P.G. Wodehouse: Notes for Cabinet Minister Project - part 2
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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).
P.G. Wodehouse: A Tithe for Charity and Archie Had Magnatism
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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 ...
P.G. Wodehouse: Holograph and Typed Notes for Stories
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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...
P.G. Wodehouse: Bachelors Anonymous - Notes for Novel
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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.
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.
P.G. Wodehouse: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin - Draft of Chapter 6
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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.