P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Interviews, Petition and Flannery
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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 photocop...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...