Photocopy of a page from the Savage Club Candidates’ Book, with P.G. Wodehouse nominated for membership by D. Greenbough Smith, with signature of his supporters. He was nominated on 2 Feb 1922 and elected on 2 Mar 1922.
Typed and holograph notes for various stories (5 pages). All pages are dated, from 21 May 1936 to 14 Jul 1937. Page with holograph notes dated 1 Apr 1937 is headed 'Soapy Story' and page dated 14 Jul 1937 is headed 'Ch 1' and includes ideas for a Jeeves Story with 'Stiffy', 14 Jul 1937.
P.G. Wodehouse Posthumous Material: Introduction To The Archive
Scope & Content:
Printout of the 'Introduction for the reader to the Cazalet archive of P.G. Wodehouse papers', written by Sir Edwards Cazalet. Printout of list of items included in the Main Wodehouse Volumes.
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...