1. Eleanor Wodehouse with Pelham Grenville aged 2 months and 3 weeks, January 1882.
2. Peveril, Armine and Pelham Wodehouse in 1887, taken when Pelham (on the right) was five years old.
3. Ernest Wodehouse in Hong Kong, front row, third from the left, c. 1885.
4. The cover of one of Wodehouse’s childhood favourites, The Boy’s Own Paper, 11 April 1891.
5. William Townend at Dulwich, c. 1898.
6. The HongKong and Shanghai Bank rugby football team c. 1901. Wodehouse sits in the second row, second from the right.
7. P. G. Wodehouse’s Mike Jackson at the New Asiatic Bank, visited by Psmith. When working at the bank, Wodehouse, like Mike, was ‘appalled’ by the monotony of this ‘desert of ink and ledgers’. Illustration from The New Fold (Psmith in the City), which appeared in The Captain, October 1908, p. 84.
8. Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, or ‘Teenie’, c. 1902.
9. Herbert Wotton Westbrook, c. 1914.
10. Ella King-Hall c. 1910. Wodehouse’s UK literary agent for many years. Admired by Wodehouse, Ella was later to marry Herbert Westbrook.
11. The cover of Chums magazine, 7 October 1908, featuring Wodehouse’s serial The Luck Stone.
12. George Grossmith Jr in The Girls of Gottenberg, a 1907 musical containing lyrics by Wodehouse. Grossmith, in such roles, was one of the models for Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster.
13. Lillian Barnett, Wodehouse’s housekeeper at Emsworth, with her daughter Norah, c. 1912.
14. Leslie Havergal Bradshaw, 1912.
15. Alice Dovey, c. 1912.
16. The passenger list for the Sicilian liner, which travelled from London to Quebec in August 1912. Ethel ‘Milton’ is billed as an ‘artiste’, part of a troupe of performers that included a conductor and a comedian.
17. Leonora Rowley, c. 1915.
18. The cover of the Saturday Evening Post for 26 June 1915, featuring Wodehouse’s serial, Something New.
19. Denis Mackail with his Pekinese, Topsy, c. 1923.
20. The chorus line of Oh, Lady! Lady!!, Wodehouse’s 1918 musical comedy, written with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton.
21. Lady Ethel Newton Wodehouse by Bassano, whole plate glass negative, 1 June 1922.
22. Wodehouse, Ethel and Leonora in France, photographed by Tatler, August 1924. The magazine caption reads ‘a recent snapshot at Le Touquet, where the famous author and writer of so many excellent lyrics for musical comedy is having a bit of well-earned relaxation’.
23. Wodehouse at Hunstanton Hall, c. 1929.
24. Leonora Wodehouse, 1929.
25. Wodehouse’s friend, Maureen O’Sullivan, with Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932).
26. The first page of Thank You, Jeeves in Cosmopolitan magazine (May 1934), with an illustration by James Montgomery Flagg.
27. The marriage of Leonora and Peter Cazalet, December 1932.
28. Wodehouse, Bea Davis (centre) and Ethel, at Leonora’s wedding.
29. A 1938 magazine spread about the Wodehouses’ renovated villa, Low Wood, in Le Touquet.
30. Wodehouse in the Kommandant’s Office, Civil Internment Camp, Tost, Boxing Day, 1940.
31. The Wodehouses’ friend, Johann Jebsen (Agent Artist).
32. Anga von Bodenhausen and Raven von Barnikow.
33. Wodehouse’s first post-war feature interview with Illustrated magazine, 7 December 1946.
34. Wodehouse’s old friend, Ellaline Terriss in The Beauty of Bath, 1906.
35. Cover of The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (Simon and Schuster, 1964). Wodehouse disliked the jacket design, in which, he felt, Galahad looked too young and resembled ‘one of the Beatles’.
36. Wodehouse with a model maker from Madame Tussauds, 1974.