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 ...
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.
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 caricat...
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 1...
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 relate...
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.
P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: First Editions
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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...
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 ...