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Loan MS 129/2/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003368726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003367166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040957434.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Loan MS 129/2/4
- Title:
- P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Recollections of Events
- Scope & Content:
-
Material relating to the immediate pre-war period through to 1945, including:
- letter from P.G. Wodehouse to 'Mollie', Mrs William Cazalet, written after receiving the Honorary Degree from the University of Oxford, with reference to the war, 10 Jul 1939;
- photocopies of several pages of what appears to be a rough draft of P.G. Wodehouse’s 'Camp Book'. Some pages have been crossed out and the backs have been used to write notes for various fiction projects, dated 7 Jun-27 Jul 1942 (originals of these notes are in file Loan MS 129/1/124);
- printout of a long letter from Ethel Wodehouse to Diana and Denis Mackail in which she describes at length her experiences dating back to 1939, 26 Jun 1945 (the original letter is in file Loan MS 129/4/118);
- photocopy of handwritten memoir of life in Le Touquet by Jacqueline Powell, 17 Aug 1998, and printout of a transcript of it.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003367166
036-003368532
040-003368726 - Is part of:
- Loan MS 129 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive
Loan MS 129/2 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Wartime Material
Loan MS 129/2/4 : P.G. Wodehouse Wartime Material: Recollections of Events - Hierarchy:
- 032-003367166[0002]/036-003368532[0005]/040-003368726
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan MS 129
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1939
- End Date:
- 1998
- Date Range:
- 1939-1998
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- BL181
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cazalet, Maud Lucia, née Heron-Maxwell, called 'Mollie', mother of Peter Cazalet, 1868-1952
Mackail, Denis George, author, 1892-1971
Powell, Jacqueline, secretary of P. G. and Ethel Wodehosue, 1914-2006
Wodehouse, Ethel, née Newton; wife of Sir P.G. Wodehouse, 1885-1984