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Loan MS 129/4/53-68

Record Id:

038-003371468

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003367166

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100041976483.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Loan MS 129/4/53-68

Title:

P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William

Scope & Content:

Correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and William Townend, a fellow student at Dulwich College and a lifelong friend and occasional collaborator.

The letters concern Wodehouse’s and Townend’s writings, their personal life, and their pets.

Townend worked in journalism with Wodehouse in the early 20^th century and on Performing Flea, a book which consists of revised excerpts from many of these letters. The marks in the margins of some of the letters were made by Derek Grimsdick, the editor at Herbert Jenkins, indicating which passages were to be used in Performing Flea.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003367166
036-003368535
037-003367353
038-003371468

Is part of:

Loan MS 129 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive
Loan MS 129/4 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence
Loan MS 129/4/1-105 : Correspondence to and from P.G. Wodehouse

Loan MS 129/4/53-68 : P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Townend, William

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003367166[0004]/036-003368535[0003]/037-003367353[0025]/038-003371468

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan MS 129

Record Type (Level):

SubSubSeries

Extent:

16 files

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1905

End Date:

1982

Date Range:

1905-1982

Era:

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

There are a few early letters from the approximate period 1905-1908, but most date from 1920 to 1956. The originals were given by Wodehouse to Grimsdick, who gave them to Dulwich College in 1982.

Names:

Townend, William, author, schoolmate and friend of P.G. Wodehouse, 1881-1961