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