content One typescript of a letter and photocopies of 30 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Richard Usborne, mainly providing information about his life for Usborne's book Woodhouse at Work and for later work on Wodehouse by Usborne, 11 Jan 1952 to 13 Jan 1975.

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Loan MS 129/4/70 Richard Usborne to P.G. Wodehouse (1955-1958)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/70

Creation Date 1955-1958

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Richard Usborne to P.G. Wodehouse (1955-1958)

Former External Reference BL22 OF27

Scope and Content Carbon copies of 18 letters from Richard Usborne to P.G. Wodehouse, with questions and news relating to Wodehouse at Work, 19 Jan 1955 to 10 Mar 1958.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 150 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/71 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: A.P. Watt & Son (1973-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/71

Creation Date 1973-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: A.P. Watt & Son (1973-1975)

Former External Reference BL32 OF42

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and A.P. Watt & Son (English agent) including:

• photocopy of a letter from Maggie Noach, foreign rights manager, to P.G. Wodehouse, concerning sale of stories to German TV, 26 Sept 1973, and Wodehouse's reply, 1 Oct 1973; • letter from Hilary Rubinstein to P.G. Wodehouse concerning fees for the introductions to Wodehouse Playhouse series on the BBC, 16 Jan 1975.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/72-73 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Waugh, Evelyn (1947-1962)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/72-73

Creation Date 1947-1962

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Waugh, Evelyn (1947-1962)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 151 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/72 P.G. Wodehouse to Evelyn Waugh (1947-1961)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/72

Creation Date 1947-1961

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Evelyn Waugh (1947-1961)

Former External Reference BL360

Scope and Content Photocopies of 15 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Evelyn Waugh, 31 May 1947 to 14 Dec 1961.

The letters concern the public reaction to the Berlin broadcasts, Waugh's latest books, Rene MacColl's article against Wodehouse in the Daily Express (Jul 1955), Waugh's articles in defence of Wodehouse, a 1957 lawsuit by Waugh against reporter Nancy Spain of the Daily Express, Waugh’s 1961 BBC talk on P.G. Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse’s latest work and personal news.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/73 Evelyn Waugh to P.G. Wodehouse (1953-1962)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/73

Creation Date 1953-1962

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Evelyn Waugh to P.G. Wodehouse (1953-1962)

Former External Reference BL341

Scope and Content 8 letters from Evelyn Waugh to P.G. Wodehouse, 31 Dec 1953 to 2 Sept 1962.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest work, a 1957 lawsuit by Waugh against reporter Nancy Spain of the Daily Express, Waugh’s 1961 BBC talk on P.G. Wodehouse, and personal news.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 152 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/74-76 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Ethel (1942-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/74-76

Creation Date 1942-1974

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Ethel (1942-1974)

Scope and Content Correspondence between Ethel and P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/74 Ethel Wodehouse to P.G. Wodehouse (1942)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/74

Creation Date 1942

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Ethel Wodehouse to P.G. Wodehouse (1942)

Former External Reference BL41 OF59

Scope and Content Holograph letter from Ethel Wodehouse to P.G. Wodehouse, 8 Aug 1942.

In the letter Ethel mentions seeing an official of Tobis Film Co., a German sound-film company, interested in meeting P.G. Wodehouse, and she suggests a situation for a Jeeves novel, not used by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 153 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/75 P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse - Part 1 (1944)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/75

Creation Date 1944

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse - Part 1 (1944)

Former External Reference BL364

Scope and Content Holograph letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel, 25 Nov 1944, composed while he was under arrest in France, including information on his daily routine, his diet, and request for his notes, tobacco, tea and a thermos.

The letter was not delivered at the time and the file includes a cover letter from Peter May explaining how it came to light in 1977 and was sent to Ethel, with the original envelope sent to A. P. Watt and forwarded to Ethel at Remsenburg.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/76 P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse - Part 2 (1962- 1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/76

Creation Date 1962-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse - Part 2 (1962-1974)

Former External Reference BL24 OF30

Scope and Content 8 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Ethel Wodehouse, 21 Aug 1962-30 Sep 1974.

The letters were written on occasions when Ethel was in hospital or away from home on errands. They are mainly love letters, some with small sketches.

The file also include a holograph cover note on an envelope written by Ethel after Wodehouse's death.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 154 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/77-78 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Leonora (1920-1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/77-78

Creation Date 1920-1939

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Leonora (1920-1939)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/77 P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet - Part 1 (1920-1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/77

Creation Date 1920-1939

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet - Part 1 (1920-1939)

Former External Reference BL305

Scope and Content 44 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet, 7 Aug 1920-10 Mar 1939.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest projects, plots for his stories, his travel plans, family friends, life in the US and France, the work of other contemporary authors, the dogs, and personal news.

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Page 155 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/78 P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet - Part 2 (1920-1935)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/78

Creation Date 1920-1935

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet - Part 2 (1920-1935)

Former External Reference BL25 OF31

Scope and Content Copies (transcripts and photocopies) of 32 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet, 7 Aug 1920-3 Jun 1935.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest projects, plots for his stories, his travel plans, family friends, life in the US and France, the work of other contemporary authors, the dogs, and personal news.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/79-80 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Members of Cazalet Family (1926-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/79-80

Creation Date 1926-1974

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Members of Cazalet Family (1926-1974)

Scope and Content Correspondence between Ethel and P.G. Wodehouse and members of the Cazalet family.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 156 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/79 P.G. Wodehouse to Sheran Cazalet (1944-1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/79

Creation Date 1944-1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Sheran Cazalet (1944-1969)

Former External Reference BL306

Scope and Content 37 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Sheran Cazalet, 3 Dec 1944 to 15 Oct 1961, and photocopy of a letter dated 27 Mar 1972.

The letters concern Wodehouse's latest projects, plots for his novels, cats and dogs, horse races, life in the US, crosswords, soap operas, Sheran's brother Edward, and personal news.

The file also includes a letter to Bea Moresby, a friend of Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet, 15 Oct 1961.

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Loan MS 129/4/80 P.G. Wodehouse to Members of the Cazalet Family (1926-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/80

Creation Date 1926-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to Members of the Cazalet Family (1926-1974)

Former External Reference BL26 OF32

Scope and Content Correspondence from P.G. Wodehouse to members of the Cazalet family, as follows:

• 6 original letters and photocopy of one letter to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 1945-1973; • photocopy of 1 letter, 52 letters and 3 telegrams to Edward Cazalet, 1946-1974; • 8 letters and photocopies of 37 letters to Sheran Cazalet, 1944-1973; • 2 letters to Peter Cazalet, 1950 and 1966; the letter from 1966 includes a letter from Gene Markey to Wodehouse regarding him meeting Victor Cazalet in 1943; • one holograph letter to Mrs Cazalet, 1926.

The letters concern mainly family business, Wodehouse's life in the US and his dogs, but also contain many references to P.G. Wodehouse's current writing and theatrical projects and discussions about plots for his stories.

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Loan MS 129/4/81-83 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Other authors (1900-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/81-83

Creation Date 1900-1980

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Other authors (1900-1980)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and other authors.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/81 P.G. Wodehouse to other authors (1931-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/81

Creation Date 1931-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse to other authors (1931-1980)

Former External Reference BL28 OF36

Scope and Content Photocopies of letters from P.G. Wodehouse to other authors, including:

• Henry Slesar - 15 letters, mainly regarding Edge of Night, a soap opera written by Slesar, and Wodehouse's latest projects, 1970-1975, with photocopies of articles about P.G. Wodehouse mentioning his appreciation for Edge of Night; • John Douglas Forbes - 4 letters, mainly regarding Wodehouse's latest novels and their titles, and the Herald Tribute book section, 1961-1969) • Will Cuppy - 11 letters, mainly regarding their work, Cuppy's reviews and other author's books, 1931-1948. Also includes are 2 letters are from Ethel Wodehouse to Cuppy, 1932; • Barbara C. Bowen - 1 letter confirming that he probably read François Rabelais at school, with a copy of Bowen's letter to Wodehouse, 1972; • Ogden Nash - 1 letter thanking him for his review of Big Money, 1931; • Anthony Powell - 2 letters congratulating him on his work, 1967-1973; • Edna Toney (aspiring writer) - 8 letters, mainly giving her his opinion on her books, 1963-1967; • Hesketh Pearson - 6 letters, mainly about Wodehouse's latest books and theatrical work, Malcolm Muggeridge, and books about Gilbert and Sullivan, 1947-1961; • Hugh Kingsmill - 1 letter, regarding his latest book and his plans to go to the US, 1946; • Evelyn Waugh - 1 letter, regarding Waugh's BBC programme attacking Cassandra, 1961; • Mr Gould - 1 letter, thanking him for his letter, 1934.

Many letters were sent to Frances Donaldson for her book P.G. Wodehouse The Authorised Biography and are accompanied by cover letters explaining their sources.

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Loan MS 129/4/82 Other authors to P.G. Wodehouse (1900-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/82

Creation Date 1900-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Other authors to P.G. Wodehouse (1900-1980)

Former External Reference BL29 OF39

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of letters from other authors to P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• Terence Rattigan - 1 letter congratulating him on being knighted, 1975; • Alexander S. Graham - photocopy of 1 letter congratulating him on being knighted, 1975; • Tom Sharpe - two letters (original and copy), one regarding Low Wood and PerformingFlea, 26 Dec 1972, the other about their work, 12 Jan 1974; • Nathaniel Benchley - photocopy of 1 letter congratulating him on being knighted, 2 Jan 1975;

• Alec Waugh - photocopy of 1 letter congratulating him on being knighted, 2 Jan 1975; • Compton Mackenzie - 1 letter regarding their work, Mackenzie's autobiography, and their age, 15 Mar 1962; • Frank Sullivan - 1 letter regarding an article about Wodehouse falsely accusing him of being unpopular and running out of creative invention, 12 Oct 1960; • Ogden Nash - 1 letter congratulating Wodehouse on his work and his typing, Columbus Day 1966, enclosing an autograph poem entitled 'The Moose on the Beach'; • Oscar Hammerstein - 1 letter, to P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, 28 Jan 1957, with comments on one of their script; • Charles E. Gould Jr. - 15 Jan 1975 and one letter from Kenneth Graham to Wodehouse, 31 Oct 1900, with cover letter to Lady Donaldson, 4 Feb 1980.

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Page 159 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/83 Other authors to P.G. Wodehouse (1936-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/83

Creation Date 1936-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Other authors to P.G. Wodehouse (1936-1975)

Former External Reference BL262

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of letters from other authors to P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• Arthur Waugh, one letter regarding sales of William Townend's books, 30 May 1936; • Cyril Clemens, two letters, one offering P.G. Wodehouse the Mark Twain Medal, 26 Jun 1936, the other congratulating him on his knighthood, 7 Jan 1975; • John F. Leeming, one letter sending him support after the negative reactions to the Berlin Broadcasts, 23 Apr 1946; • Evelyn Waugh, one letter reassuring P.G. Wodehouse over reactions to the Berlin Broadcasts, 10 May 1947; • Denis Mackail, 2 letters, one regarding the Cazalet family opposition to Performing Flea, 19 Apr 1952, the other regarding Pigs with Wings, 3 Nov 1952; • J. Derek Grimsdick, mainly concerning Performing Flea, 3 letters, 1952; • James Young to P.G. Wodehouse, with birthday wishes and an inquiry concerning Bertie Wooster visiting Blandings Castle, with handwritten note by P.G. Wodehouse on this topic, 5 Oct 1972.

The file also includes various letters from admirers of P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/84-87 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Business letters (1900-2005)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/84-87

Creation Date 1900-2005

Extent and Format 4 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Business letters (1900-2005)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and publishers and editors.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 160 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/84 Business Letters - Part 1 (1900-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/84

Creation Date 1900-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Business Letters - Part 1 (1900-1980)

Former External Reference BL472

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse regarding his work, including:

• photocopies of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and Paul R. Reynolds, his American agent, regarding publication of Wodehouse's stories in magazines and his novels, 9 Sep 1920 to 3 Oct 1936 (4 letters); • 4 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Marie M. Maloney, of the New York Herald Tribune, regarding serialization and stories for various American magazines, 28 Sept 1933 to 25 May 1936.

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Loan MS 129/4/85 Business Letters - Part 2 (1932-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/85

Creation Date 1932-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Business Letters - Part 2 (1932-1980)

Former External Reference BL31 OF41

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence of Little, Brown & Company consisting of 36 letters between Herbert Jenkins, Stuart Rose, Charles B. Blanchard, Alfred McIntyre, Paul R. Reynolds, Paul R. Reynolds Jr., James Montgomery Flagg (illustrator), and P.G. Wodehouse, 12 Dec 1932-22 May 1935.

The letters concern Thank You, Jeeves, Heavy Weather and Brinkley Manor, and deal with sales, title changes, publication dates, contract renewal, and cover illustrations.

The file also includes a letter from Little, Brown to James Heinemann, 26 Aug 1980, giving him permission to send the letters to Frances Donaldson, with handwritten cover note from Heinemann to Frances Donaldson, 29 Aug 1980.

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Page 161 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/86 Business Letters - Part 3 (1957-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/86

Creation Date 1957-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Business Letters - Part 3 (1957-1974)

Former External Reference BL35 OF48

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse regarding his work, including:

• photocopies of 2 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Bennett Cerf regarding a collection of Jeeves stories for the Modern Library, 12 Aug 1957 and 27 Aug 1957; • letter from Decca Records to P.G. Wodehouse regarding the contract for a record with them, 13 Mar 1974; • letter from Hugh Greene at Bodley Head to P.G. Wodehouse and Wodehouse's reply, concerning text for jacket of a collection of stories by W.W. Jacobs, 9 and 16 May 1974, with cover letter from Hugh Greene to Frances Donaldson, 16 Mar 1974; • letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Peter Schwed, mentioning Barrie & Jenkins sale, Dec [1974].

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Loan MS 129/4/87 Business Letters - Part 4 (1961-2005)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/87

Creation Date 1961-2005

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Business Letters - Part 4 (1961-2005)

Former External Reference BL446

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse regarding his work, including:

• letter from P.G. Wodehouse to J. D. Grimsdick, concerning sales of The Ice in the Bedroom and publication of other stories, 25 Mar 1961, accompanied by a photocopied page from a catalogue offering this letter for auction, undated; • typed letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Ward, approving a Lancaster book-jacket, 18 May 1973;

• photocopy of a 'Message from P. G. Wodehouse', sent to be read to those attending the first Wodehouse Dinner, with handwritten note 'The original unsigned typewritten copy is pasted into a copy of Wodehouse at Work signed by all the attendees at the first Wodehouse Dinner, May 1973'. The message is accompanied by the following related material: 1) printout of Norman Murphy’s 'Memories of Moor Park 1973', 12 Feb 2005; 2) photocopy of the programme for a weekend seminar 'The Works of P. G. Wodehouse', held at Moor Park College, 18 to 20 May 1973; 3) photocopies of drawings made on the inside of the dust jacket of a signed copy of Usborne's Wodehouse at Work; • carbon copy of the first page of a letter to P.G. Wodehouse, with note 'from Frank Muir?', concerning mid-1960s BBC TV adaptions of a series of Wooster-Jeeves short stories, 21 May 1965; • letter from Guy Bolton to Christopher MacLehose, P.G. Wodehouse’s editor at Barrie and Jenkins, concerning the musical Come on Jeeves, 1 May, [mid-to late 1960s];

Page 162 2018-02-02 • photocopy of a note from Sir Max Mallowan to Simon Hornby, thanking him for a message concerning Agatha Christie’s death and mentioning her friendship with P.G. Wodehouse, 23 Jan 1976.

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Loan MS 129/4/88-96 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Fans and Friends Letters (1899-2009)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/88-96

Creation Date 1899-2009

Extent and Format 9 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Fans and Friends Letters (1899-2009)

Scope and Content Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and his fans, friends, admirers and reviewers.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/88 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 1 (1899-2009)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/88

Creation Date 1899-2009

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 1 (1899-2009)

Former External Reference BL335

Scope and Content Photocopies of four letters from P.G. Wodehouse to 'Jeames' (Eric George), a schoolmate, regarding poetry and literature and plans for the future, 1899 and 1954.

The letters are accompanied by cover letters concerning the identity of Eric George, from N.T.P. Murphy and Richard Usborne, 1989, and printout of emails between Sir Edward Cazalet, Kristin Thompson and Sophie Ratcliffe, 2009, regarding the letters.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter, P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Whittle, a fan, 14 Dec 1952.

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Page 163 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/89 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 2 (1929-1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/89

Creation Date 1929-1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 2 (1929-1971)

Former External Reference BL365

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse with fans and friends, including:

• photocopy of a letter to the secretary of the Savage Club, resigning from the Club, 3 Dec 1929; • letter to Herbert Haskins (Bert), who had been interned in the Tost prison camp with P.G. Wodehouse in 1940, expressing sympathy for the death of his wife, dated 25 Mar 1960; • photocopies of 8 letters and cards from P.G. Wodehouse and 1 letter from Ethel Wodehouse to Leonid Trauberg, a Soviet film director and a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, 3 Aug 1966-18 Sep 1974;

• letter to Ambrose Coghill, a fan, thanking him for his letter, 28 Jul 1969.

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Loan MS 129/4/90 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 3 (1930-1994)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/90

Creation Date 1930-1994

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 3 (1930-1994)

Former External Reference BL388

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of correspondence from P.G. Wodehouse to fans and friends, including:

• autograph brief letter in response to a fan letter, to Mills Weis, Esq., 19 Mar 1930, with cover letter from Pauline Blanc, forwarding the letter to Sir Edward Cazalet, 17 Jun 1994; • photocopy of a letter to Mr Heineman, thanking him for writing to Cosmopolitan magazine in support of P.G. Wodehouse in the post-war period, 27 Jun 1947, with cover letter from James Heineman, owner of the original letter, 3 Apr 1993; • original typed, signed note to ‘Bert’ (Herbert Haskins, a wartime friend) mostly concerning pets, 16 Dec 1959, with note on provenance; • original typed, signed note to Gordon K. MacLean, concerning mutual classmate Herbert W. Westbrook and P.G. Wodehouse’s age, 20 Jul 1964, with correspondence between Edward Cazalet and Mrs Elizabeth Cramb, and an obituary of Maclean; • original typed, signed note to Mr Kelly, thanking him for ‘the Fry book’ [C.B. Fry’s Life Worth Living], 25 Dec 1966, with note on provenance; • several photocopies of notes from P.G. Wodehouse to Pauline Blanc, 1972-1974, with cover notes from Blanc to Kristin Thompson, describing the correspondence; • photocopy of a note to Mr Barnheern, on the idea of founding a P.G. Wodehouse Club, 30 May 1973; • photocopy of a note to Mrs Woodger in response to fan letter, 27 Jan 1975, with cover letter of donor.

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Loan MS 129/4/91 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 4 (1956-1978)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/91

Creation Date 1956-1978

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 4 (1956-1978)

Former External Reference BL418

Scope and Content Photocopies of letters from P.G. Wodehouse including:

• letter to an old friend and roommate, Mr Graves, regarding the model for Ukridge, 26 Sept 1960, with three pages of material relating to Herbert W. Westbrook (one of the models for Ukridge mentioned and P.G. Wodehouse’s co-author on Not George Washington) including a letter from Frances Donaldson to Mrs Macleod asking for information about him, 23 Oct 1978;

• P.G. Wodehouse to Mr [N.T.P.] Murphy, concerning the model for the Drones Club, 22 Sept 1973;

• two letters to Mr Jones, a fan, 9 Jul 1966 and 28 Mar 1972.

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Loan MS 129/4/92 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 5 (1961-1998)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/92

Creation Date 1961-1998

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 5 (1961-1998)

Former External Reference BL410

Scope and Content An original letter from P.G. Wodehouse to a fan, Dora L. Bonn, 7 Nov 1961, including the envelope, thanking her for a photograph she sent him.

The file also includes correspondence between Sir Edward Cazalet and David Brown concerning the acquisition of the letter, 24 Mar to 6 May 1998.

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Page 165 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/93 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 6 (1946-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/93

Creation Date 1946-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 6 (1946-1980)

Former External Reference BL27 OF35

Scope and Content Photocopies and originals of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and fans, reviewers and admirers, 15 Jun 1946 to 11 Feb 1975 (62 letters; some letters are accompanied by cover letters to Frances Donaldson, 1980).

Correspondents include Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Ben Goodden, Trevor L.A. Daintith, Helen L. Linn (expressing admiration for Cyril Northcote Parkinson, The Bishop of Kalgoorlie), the Right Rev. C. E. B. Muschamp, and John Chancellor.

The file includes a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Slater stating that Blandings Village was modelled on Marlborough, 2 Jul 1953, and a letter from Richard Burton to P.G. Wodehouse and wife, 4 Mar 1972, with handwritten note from Liz Taylor.

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Loan MS 129/4/94 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 7 (1946-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/94

Creation Date 1946-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 7 (1946-1980)

Former External Reference BL458

Scope and Content Photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Slater, a fan from New York, 2 Jul 1953, stating that Blandings Village was modelled on Marlborough.

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Page 166 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/95 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 8 (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/95

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 8 (1975)

Former External Reference BL39 OF56

Scope and Content 22 letters sent to P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Wodehouse on the occasion of his knighthood, from colleagues, friends and fans, including: Stanley Holloway, Peter Ramsbotham (British Ambassador to the USA), and John Ford (of the British Consulate-General).

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Loan MS 129/4/96 Fans and Friends Letters - Part 9 (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/96

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Fans and Friends Letters - Part 9 (1975)

Former External Reference BL233

Scope and Content Photocopy of a list made by P.G. Wodehouse of names of people to whom he had written in response to congratulations on knighthood, 1975, and photocopy of one of those letters, from P.G. Wodehouse to Alec [Waugh], 4 Jan 1975.

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Page 167 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/97-105 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Additional (1914-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/97-105

Creation Date 1914-2010

Extent and Format 9 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Additional (1914-2010)

Scope and Content Additional correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse regarding personal and business matters.

Some letters are from or to Ethel Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/4/97 Additional Correspondence - Part 1 (1914-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/97

Creation Date 1914-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 1 (1914-1982)

Former External Reference BL30 OF40

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse and his wife Ethel, including:

• 7 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Jack and Frances Donaldson regarding personal matters, Wodehouse's books and his friendship with Evelyn Waugh, 1933-1975; • 1 letter from Ethel Wodehouse to Frances Donaldson congratulating her on Wodehouse's biography, 16 Nov 1982; • photocopies of 11 letter to Mrs Olive Grills ('Bubbles') regarding personal matters, 1914-1975, one from Ethel Wodehouse after P.G. Wodehouse's death; • photocopy of letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Peggy Bolton on personal matters, 12 Jun 1962; • 2 Christmas cards from P.G. Wodehouse (undated and no recipient).

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Page 168 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/98 Additional Correspondence - Part 2 (1922-1974)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/98

Creation Date 1922-1974

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 2 (1922-1974)

Former External Reference BL395

Scope and Content Letters from P.G. Wodehouse to various people including:

• original letter to the then Prime Minister, supporting a campaign to aid the widow of Thomas Earle Welby, a prominent journalist, [1933]; • photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to a fan, Miss Slade, 6 May 1922, and of a letter from Leonora Wodehouse to Miss Slade, undated but from the same period. Slade pasted the originals in her copy of The Clicking of Cuthbert, which became part of the P.G. Wodehouse's collection of books; • photocopy of a note to Richard Morrissey approving his idea to start a Wodehouse Society (a plan that was not carried out), 23 Aug 1974; • photocopies of two letters to Charles Lloyd, Master of Dulwich College, 1969 and 1974.

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Loan MS 129/4/99 Additional Correspondence - Part 3 (1924-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/99

Creation Date 1924-2010

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 3 (1924-2010)

Former External Reference BL10 OF11

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse to various people including:

• photocopy of a letter to E.W. Flaccus regarding The Luck of the Bodkins novel, 11 Jun 1934; • two letters to 'Jenny' regarding personal matters, 2 Oct 1968; • photocopy of a letter to 'Jean' regarding personal matters, 24 Apr 1955; • photocopy of 3 letters to Nelson [Doubleday] regarding publication and sales of Wodehouse's latest novels, 31 May 1946 to 20 Jan 1947; • photocopy of a letter to Mr Shively, editor at Doubleday, regarding publication and reviews of Wodehouse's latest work, 2 Dec 1946; • photocopy of 4 letters to Mr Costain regarding William Townend's stories, 13 Jan to 4 Sept 1924; • photocopy of Christmas card to [Agatha Christie], [1969]; • photocopy of letter to Mr Mehta, a fan, 31 Jul 1967, accompanied by printout of cover emails from Mr Mehta to the P.G. Wodehouse society, sending them the copy of the letters, Jul 2010.

The file also includes:

• letter to Lady Donaldson from Anthony Lejeune regarding real life origins of places and people in the Wodehouse's stories, 23 Feb 1979;

Page 169 2018-02-02 • photocopies of holograph notes by Wodehouse for plays; • unidentified pages of letters and transcripts of letters and postcards, 1942-1950s.

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Loan MS 129/4/100 Additional Correspondence - Part 4 (1928-1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/100

Creation Date 1928-1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 4 (1928-1973)

Former External Reference BL334

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse with various people including:

• letter to 'Gee-Gee' (George Grossmith) concerning issues with their work for Florenz Ziegfeld [for The Three Musketeers], 26 Jan 1928; • 2 letters to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 20 Jun 1969 and 25 May 1973, regarding personal matters and the book Homage to P.G. Wodehouse; • letter to Sheran Wodehouse regarding the book Homage to P.G. Wodehouse and personal news, 8 Oct 1973; • photocopies of three short letter to fans, 12 Dec 1932 to 27 Dec 1973.

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Loan MS 129/4/101 Additional Correspondence - Part 5 (1928-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/101

Creation Date 1928-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 5 (1928-1986)

Former External Reference BL259

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse with various people including:

• photocopies of 15 letters to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet (referred to as 'Snorky' in the letters) regarding Wodehouse's latest projects, plots for his stories, his travel plans, family friends, life in the US and France, the work of other contemporary authors, the dogs, and personal news, 8 Sept 1935 to 10 Mar 1939. The originals of these letters were kept by Mrs Beatrice Moresby, a friend of Leonora Cazalet, and discovered upon her death in 1985 by her executorix and god-daughter, Mrs Sheran Cazalet Hornby; • 2 original letters to Edward Cazalet, regarding personal matters, 28 Apr 1954 and 21 Apr 1958;

• carbon copies of two letters from Capt P.L. Gunn to P.G. Wodehouse, and original replies from P.G. Wodehouse, Sept-Oct 1960, concerning a painting which Gunn, an admirer, had done of a group of P.G. Wodehouse characters. The letters are accompanied with information on the acquisition of the painting and the letters at auction, 1986;

Page 170 2018-02-02 • photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Groves about Dulwich College, 3 Mar 1966; • second page of original letter, [1937], photocopy of one letter, 7 May 1937, and original letter, 17 Jan 1967, to Peter Cazalet, with latest personal and professional news; • photocopies of 8 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Tom Sharpe, 27 Feb 1973 to 15 Jan 1975, regarding their latest work.

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Loan MS 129/4/102 Additional Correspondence - Part 6 (1937-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/102

Creation Date 1937-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 6 (1937-1981)

Former External Reference BL46 OF68

Scope and Content Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse with various people including:

• 21 letters to P.G. Wodehouse from other authors, including Max Wilk, fans and friends regarding personal matters, 8 Apr 1953 to 5 Feb 1975; • letter from the Queen Mother, congratulating P.G. Wodehouse on his knighthood, Jan 1975; • 33 telegrams for his 90th birthday, Oct 1971; • group of transcripts by medium A. M. Kaulbeck of messages sent via her to P.G. Wodehouse from William Townend after his death (1967-1970).

The file also includes correspondence about P.G. Wodehouse, as follows:

• letter to Ethel Wodehouse from a fan and transcript of a telegram from Gerald Ford to Ethel Wodehouse expressing sympathy on the death of her husband, Feb 1975; • 19 letters from friends and distant relatives to Ethel Wodehouse, Sheran Cazalet, James Heineman, Jack Donaldson and Cyril Clemens about P.G. Wodehouse and his work, 28 Nov 1937 to 10 Oct 1981; • pencil note from I.M.F. to Watson Washburn, P.G. Wodehouse's American lawyer, telling him that Mr Ramsey, from Wodehouse's American theatrical representative, thinks Wodehouse would be release soon, [1941].

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Page 171 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/103 Additional Correspondence - Part 7 (1945-1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/103

Creation Date 1945-1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 7 (1945-1968)

Former External Reference BL345

Scope and Content Original letters from P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Wodehouse including:

• 5 letters, two from P.G. Wodehouse and three from Ethel, to Bea Davis (a friend of Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet), regarding Leonora and news about her children Sheran and Edward, 17 Apr to 20 Nov 1945; • letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Edward Hornby, regarding personal matters, 14 Jan 1962; • letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Simon [Hornby, married to Sheran Cazalet], regarding the latest Agatha Christie's book and Wodehouse's work, 7 Mar 1968.

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Loan MS 129/4/104 Additional Correspondence - Part 8 (1953-1973)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/104

Creation Date 1953-1973

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 8 (1953-1973)

Former External Reference BL323

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse's and others about his work, as follows:

• two letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Michael Pointon, 4 Nov 1972 and 3 Sept 1974; • rejection letter from Peter Briggs (of the Ladies Home Journal) to Scott Meredith, declining Jeeves in the Summertime (later published as Ring of Jeeves), 28 Sept 1953.

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Page 172 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/105 Additional Correspondence - Part 9 (1964-1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/105

Creation Date 1964-1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Additional Correspondence - Part 9 (1964-1968)

Former External Reference BL429

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse's, as follows:

• letter to Mr Dickson, regarding a film of a Malcolm Muggeridge interview, purchased at auction, 10 Nov 1964; • letter to Derek Nimmo, regarding him being the actor to play Bertie Wooster in Betting on Bertie, 11 Jul 1968, and letter from Guy Bolton to Nimmo on the same subject, 2 Jul [1968].

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Loan MS 129/4/106-126 Correspondence about P.G. Wodehouse (1908- 2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/106-126

Creation Date 1908-2008

Extent and Format 21 files

Title Correspondence about P.G. Wodehouse (1908-2008)

Scope and Content Correspondence about P.G. Wodehouse and his work, including posthumous correspondence.

The material has been arranged alphabetically. Files containing letters from more than one correspondents have been placed at the end of the series.

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Page 173 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/106 Blanc, Pauline (1953-1996)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/106

Creation Date 1953-1996

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Blanc, Pauline (1953-1996)

Former External Reference BL348

Scope and Content Correspondence of Pauline Blanc concerning her unsuccessful efforts to persuade the United States Postal Service to issue a stamp commemorating P.G. Wodehouse, including designs for the stamp, 1983-1986.

The file also contains a leaflet for Anything Goes at the Arts Theatre Cambridge, sent to Sir Edward Cazalet by Pauline Blanc [1989].

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Loan MS 129/4/107-111 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Cazalet, Edward (1953-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/107-111

Creation Date 1953-2008

Extent and Format 5 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Cazalet, Edward (1953-2008)

Scope and Content Correspondence of Sir Edward Cazalet regarding P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 174 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/107 Cazalet, Edward - Part 1 (1953-1996)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/107

Creation Date 1953-1996

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet, Edward - Part 1 (1953-1996)

Former External Reference BL397

Scope and Content Correspondence of Sir Edward mainly concerning material for his archive of P.G. Wodehouse papers, including:

• letter from Richard Usborne concerning information on Armine Wodehouse, 20 Dec 1995; • letter from Patrick Wodehouse sending him some early family photographs for the archive and talking about his grandfather (Wodehouse's father), 5 Jan 1975, with a reply from Cazalet, 15 Jan 1996; • letter from Charlotte Havilland concerning information and a photograph she supplied to the archive, both relating to (Henry) Ernest Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse’s father, 14 Mar 1996, with a four page information sheet on Ernest and a photo of him as a civil servant in Hong Kong.

The file also includes a photocopy of a letter from William Townend to 'Slacker' (McCulloch Christison, who was at Dulwich College at the same time as P.G. Wodehouse), quoting a letter from Gilbert Murray praising Performing Flea, 26 Nov 1953.

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Loan MS 129/4/108 Cazalet, Edward - Part 2 (1975-1984)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/108

Creation Date 1975-1984

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet, Edward - Part 2 (1975-1984)

Former External Reference BL37 OF54

Scope and Content Correspondence of Sir Edward concerning matters relating to the literary estate of P.G. Wodehouse, 19 Feb 1975-12 Aug 1984 (26 letters).

Correspondents includes:

• Scoot Meredith, Peter Schwed and Charles W. Lloyd (Master at Dulwich College), regarding the creation of a Wodehouse memorial room at Dulwich College; • Hutchinson Publishing, regarding the idea of producing a summary of Wodehouse's Barrie and Jenkins books listed in order of merit, with enclosed draft list by Richard Usborne; • James H. Heineman and Professor Charles Ryskamp, regarding an exhibition on Wodehouse at the Pierpont Morgan Library; • Robert A. Hall Jr., regarding permission to publish his stories using Wodehouse's characters.

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Loan MS 129/4/109 Cazalet, Edward - Part 3 (1987-1988)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/109

Creation Date 1987-1988

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet, Edward - Part 3 (1987-1988)

Former External Reference BL324

Scope and Content Correspondence of Sir Edward relating to P.G. Wodehouse including:

• 3 letters between Sir Edward and Michael Pointon relating to a book on spiritualism, The Wisdom of the Gods, which contains references to P.G. Wodehouse and Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet, with photocopies of pages with the references, 28 Jul-14 Aug 1988; • letter from Daniel H. Garrison regarding his Who’s Who in Wodehouse, 2 Jul 1987; • photocopy of a letter from Martin Gilliat (Private Secretary to the Queen Mother) to William W. Blood (President, The Wodehouse Society) expressing the Queen Mother’s pleasure at being elected an Honorary member of the Wodehouse Society, 15 Apr 1988, with attached cover note from William Blood, president of the Wodehouse Society, to Sir Edward.

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Loan MS 129/4/110 Cazalet, Edward - Part 4 (1995)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/110

Creation Date 1995

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet, Edward - Part 4 (1995)

Former External Reference BL392

Scope and Content Letter from actor and writer John Wells to Sir Edward informing him that P.G. Wodehouse was mentioned at a humour conference in Italy, 3 Jun 1995.

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Page 176 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/111 Cazalet, Edward - Part 5 (2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/111

Creation Date 2008

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet, Edward - Part 5 (2008)

Former External Reference BL460

Scope and Content Correspondence of Sir Edward regarding P.G. Wodehouse’s fellow internees and his friends members of the Imperial War Graves Commission, including:

• printout of email from James A. Fox regarding Albert Haskins, a fellow internee at Tost, and Sir Edward’s reply, 5 Jun 2008, with photocopy of a letter from Wodehouse to Haskins, 16 Dec 1959; • printout of email from Fox asking for information on Ian Hay, 9 Nov 2008.

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Loan MS 129/4/112-113 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Cazalet-Keir, Thelma (1944-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/112-113

Creation Date 1944-1975

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Cazalet-Keir, Thelma (1944-1975)

Scope and Content Correspondence of Thelma Cazalet-Keir regarding P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 177 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/112 Cazalet-Keir, Thelma - Part 1 (1944-1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/112

Creation Date 1944-1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet-Keir, Thelma - Part 1 (1944-1967)

Former External Reference BL359

Scope and Content Correspondence of Thelma Cazalet-Keir with and regarding P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• 2 letters from P.G. Wodehouse, one regarding his birthday, 16 Oct 1961, and the second in answer to several questions concerning his early career for Cazalet-Keir’s book Homage to P.G. Wodehouse, 8 Jan 1967; • 2 letters from Peter Cazalet, 13 Dec 1944 and 15 Mar 1945, dealing with the Wodehouses’ situation in Paris; • 2 letters from Ethel Wodehouse with their latest news, 19 Aug and 26 Sep 1958 (the first includes a brief pencil notes by P.G. Wodehouse).

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Loan MS 129/4/113 Cazalet-Keir, Thelma - Part 2 (1957-1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/113

Creation Date 1957-1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Cazalet-Keir, Thelma - Part 2 (1957-1975)

Former External Reference BL40 OF58

Scope and Content Correspondence of Thelma Cazalet-Keir regarding P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• carbon copy of letter from Norman Rutherford regarding TV right in P.G. Wodehouse works, 17 May 1957; • letter from Cecil McGivern, of BBC television, concerning television rights in P.G. Wodehouse works, 23 May 1957; • letter from Ronald Neame, film director, with reference to a 'Wodehouse series';, 1959; • 2 letters from Robert Armstrong (Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister), and reply from Thelma concerning a possible memorial service for Wodehouse, 3, 5 and 14 Mar 1975.

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Page 178 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/114 Chambers, David (1992-1993)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/114

Creation Date 1992-1993

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Chambers, David (1992-1993)

Former External Reference BL193 OF221

Scope and Content Correspondence of Derek Chambers, grandson of Max Enke, who was interned with P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• letter to Lady Donaldson regarding Max Enke and his internment with P.G. Wodehouse, 24 Feb 1992; • a memoir from fellow internee Max Enke, sent to Sir Edward Cazalet on 25 Jan 1993, with related correspondence.

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Loan MS 129/4/115 Donaldson, Frances (1978-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/115

Creation Date 1978-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Donaldson, Frances (1978-1981)

Former External Reference BL36 OF51

Scope and Content Correspondence of Frances Donaldson regarding research for her biography of Wodehouse, including:

• 58 letters to Frances Donaldson with anecdotal information on P.G. Wodehouse, mostly from friends or relatives, 1978-1979. • correspondence (11 letters) between Frances Donaldson and Edward Cazalet regarding permission to publish the biography and related agreement, including transcripts of excerpts from Wodehouse's letters, 1980-1981.

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Page 179 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/116-117 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William (1908-1959)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/116-117

Creation Date 1908-1959

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William (1908-1959)

Scope and Content Correspondence of William Townened regarding P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/4/116 Townend, William - Part 1 (1908-1952)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/116

Creation Date 1908-1952

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Townend, William - Part 1 (1908-1952)

Former External Reference BL258

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence of William Townend (66 letters) concerning P.G. Wodehouse, 28 Oct 1908 to 22 Apr 1952 (most letters are from 1952), including:

• letter from the Editor of Tit Bits informing P.G. Wodehouse that his freelance column, written with Townend, would henceforth be handled by the magazine staff, 28 Oct 1908; • letters to The Times Literary Supplement, the Foreign Secretary, and Hugh Walpole asking to help P.G. Wodehouse to leave France, and one reply from Walpole, 1940-1945; • letter from J. Derek Grimsdick to Townend regarding P.G. Wodehouse's writing, 15 Aug 1950; • letters to and from Townend regarding permissions to quote from various sources in Performing Flea, to and from various people including Evelyn Waugh, John F Leeming, Denis Mackail, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sax Rohmer, and the editors of various magazines and newspapers, 1952; • letter from Theodosia Wodehouse (wife of Norman Wodehouse, cousin of P.G.) regarding Performing Flea and the reaction to the Berlin Broadcasts in Britain, 1952.

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Page 180 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/117 Townend, William - Part 2 (1957-1959)

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Reference Loan MS 129/4/117

Creation Date 1957-1959

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Townend, William - Part 2 (1957-1959)

Former External Reference BL23 OF28

Scope and Content Photocopies of 6 letters from William Townend to Richard Usborne, supplying information for Usborne's book Wodehouse at Work, along with quotations from and copies of Wodehouse's letters to Townend, 2 Jun 1957-10 Dec 1959.

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Loan MS 129/4/118-123 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Ethel (1931-1984)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/118-123

Creation Date 1931-1984

Extent and Format 6 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse, Ethel (1931-1984)

Scope and Content Correspondence of Ethel Wodehouse regarding P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 181 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/118 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 1 (1931-1945)

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Reference Loan MS 129/4/118

Creation Date 1931-1945

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 1 (1931-1945)

Former External Reference BL42 OF60

Scope and Content Photocopies of two letters from Ethel Wodehouse to Denis and Diana Mackail: one tells them about her plans for a round-the-world cruise (never taken), 8 Oct 1931; the second is a lengthy account of P.G. and Ethel's activities during the Second World War and the situation in Paris, 26 Jun-12 Jul 1945.

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Loan MS 129/4/119 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 2 (1945-1961)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/119

Creation Date 1945-1961

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 2 (1945-1961)

Former External Reference BL43 OF61

Scope and Content Two letters from Ethel Wodehouse to Sheran Cazalet and one to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, regarding P.G. Wodehouse's illness, routine, and gifts, 15 Aug 1945-13 Dec 1961.

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Page 182 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/120 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 3 (1971)

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Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 3 (1971)

Former External Reference BL431

Scope and Content Photocopy of an invitation to P.G. Wodehouse’s 90th birthday party (15 Oct 1971), sent from Ethel Wodehouse to Dr and Mrs Jerome Roberts, 8 Oct 1971.

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Loan MS 129/4/121 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 4 (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/121

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 4 (1975)

Former External Reference BL45 OF63

Scope and Content Messages of condolence sent to Lady Ethel Wodehouse after P.G. Wodehouse's death on 14 Feb 1975, including letters and telegrams from: Sir Harry Townend, Sir Peter Ramsbotham (British Ambassador to USA), Ira Gershwin, Tom Sharpe, Derek Grimsdick, Tim Rice, Henry Slesar, Basil Boothroyd, Hilary Rubinstein, Edward Cazalet, Brian Aherne, Jose Ferrar, John Loder, Christopher MacLehose, Leo Rosten, and Herbert Warren Wind.

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Page 183 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/122 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 5 (1977)

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Reference Loan MS 129/4/122

Creation Date 1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 5 (1977)

Former External Reference BL44 OF62

Scope and Content Two letters, from Ethel Wodehouse to Hilary Rubinstein (21 Jan 1977) and Peter Schwed (21 Feb 1977) regarding her desire for Sunset at Blandings to be published as left, unfinished, at P.G.Wodehouse's death.

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Loan MS 129/4/123 Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 6 (1984)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/123

Creation Date 1984

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Ethel - Part 6 (1984)

Former External Reference BL242

Scope and Content Correspondence regarding the Wodehouse Scholarships set up in P.G. Wodehouse's memory at Dulwich College, including a letter from the Master of Dulwich College to Lady Wodehouse to inform her of the winners and two letters from the winners to Lady Wodehouse to thank her, Jun 1984.

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Page 184 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/124 Wodehouse, Leonora Cazalet (1940-1941)

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Reference Loan MS 129/4/124

Creation Date 1940-1941

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse, Leonora Cazalet (1940-1941)

Former External Reference BL474

Scope and Content Letters from Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet to hers and P.G. Wodehouse's friends, including:

• copy of letter to Guy Bolton telling him about Wodehouse being in an internment camp, 12 Nov [1940]; • three original letters to Denis Mackail: one letter thanking him for The Flower Show, 17 Jun [c. 1927]; one mentions Wodehouse and the dispatch of the manuscript of Money in the Bank to the US, [1941]; one is about Leonora's reaction to the attacks on Wodehouse after the Berlin Broadcasts, 21 Jul 1941.

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Loan MS 129/4/125-126 P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse Family (1971-1989)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/125-126

Creation Date 1971-1989

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse Family (1971-1989)

Scope and Content Correspondence of members of the Wodehouse family regarding P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 185 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/4/125 Wodehouse Family - Part 1 (1971-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/4/125

Creation Date 1971-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse Family - Part 1 (1971-1981)

Former External Reference BL346

Scope and Content Correspondence of members of the Wodehouse's family concerning P.G. Wodehouse:

• letter from Agatha Christie to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, thanking her for sending Much Obliged, Jeeves, 12 Dec [1971]; • letter from Thelma Cazalet-Keir to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, 24 Aug 1977, enclosing a letter from N.T.P. Murphy to Cazalet-Keir, 9 Aug 1977; • 6 letters of condolence to Ethel Wodehouse, Feb 1975, including from Philip Norman, Scott Meredith and Peter Schwed; • 3 letters to Ethel Wodehouse concerning Sunset at Blandings, Feb 1978, including two from Christopher Maclehose; • letter from Richard Usborne to Ethel Wodehouse regarding the whereabouts of the letters from Wodehouse to William Townened reproduced in Performing Flea, 27 Jun 1976; • letter from Jacqueline Powell (a neighbour of the Wodehouses in Le Touquet in 1940) to Ethel Wodehouse regarding Iain Sproat and his book Wodehouse at War, 13 Aug 1981; • photocopy of letter from Joshua C. Armitage, aka 'Ionicus', Penguin jacket illustrator, to Peter Mayer, concerning his set of Drones Club prints, forwarded to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, 22 May 1981.

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Loan MS 129/4/126 Wodehouse Family - Part 2 (1980-1989)

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Reference Loan MS 129/4/126

Creation Date 1980-1989

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Wodehouse Family - Part 2 (1980-1989)

Former External Reference BL336

Scope and Content Correspondence of members of the Wodehouse family, including:

• undated Christmas card with note, from Ethel Wodehouse to Thelma Cazalet-Keir; • draft letter from Sir Edward Cazalet to the Wodehouse Society, read by Richard Usborne at the Society’s Dulwich Dinner in 1989; • photocopy of a letter from D. Vincent-Jones to the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, containing a lengthy anecdote about meetings with Peter Cazalet and Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet [Aug 1989]; • an aerogramme from Maha Nand Sharma, author of Wodehouse the Fictionist, to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 20 Aug 1980.

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Loan MS 129/5 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Published Material (1899-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5

Creation Date 1899-2003

Extent and Format 38 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Published Material (1899-2003)

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of published articles, short stories, and poems by P.G. Wodehouse.

The material has been arranged chronologically by date of publication.

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Loan MS 129/5/1-21 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Collected by Wodehouse (1910-1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/1-21

Creation Date 1910-1980

Extent and Format 21 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Collected by Wodehouse (1910-1980)

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of articles and short stories by P.G. Wodehouse published in magazines between 1910 to 1971 and retained by him for various possible new publishing projects.

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Page 187 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/1 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Pearson's (1910)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/1

Creation Date 1910

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Pearson's (1910)

Former External Reference BL159 OF182

Scope and Content Pearson's Magazine, Apr 1910, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'The Outcast'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/5/2-10 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand (1911-1933)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/2-10

Creation Date 1911-1933

Extent and Format 9 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand (1911-1933)

Scope and Content Issues of The Strand Magazine which include pieces by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 188 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/2 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 1 (1911)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/2

Creation Date 1911

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 1 (1911)

Former External Reference BL161 OF184

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Dec 1911, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Pots o’ Money'.

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Loan MS 129/5/3 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 2 (1911-1914)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/3

Creation Date 1911-1914

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 2 (1911-1914)

Former External Reference BL176

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G Wodehouse's stories published in The Strand Magazine, 1911-1914, as follows: 'Pots of Money', 'The Best Sauce', 'Three From Dunsterville', 'Helping Freddie', and a six-part serial 'A Man of Means with C. H. Bovill.

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Page 189 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/4 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 3 (1913)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/4

Creation Date 1913

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 3 (1913)

Former External Reference BL162 OF185

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Dec 1913, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Keeping It From Harold'.

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Loan MS 129/5/5 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 4 (1919)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/5

Creation Date 1919

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 4 (1919)

Former External Reference BL160 OF183

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Oct 1919, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'A Woman is Only a Woman'.

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Page 190 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/6 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 5 (1923)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/6

Creation Date 1923

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 5 (1923)

Former External Reference BL167 OF190

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Dec 1923, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Tire Long Arm of Looney Coote'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/5/7 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 6 (1924)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/7

Creation Date 1924

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 6 (1924)

Former External Reference BL164

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, May 1924, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Chester Forgets Himself'.

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Page 191 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/8 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 7 (1927)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/8

Creation Date 1927

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 7 (1927)

Former External Reference BL165

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Dec 1927, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit'.

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Loan MS 129/5/9 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 8 (1929)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/9

Creation Date 1929

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 8 (1929)

Former External Reference BL166

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Nov 1929, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Jeeves and the Love That Purifies'.

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Page 192 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/10 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 9 (1933)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/10

Creation Date 1933

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand - Part 9 (1933)

Former External Reference BL163 OF186

Scope and Content The Strand Magazine, Jan 1933, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'The Nodder'.

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Loan MS 129/5/11-12 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling (1928)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/11-12

Creation Date 1928

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling (1928)

Scope and Content Issues of London Calling which include pieces by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 193 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/11 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling - Part 1 (1928)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/11

Creation Date 1928

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling - Part 1 (1928)

Former External Reference BL173 OF196

Scope and Content London Calling, Mar-May 1928, including P.G Wodehouse's serial 'Money for Nothing' (part 1-11).

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Loan MS 129/5/12 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling - Part 2 (1928)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/12

Creation Date 1928

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: London Calling - Part 2 (1928)

Former External Reference BL174 OF197

Scope and Content London Calling, May-Jul 1928, including P.G Wodehouse's serial Money for Nothing (part 12-23).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 194 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/13 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Lilliput (1953)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/13

Creation Date 1953

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Lilliput (1953)

Former External Reference BL170 OF193

Scope and Content Lilliput, Mar-Apr 1953, including P.G Wodehouse's story 'Big Business'.

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Loan MS 129/5/14 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Punch (1953-1963)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/14

Creation Date 1953-1963

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Punch (1953-1963)

Former External Reference BL175

Scope and Content Cuttings of articles by P.G Wodehouse from Punch, 15 Jul 1953-26 Jun 1963.

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Page 195 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/15 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Horizon (1959- 1980)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/15

Creation Date 1959-1980

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Horizon (1959-1980)

Former External Reference BL171 OF194

Scope and Content Horizon, Jan 1959, including P.G Wodehouse's essay 'My World and What Happened to it', and photocopy of the essay.

The volume includes a cover letter from Barry Phelps to Edward Cazalet, 17 Mar 1980.

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Loan MS 129/5/16-17 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy (1964- 1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/16-17

Creation Date 1964-1967

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy (1964-1967)

Scope and Content Issues of Argosy which include pieces by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 196 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/16 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy - Part 1 (1964)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/16

Creation Date 1964

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy - Part 1 (1964)

Former External Reference BL168

Scope and Content Argosy, Oct 1964, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'The Battle of Squashy Hollow'.

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Loan MS 129/5/17 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy - Part 2 (1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/17

Creation Date 1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Argosy - Part 2 (1967)

Former External Reference BL169 OF192

Scope and Content Argosy, Apr 1967, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'First Aid For Freddie'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 197 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/18-20 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy (1967- 1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/18-20

Creation Date 1967-1970

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy (1967-1970)

Scope and Content Issues of Playboy which include pieces by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/5/18 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 1 (1967)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/18

Creation Date 1967

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 1 (1967)

Former External Reference BL157 OF180

Scope and Content Playboy, Jul 1967, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'Ukridge Starts A Bank Account'.

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Page 198 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/19 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 2 (1969)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/19

Creation Date 1969

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 2 (1969)

Former External Reference BL156 OF179

Scope and Content Playboy, Jan 1969, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'The Lost Art of Domestic Service'.

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Loan MS 129/5/20 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 3 (1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/20

Creation Date 1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Playboy - Part 3 (1970)

Former External Reference BL158 OF181

Scope and Content Playboy, Dec 1970, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'Another Christ­mas Carol'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 199 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/21 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Writer's Digest (1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Writer's Digest (1971)

Former External Reference BL172 OF195

Scope and Content Writer's Digest, Oct 1971, including interview with P.G. Wodehouse by Don Bensen 'Exclusive Interview: P. G. Wodehouse'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/5/22-38 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Collected by Others (1899-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/22-38

Creation Date 1899-2003

Extent and Format 17 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Collected by Others (1899-2003)

Scope and Content Originals and photocopies of articles, short stories and poems by P.G. Wodehouse, published in magazines.

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Page 200 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/22-23 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian (1899-1913)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/22-23

Creation Date 1899-1913

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian (1899-1913)

Scope and Content Issues of The Alleynian which include pieces written or edited by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/5/22 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian - Part 1 (1899-1900)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1899-1900

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian - Part 1 (1899-1900)

Former External Reference BL244

Scope and Content Three issues of The Alleynian, Sept 1899, Mar and Oct 1900.

P.G. Wodehouse was editor of the magazine from 1899 to 1900.

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Page 201 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/23 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian - Part 2 (1899-1913)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/23

Creation Date 1899-1913

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Alleynian - Part 2 (1899-1913)

Former External Reference BL404

Scope and Content Photocopies of short fiction, poetry, and other pieces written by P.G. Wodehouse and published in The Alleynian during and after the period when he was at school at Dulwich, from issues Feb, Jun, Dec 1899, Jul 1900, May 1902, and Mar 1913.

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Loan MS 129/5/24 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Clippings (1902- 1978)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1902-1978

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Clippings (1902-1978)

Former External Reference BL177

Scope and Content Photocopies and clippings of published short pieces by P.G. Wodehouse, spanning his career. Includes pieces from: Playboy, The Alleynian, Punch, Time and Tide, and London Opinion, and Introduction to Bindle Omnibus by Herbert Jenkins.

The photocopies of two pages from Punch are accompanied by a cover letter to Lady Donaldson, 4 Jan 1978.

The file also includes typescripts of a piece for Over Seventy and of a recording of readings from Over Seventy, with cover note from Decca Record Company, 1974.

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Page 202 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/25 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Notebook (1903)

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Creation Date 1903

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Notebook (1903)

Former External Reference BL420

Scope and Content A small notebook with cuttings of P.G. Wodehouse satirical poems entitled 'The Parrot' written for The Daily Express.

The notebook also includes a cutting of the article 'Awards in the Great Parrot Contest' from The Daily Express, Dec 1903.

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Loan MS 129/5/26 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Stories and Articles (1903-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1903-2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Stories and Articles (1903-2003)

Former External Reference BL459

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of stories and articles by P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• two Kid Brady stories, reprinted by the P. G. Wodehouse Society (UK) for renewing members: 'How Kid Brady won the Championship' (original Jan 1906), no. 3 (2000), and 'How Kid Brady fought for his eyes' (original Jul 1906), no. 6 (2003); • photocopies of short pieces from Punch: 'Dudley Jones, bore-hunter', 20 Apr and 6 May 1903, 'Back to his Native Strand', poem, 27 May 1903, and 'The Prodigal', 23 Sept 1903; • clipping of article 'Edwardian, am I?' from The Queen, 16 Sept 1958.

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Page 203 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/27 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Cricket (1905- 1906)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1905-1906

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Cricket (1905-1906)

Former External Reference BL414

Scope and Content Photocopies of articles about cricket by P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• review 'The Glorious Uncertainty of Cricket' from Vanity Fair, 8 Jun 1905; • report of a Marylebone Cricket Club game in which P.G. Wodehouse played, 24-25 Aug 1906.

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Loan MS 129/5/28 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Untitled Poem (1907)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1907

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Untitled Poem (1907)

Former External Reference BL295

Scope and Content Photocopy of an untitled poem purporting to be by P.G. Wodehouse at age 5, printed in The Captain, Apr 1907.

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Page 204 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/29 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Poem 'The Great Day' ([1914])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date [1914]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Poem 'The Great Day' ([1914])

Former External Reference BL434

Scope and Content Photocopies of two pages of an unidentified book with a poem 'The Great Day' by P.G. Wodehouse, with cover note from Brough Scott, undated.

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Loan MS 129/5/30 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Century (1915)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/30

Creation Date 1915

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Century (1915)

Former External Reference BL328

Scope and Content Century, Feb 1915, including P.G. Wodehouse's short story 'Bill the Bloodhound'.

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Page 205 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/31 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Printers' Pie (1916)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1916

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Printers' Pie (1916)

Former External Reference BL391

Scope and Content Printers' Pie, 1916, including P.G. Wodehouse's essay 'All About Butlers and a Word on How to be Buttled'.

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Loan MS 129/5/32 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Introduction, Poem and Story (1928-1987)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1928-1987

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Introduction, Poem and Story (1928-1987)

Former External Reference BL337

Scope and Content Original and photocopies of published material by P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• photocopy of introduction by P.G. Wodehouse to William Townend’s The Ship in the Swamp (Herbert Jenkins, 1928); • photocopy of poem 'A Well Earned Tribute', from Punch, 25 Jan 1956; • series 'Tales For Travellers' no.48, reprint of Uncle Fred Flits By, 1987.

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Page 206 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/33 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand (1931)

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Creation Date 1931

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: The Strand (1931)

Former External Reference BL329

Scope and Content The Strand, Dec 1931, including P.G. Wodehouse's short story 'The Voice From the Past'.

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Loan MS 129/5/34 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Article and Story (1934-1966)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1934-1966

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Article and Story (1934-1966)

Former External Reference BL310

Scope and Content Publications including an article and a story by P.G. Wodehouse, as follows:

• Punch, 4 May 1966, including P.G. Wodehouse's article 'Genesis of a Novel'; • Golden Book Magazine, Oct 1934, including P.G. Wodehouse's story 'Disentangling Old Percy'.

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Page 207 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/35 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Something Clever (1955)

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Creation Date 1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Something Clever (1955)

Former External Reference BL280

Scope and Content Photocopy of a two-page story entitled 'Something Clever' handwritten by P.G. Wodehouse as dedication for the Old Alleynian Dinner Book on the occasion of the annual alumni dinner held in New York City, 7 Apr 1955.

The story recounts the anecdote of P.G. Wodehouse losing his job at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank through writing in a ledger and cutting out the page.

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Loan MS 129/5/36 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Punch (1955)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/36

Creation Date 1955

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Punch (1955)

Former External Reference BL390

Scope and Content Punch, 6 Apr 1955, including P.G. Wodehouse 's essay 'The Man We Love', a humorous tribute to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

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Page 208 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/5/37 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: List of stories (1960s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1960s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: List of stories (1960s)

Former External Reference BL298

Scope and Content Photocopy of a list of P.G. Wodehouse published short stories, compiled by Herbert Jenkins, c. 1960.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/5/38 P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Quest (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/5/38

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Published Material: Quest (1975)

Former External Reference BL178

Scope and Content P.G. Wodehouse's story 'Quest', privately reprinted by Alan Salisbury in 1975.

The story was first published in The Strand in 1931.

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Page 209 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Biographical Material (1894- 2001)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6

Creation Date 1894-2001

Extent and Format 15 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Biographical Material (1894-2001)

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's life.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/6/1-4 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College (1894-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/1-4

Creation Date 1894-1982

Extent and Format 4 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College (1894-1982)

Scope and Content Biographical material relating to P.G. Wodehouse during his time at Dulwich College.

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Page 210 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/1 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 1 (1894-1900)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/1

Creation Date 1894-1900

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 1 (1894-1900)

Former External Reference BL402

Scope and Content Photocopies of material from The Alleynian relating to P.G. Wodehouse’s participation in cricket and other sports during his school years at Dulwich College, Oct 1894 to Oct 1900.

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Loan MS 129/6/2 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 2 (1894-1900)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/2

Creation Date 1894-1900

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 2 (1894-1900)

Former External Reference BL400

Scope and Content Photocopies of Form Work from Midsummer Term 1895 to Midsummer Term 1900, Dulwich College.

The pages list exhibitions, scholarships and prizes and include mentions of P.G. Wodehouse and his brother Armine Wodehouse.

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Page 211 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/3 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 3 (1899-1900)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/3

Creation Date 1899-1900

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 3 (1899-1900)

Former External Reference BL401

Scope and Content Photocopies of programmes and reviews relating to P.G. Wodehouse’s stage performances during his time at Dulwich College, including:

• review from The Alleynian of a production of Aristophanes’ The Frogs in Greek, Jul 1899. P.G. Wodehouse appeared in the Chorus of Frogs and the Chorus of Worshippers; • programme for a concert given on 31 Jul 1899, during which P.G. Wodehouse sang Elliott’s 'The Song of Hybrias the Cretan'. Also a copy of the song’s lyrics; • review from The Alleynian of a production of W.S. Gilbert’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in which P.G. Wodehouse played Guildenstern, Jul 1900.

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Loan MS 129/6/4 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 4 (1900-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/4

Creation Date 1900-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Dulwich College - Part 4 (1900-1982)

Former External Reference BL405

Scope and Content Photocopied extracts from The Alleynian consisting of notices of P.G. Wodehouse’s various activities at the time of his graduation and thereafter including:

• a notice of his nomination for the Alleyn Club, Oct 1900; • his graduation Oct 1900; • reviews of his early books The Pothunters, Oct 1902, A Prefect’s Uncle, and theatrical works;

• letter to the editor from R.T. Rees, quoting at length from a letter from P.G. Wodehouse concerning his wartime activities, Jul 1945.

The file also includes P.G. Wodehouse obituary, 1975, and an account of Edward Cazalet’s attendance of the Wodehouse Library’s opening, summer 1982.

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Loan MS 129/6/5 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Sport (1900- 1929)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/5

Creation Date 1900-1929

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Sport (1900-1929)

Former External Reference BL443

Scope and Content Material relating to sport, including:

• photocopies of two pages mentioning cricket games in which P.G. Wodehouse played, 1900 and 1907; • photocopy of bills from the Soundview Gold Club on Long Island, both signed by P.G. Wodehouse, one dated 14 Oct 1929; • copy of Surrey County Cricket Club, a small book listing the membership and games of this club, of which P.G. Wodehouse was a member, 1921.

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Loan MS 129/6/6 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: William Townend (1902-1907)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1902-1907

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: William Townend (1902-1907)

Former External Reference BL261

Scope and Content Photocopies of three flyleaf inscriptions from P.G. Wodehouse to his friend William Townend in copies of The White Feather, The Pothunters, and The Head of Kay's, dating from the period of the first publication of the books, 1902-07.

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Page 213 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/7 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: After Graduation (1904-1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/7

Creation Date 1904-1939

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: After Graduation (1904-1939)

Former External Reference BL403

Scope and Content Photocopies from The Alleynian recording P.G. Wodehouse’s sports activities relating to Dulwich College after his graduation. These include some early cricket games played by P.G. Wodehouse’s own team, 'P.G. Wodehouse’s XI', against Dulwich and P.G. Wodehouse’s own reviews of Dulwich games, Jun 1904 to Jul 1939.

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Loan MS 129/6/8 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Marriage Certificate (1914-2001)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1914-2001

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Marriage Certificate (1914-2001)

Former External Reference BL438

Scope and Content Photocopy of P.G. and Ethel Wodehouse’s marriage certificate, 30 Sept 1914, with an explanatory cover letter from Robert McCrum to Sir Edward Cazalet, 23 Apr 2001.

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Page 214 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/9 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Savage Club (1922)

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Creation Date 1922

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Savage Club (1922)

Former External Reference BL423

Scope and Content Photocopy of a page from the Savage Club Candidates’ Book, with P.G. Wodehouse nominated for membership by D. Greenbough Smith, with signature of his supporters.

He was nominated on 2 Feb 1922 and elected on 2 Mar 1922.

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Loan MS 129/6/10 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Honorary Degree - Oxford (1939)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1939

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Honorary Degree - Oxford (1939)

Former External Reference BL222

Scope and Content Photocopy of poem entitled 'At The Encaenia', written in occasion of P.G. Wodehouse being awarded an honorary degree from Oxford University, 22 Jun 1939.

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Page 215 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/11 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Naturalisation (1955-1960)

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Creation Date 1955-1960

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Naturalisation (1955-1960)

Former External Reference BL297 OF338

Scope and Content Photocopies of P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Wodehouse’s certificates of naturalization upon becoming American citizens, his dated 16 Dec 1955, hers 24 Jun 1960.

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Loan MS 129/6/12 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: 90th Birthday (1971)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/6/12

Creation Date 1971

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: 90th Birthday (1971)

Former External Reference BL225

Scope and Content Guest book for P.G. Wodehouse's 90th birthday celebration, signed by guests, 15 Oct 1971.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 216 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/13 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Honorary Degree - NY (1972)

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Creation Date 1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Honorary Degree - NY (1972)

Former External Reference BL224

Scope and Content Original certificate of The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters conferred upon P.G. Wodehouse by Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, on 21 May 1972.

P.G. Wodehouse did not attend the ceremony. Ethel Wodehouse received the degree on his behalf.

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Loan MS 129/6/14 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Memorabilia (1970s-1980s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1970s-1980s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Memorabilia (1970s-1980s)

Former External Reference BL223

Scope and Content Memorabilia relating to P.G. Wodehouse including personalised postcards, advertising material for Jeeves cleaners and Plum restaurant, bookmarks, and stamps used by P.G. Wodehouse to promote animal shelters.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 217 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/6/15 P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Funeral (1975)

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Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Biographical Material: Funeral (1975)

Former External Reference BL226

Scope and Content Guest book for P.G. Wodehouse's funeral and a copy of the design of his gravestone, 18 Feb 1975.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Posthumous Material (1929- 2016)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7

Creation Date 1929-2016

Extent and Format 88 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Posthumous Material (1929-2016)

Scope and Content Material relating to posthumous publications and projects, events, and commemorations of P.G. Wodehouse organised after his death.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 218 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/1-26 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and Television Events (1973-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/1-26

Creation Date 1973-2010

Extent and Format 26 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and Television Events (1973-2010)

Scope and Content Material relating to posthumous theatrical and television events based on P.G. Wodehouse's work or about him.

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Loan MS 129/7/1 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publicity Material (1973-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/1

Creation Date 1973-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publicity Material (1973-1981)

Former External Reference BL353

Scope and Content Programmes, leaflets, press releases and notices relating to various posthumous theatrical productions and readings of P.G. Wodehouse’s work.

The file includes Playbill, May 1973, featuring aritcles on The Play's the Thing.

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Page 219 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/2 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Programmes (1975-2004)

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Creation Date 1975-2004

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Programmes (1975-2004)

Former External Reference BL454

Scope and Content Programmes of theatrical adaptations and revivals of P.G. Wodehouse's work, including:

• a revival of Giles Havergal’s 1992 theatrical adaptation of Summer Lightning, Northampton, 21 May to 12 Jun [2004]; • Never Gonna Dance, a musical adaptation of the film Swing Time, including lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse, at the Broadhurst Theatre, New York, Jan 2004; • revival of Show Boat, Apollo Theatre, Oxford, part of a tour of the Opera North and Royal Shakespeare Company production, 12-23 Feb 1991; • revival of Show Boat at the Royal Albert Hall, 10 to 25 Jun 2006; • Right Ho, Wodehouse!, a comedy derived from P.G. Wodehouse’s works by Christopher Owen, 2000 (with leaflet); • Jeeves, by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber, at Her Majesty’s Theatre, 22 Apr 1975; • Oh, Clarence!, adapted by John Chapman from the Blandings series, at The Britten Theatre, 19 to 24 Apr 2004.

The file also includes a postcard announcing 'PG Wodehouse - The Long Exile' the documentary by Paladin Invision on BBC Two, 28 Dec [2004].

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Loan MS 129/7/3 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Playhouse (1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Playhouse (1977)

Former External Reference BL239

Scope and Content Material relating to Wodehouse Playhouse, a 1977 series for TV 1977, including draft press releases for the 13 episodes and letter to Lady Wodehouse from Channel 13 announcing the beginning of the series, 21 Jun 1977.

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Loan MS 129/7/4-5 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge (1980-1983)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/4-5

Creation Date 1980-1983

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge (1980-1983)

Scope and Content Material relating to Jeeves takes Charge, one-man play by Edward Duke based on P.G. Wodehouse’s work.

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Loan MS 129/7/4 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge - Part 1 (1980-1983)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/4

Creation Date 1980-1983

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge - Part 1 (1980-1983)

Former External Reference BL302

Scope and Content Material relating to Jeeves Takes Charge including:

• script, 1980; • letters to Edward Cazalet abut the show, 1980; • Showbill, Jun 1983, and Playbill, Aug 1983, featuring two productions of the play.

The file also includes a programme for a musical version of Blandings Castle, 1980, and a leaflet for Jeeves, presented by the Dulwich College Junior Dramatic Society, Dec 1981.

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Page 221 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/5 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge - Part 2 (1980-1983)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1980-1983

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Takes Charge - Part 2 (1980-1983)

Former External Reference BL236

Scope and Content Material relating to various productions of Jeeves Takes Charge including leaflets, photocopies of adverts and press reviews, and a letter from Newsweek to Lady Wodehouse thanking her for her help with the article about the show, Jun 1983.

The file also includes a leaflet for Blandings Castle at Westminster Theatre, 1980, a letter to Edward Cazalet from A.P. Watt regarding the contract for a play by Robert Ralph called Words by Wodehouse, 1983, photocopy of an article and biographical details about George Rose, and a leaflet for 'An Evening with P.G. Wodehouse' at Burnham Market, Aug 1982.

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Loan MS 129/7/6 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Adaptations (1981-1987)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1981-1987

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Adaptations (1981-1987)

Former External Reference BL317

Scope and Content Material relating to theatrical adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse's work including:

• draft script of Wodehouse on Broadway, adapted by Tony Staveacre mostly from Bring on the Girls, including cover description by the author, 11 Feb 1987; • flier and programme of Right Ho and Stiff Upper Lip, two one-man shows by Robert Goodale and Jeremy Silberston, undated; • programme of Jeeves Takes Charge, adapted by Matthew Purver and Jeremy Le Sueur (a school production), undated; • programme of Ludwig and Bertie by Justin Greene, produced in 1982 at the University of London;

• programme of the National Film Theatre with focus on P.G. Wodehouse, Sept 1981.

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Loan MS 129/7/7 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Revivals - 1980s (1983-1985)

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Creation Date 1983-1985

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Revivals - 1980s (1983-1985)

Former External Reference BL237 OF277

Scope and Content Programmes and leaflets for two revivals of P.G. Wodehouse's plays, as follows:

• Leave it to Jane at Alameda Theatre, California, 13 May 1983, with cover letter from Pauline Blanc from the P.G. Wodehouse San Francisco Society to Ethel Wodehouse, 23 May 1983; • Oh Boy! (concert version) at Carnegie Hall, New York, Jan 1985, with press clippings relating to the performance.

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Loan MS 129/7/8-9 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV Performances and Adaptations (1986-1994)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/8-9

Creation Date 1986-1994

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV Performances and Adaptations (1986-1994)

Scope and Content Material relating to theatrical and TV performances and adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse’s work.

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Creation Date 1986-1994

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV Performances and Adaptations - Part 1 (1986-1994)

Former External Reference BL394

Scope and Content Material relating to theatrical and TV performances and adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse works, including:

• programme of Jeeves Takes Charge at the Minerva Studio Theatre, Chichester, Aug-Sept 1992; • press pack with two photographs for the Jeeves and Wooster television series, Granada Television International, [1993]; • photocopy of the piano score of 'Bill' from Show Boat, 1987; • programme and promotional material for a revival of The Play’s The Thing, Cambridge Theatre Company, 29 Apr-3 May 1986.

The file also includes an obituary of Edward Duke, author of Jeeves Takes Charge, Feb 1994.

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Loan MS 129/7/9 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV performances and Adaptations - Part 2 (1988-1989)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/9

Creation Date 1988-1989

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV performances and Adaptations - Part 2 (1988-1989)

Former External Reference BL340

Scope and Content Material relating to theatrical and TV performances and adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse works, including:

• programme of Anything Goes, Prince Edward Theatre, London, Jul 1989; • press clipping relating to Candle-Light, Palace Theatre, Watford, Sept 1989; • press clipping relating to a TV adaptation for the US of The Old Reliable, Nov 1988.

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Loan MS 129/7/10 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Work (1987-1990)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/10

Creation Date 1987-1990

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Work (1987-1990)

Former External Reference BL362

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's theatrical work, as follows:

• press clippings (originals and photocopies) concerning the 1990 Broadway revival of Oh, Kay; • programmes for the 1990 London revival of Show Boat; • sheet music for song ‘Bill’, from Show Boat, for which P.G. Wodehouse wrote the lyrics.

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Loan MS 129/7/11 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Galahad at Blandings (1988-1990)

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Creation Date 1988-1990

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Galahad at Blandings (1988-1990)

Former External Reference BL425

Scope and Content Scripts of a four-episode radio version of Galahad at Blandings, adapted by Richard Usborne for BBC Radio 4.

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Page 225 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/12 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse on Broadway (1989)

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse on Broadway (1989)

Former External Reference BL339

Scope and Content Material relating to Wodehouse on Broadway, a documentary musical by Tony Staveacre, produced by the BBC2, performed at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 22 Jun-1 Jul 1989, and filmed for later broadcast, including the script (93 pages), a flier and a programme.

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Loan MS 129/7/13 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Pigs Have Wings (1989)

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Pigs Have Wings (1989)

Former External Reference BL426

Scope and Content Scripts of episode 3 and 4 of a four-episode radio adaptation of Pigs Have Wings, adapted by Richard Usborne, 29-30 Jul 1989.

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Page 226 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/14-19 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster (1989-1990)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/14-19

Creation Date 1989-1990

Extent and Format 6 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster (1989-1990)

Scope and Content Material relating to Jeeves and Wooster, television series written by Clive Exton.

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Loan MS 129/7/14 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 1 (1989)

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 1 (1989)

Former External Reference BL355

Scope and Content Script of episode 1 of Jeeves & Wooster, 1 Aug 1989.

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Page 227 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/15 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 2 (1989)

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 2 (1989)

Former External Reference BL356

Scope and Content Script of episode 2 of Jeeves & Wooster, 15 Aug 1989.

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Loan MS 129/7/16 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 3 (1989)

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 3 (1989)

Former External Reference BL357

Scope and Content Script of episode 3 (previously episode 4) of Jeeves & Wooster, 1 Aug 1989, plus revision of p. 30-34 of the script, 8 Aug 1989, and of part 3, 29 Aug 1989.

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Creation Date 1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 4 (1989)

Former External Reference BL358

Scope and Content Script of episode 5 (previously episode 3) of Jeeves & Wooster, 1 Aug 1989.

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Loan MS 129/7/18 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 5 (1990)

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Creation Date 1990

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 5 (1990)

Former External Reference BL354

Scope and Content Press pack including photographs and press releases for the launch of Jeeves & Wooster, Granada Television, Apr 1990.

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Page 229 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/19 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 6 (1990)

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Creation Date 1990

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves and Wooster - Part 6 (1990)

Former External Reference BL351

Scope and Content Articles about Jeeves and Wooster, as follows:

• photocopy of 'Beam Me Up, Bertie – I’m Oozing Into Trouble' by Stephen Fry in The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1990; • 'The Men Who Put a Smile on the Queen Mum’s Face' by David Lewin in The Mail on Sunday, 15 Apr 1990.

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Loan MS 129/7/20 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV Adaptations and Revivals (1990-2002)

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Creation Date 1990-2002

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical and TV Adaptations and Revivals (1990-2002)

Former External Reference BL444

Scope and Content Material relating to various theatrical and television productions, including:

• flyer for Come on, Jeeves at Abbey Theatre, St Albans, undated; • leaflet for Carry On, Jeeves by the Oxford Musical and Dramatic Society, undated; • flyer for P.G. Wodehouse: Life, Verse and Lyrics at The Theatre Museum, London, Apr 2001; • postcard announcing 'PG Wodehouse - The Long Exile', documentary by Paladin Invision on BBC Two, 28 Dec [2004]; • article 'Wooster Sauce' from The Sunday Telegraph about Jeeves and Wooster TV series, Apr 1990; • programme of A Foggy Day (based on A Damsel in Distress) at the Shaw Festival, Canada, signed by Nora McLellan, 1999, with photocopies of press cuttings with reviews of the show; • programme of Anything Goes at the National Theatre, 2002, with photocopies of press cuttings with reviews of the show; • photocopies of script of two P.G. Wodehouse sketched Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey and The Clicking of Cuthbert performed in front of The Queen Mother at Eton, sent to Sir Edward Cazalet by Eton Prevost, 2002; • press cutting relating to unknown P.G. Wodehouse songs found in the attic by Hal Cazalet, 17 Jun 2001; • draft contracts for They All Laughed, the new George and Ira Gershwin musical, Aug 2000.

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Loan MS 129/7/21 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Adaptations and Revivals (1993-1996)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/21

Creation Date 1993-1996

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Adaptations and Revivals (1993-1996)

Former External Reference BL408

Scope and Content Material relating to adaptations of and revivals of P.G. Wodehouse's work, including:

• press release on the BBC’s adaptation of Heavy Weather, 24 Dec 1995; • press reviews of radio broadcasts The Wodehouse Letters, 1994; • notice and tickets for concert of P.G. Wodehouse songs at Dulwich, 1996; • script of Fish and Prawns, a P.G. Wodehouse inspired skit performed at the Wodehouse Society Convention, San Francisco, 1993; • notice in Variety of Betting on Bertie production in Boston, 1996; • two issues of City Literature including article and advert for a production of Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit at the Ivanhoe Theatre, Chicago, Sept and Nov 1995; • programme and notice of a production of Leave It to Jane, London, 1995.

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Loan MS 129/7/22 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves (1996)

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Creation Date 1996

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves (1996)

Former External Reference BL407

Scope and Content Material relating to the revised version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn’s musical Jeeves entitled By Jeeves, premiered in Scarborough on 30 Apr 1996 and at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London on 2 Jul 1996, including:

• Duke of York's Theatre programme; • clippings from Variety, The Sunday Times, and Time.

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Loan MS 129/7/23 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Work and Adaptations (1996)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/23

Creation Date 1996

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Theatrical Work and Adaptations (1996)

Former External Reference BL416

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's theatrical work and adaptations of it, including:

• flyer and programme for the Nov-Dec 1996 retrospective of films and TV shows based on P.G. Wodehouse’s work, at the National Film Theatre; • clippings from Variety and The Telegraph on the By Jeeves musical by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1996-97; • newsletters City Literature including articles about a cycle of Jeeves plays at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, 1997; • photocopied list of P.G. Wodehouse’s credits as librettist and lyricist excerpted from Show Tunes 1905-1991 by Steven Suskin (New York: Limelight Editions), with an explanatory cover letter from Peter Lobbenberg to Sir Edward Cazalet, 11 Dec 1997.

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Loan MS 129/7/24 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Adaptations, Revival and Events (1999-2006)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/24

Creation Date 1999-2006

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Adaptations, Revival and Events (1999-2006)

Former External Reference BL453

Scope and Content Material relating to adaptations, revivals and events relating to P.G. Wodehouse's theatrical work, including:

• programmes for Trevor Nunn’s revival of Anything Goes, at the National Theatre, Dec 2002, and at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Oct 2003; • printout from the Red Chair Records website of an account of 'P.G.’s Other Profession', a concert of songs for which P.G. Wodehouse wrote the lyrics, 20 Jun 2001, and information on the CD The Land Where the Good Songs Go performed by Hal Cazalet, released autumn 2001; • photocopies of a flyer and programme for a revival of Oh, Lady! Lady!, in a 'Musicals Tonight' series in New York, Apr-May 2006; • printout of script for 'Inner Temple Wodehouse Evening' a skit entitled 'My God! What a Sex' performed by Sir Edward Cazalet and Tony Ring, undated; • programme of the Grange Park Opera, including a revival of Anything Goes, Jun-Jul 2002;

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• photocopy of a fax with programme for 'Wodehouse at Ottakars', an evening of entertainment, 8 Sept 1999.

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Loan MS 129/7/25 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Adaptations (2007-2008)

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Creation Date 2007-2008

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Jeeves Adaptations (2007-2008)

Former External Reference BL463

Scope and Content Theatre programmes for By Jeeves, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, 2007, and Come on, Jeeves, Rose Theatre, Kingston, 2008.

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Loan MS 129/7/26 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: TV and Theatre Adaptations (2007-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/26

Creation Date 2007-2010

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: TV and Theatre Adaptations (2007-2010)

Former External Reference BL469

Scope and Content Material relating to stage and screen adaptations including:

• programme for the musical By Jeeves, Oxford Playhouse, 2007; • obituary for Ian Carmichael, who played Bertie Wooster in the 1960s BBC television series, from The Week, 13 Feb 2010; • National Theatre information sheet and printout from the Timesonline websites on John Lithgow’s one-man show, Stories by Heart, which includes a reading of P.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred Flits, the National Theatre, 19 and 26 Oct 2009; • two review articles on Martin Jarvis, who recorded several audio books based on P.G. Wodehouse’s work, one by Tim Walker including an interview with Jarvis, from The Independent, 15 Mar 2010 (printout), and one by Christopher Hitchens from Vanity Fair, Mar 2010 (clipping), with the editorial introduction for the Vanity Fair issue by Graydon Carter.

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Loan MS 129/7/27-57 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publications (1930-2012)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/27-57

Creation Date 1930-2012

Extent and Format 31 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publications (1930-2012)

Scope and Content Material relating to posthumous publications of P.G. Wodehouse's stories and articles and essays relating to his work written or collected after his death.

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Loan MS 129/7/27 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Press Clippings (1930-1995)

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Creation Date 1930-1995

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Press Clippings (1930-1995)

Former External Reference BL406

Scope and Content Press clippings of articles about P.G. Wodehouse, 1992-1995.

The file also includes photocopies of two older articles: 'P.G. Wodehouse: I Share Him with Miss Winks' by Ethel Wodehouse, unidentified newspaper, 1934; and 'P.G. Wodehouse Throws a Party' by Donovan Pedelty, in The Film Weekly, 27 Dec 1930.

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Page 234 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/28 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Essay (1972-1989)

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Creation Date 1972-1989

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Essay (1972-1989)

Former External Reference BL338

Scope and Content Articles and essays relating to P.G. Wodehouse:

• 'Psmith', essay by Frances Donaldson, for the Folio Society’s magazine (c. 1989); • photocopy of an article 'Satisfaction' by Terence Rafferty, in The New Yorker, 22 May 1989; • issue of Blackwood’s Magazine with an article 'My Blandings Castle' by Richard Usborne, Nov 1972, including an accompanying letter from Philip Ziegler to Thelma Cazalet-Keir.

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Loan MS 129/7/29 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dust Jackets (1973-1982)

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Creation Date 1973-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dust Jackets (1973-1982)

Former External Reference BL227

Scope and Content Material relating to dust jackets for P.G. Wodehouse's books, including a rejected cover for P.G. Wodehouse The Autographed Biography by Frances Donaldson with correspondence between Edward Cazalet and publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson concerning the objection to the cover and proposal for a new cover, Apr 1982 (5 letters).

The file also includes dust jackets of The Plot That Thickened, The Head of Kay's, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, The Cat-nappers, Sunset at Blandings, designs for the cover of The World of P.G. Wodehouse by Herbert Warren Wind, and for 'P.G. Wodehouse 1881-1975' ed. Scott Meredith Literary Agency, and a postcard advertising Plum Pudding. A Wodehouse Alphabet, limited edition printed by Margaret and Doug Stow of the Wodehouse Society.

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Loan MS 129/7/30 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Magazines (1974-1983)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/30

Creation Date 1974-1983

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Magazines (1974-1983)

Former External Reference BL303

Scope and Content Issues of two magazines which include articles on P.G. Wodehouse:

• Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, Vol. X, No. 4 (Apr 1983), with article by Barry Phelps 'To The Critics, These Pearls: P.G. Wodehouse Dedications', with signature of Barry Phelps on the cover; • Esquire (May 1974), with article by Gerald Clarke, 'Checking In With P.G. Wodehouse'.

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Loan MS 129/7/31 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles (1975- 1999)

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Creation Date 1975-1999

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles (1975-1999)

Former External Reference BL428

Scope and Content Articles and speech on P.G. Wodehouse including:

• 'P.G. Wodehouse – As I know him', by Sir Edward Cazalet, in The Inner Temple Yearbook, 1999; • 'The Unique Excellence of Dr. Wodehouse', by E.J. Kenney, in Cambridge Review, May 1975; • 'Wodehouse Introduction', a speech by Hugh Laurie and published revised version entitled 'Wodehouse Saved My Life' in The Sunday Telegraph, 23 May 1999.

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Loan MS 129/7/32 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Talk (1975-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/32

Creation Date 1975-2010

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Talk (1975-2010)

Former External Reference BL470

Scope and Content Posthumous articles and talk about P.G. Wodehouse including:

• clipping of obituary in the Times for P.G. Wodehouse, 17 Feb 1975; • photocopy of an article by Frank Keating 'The Man Jeeves', a short biography of the cricketer whose name P.G. Wodehouse borrowed, from The Spectator, 22 Jul 2006; • printout of an address to the Wodehouse Society dinner, London, 'Right Ho, Sahib: Wodehouse and India' by Shashi Tharoor, 24 Oct 2008; • printout of Geoffrey T. Hellman’s 'Plummie' from The New Yorker (15 Oct 1960), from the magazine’s website, 22 Jun 2010, with printout of the Wikipedia entry for 'Love of Life' an American soap-opera watched by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Loan MS 129/7/33 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Bibliographic Information (1975-2010)

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Reference Loan MS 129/7/33

Creation Date 1975-2010

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Bibliographic Information (1975-2010)

Former External Reference BL228

Scope and Content Bibliographic information on P.G. Wodehouse's work including:

• booklet by J. F. Whitt The Strand Magazine 1891-1950: A Selective Checklist (privately printed, 1979), listing all P.G. Wodehouse stories appeared in the Strand Magazine;

• a list of match reports written by P.G. Wodehouse for The Alleynian between 1920 and 1939.

The file also includes the photocopy of an article from The British Museum Society Bulletin on the notes and draft of Galahad at Blandings donated by P.G. Wodehouse to the British Library, 7 Jul 1981.

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Loan MS 129/7/34 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Draft Articles and Notes (1978-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

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Creation Date 1978-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Draft Articles and Notes (1978-1982)

Former External Reference BL232

Scope and Content Draft articles and notes on P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• 'P.G. Wodehouse in the theatre', draft of article by William Douglas-Home, probably on the occasion of the Wodehouse centenary exhibition at the National Theatre, 1982; • notes (typed and handwritten) about P.G. Wodehouse and publishers Watt, 1978; • typescript entitled 'Dedicated to a classical author's 100th birthday', [1981]; • notes on P.G. Wodehouse relatives, including a page by Nella Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse's sister-in-law, undated.

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Loan MS 129/7/35 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse (1980)

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Creation Date 1980

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Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse (1980)

Former External Reference BL304

Scope and Content Mark H. Johnston, 'The Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse' (unpublished thesis, Princeton University, 1980), with handwritten cover message to Lady Ethel Wodehouse.

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Page 238 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/36 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Calendar ([1981])

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Creation Date [1981]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Calendar ([1981])

Former External Reference BL234

Scope and Content Material relating to a 'Wodehouse Calendar' project, unrealized, prepared by James Heineman, consisting of a list of dates and events in P.G. Wodehouse's life and stories.

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Loan MS 129/7/37 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Lectures (1981-1986)

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Creation Date 1981-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Lectures (1981-1986)

Former External Reference BL300

Scope and Content Typescripts of articles and lectures about P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• 'Wodehouse Types', list of characters in P.G. Wodehouse's books compiled by Daniel H. Garrison, accompanied by two letters from Anthony Whittome of Century-Hutchinson to Garrison and Edward Cazalet, concerning the project, 1985; • typescript of a National Theatre Lecture delivered by William Douglas-Home on the occasion of the Wodehouse centenary exhibition at the National Theatre, 1982; • typescript of speech given by Dr Angus Macintyre, of Magdalen College Oxford, at the P.G. Wodehouse centenary dinner, London, 6 Apr 1982; • 'Introduction to the Haunted Major' by P.G. Wodehouse, edited, with a preface, by Charles E. Gould, Jr., probably unpublished, 1983 - includes a photocopy of P.G. Wodehouse’s handwritten draft the original of which is in folder Loan MS 129/1/98; • typescript of ‘P.G. Wodehouse and the Comic Tradition’, lecture delivered by Anthony Quinton, FBA (President of Trinity College, Oxford) to the Royal Society of Literature, Tredegar Memorial Lecture, 6 Feb 1986, with attached invitation to the event; • typescript entitled 'Dedicated to a Classical Author’s 100th Birthday', unknown author, 1981.

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Loan MS 129/7/38 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Plum Lines (1981-1988)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/38

Creation Date 1981-1988

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Plum Lines (1981-1988)

Former External Reference BL331

Scope and Content Articles about P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• 'Wodehouse Sahib' by Richard West, from Harpers, Jun 1988; • 'P.G. Wodehouse as Reader of Crime Stories' by William A.S. Sarjeant, in The Mystery Fancier, Sept/Oct 1987; • 'Collecting P.G. Wodehouse' by Tony Jay, in Book and Magazine Collector, Mar 1988; • 'The Masters as the Servants: Wodehouse on the Housatonic' by Daniel H. Harrison, in Kent Quarterly, spring 1988; • 'Doctor Laetissimus' by D.B. Wyndham Lewis, in The Weekly Review, 8 Jun 1939; • issues of Plum Lines, published by the Wodehouse Society in the US, 15 Feb and 15 Nov 1987, and Feb and May 1988, with related material; • an abridged version of 'Pig Hoo-o-o-o-ey!' in an anthology entitled Pigs Is Equal, 1981, with an explanatory cover letter from Pauline Blanc to Edward Cazalet, 23 Nov 1987.

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Loan MS 129/7/39 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Reviews (1981-1990)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/39

Creation Date 1981-1990

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Reviews (1981-1990)

Former External Reference BL349

Scope and Content Articles about P.G. Wodehouse and reviews of books about him, including:

• 'Satisfaction' by Terrence Rafferty, in New Yorker, 22 May 1989; • 'P.G. Wodehouse - Chronicler of the Carriage Trade' in British Style, Dec 1989;

• 'The Great Escape Artist' by Samuel Hynes, review of P.G. Wodehouse: a Biography, in New Republic, 16 Jun 1982; • typescript of preface to Richard Usborne’s forthcoming book with working title 'Here and There with P.G. Wodehouse' by Sheran Cazalet Hornby; • prospectus and outline of Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern by Lee Davis, c. 1993; • outline of Lord Emworth’s annotated ‘The Care of the Pig' by Augustus Whiffle, edited by James Hogg, c. 1991;

Page 240 2018-02-02 • 'Never-Never-Lane' by V.S. Pritchett, review of P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography, in New York Review of Books, 3 Dec 1981; • 'Writer on advertising: Wodehouse' in Campaign, 1 Jun 1990.

The file also includes a photocopy of 'Good Lord, Jeeves' by Julian Maclaren-Ross in Punch, 20 May 1953.

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Loan MS 129/7/40 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Wodehouse Society Convention (1982-1992)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/40

Creation Date 1982-1992

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Wodehouse Society Convention (1982-1992)

Former External Reference BL387

Scope and Content Articles about P.G. Wodehouse including:

• programme for the Wodehouse Society 6th International Convention, New York City, 11-13 Oct 1991; • holograph manuscript entitled 'Manuscript material for P.G. Wodehouse's The Girl in Blue. An introduction by Kristin Thompson, Archivist, P.G. Wodehouse Archive', 1991; • one issue of Nothing Serious, the newsletter of the P.G. Wodehouse Society, the Netherlands, no. 5, 1991; • supplement '1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century', from The Sunday Times 1991, listing P.G. Wodehouse; • material collected by Barry Phelps concerning citations of P.G. Wodehouse in the Oxford English Dictionary, and 'Wodehouse The Wordsmith', a list of 143 citations which refer to words invented by P.G. Wodehouse or used by him with a unique new sense or sub-sense, with a cover letter from Phelps to Sir Edward Cazalet, 15 Apr 1992; • typescript of article 'To the Critics, These Pearls' by Barry Phelps, with dedication to Edward Cazalet, Dec 1982.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 241 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/41-46 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/41-46

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 6 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson (1985-1986)

Scope and Content Material collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'].

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/41 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 1 (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/41

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 1 (1985-1986)

Former External Reference BL290

Scope and Content Photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines, collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'], 1985-86. The pieces are filed in the order in which they were received.

The file also includes notes on selection and draft content page.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 242 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/42 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 2 (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/42

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 2 (1985-1986)

Former External Reference BL291

Scope and Content Photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines, collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'], 1985-86. The pieces are filed in the order in which they were received.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/43 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 3 (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/43

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 3 (1985-1986)

Former External Reference BL292

Scope and Content Photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines, collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'], 1985-86. The pieces are filed in the order in which they were received.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 243 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/44 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 4 (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/44

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 4 (1985-1986)

Former External Reference BL293

Scope and Content Photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines, collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'], 1985-86. The pieces are filed in the order in which they were received.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/45 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 5 (1985-1986)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/45

Creation Date 1985-1986

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 5 (1985-1986)

Former External Reference BL294

Scope and Content Photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines, collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'], 1985-86. The pieces are filed in the order in which they were received.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 244 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/46 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 6 ([1985-1986])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/46

Creation Date [1985-1986]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Frances Donaldson - Part 6 ([1985-1986])

Former External Reference BL389

Scope and Content A notebook of photocopies of early P.G. Wodehouse's pieces in various magazines probably collected by Frances Donaldson in connection with a proposed book for Century-Hutchinson [with working title 'Unpublished Wodehouse'].

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/47 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Plum Lines and Robert A Hall (1986-1987)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/47

Creation Date 1986-1987

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Plum Lines and Robert A Hall (1986-1987)

Former External Reference BL315

Scope and Content 2 issues of Plum Lines, a quarterly publication of the Wodehouse Society, May and Aug 1987 and supplement.

The file also includes an offprint of 'The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse' by Robert A. Hall, Jr., in the Journal Of Historical Review 7 (1986).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 245 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/48 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Here and There with P.G. Wodehouse ([1989-1990])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/48

Creation Date [1989-1990]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Here and There with P.G. Wodehouse ([1989-1990])

Former External Reference BL347

Scope and Content Material gathered for Richard Usborne's book with working title 'Here and There With P.G. Wodehouse', primarily information concerning P.G. Wodehouse’s family tree, including photocopies of articles and correspondence.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/49 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Yours Plum (1990)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/49

Creation Date 1990

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Yours Plum (1990)

Former External Reference BL352

Scope and Content An original review from The Spectator, 1 Sept 1990, and photocopies of other press reviews of Yours Plum: the Letters of P.G. Wodehouse edited by Frances Donaldson (Century Hutchinson, 1990).

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Page 246 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/50 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Reviews and Essays (1990-1991)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/50

Creation Date 1990-1991

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Reviews and Essays (1990-1991)

Former External Reference BL363

Scope and Content Reviews of books about and essays about P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• photocopies of a set of reviews of Yours, Plum, ed. Frances Donaldson, with a cover letter from Anthony Whittome, of Hutchinson, to Sir Edward Cazalet, 17 Sep 1990; • ‘P.G. Wodehouse’ by Nigel Williams in The Independent Magazine, 6 Apr 1991, on making a BBC documentary on P.G. Wodehouse; • typescript essay by Frank Muir ‘Plum: A Snapshot’, for The Sunday Telegraph, undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/51 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: New Editions (1990-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/51

Creation Date 1990-2010

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: New Editions (1990-2010)

Former External Reference BL475

Scope and Content Material relating to posthumous publication of P.G. Wodehouse's work, including:

• catalogue of The Everyman Wodehouse editions, [2010]; • dust jacket proofs for Sunset at Blandings (first edition), The Golf Omnibus (1990 edition), The Jeeves Omnibus (1990 edition).

The file also includes a caricature of P.G. Wodehouse from a series of original drawings by Richard Wilson presented with The Spectator (2 copies).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 247 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/52 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Ethel and P.G. Wodehouse (1998)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/52

Creation Date 1998

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Ethel and P.G. Wodehouse (1998)

Former External Reference BL432

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (3 fax) between Sir Edward Cazalet and Andrew Wilson concerning an article which the latter wrote on P.G. and Ethel Wodehouse’s marriage, for the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, early 1998, including draft of the article.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/53 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Iain Sproat (1999)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/53

Creation Date 1999

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Iain Sproat (1999)

Former External Reference BL421

Scope and Content Photocopy of 'In All Innocence', article by Iain Sproat summarizing P.G. Wodehouse’s activities during World War II, from The Times Literary Supplement, 29 Oct 1999.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 248 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/54 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Roger Kimball (2000)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/54

Creation Date 2000

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Roger Kimball (2000)

Former External Reference BL437

Scope and Content 'The Genius of Wodehouse' by Roger Kimball in The New Criterion 19, 2 (Oct 2000). Copy of the entire issue, with an inserted note from the author to Sir Edward Cazalet, 8 Dec 2000.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/55 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Wodehouse Family (2000)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/55

Creation Date 2000

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Wodehouse Family (2000)

Former External Reference BL464

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse including:

• printout of obituary (13 Jul 1916) of James Sant, a Victorian-era artist whose sentimental paintings were lampooned by P.G. Wodehouse, 4 Jul 2003; • issue of The Garrick with article 'Garrick Personalities: P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)', Aug 2007; • photocopy of page from Croquet by Moonlight with information on The Wodehouse family of Ham Hill, Powick, undated.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 249 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/56 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Arrow Books (2007)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/56

Creation Date 2007

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Arrow Books (2007)

Former External Reference BL461

Scope and Content Information relating to publicity material and events surrounding the launch of Arrow Books' new series of paperback P.G. Wodehouse editions, including an address delivered by Tony Ring to Arrow representatives, 30 Aug 2007.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/57 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Short Stories (2008-2012)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/57

Creation Date 2008-2012

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Articles and Short Stories (2008-2012)

Former External Reference BL468

Scope and Content Posthumous reproductions and publications of articles and short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• photocopy of a P.G. Wodehouse article 'These Days, It’s the Triple Inverted Squeeze' from Washington Post (1 Sept 1974), a humorous account of modern bridge-playing (originally published in Newsday); • printout of transcript of 'Printer’s Error' a comic poem, first published in the Punch Almanack in 1955; • Heer Agravaine, a Dutch translation of P.G. Wodehouse's short story Sir Agravaine (first published in Collier’s on 29 Jun 1912, illustrated with scenes laid out in Legos), desk-top published by the PGWodehouse Society of the Netherlands, 2010; • an issue of the Sunday Times Magazine, 28 Dec 2008, with a until then forgotten story by P.G. Wodehouse 'Providence and the Butler' which was first published in a 1910 issue of the Washington Herald’s Literary Magazine in the US and never reprinted. This is its first British printing.

Page 250 2018-02-02 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/58-63 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Collectables (1981-2009)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/58-63

Creation Date 1981-2009

Extent and Format 6 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Collectables (1981-2009)

Scope and Content Material relating to first, limited and special editions of P.G. Wodehouse's work and other collectables.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/58 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The P.G. Wodehouse Centenary List (1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/58

Creation Date 1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The P.G. Wodehouse Centenary List (1981)

Former External Reference BL457

Scope and Content Spiral-bound booklet entitled The P. G. Wodehouse Centenary List by Barry Phelps (Irene Editions, limited to 100 copies, 15 Oct 1981), inscribed by the author to Sheran Cazalet, with a cover letter from Phelps to Sheran Cazalet, 14 Dec 1981.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 251 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/59 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Book and Magazine Collector (1984-1985)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/59

Creation Date 1984-1985

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Book and Magazine Collector (1984-1985)

Former External Reference BL301

Scope and Content Issue of Book Collector, Aug 1984, with an article on P.G. Wodehouse’s career and prices of first editions, and 3 press clippings relating to auctions and collecting of P.G. Wodehouse’s works, 1985.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/60 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: First Editions (1986-1987)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/60

Creation Date 1986-1987

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: First Editions (1986-1987)

Former External Reference BL313

Scope and Content Items relating to collecting P.G. Wodehouse editions including:

• photocopy of two catalogues of Modern First Editions of P.G. Wodehouse, from Hawthorne Books, Nov 1986 and [1987]; • photocopy of article 'Jacket Potatoes', about collecting first editions, by Stanley Reynolds in Punch Antiques Extra, Jun 1986, p.30.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 252 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/61 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (1991)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/61

Creation Date 1991

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (1991)

Former External Reference BL366

Scope and Content Article 'How Many Books Did Wodehouse Write?' by Barry Phelps, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, Nov 1991.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/62 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Catalogues and Adverts (1993-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/62

Creation Date 1993-2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Catalogues and Adverts (1993-2003)

Former External Reference BL445

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse collectables including:

• two issues of Book and Magazine Collector, Jul 2002 and Nov 2003; • Book Systems Plus brochures for limited editions of P.G. Wodehouse books, late 1990s; • The Folio Society brochure dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse editions, [1996]; • advertising memorabilia relating to P.G. Wodehouse including a book mark, advert for The Play's the Thing and a cigarette card; • photocopies of 3 adverts for editions of P.G. Wodehouse's works; • photocopy of a menu from the Kavarna Imperial Café in Prague, with unidentified reference to P.G. Wodehouse; • 2 advertising postcards for the Empress of Blandings, 1993.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 253 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/63 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Pagan Papers (2009)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/63

Creation Date 2009

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Pagan Papers (2009)

Former External Reference BL467

Scope and Content Information relating to a copy of Kenneth Grahame’s 1898 book Pagan Papers with P.G. Wodehouse’s ownership signature on the flyleaf and a few annotations, purchased by a collector in Australia, including:

• photocopies of two pages from the 1898 book, the signature and an annotation on p. 59; • photocopy of notes supplied by the collector, showing where P.G. Wodehouse marked passages that he later used in two of his school stories; • modern print-on-demand copy of the book, 2009. The annotations have been entered in pencil on the equivalent pages, 18, 47, and 54 (the pagination is not the same as in the original edition).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/64-74 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Fans (1937- 2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/64-74

Creation Date 1937-2008

Extent and Format 11 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Fans (1937-2008)

Scope and Content Material relating to fans of P.G. Wodehouse and his work.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 254 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/64 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Societies Newsletters (1937-1993)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/64

Creation Date 1937-1993

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Societies Newsletters (1937-1993)

Former External Reference BL476

Scope and Content Material relating to societies dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• Nothing Serious, no. 4, 1992, the newsletter of the P.G. Wodehouse Society of the Netherlands, together with a letter from the secretary, Rob Kooy, to Sir Edward Cazalet, describing a plaque to P.G. Wodehouse set up outside the Mulliner’s Wijnlokaal, a pub in Amsterdam; • letter from Kristin Thompson to Rob Kooy, concerning an error in her book Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes regarding Bertie Wooster wearing a monocle, 12 May 1993; • Plum Lines, the quarterly newsletter of the Wodehouse Society in the US, spring 1993.

The file also includes a copy (one of 200) of S.C.R.’s Distinguished Visitors: Essays In Imitation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1937), with two parodies of P.G. Wodehouse’s work, 'Bertie Wooster in Cambridge' and 'Mr Mulliner in the Combination Room'.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/65-67 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US (1980-1989)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/65-67

Creation Date 1980-1989

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US (1980-1989)

Scope and Content Material relating to the Wodehouse Society in the US.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 255 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/65 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 1 (1980-1983)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/65

Creation Date 1980-1983

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 1 (1980-1983)

Former External Reference BL235 OF274

Scope and Content Material relating to the Wodehouse Society in the US, including:

• letter to the editor of AB regarding the setting up of a Wodehosue Society in the US, 10 Mar 1980; • letter to Lady Wodehouse regarding the Wodehouse Society in the US and asking permission to call the members 'Plummies', 16 Oct 1980; • programme of a gathering of the US Wodehouse Society, 16 Jul 1982; • programme for the Second International Convention of the US Wodehouse Society, 15 Oct 1983.

The file also includes a letter to Edward Cazalet regarding the possibility of setting up a Wodehouse Society in England, 29 Jan 1982.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/66 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 2 (1981-1989)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/66

Creation Date 1981-1989

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 2 (1981-1989)

Former External Reference BL344

Scope and Content Material relating to the Wodehouse Society in the US, including:

• letter from William W. Blood (President) to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, regarding her membership, 24 Oct 1981; • Thelma Cazalet-Keir's membership card; • the Society's Statement of Purpose; • four issues of the Society's newsletter Plum Lines: Vol. 9, no. 10 (Nov 1988) to Vol. 10, no. 3 (Aug 1989).

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Loan MS 129/7/67 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 3 (1980-1989)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/67

Creation Date 1980-1989

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Society in the US - Part 3 (1980-1989)

Former External Reference BL350

Scope and Content Material relating to the Wodehouse Society in the US, including:

• correspondence of William W. Blood and Pauline Blanc with Lady Wodehouse, Sheran Wodehouse and members of the society concerning the founding of the Society and later of its newsletter, Plum Lines, and also concerning efforts to have a commemorative Wodehouse stamp issued, designed by Pauline Blanc (proposed design enclosed), 1980-1986; • Lady Ethel Wodehouse membership card; • Plum Lines newsletters and supplements, III, 5 (15 Sep 1982) to XI, 2 (Summer 1990).

The file also includes:

• Nothing Serious, newsletter of P.G. Wodehouse Society Amsterdam, Jan-Sept 1990; • letter from Sir Edward Cazalet to Pauline Blanc concerning the Wodehouse exhibition at Dulwich and the TV series Jeeves and Wooster, 3 Oct 1989.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 257 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/68 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Events (1987)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/68

Creation Date 1987

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Events (1987)

Former External Reference BL318

Scope and Content Material on P.G. Wodehouse fan-related events including:

• programme, registration forms, description of The Wodehouse Society’s fourth convention, San Francisco, 15 Aug 1987; • proclamation from the office of the mayor of San Francisco of a ‘P.G. Wodehouse Day’, 15 Aug 1987 (photocopy of certificate and original booklet); • leaflet and flyer for ‘Weekend in the World of P.G. Wodehouse’, tours conducted by Norman T.P. Murphy, 1987.

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Loan MS 129/7/69 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Plaque (1992)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/69

Creation Date 1992

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Plaque (1992)

Former External Reference BL422

Scope and Content Photocopy of a page with text of a plaque dedicated by the Wodehouse Society to P.G. Wodehouse and Sir Philip Sidney, in Zutphen, Holland, with handwritten note from Diana to unknown person.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 258 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/70 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Societies Newsletters and Events (1995-1998)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/70

Creation Date 1995-1998

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Societies Newsletters and Events (1995-1998)

Former External Reference BL417

Scope and Content Material related to societies dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse, including:

• Plum Lines, the Quarterly Journal of the Wodehouse Society, with a cover story on the Wodehouse Convention of 1995 in Boston, Vo. 15, no. 4 (Winter 1995); • a small keepsake booklet 'The Wodehouse Society in Chicago' on the occasion of the bi-annual convention, Chicago, 2-5 Oct 1997; • menu for 'The Sixteenth Drones Dinner', Oxford and Cambridge Club, 22 Jun 1998; • menu (in French) for a Wodehouse Society dinner, 28 Sept 1996.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/71 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Emsworth (1996-1997)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/71

Creation Date 1996-1997

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Emsworth (1996-1997)

Former External Reference BL415

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's early residence in Emsworth, including:

• photocopies of legal records concerning the house called Threepwood, Emsworth, in which P.G. Wodehouse rented and lived in, on and off, from 1904 to 1914, accompanied by a cover letter to Sir Edward Cazalet from Roy Morgan who sent the photocopies to him, 27 Sept 1997; • folder named 'P.G. Wodehouse and Emsworth' including photocopies of articles about Emswroth's links with Wodehouse and photocopies of photographs of the area, with cover letters to Sir Edward Cazalet from the chairman of the Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust, 1996-1997.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 259 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/72 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Marilyn MacGregor (1998-1999)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/72

Creation Date 1998-1999

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Marilyn MacGregor (1998-1999)

Former External Reference BL424

Scope and Content Typescript of a collection of essays entitled Sherlockian and Wodehouse Collected Papers, by Marilyn MacGregor, of The Wodehouse Society in the US, with three cover letters to Sir Edward Cazalet, 11 Feb, 28 Aug and 21 Dec 1998, and issue of The Argus Intelligencer and Wheat Growers Gazette, newsletter of the Wodehouse Society's Blandings Castle Chapter, Jan 1998.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/73 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK) (1999)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/73

Creation Date 1999

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK) (1999)

Former External Reference BL427

Scope and Content Descriptions and photocopies of items from an exhibition on P.G. Wodehouse at the Guildford Museum, Oct 1999, with cover note to Sir Edward Cazalet from the P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK).

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Page 260 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/74 Lord Deedes (2007-2008)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/74

Creation Date 2007-2008

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Lord Deedes (2007-2008)

Former External Reference BL462

Scope and Content Material relating to a memorial service to Lord Deedes, a P.G. Wodehouse fan (an excerpt from A Crime Wave at Blandings was read during the service), including programme, newspaper clippings, and correspondence between Sir Edward Cazalet and Stephen Robinson concerning Lord Deedes' knowledge and appreciation of Wodehouse, 10 Dec 2007-2 Jan 2008.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/75-85 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Events (1969-2002)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/75-85

Creation Date 1969-2002

Extent and Format 11 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Events (1969-2002)

Scope and Content Material relating to events organised in memory of P.G. Wodehouse.

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Page 261 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/75 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Old Alleynians (1969-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/75

Creation Date 1969-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Old Alleynians (1969-1982)

Former External Reference BL243

Scope and Content Material relating to Dulwich College including:

• Issue of The Old Alleyn Club Newsletter, with P.G. Wodehouse obituary, Spring 1975; • programme for The Old Alleynians dinner in New York City, 1982.

The file also includes a Dulwich College descriptive brochure, 1969.

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Loan MS 129/7/76 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The Alleynian (1969-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/76

Creation Date 1969-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: The Alleynian (1969-1982)

Former External Reference BL245 OF285

Scope and Content Three issues of The Alleynian, as follows:

• Summer 1969, with P.G. Wodehouse article 'My Start'; • Autumn 1977 with reports of Wodehouse Memorial at Dulwich College,; • Summer 1982 with report on opening of Wodehouse Library and staging of musical Jeeves at Dulwich College.

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Page 262 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/77 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publicity Material (1972-1984)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/77

Creation Date 1972-1984

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Publicity Material (1972-1984)

Former External Reference BL238 OF278

Scope and Content Publicity material for events, including:

• special issue of the Playbill magazine for the opening night of the Theater Hall of Fame of which P.G. Wodehouse was a member, 19 Nov 1972; • leaflet for the opening of the Wodehouse Library at Dulwich College, 11 Dec 1981; • leaflet for Jeeves by the Dulwich College junior dramatic society, Dec 1981; • cuttings about the P.G. Wodehouse clubface Open Golf Classic, with cover letter from A.P. Watt, 6 Nov 1984.

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Loan MS 129/7/78 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College (1977-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/78

Creation Date 1977-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College (1977-1981)

Former External Reference BL241

Scope and Content Material relating to commemorative events at Dulwich College, including:

• programme of the day, draft speech by Edward Cazalet, message to attendees from Lady Wodehouse, and invitation to Mr & Mrs Edward Cazalet to the P.G. Wodehouse Memorial day at Dulwich College, 15 Oct 1977; • booklet for the opening of the Wodehouse Library at Dulwich College, 11 Dec 1981.

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Page 263 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/79 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Centenary Exhibitions (1981-1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/79

Creation Date 1981-1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Centenary Exhibitions (1981-1982)

Former External Reference BL240

Scope and Content Correspondence and publicity material relating to the P.G. Wodehouse centenary exhibition in 1981 at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (organized by James Heineman), and the subsequent exhibition at The National Theatre in London, 1982.

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Loan MS 129/7/80 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Plaque at 17 Dunraven Street (1988)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/80

Creation Date 1988

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Wodehouse Plaque at 17 Dunraven Street (1988)

Former External Reference BL332

Scope and Content Material relating to events surrounding the unveiling of The Wodehouse Plaque at 17 Dunraven Street (where P.G. Wodehouse lived from 1927 to 1934) by the Queen Mother, 3 Jun 1988, including:

• copy of the Edward Cazalet's speech; • seating arrangements and menu; • summaries of after luncheon speeches; • press report from The Observer, 5 Jun 1988; • notes taken by Richard Usbourne on the dedication of The Pothunters, with quotations from the Bowes-Lyons girls when young; • luncheon programme signed by the Queen Mother, Frances Donaldson, and others; • a press release from Hutchinson; • photocopy of an article from The Bookseller, 10 Jun 1988.

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Page 264 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/81 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Ephemera (1992-1995)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/81

Creation Date 1992-1995

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Ephemera (1992-1995)

Former External Reference BL409

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse-related events, including:

• invitation to an exhibition Wodehouse and Dulwich, at the Wodehouse Library, Dulwich College [1995]; • menu for dinner to mark the retirement of Hilary Rubinstein as Plum's literary agent, 22 Oct 1992.

The file also includes The Reverent Wooing of Archibald Mulliner, a booklet with illustrations to P.G. Wodehouse lyrics by Cat 'a tonic', Meyer, undated.

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Loan MS 129/7/82 Plaque for P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Rowley Marriage (1993-1994)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/82

Creation Date 1993-1994

Extent and Format 1 file

Title Plaque for P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Rowley Marriage (1993-1994)

Former External Reference BL393

Scope and Content Material relating to the placement of a plaque commemorating the marriage of P.G. Wodehouse and Ethel Rowley at the Church of the Transfiguration, which P.G. Wodehouse calls 'The Little Church Round The Corner' in his song, 1 May 1994.

The file also includes an issue of Plum Lines (Vol. 15, no. 2, summer 1994) reporting the event.

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Page 265 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/83-84 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition (2002)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/83-84

Creation Date 2002

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition (2002)

Scope and Content Material relating to an exhibition held at Dulwich College to commemorate the centenary of the publication of P.G. Wodehouse’s first novel The Pothunters, 15 Oct 2002.

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Loan MS 129/7/83 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition - Part 1 (2002)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/83

Creation Date 2002

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition - Part 1 (2002)

Former External Reference BL439

Scope and Content Material relating to the exhibition held at Dulwich College, including:

• private view invitation; • list of items to be photocopied for Sir Edward Cazalet; • a large collection of photocopies of items and descriptions from the exhibition.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 266 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/84 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition - Part 2 (2002)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/84

Creation Date 2002

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Dulwich College Exhibition - Part 2 (2002)

Former External Reference BL440

Scope and Content Material relating to the exhibition held at Dulwich College including a large collection of photocopies of items and descriptions from the exhibition.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/85 HSBC (2002)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/85

Creation Date 2002

Extent and Format 1 file

Title HSBC (2002)

Former External Reference BL441 BL442

Scope and Content Material relating to the presentation of a commemorative plaque to the HSBC in their corporate headquarters in Canary Wharf, presented by the Drones Club of Belgium in a ceremony on 29 Nov 2002, including:

• correspondence of Sir Edward Cazalet and the Drones Club concerning the event, 10 Oct to 12 Dec 2002; • typescript of three speeches; • 2 pages from Wooster Sauce relating to the event, Mar 2003; • two issues of Group News, published by the HSBC, Oct and Dec 2002; • seven photographs of the event.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 267 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/86-88 Additional Material (1929-2016)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/86-88

Creation Date 1929-2016

Extent and Format 3 files

Title Additional Material (1929-2016)

Scope and Content Additional posthumous material.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/86 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Additional Material (1929-1988)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/86

Creation Date 1929-1988

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Additional Material (1929-1988)

Former External Reference BL333

Scope and Content Additional posthumous material related to P.G. Wodehouse and his work, including:

• A Prawn at Ascot, or A Pawn in Aspic, undated privately printed Blandings pastiche by Charles E. Gould, Jr, 1987; • catalogue of Sheldon L. Tarahan, Antiquarian Books & Autographs, no. 3, including a prospectus for the P.G. Wodehouse Collection of David A. Jasen, offered for sale [c. 1987];

• photocopies of articles on Stephen Campbell, from Art in America, May 1984, including mentions of Campbell occasionally using P.G. Wodehouse related motifs; • photocopy of a 1929 theatre poster for the London Coliseum productions including including one Act version of P.G. Wodehouse’s playlet Good Morning, Bill renamed Doctor Sally; • flier for Who's Who in Wodehouse by Daniel Garrison, 1987; • flier for a production of P.G. Wodehouse’s play Leave it to Psmith, Chicago, 17 Dec 1987-17 Jan 1988; • photocopy of a page from Wodehouse Companion containing an early poem by P.G. Wodehouse, with a marginal note from Richard Usborne to Sir Edward Cazalet, 17 Mar 1988.

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Page 268 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/7/87 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: List of Books (1975)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/87

Creation Date 1975

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: List of Books (1975)

Former External Reference BL361

Scope and Content Photocopy of a list entitled ‘Books in P.G. Wodehouse Library, Remsenburg, NY’, made at the time of P.G. Wodehouse’s death in 1975. A few books were subsequently given away by Lady Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/7/88 P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Introduction To The Archive (2016)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/7/88

Creation Date 2016

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Introduction To The Archive (2016)

Scope and Content Printout of the 'Introduction for the reader to the Cazalet archive of P.G. Wodehouse papers', written by Sir Edwards Cazalet.

Printout of list of items included in the Main Wodehouse Volumes.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 269 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Material by Others (1902-2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8

Creation Date 1902-2003

Extent and Format 14 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Material by Others (1902-2003)

Scope and Content Material by friends, admirers and relatives of P.G. Wodehouse and other authors.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/1-3 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton (1968- 1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/1-3

Creation Date 1968-1972

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton (1968-1972)

Scope and Content Material by Guy Bolton.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 270 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/1 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton (1968)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/1

Creation Date 1968

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton (1968)

Former External Reference BL153 OF176

Scope and Content Clean copy typescript of Money in the Bank, a farce comedy by Guy Bolton, based on Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P.G. Wodehouse, 1968.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/2 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton Notebook ([1968])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/2

Creation Date [1968]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton Notebook ([1968])

Former External Reference BL229

Scope and Content Spiral notebook with holograph notes by Guy Bolton. The front cover is marked 'List of stories' and contains a list of titles and notes on stories. The back cover is marked 'Plum's novel' and contains 2 pages with Bolton's comment on P.G. Wodehouse's novel Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, undated.

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Page 271 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/3 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton and Compton Mackenzie (1972)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/3

Creation Date 1972

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Guy Bolton and Compton Mackenzie (1972)

Former External Reference BL230

Scope and Content Articles about P.G. Wodehosue, including:

• typescript draft of four articles by Guy Bolton and pencil notes on his collaboration with Wodehouse, undated, with cover letter from Richard Usborne to Frances Donaldson, undated; • two typescript drafts of an article by Compton Mackenzie, Oct 1972.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/4-5 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall (1982-1985)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/4-5

Creation Date 1982-1985

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall (1982-1985)

Scope and Content Material by Robert A Hall.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 272 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/4 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall - Part 1 (1982)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/4

Creation Date 1982

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall - Part 1 (1982)

Former External Reference BL316

Scope and Content Human Metamorphoses (Val Pemberley And Others) by Robert A Hall, Jr. (Ithaca, New York: Linguistica, 1982), a privately printed collection of P.G. Wodehouse pastiches.

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Loan MS 129/8/5 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall - Part 2 (1985)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/5

Creation Date 1985

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Robert A Hall - Part 2 (1985)

Former External Reference BL299

Scope and Content Papers on Wodehouse, a collection of ten essays by Robert A. Hall, Jr. (Cornell University), Ithaca, New York: Linguistica (1985) with an order form listing contents.

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Page 273 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/6 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: David Low (1933- 2003)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/6

Creation Date 1933-2003

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: David Low (1933-2003)

Former External Reference BL456

Scope and Content Pencil study by David Low of P.G. Wodehouse’s head and posture, for his portrait published in the New Statesman and Nation on 23 Dec 1933.

The file also includes the portrait from the New Statesman and Nation and a page of the 2003 Christie’s catalogue showing two similar studies not included in the file.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/7 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Christopher Miller ([1973])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/7

Creation Date [1973]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Christopher Miller ([1973])

Former External Reference BL152 OF175

Scope and Content Mimeographed copy of a radio play entitled 'Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum', adapted by Christopher Miller from the first two chapters of The Inimitable Jeeves, undated.

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Page 274 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/8 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Justin Murray (1944-1945)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/8

Creation Date 1944-1945

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Justin Murray (1944-1945)

Former External Reference BL246

Scope and Content A set of four political caricatures by Justin Murray, inscribed by the artist 'For P.G. Wodehouse', 1944-1945.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/9 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Michael Perrin ([1956])

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/9

Creation Date [1956]

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Michael Perrin ([1956])

Former External Reference BL231

Scope and Content Script of The Man Who Lost His Keys by Michel Perrin, with attached handwritten note by Guy Bolton 'I gave Plum this play in French. He bought English rights from owners and used idea in book', undated. The idea Bolton refers to is that of the opening of Frozen Assets [1956].

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 275 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/10 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Stephen Powys (1937)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/10

Creation Date 1937

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Stephen Powys (1937)

Former External Reference BL311

Scope and Content Wise by Tomorrow, play by Stephen Powys (London: Samuel French, 1937), with annotations.

The play was rumoured to be by P.G. Wodehouse.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/11-13 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse (1902-1992)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/11-13

Creation Date 1902-1992

Extent and Format 3 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse (1902-1992)

Scope and Content Material by Armine Wodehosue.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 276 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/11 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 1 (1902-1992)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/11

Creation Date 1902-1992

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 1 (1902-1992)

Former External Reference BL386

Scope and Content Two small books by E. Armine Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse’s older brother:

• Minos, the Newdigate Prize Poem of 1902 (Oxford University); • On Leave: Poems and Sonnets, 1917.

The file also includes two letters between Patrick Wodehouse and Sir Edward Cazalet relating to the two books, Jul 1992.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/8/12 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 2 (1917)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/12

Creation Date 1917

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 2 (1917)

Former External Reference BL343

Scope and Content Bound photocopies of three volumes of verse by E. Armine Wodehouse, as follows:

• On Leave: Poems and Sonnets (London: Elkin Matthews, 1917); • Christmas Eve: A Vision (Privately printed, c. 1917); • Verses From Senexpur by Senex (Bennett Coleman & Co., undated).

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Page 277 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/8/13 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 3 (1988)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/13

Creation Date 1988

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Armine Wodehouse - Part 3 (1988)

Former External Reference BL342

Scope and Content Material relating to E. Armine Wodehouse, including:

• bound copy of an essay 'Armine and Others' by Richard Usborne (1988); • printout of comments on the above essay by Patrick Wodehouse, Armine’s son, 13 Dec 1988.

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Loan MS 129/8/14 P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Other Authors (1975-1981)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/8/14

Creation Date 1975-1981

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Material by Others: Other Authors (1975-1981)

Former External Reference BL154 OF177

Scope and Content Stories by other authors written using P.G. Wodehouse's characters, including:

• typescript of two stories by Robert A. Hall, Jr. 'Harlequin Glasses and the Wedding Solution', 1981, and 'Human Metamorphoses', 1982; • photocopy of a story by R. G. A. Youard 'Jeeves and the Governing Law' from Euromoney, Nov 1981; • typescript of a story by Karl Tiedemann 'Jeeves and the Thief in the Night', 1975, sent by the author to P.G. Wodehouse, with cover letter, 27 Jan 1975.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 278 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/9 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Photographs (1970-2010)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/9

Creation Date 1970-2010

Extent and Format 2 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Photographs (1970-2010)

Scope and Content Photographs of P.G. Wodehouse and members of his family and friends.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/9/1 P.G. Wodehouse Photographs: Part 1 (1970s-1990s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/9/1

Creation Date 1970s-1990s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Photographs: Part 1 (1970s-1990s)

Scope and Content 60 photographs of P.G. Wodehouse and members of his family (folio 1-60).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 279 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/9/2 P.G. Wodehouse Photographs: Part 2 (1970s-1990s)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/9/2

Creation Date 1970s-1990s

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse Photographs: Part 2 (1970s-1990s)

Scope and Content 62 photographs of P.G. Wodehouse and members of his family (folio 1-64).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/10 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Black Books (1900-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/10

Creation Date 1900-1977

Extent and Format 4 files

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Black Books (1900-1977)

Scope and Content Photocopies of material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's life.

They consist of copies of documents of particular interest (the originals of which are included elsewhere in the collection) that Sir Edward Cazalet identified over the years as he was putting together the archive.

Each file includes a summary of contents.

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Page 280 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/10/1 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book I - P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence' (1921-1965)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/10/1

Creation Date 1921-1965

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book I - P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence' (1921-1965)

Scope and Content Copies of correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse, 1921-1965 (55 letters - 4 transcripts and 51 photocopies).

Correspondents include:

Leonora Wodehouse, Will Cuppy, Mollie Cazalet, Guy Bolton, Scott Feldman, Frances and Jack Donaldson, Benoit de Fonscolombe, Sheran Cazalet, Hesketh Pearson, William Townend, Thelma Cazalet-Keir, Mr Slater (a fan), Evelyn Waugh, Richard Usborne, and Sir Edward Cazalet.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/10/2 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book Ia - P.G. Wodehouse Corr (cont.) and Memorabilia' (1965-1970)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/10/2

Creation Date 1965-1970

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book Ia - P.G. Wodehouse Corr (cont.) and Memorabilia' (1965-1970)

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse (33 letters), 1965-1975, and memorabilia (5 items).

Correspondents include:

Sir Edward Cazalet, Ogden Nash, Sheran Cazalet, Agatha Christie, Richard Burton, Thelma Cazalet-Keir, Tom Sharpe, Anthony Powell, Ethel Wodehouse, Godfrey Smith, Jack Donaldson, and Terence Rattigan.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 281 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/10/3 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book II - Wartime' (1940-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/10/3

Creation Date 1940-1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book II - Wartime' (1940-1977)

Scope and Content Photocopies of correspondence (55 letters) and reports relating to P.G. Wodehouse's internment and the Berlin Broadcasts.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/10/4 P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book III - Notes, Drafts, Revisions' (1900-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/10/4

Creation Date 1900-1977

Extent and Format 1 file

Title P.G. Wodehouse: 'Black Book III - Notes, Drafts, Revisions' (1900-1977)

Scope and Content Photocopies of 77 pages of notes, drafts and revision of P.G. Wodehouse's work and of an account book.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Page 282 2018-02-02 Loan MS 129/11 P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Main Wodehouse Volumes (1920-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/11

Creation Date 1920-1977

Extent and Format 3 volumes

Access Conditions Available in surrogate form only

Title P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Main Wodehouse Volumes (1920-1977)

Scope and Content Three volumes of material relating to major events in P.G. Wodehouse's family and working life.

The volumes have been created by Sir Edward Cazalet and include original and copies of documents (some also included elsewhere in the collection).

For a list of the material included in the volumes, see file Loan MS 129/7/88.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/11/1 Main Wodehouse Volumes: '1920-1960' (1920-1960)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/11/1

Creation Date 1920-1960

Extent and Format 1 volume

Access Conditions Available in surrogate form only

Title Main Wodehouse Volumes: '1920-1960' (1920-1960)

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's personal life and work, including:

• correspondence of and with members of his family including Leonora Wodehouse, Thelma Cazalet-Keir, Ethel Wodehouse; • published stories by Leonora Wodehouse; • photographs of Wodehouse and members of his family and his dogs; • correspondence, reports, press cuttings and articles relating to his internment, his release, his time in Berlin and Paris and the Berlin Broadcasts; • text of the Berlin Broadcasts from Encounter; • press cuttings relating to his work.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

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Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/11/2

Creation Date 1960-1974

Extent and Format 1 volume

Access Conditions Available in surrogate form only

Title Main Wodehouse Volumes: '1960-1974' (1960-1974)

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's personal life and work, including:

• correspondence and photographs of Wodehouse with his family; • press cuttings regarding him and his work; • dust jackets of his books; • correspondence relating to Homage to P.G. Wodehouse by Thelma Cazalet-Keir.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Loan MS 129/11/3 Main Wodehouse Volumes: '1975 and Supplementary Material' (1954-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts

Reference Loan MS 129/11/3

Creation Date 1954-1977

Extent and Format 1 volume

Access Conditions Available in surrogate form only

Title Main Wodehouse Volumes: '1975 and Supplementary Material' (1954-1977)

Scope and Content Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's personal life and work, including:

• correspondence and photographs relating to his knighthood; • photographs of him being measured for Madame Tussaud's; • press cuttings following his death; • correspondence of Ethel Wodehouse after his death; • copies of correspondence with Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Hammerstein, Guy Bolton;

• photographs of Wodehouse's 90th birthday party; • photographs and press cuttings relating to the P.G. Memorial at Dulwich College; • press cuttings and book cover of Sunset at Blandings. • correspondence, and press cuttings.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

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