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'.
P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Short Stories and Novels
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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-J...
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 ...
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.
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).
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.
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 t...