Loan MS 129/2/5

Material relating to P.G. Wodehouse's internment and the book Assignment to Berlin by Harry Flannery, including:

• typescript of Angus Thuermer's article about his interview with P.G. Wodehouse on 26 Dec 1940, copy of photograph of Angus Thuermer and Wodehouse taken at the interview, and photocopy of Thuermer's article from The New York Times, 27 Dec 1940;
• photocopy of a page from the 'Apologia' written by P.G. Wodehouse in 1945 quoting a letter he received on 12 Jan 1941 from Mrs Demaree Bess which made him aware of the public pressure for his release before he was 60;
• photocopy of a petition with signatories submitted to the German Embassy in Washington, USA, asking for Wodehouse’s release, dated Jun 1940, and photocopy of further draft copy of the written request;
• photocopy of typescript of interview of P.G. Wodehouse by Harry Flannery on 29 Jun 1941;
• correspondence with Harry Flannery concerning the accuracy of his recollections published in Assignment to Berlin (1942), including a letter from Flannery to Richard Usborne, 31 May 1959, and a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Michael Joseph (publishers of Assignment to Berlin), 16 Jul 1945, and Flannery's reply to Wodehouse, 5 Sept 1945.