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Loan MS 129/4/125
- Record Id:
- 040-003374026
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003367166
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042631351.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Loan MS 129/4/125
- Title:
-
Wodehouse Family - Part 1
- Scope & Content:
-
Correspondence of members of the Wodehouse's family concerning P.G. Wodehouse:
- letter from Agatha Christie to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, thanking her for sending Much Obliged, Jeeves, 12 Dec [1971];
- letter from Thelma Cazalet-Keir to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, 24 Aug 1977, enclosing a letter from N.T.P. Murphy to Cazalet-Keir, 9 Aug 1977;
- 6 letters of condolence to Ethel Wodehouse, Feb 1975, including from Philip Norman, Scott Meredith and Peter Schwed;
- 3 letters to Ethel Wodehouse concerning Sunset at Blandings, Feb 1978, including two from Christopher Maclehose;
- letter from Richard Usborne to Ethel Wodehouse regarding the whereabouts of the letters from Wodehouse to William Townened reproduced in Performing Flea, 27 Jun 1976;
- letter from Jacqueline Powell (a neighbour of the Wodehouses in Le Touquet in 1940) to Ethel Wodehouse regarding Iain Sproat and his book Wodehouse at War, 13 Aug 1981;
- photocopy of letter from Joshua C. Armitage, aka 'Ionicus', Penguin jacket illustrator, to Peter Mayer, concerning his set of Drones Club prints, forwarded to Sheran Cazalet Hornby, 22 May 1981.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003367166
036-003368535
037-003374011
038-003375858
040-003374026 - Is part of:
- Loan MS 129 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive
Loan MS 129/4 : P.G. Wodehouse Archive: Correspondence
Loan MS 129/4/106-126 : Correspondence about P.G. Wodehouse
Loan MS 129/4/125-126 : P.G. Wodehouse Correspondence: Wodehouse Family
Loan MS 129/4/125 : Wodehouse Family - Part 1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003367166[0004]/036-003368535[0004]/037-003374011[0029]/038-003375858[0001]/040-003374026
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Loan MS 129
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1941
- Date Range:
- 1971-1981
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- BL346
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Armitage, Joshua C., illustrator; pseudonym 'Ionicus', 1913-1998
Christie, Agatha, author, 1890-1976
Hornby, Ann Sheran, née Cazalet, daughter of Leonora and Peter Cazalet, granddaughter of P.G. Wodehouse, b 1934
Keir, Thelma, politician, 1899-1989
Maclehose, Christopher, editor and publisher, b 1940
Meredith, Scott, literary agent, 1923-1993
Murphy, Norman T. P., author and P. G. Wodehouse expert, 1933-2016
Norman, Philip, author, b 1943
Schwed, Peter, American editor and publisher, 1911-2003
Sproat, Iain MacDonald, politician, 1938-2011
Townend, William, author, schoolmate and friend of P.G. Wodehouse, 1881-1961
Usborne, Richard Alexander, journalist, advertising executive and author, 1910-2006
Wodehouse, Ethel, née Newton; wife of Sir P.G. Wodehouse, 1885-1984