Loan MS 129/4/87

Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse regarding his work, including:

• letter from P.G. Wodehouse to J. D. Grimsdick, concerning sales of The Ice in the Bedroom and publication of other stories, 25 Mar 1961, accompanied by a photocopied page from a catalogue offering this letter for auction, undated;
• typed letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Ward, approving a Lancaster book-jacket, 18 May 1973;
• photocopy of a 'Message from P. G. Wodehouse', sent to be read to those attending the first Wodehouse Dinner, with handwritten note 'The original unsigned typewritten copy is pasted into a copy of Wodehouse at Work signed by all the attendees at the first Wodehouse Dinner, May 1973'. The message is accompanied by the following related material: 1) printout of Norman Murphy’s 'Memories of Moor Park 1973', 12 Feb 2005; 2) photocopy of the programme for a weekend seminar 'The Works of P. G. Wodehouse', held at Moor Park College, 18 to 20 May 1973; 3) photocopies of drawings made on the inside of the dust jacket of a signed copy of Usborne's Wodehouse at Work;
• carbon copy of the first page of a letter to P.G. Wodehouse, with note 'from Frank Muir?', concerning mid-1960s BBC TV adaptions of a series of Wooster-Jeeves short stories, 21 May 1965;
• letter from Guy Bolton to Christopher MacLehose, P.G. Wodehouse’s editor at Barrie and Jenkins, concerning the musical Come on Jeeves, 1 May, [mid-to late 1960s];
• photocopy of a note from Sir Max Mallowan to Simon Hornby, thanking him for a message concerning Agatha Christie’s death and mentioning her friendship with P.G. Wodehouse, 23 Jan 1976.