Loan MS 129/4/101

Correspondence of P.G. Wodehouse with various people including:

• photocopies of 15 letters to Leonora Wodehouse Cazalet (referred to as 'Snorky' in the letters) regarding Wodehouse's latest projects, plots for his stories, his travel plans, family friends, life in the US and France, the work of other contemporary authors, the dogs, and personal news, 8 Sept 1935 to 10 Mar 1939. The originals of these letters were kept by Mrs Beatrice Moresby, a friend of Leonora Cazalet, and discovered upon her death in 1985 by her executorix and god-daughter, Mrs Sheran Cazalet Hornby;
• 2 original letters to Edward Cazalet, regarding personal matters, 28 Apr 1954 and 21 Apr 1958;
• carbon copies of two letters from Capt P.L. Gunn to P.G. Wodehouse, and original replies from P.G. Wodehouse, Sept-Oct 1960, concerning a painting which Gunn, an admirer, had done of a group of P.G. Wodehouse characters. The letters are accompanied with information on the acquisition of the painting and the letters at auction, 1986;
• photocopy of a letter from P.G. Wodehouse to Mr Groves about Dulwich College, 3 Mar 1966;
• second page of original letter, [1937], photocopy of one letter, 7 May 1937, and original letter, 17 Jan 1967, to Peter Cazalet, with latest personal and professional news;
• photocopies of 8 letters from P.G. Wodehouse to Tom Sharpe, 27 Feb 1973 to 15 Jan 1975, regarding their latest work.