Loan MS 129/2/6

Material relating to the article 'The Price is?' by Cassandra (William Connor) published in the Daily Mirror on 28 Jun 1941, including:

• transcript of part of the article, which is a photocopy from P.G. Wodehouse. The Authorised Biography by Frances Donaldson, pages 230-231;
• two pages from You Simply Hit Them With An Axe by Tony Ring (1995), referring to the lunch arranged by Duff Cooper for journalists as a result of which Cassandra made his broadcast on BBC radio;
• transcript of the BBC broadcast to the UK by Cassandra 'P.G. Wodehouse and His Recent Doings', 15 Jul 1941;
• duplicate transcript of the BBC broadcast by Cassandra on the North America transmission, 15/16 Jul 1941;
• photocopies of extracts from BBC files concerning their doubts as to the appropriateness of transmitting the broadcasts, including subsequent comment on the broadcasts to the BBC by the public;
• copies of letters between Cassandra and Duff Cooper, 7-23 Jul 1941, and between Cassandra and P.G. Wodehouse, 6 May 1958 to 31 May 1961;
• copy of telegrams to P.G. Wodehouse regarding the broadcasts, one from Brian Aherne, 28 Jun 1941, and two from Wesley Stout, 28 Jun 1941 and 1 Jul 1941;
• photocopy of 2 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Stout, 29 Nov 1941 and 11 May 1942, and of part of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Reynolds, 27 Nov 1941, all regarding sales of Wodehouse's books in America after the Berlin Broadcasts.