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Loan MS 129/4/93
- Record Id:
- 040-003372130
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003367166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042384878.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Loan MS 129/4/93
- Title:
-
Fans and Friends Letters - Part 6
- Scope & Content:
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Photocopies and originals of correspondence between P.G. Wodehouse and fans, reviewers and admirers, 15 Jun 1946 to 11 Feb 1975 (62 letters; some letters are accompanied by cover letters to Frances Donaldson, 1980).
Correspondents include Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Ben Goodden, Trevor L.A. Daintith, Helen L. Linn (expressing admiration for Cyril Northcote Parkinson, The Bishop of Kalgoorlie), the Right Rev. C. E. B. Muschamp, and John Chancellor.
The file includes a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Slater stating that Blandings Village was modelled on Marlborough, 2 Jul 1953, and a letter from Richard Burton to P.G. Wodehouse and wife, 4 Mar 1972, with handwritten note from Liz Taylor.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003367166
036-003368535
037-003367353
038-003372129
040-003372130 - 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 129/4/88-96 : P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Fans and Friends Letters
Loan MS 129/4/93 : Fans and Friends Letters - Part 6 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003367166[0004]/036-003368535[0003]/037-003367353[0039]/038-003372129[0012]/040-003372130
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan MS 129
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1946
- End Date:
- 1946
- Date Range:
- 1946-1980
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- BL27
OF35 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The letters were sent to Lady Donaldson for her biography of P.G. Wodehouse.
- Names:
- Burton, Richard, actor, 1925-1984
Chancellor, John William, American journalist, 1927-1966
Daintith, Trevor L. A., Kipling Society member, 1923-2005
Donaldson, Frances Annesley, née Lonsdale, writer and biographer, 1907-1994
Pritchett, Victor Sawdon, Knight, author and critic, 1900-1997
Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond, actress, 1932-2011