Abbreviations
ARCHIVES
| Berg | The Henry W. and A. Albert Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library |
| Chapel Hill | A. P. Watt Records, Louis Wilson Library, General Manuscripts Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Chicago | Will Cuppy Papers, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library |
| Christie | Agatha Christie Archive, Wales |
| Columbia | Reynolds Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York |
| Cornell | Sullivan Papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library |
| Dulwich | Dulwich College Archives, Dulwich College, London |
| Emsworth | Emsworth Museum, Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust, Emsworth, Hampshire |
| LOC | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington |
| Morgan | The Pierpont Morgan Library, Literary and Historical Manuscripts, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York |
| Muggeridge | Malcolm Muggeridge Papers, Wheaton College Special Collections, Wheaton, Illinois |
| Oriel | Oriel College Archive, Oxford |
| Orwell | Orwell Papers, UCL Library Services, Special Collections, London |
| OUA Oxford | Oxford University Archives, Bodleian Library, |
| PRO | Public Record Office, The National Archives, Kew |
| Ransom | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas |
| Reading | A. & C. Black Papers, University of Reading Special Collections Service, University of Reading |
| Sharpe | Tom Sharpe Papers, Great Shelford, Cambridge |
| Southern Illinois | Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale |
| Waugh | Evelyn Waugh Papers, British Library |
| Wodehouse Archive | Wodehouse Archive, Shaw Farm, Sussex |
TEXTS
| Bring on the Girls | P. G. Wodehouse, Bring on the Girls, in Wodehouse on Wodehouse (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981) |
| Cussen | ‘Major Cussen’s Report on the case of P. G. Wodehouse’, 3 October 1944, PRO HO 45/22385-66279 |
| Jasen | David Jasen, P. G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master (New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1974) |
| McCrum | Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life (London: Viking, 2004) |
| Murphy | N. T. P. Murphy, The Wodehouse Handbook, Vol. I (London: Popgood & Groolley, 2006) |
| Over Seventy | P. G. Wodehouse, Over Seventy, in Wodehouse on Wodehouse (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981) |
| Performing Flea | P. G. Wodehouse, Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters, with a Foreword and Notes by W. Townend (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953) |
| Phelps | Barry Phelps, P. G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth (London: Constable, 1992) |
| The Unknown Years | Reinhild von Bodenhausen, P. G. Wodehouse: The Unknown Years (Sri Lanka: Stamford Lake Publications, 2009) |
| Yours Plum | Frances Donaldson, Yours Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse (London: Hutchinson, 1990) |
(References for the quotations in the commentary are given in normal type. Letters which are reproduced in their full, or fuller form, are in italics)
1899–1900: ‘set thy beetle-crusher on the ladder of fame’
p. 40, ‘All through my last term’, Over Seventy, p. 477.
p. 40, I am badly in need of some funny drorks, PGW to Eric George (Morgan).
p. 43, Jeames, friend of me boyhood, PGW to Eric George, September 1899 (Morgan).
p. 46, Jeames of me boyhood’s hours, PGW to Eric George (Morgan).
p. 49, ‘The Literary Man as Statesman’, Scholarship Examination Paper, 1899, (Oriel).
p. 49, ‘[J]ust as scholarship time was approaching’, Over Seventy, p. 477.
p. 49, ‘A ’Varsity “man”’, ‘The Fresher at Cambridge’, The Captain, July 1899, pp. 380–88, at p. 381.
p. 49, ‘quaint old coll … almost like going to Elysium’, Fred Swainson,
‘The Roden Scholarship’, The Captain, January 1900, pp. 402–6, at p. 402.
p. 49, Friend of me boyhood, PGW to Eric George (Morgan).
1901–1909: ‘Got a plot, thanks’
p. 58, In reply to your letter of today, PGW to A. & C. Black, 8 December 1902 (Reading).
p. 59, ‘drank too much’ and ‘sponged, more or less on people’, William Townend to PGW, 16 February 1957 (Dulwich).
p. 59, This is great about our Westy, PGW to William Townend, 3 March 1905 (Dulwich).
p. 61, I rang you up on the telephone today, PGW to J. B. Pinker, 16 January 1906 (Berg).
p. 62, I think the best thing would be, PGW to J. B. Pinker, 4 May 1906 (Berg).
p. 62, ‘a complete shit’, PGW to William Townend, 10 June 1907 (Dulwich).
p. 62, ‘various houses’, PGW to David Jasen, 21 November 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 63, ‘a kind of supercharged’, D. J. Taylor, ‘Life Before Jeeves’, TLS, 15 September 2010.
p. 63, The fact that the preliminary notices, PGW to Cassell & Co., London, 3 August 1907 (Berg).
p. 63, ‘half in love’, Richard Perceval-Maxwell, ‘6925 – The P. G. Wodehouse Connection’, The King-Hall Family and Its Connections, http://sites.google.com/site/kinghallconnections/Home.
p. 64, It’s all right. Got a plot, thanks, PGW to William Townend [u.d. 1908] (Dulwich).
p. 65, ‘There is no earthly subject’, Wilkie Collins, ‘The Unknown Public’, Household Words, 21 August 1858, XVIII, pp. 217–22.
p. 65, ‘in house’, George Newnes to PGW, 28 October 1908 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 66, A Lover’s Trials. – CITIZEN’s grievance, PGW and William Townend to various correspondents, Tit-Bits, Vol. 54–55, 29 August 1908, p. 567.
p. 68, Here’s a go, PGW to William Townend, 6 May 1908 (Dulwich).
p. 69, ‘Although the plot is excellent’, A. & C. Black to PGW, 31 March 1911 (Reading).
p. 69, ‘a merry tale, cleverly told’, ‘Love and Chickens’, The New York Times, 29 May 1909.
p. 70, I hadn’t time in the hurry, PGW to J. B. Pinker, 11 May 1909 (Berg).
1909–1914: ‘American hustle’
p. 75, Here I am. As Wilkie Bard was singing, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 7 September 1909 (private archive).
p. 75, Thanks awfully for your letter, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 9 November 1909 (private archive).
p. 76, Thanks awfully for mags, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw [u.d. 1910] (private archive).
p. 77, The Announcement in the Argosy, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 29 April 1910 (private archive).
p. 77, ‘I was very hard up in my Greenwich Village days’, ‘Preface’ to The Small Bachelor (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1970), p. 5.
p. 78, Thanks awfully for your letter, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 5 May 1910 (private archive).
p. 79, Are you game to put a little snaky work for me, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw [u.d. 1910] (private archive).
p. 80, Thanks for the very timely tip, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 19 January 1911 (private archive).
p. 81, I haven’t had a moment, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 21 May 1912 (private archive).
p. 83, Will you stand by me in a crisis?, PGW to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 9 August 1912 (private archive).
p. 84, I am afraid I have left your letter, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 9 September 1912 (private archive).
p. 85, Yes, here I am, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 6 May 1913 (private archive).
p. 86, ‘was engaged to write a review’, PGW to Richard Usborne, 21 May 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 86, I am dreadfully sorry, PGW to Olive Armstrong (‘Bubbles’), 13 July 1914 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 87, Thanks very much for the clippings, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 1 September 1914 (private archive).
p. 90 ‘If my mother had her choice’, L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 15 July 1914 (private archive).
p. 90 ‘had a date’, L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 23 September 1914 (private archive).
p. 91, I really meant what I said, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 24 September 1914, quoted in L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 26 September 1914 (private archive).
1914–1918: ‘Something Fresh’
p. 97, Excuse delay in answering letter, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 1 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 97, ‘A complete surprise’, L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 2 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 98, I’ve been feeling an awful worm, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 10 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 100, I took your letter to Friend Wife, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 14 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 102 ‘was too modest, so I sent’, L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 20 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 102, Thanks awfully for the cigars, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 19 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 104, Thanks most awfully for the photograph frame, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 24 October 1914 (private archive).
p. 105, I expect you have heard, PGW to Lillian Barnett, 2 December 1914 (Emsworth).
p. 108, We shall both be delighted, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 15 December 1914 (private archive).
p. 109, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, ‘Sorry for delay in writing’, 20 January 1915, (private archive).
p. 111, Splendid. I should be delighted, PGW to George Wilson, 28 March 1915 (Reading).
p. 111, Do you remember coming to Bustanoby’s, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 3 June 1915 (private archive).
p. 113, ‘used to write about half’, Performing Flea, p. 13.
p. 113, I was interested to hear, PGW to L. H. Bradshaw, 25 June 1915 (private archive).
p. 114, ‘move away from the fractured’, Judith Flanders, ‘Song and Dance’, TLS, 22 April 2011, p. 3.
p. 114, ‘out on the road’, PGW to Lillian Barnett, 20 June 1918 (Emsworth).
p. 114, ‘Scott Fitzgerald and his crowd’, Jasen, p. 77.
p. 114, ‘three acres of grounds including a tennis court’, L. H. Bradshaw to Olive Marie Barrows, 20 August 1918 (private archive).
p. 115, I have been meaning to write, PGW to Lillian Barnett, 20 June 1918 (Emsworth).
1919–1930 ‘This, I need scarcely point out to you, is jolly old Fame’
p. 123. ‘the infallible test’, ‘The Clicking of Cuthbert’, The Strand Magazine (October 1921) and Elk’s Magazine (July 1922), repr. in The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922).
p. 123, Thanks awfully for your letters, PGW to William Townend, 28 February 1920 (Dulwich).
p. 127, At last I’m able to write to you!, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 7 August 1920 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 128, ‘A gentleman named Lieutenant Larsen’, Something Fresh (Something New) (1915), Chapter 1.
p. 129, I finished the novel two or three days ago, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 9 September 1920 (Columbia).
p. 130, Here is a letter from one of the Ely Court nibs, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 27 September 1920 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 132, We were so glad to get your letters, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 24 November 1920 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 134, We beat Sherborne yesterday, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 28 November 1920 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 135, I have written to mother, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 23 March 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 137, ‘noble experiment’, Over Seventy, p. 190.
p. 137, Well, we blew in yesterday morning, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 2 April 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 140, I feel I must write a line, PGW to Denis Mackail, 13 May 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 140, ‘about thirty girls’, Yours Plum, p. 17.
p. 141, You will be thinking me a f.i.h.s., PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 20 May 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 142, We were frightfully sorry to hear, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 15 June 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 144, How I have neglected you, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 3 July 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 146, The Wodehouse home is en fête, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 21 December 1921 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 147, How’s everything? Darned cold, what?, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 24 January 1922 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 148, Sorry I haven’t written before, PGW to William Townend, 27 June 1922 (Dulwich).
p. 149, Well, Bill, maybe we didn’t do a thing, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 20 September 1922 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 151, ‘two small girls who created the impression’, Bring on the Girls, p. 156.
p. 151, ‘Life has been one damned bit of work after another’, PGW to William Townend, 16 December 1922 (Dulwich).
p. 152, ‘working like a beaver’, PGW to William Townend, 20 May 1923 (Dulwich)
p. 152, ‘I am bathed in confusion and remorse’, PGW to Denis Mackail, 20 May 1923 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 153, Have you ever been knocked over by a car, PGW to William Townend, 23 July 1923 (Dulwich).
p. 156, You’ve no notion what a ruddy blank, PGW to William Townend, 24 August 1923 (Dulwich).
p. 157, What a shame that we missed each other, PGW to William Townend, 4 November 1923 (Dulwich).
p. 158, Well, ma belle, how goes it?, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 14 November 1923 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 161, Tonight we are all going to the opening, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 23 December 1923 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 162, Your lovely letter, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 25 December 1923 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 163, I’m awfully sorry I haven’t written, PGW to William Townend, 26 January 1924 (Dulwich).
p. 164, Your long letter made a big hit, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 4 February 1924 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 165, We are so awfully worried, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 12 September 1924 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 167, Awfully sorry I haven’t written, PGW to William Townend, 23 September 1924 (Dulwich).
p. 167, ‘a “rather odd” experience’, PGW to Armine Wodehouse, 17 March 1936 (private archive).
p. 168, Thanks awfully about the three men and girl, PGW to William Townend, 1 October 1924 (Dulwich).
p. 169, I enclose a sheet of questions, PGW to William Townend, 12 November 1924 (Dulwich). The list of questions is missing in the original letter and they are taken from the version given in Performing Flea, pp. 29–30.
p. 170, ‘usual struggle’ […] ‘a luncheon’, PGW to William Townend, 28 April 1925 (Dulwich).
p. 171, ‘Bill West, the nephew of Mr Paradene’, TLS, 4 December 1924, p. 828.
p. 171, Your letter was like the well-known balm in Gilead, PGW to Denis Mackail, 4 December 1924 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 172, ‘one of those enormous houses’, PGW to William Townend, 12 May 1929 (Dulwich).
p. 172, ‘miles of what they call rolling’, ‘Jeeves and the Impending Doom’, The Strand Magazine (December 1926) and Liberty (January 1927), repr. in Very Good, Jeeves (1930).
p. 173, ‘keen breeder of Jersey cows’, Murphy, p. 350.
p. 173, ‘Hunstanton’s pig-sty was likely’, Murphy, p. 430.
p. 173, […] We are off to Norfolk for Christmas, PGW to William Townend, 22 December 1924 (Dulwich).
p. 174, I am now at last in a position, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 30 March 1925 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 176, I started the sale of Greenery Street, PGW to Denis Mackail, 18 June 1925 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 177, ‘a ghastly task’, PGW to William Townend, 23 July 1925 (Dulwich).
p. 177, ‘was rather angry about Wodehouse’, Harold Ober to Paul Reynolds, 29 December 1926 (Columbia).
p. 178, I have been spending two weeks at Bexhill, PGW to William Townend, 26 June 1926 (Dulwich).
p. 179, ‘it is not too much to say that I played’, Jasen, p. 104.
p. 179, In November I am going to California, PGW to Mr Davies, 17 August 1926 (private archive).
p. 179, ‘your $5,500, of course, is absolutely pure velvet’, R. J. B. Denby to PGW, 13 January 1927 (Columbia).
p. 180, CANNOT UNDERSTAND YOU CABLING, PGW to R. J. B. Denby, 22 January 1927 (Columbia).
p. 180, ‘the running of the establishment’, Jasen, p. 107.
p. 181, Thanks very much for the Vanity Fair articles, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 5 February 1927 (Columbia).
p. 182, A long time since we communicated, laddie, PGW to William Townend, 12 February 1927 (Dulwich).
p. 184, ‘the quietest place under the sun’, Bring on the Girls, p. 185.
p. 184, ‘Victorian monstrosity’, Murphy, pp. 290–91
p. 184, ‘a vast edifice constructed of glazed red brick’, Summer Moonshine (1937), Chapter 2.
p. 184, Ripping getting your letter, PGW to William Townend, 15 March 1927 (Dulwich).
p. 185, Returning to London today, PGW to William Townend, 5 May 1927 (Dulwich).
p. 187, I am here till Friday, PGW to William Townend, 27 July 1927 (Dulwich).
p. 188, ‘every day seems to have been given to either writing or rehearsing’, Bring on the Girls, p. 214.
p. 189, I would have written to you long before this, PGW to William Townend, 28 November 1927 (Dulwich).
p. 190, So sorry not to have written before, PGW to William Townend, 30 April 1928 (Dulwich).
p. 191, Your letter with the checks just arrived, PGW to Ira Gershwin, 8 November 1928 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 193, Thanks awfully for your letter, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 10 February 1929 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 194, I would have written before but, PGW to William Townend, 12 May 1929 (Dulwich).
p. 195, I’ve come to the conclusion that what, PGW to William Townend, 26 July 1929 (Dulwich).
p. 196, ‘I know that the main scheme’, ‘The Ordeal of Young Tuppy’, Very Good, Jeeves (1930).
p. 196, I’m longing to come down and see you all, PGW to William Townend, 11 November 1929 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 197, I’m afraid it’s going to be difficult to work that Townend story, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 11 November 1929 (Columbia).
p. 197, What do you mean?, PGW to William Townend, 8 January 1930 (Dulwich).
1930–1931: ‘this place is loathsome’
p. 205, Frightfully sorry I haven’t written before, PGW to Denis Mackail, 26 June 1930 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 207, How awfully nice of you to write to me about Jeeves, PGW to Arnold Bennett, 16 August 1930 (private archive).
p. 208, […] Well, laddie, it begins to look as if, PGW to William Townend, 28 October 1930 (Dulwich)
p. 211, I feel an awful worm, PGW to Denis Mackail, 28 December 1930 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 212, ‘Following Variety’s report of the ludicrous writer talent situation’, Phelps, p. 170.
p. 212 ‘that he had been paid such an enormous’ see Alma Whitaker, ‘Wodehouse Out and Still Dazed’, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1951.
p. 213, Does the Spring make you restless?, PGW to William Townend, 14 March 1931 (Dulwich).
p. 214, Thanks most awfully for sending me the two books, PGW to Will Cuppy, 29 April 1931 (Chicago)
p. 215, Your letter arrived yesterday, PGW to Denis Mackail, 10 May 1931 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 217, […] How have you been doing lately?, PGW to William Townend, 19 May 1931 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 218, Thanks most awfully for the books, PGW to Will Cuppy, 17 August 1931 (Chicago).
p. 218, I was thrilled by your description of battle with Pop Grimsdick, PGW to William Townend, 26 August 1931 (Dulwich).
p. 220, This business of writing to you has taken on a graver aspect, PGW to William Townend, 14 September 1931 (Dulwich).
1932–1940: ‘A jolly strong position’
p. 228, The above is our new address, PGW to William Townend, 6 March 1932 (Dulwich).
p. 229, ‘an odd bird’, PGW to William Townend, 24 August 1932, in Performing Flea, p. 66.
p. 230, I like Wells, but the trouble, PGW to William Townend [u.d., 1932] (Dulwich).
p. 231, Thanks for long letter. Good, PGW to William Townend, 1 April 1932 (Dulwich).
p. 232, I’m so glad you liked, PGW to Denis Mackail, 8 April 1932 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 233, I am hoping that this rise, PGW to William Townend, 13 August 1932 (Dulwich).
p. 234, I’m awfully glad you liked Hot Water, PGW to Denis Mackail, 9 October 1932 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 236, You may well imagine, PGW to Leonora Wodehouse, 6 November 1932 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 237, Thanks for your letter, PGW to William Townend, 1 December 1932 (Dulwich).
p. 238, Happy New Year and what not, PGW to William Townend, 4 January 1933 (Dulwich).
p. 240, These last four days, PGW to William Townend, 9 February 1933 (Dulwich).
p. 241, SEVENTY THOUSAND WORDS OF NOVEL, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 15 February 1933 (Columbia).
p. 242, ‘FEDERAL TAX AUDITOR IN ANNUAL AUDIT’, Paul Reynolds to PGW, 11 April 1933 (Columbia).
p. 242, Your cable was a bombshell, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 12 April 1933 (Columbia).
p. 242, My wife is frightfully worried, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 18 April 1933 (Columbia).
p. 243, Dear Denis. (Bluff old Squire …), PGW to Denis Mackail, 10 September 1933 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 244, You will think me crazy, PGW to Olive Grills, 26 April 1934 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 245, Thanks for yours. I’m glad, PGW to William Townend, 2 August 1934 (Dulwich).
p. 246, Thanks awfully for your letter, PGW to William Townend, 16 August 1934 (Dulwich).
p. 247, We are simply enraptured, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 24 August 1934 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 249, Just been reading your letter, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 12 November 1934 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 250, A letter from Miss Ella, PGW to A. P. Watt, 20 March 1935 (Chapel Hill).
p. 251, I’m so glad the cutting, PGW to William Townend, 28 March 1935 (Dulwich).
p. 252, I have just read the great news, PGW to S. C. ‘Billy’ Griffith, 17 May 1935 (private archive).
p. 252, Sensational news. Yesterday, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 4 June 1935 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 253, I have so much work on hand, PGW to A. P. Watt, 21 June 1935 (Chapel Hill).
p. 254, Just caught boat, and found that about, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 8 September 1935 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 255, If Hunt can give me a reasonable time, PGW to A. P. Watt, 15 September 1935 (Chapel Hill).
p. 255, Just off to Carlton Hotel, PGW to William Townend, 20 January 1936 (Dulwich).
p. 256, Your fat letter to Mummie arrived, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 26 February 1936 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 257, I was awfully glad to hear from you, PGW to Armine Wodehouse, 17 March 1936 (private archive).
p. 259, I’m sorry you are going, PGW to William Townend, 2 April 1936 (Dulwich).
p. 260, This is just a line to tell you how much I love you, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 16 April 1936 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 261 ‘Everybody is very pleased about it’, PGW to William Townend, 5 May 1936 (Dulwich).
p. 261, ‘outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’, Cyril Clemens to PGW, 26 June 1936, quoted in Jasen, p. 149.
p. 261, I’ve just returned from a hurried visit, PGW to William Townend, 23 July 1936 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 262, Your cable came as a stunning blow to us, PGW to Nella Wodehouse, 10 October 1936 (private archive).
p. 263, ‘Parties were very easy to do’, Jasen, p. 155.
p. 263, ‘I saw Clark Gable the other day’, PGW to William Townend, 7 November 1936 (Dulwich).
p. 263, ‘[E]verything seems flat’, PGW to S. C. ‘Billy’ Griffith, 15 March 1937 (private archive).
p. 263, I had just settled down to work off my correspondence, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 28 December 1936 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 264, Your marvellous letter arrived this morning, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 10 April 1937 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 266, Your fat letter arrived this morning, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 13 July 1937 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 270, A letter from Snorky arrived this morning, PGW to Peter Cazalet, 7 May 1937 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 271, How clever of you to write to me direct about that money, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 13 August 1937 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 273, I enclose a letter from Mr Leff, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 19 August 1937 (Columbia).
p. 274, Did you ever read a book called Helen’s Babies, PGW to William Townend, 22 November 1937 (Dulwich).
p. 275, ‘as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla’, The Code of the Woosters, Chapter 1.
p. 275, I am finding finishing my Jeeves novel a ghastly sweat, PGW to William Townend, 4 January 1938 (Dulwich).
p. 276, I can’t get over the awed feeling, PGW to Leonora Cazalet, 4 January 1939 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 276, It was so nice to hear from you again, PGW to Lillian Barnett, 5 April 1939 (Emsworth).
p. 277, I am coming over – unless there is a gale, PGW to William Townend, 23 April 1939 (Dulwich).
p. 279, HONOURED TO ACCEPT, PGW to Douglas Veale, 16 May 1939 (OUA).
p. 279, I am so sorry I did not receive your first communication, PGW to Douglas Veale, 17 May 1939 (OUA).
p. 279, ‘an ardent devotee’, Douglas Veale to PGW, 19 May 1939 (OUA).
p. 280, Thanks most awfully for your letter and its reassuring contents, PGW to Douglas Veale, 24 May 1939 (OUA).
p. 280, So glad the short stories are selling, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 3 June 1939 (Columbia).
p. 281, ‘“Speech!”. Wodehouse “rose awkwardly to his feet”’, McCrum, p. 261.
p. 281, I wonder if anybody has ever enjoyed a visit, PGW to Mary Gordon, 23 June 1939 (Dulwich).
p. 282, Thanks most awfully for your letter, PGW to Mollie Cazalet, 10 July 1939 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 283, When this war started, PGW to William Townend, 3 October 1939 (Dulwich).
p. 285, I’m so sorry I’ve been all this time, PGW to Frank Sullivan, 6 October 1939 (Cornell).
p. 285, Long time since I wrote, PGW to William Townend, 8 December 1939 (Dulwich).
p. 288, Your description of the writing, PGW to William Townend, 23 January 1940 (Dulwich).
p. 289, Thank you so much for your letter, PGW to Elmer Flaccus, 3 February 1940 (private archive).
p. 290, I keep looking out in the papers for your new book, PGW to William Townend, 6 April 1940 (Dulwich).
p. 291, I’m afraid I have changed my plans, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 25 April 1940 (Columbia).
1940–1941: ‘Am quite happy here’
p. 299, GOODNESS KNOWS WHEN YOU WILL GET THIS, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 21 October 1940 (Columbia).
p. 300, ‘in no immediate danger’, Leonora Cazalet to Paul Reynolds, 31 May 1941 (Columbia).
p. 300, ‘concentration camp’, Paul Reynolds to L. B. Saunders, 19 September 1940 (Columbia).
p. 300, ‘I doubt if a stay’, Maerose Barry to Paul Reynolds, 7 October 1940 (Columbia).
p. 300, ‘camp was really great fun’, PGW to William Townend, 11 May 1942 (Dulwich).
p. 301, ‘with best wishes for his early release’, P. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to Paul Reynolds, 13 January 1941 (Columbia)
p. 301, ‘admirer of P. G. Wodehouse’, Mary Pomeroy to Paul Reynolds, 31 December 1940 (Columbia).
p. 301, ‘difficult to carry out practically’, Paul Reynolds to Mary Pomeroy, 9 January 1941 (Columbia).
p. 301 ‘the model for Lord Uffenham’, see PGW to William Townend, 24 February 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 301, ‘It’s very good of Mr Wodehouse’, Ruth Chambers to Paul Reynolds, 16 January 1941 (Columbia).
p. 301, WOULD YOU MIND SENDING FIVE DOLLARS, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 1 November 1940 (Columbia).
1941–1943: ‘so little to tell’
p. 317, TELL LEONORA ETHEL WELL, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 18 November 1941 (Columbia).
p. 317, Thanks so much for your cable, PGW to Paul Reynolds, 27 November 1941 (Columbia).
p. 319, ‘MONEY IN BANK GOOD’, Wesley Stout to PGW, 23 July 1941 (Columbia).
p. 319, ‘“alienated” his readers and …would be “a liability”’, Wesley Stout to Paul Reynolds, 21 July 1941 (Columbia).
p. 319, ‘Our own belief is that he traded’, Wesley Stout to Paul Reynolds, 23 July 1941 (Columbia).
p. 320, I have just had a cable, PGW to Wesley Stout, 29 November 1941 (Columbia).
p. 321, Just a line to let you know, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 24 December 1941 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 322, ‘insisted on the insertion in the contract of a clause’, PGW to Major Cussen, 14 September 1944, Cussen, p. 2; PGW statement, Cussen, p. 16.
p. 322, What a lovely fat letter, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 30 March 1942 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 324, At last I am able to write to you, PGW to William Townend, 11 May 1942 (Dulwich).
p. 326, The sweater arrived yesterday, PGW to Raven von Barnikow, 26 July 1942 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 327, In the hope that by doing so, PGW to the Foreign Office, 21 November 1942 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 329, ‘working on getting out of Germany’, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 23 December 1942 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 330, ‘the frightful future ahead’, The Unknown Years, p. 109.
p. 330, Ethel and I were so excited, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 5 March 1943 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 331, I have been trying to write to you, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 15 April 1943 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 333, ‘my upper [sic] Silesian host’, PGW to William Townend, 30 December 1944 (Dulwich).
p. 333, I suppose you will get this at lunch time, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 11 June 1943 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 335, We were so delighted to get your letter, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 1 September 1943 (Wodehouse Archive).
1943–1947: ‘under surveillance’
p. 341, ‘Wodehouse may have been’, McCrum, p.340.
p. 341, What a long time since I wrote to you, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 21 November 1943 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 343, We continue to lead a quiet life, PGW to Anga von Bodenhausen, 3 May 1944 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 345, The afternoon of the big parade, PGW to William Townend, 30 December 1944 (Dulwich).
p. 345, ‘flinty-eyed Home Office official’, PGW to Guy Bolton, 1 September 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 346, In view of the fact that on numerous occasions, PGW to the Home Secretary, 4 September 1944 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 347, ‘in an extremely hysterical state’, D. P. Reilly to V. G Lawford, 15 September 1944 (PRO FO/660/229).
p. 347, ‘Only just found your address’, Thelma Cazalet to PGW and Ethel Wodehouse, transcribed in D. P. Reilly to ‘Patrick’, 16 September 1944 (PRO FO/660/229).
p. 347, ‘Ethel has had a terrible time’, PGW to Malcolm Muggeridge, 25 September 1944 (PRO FO/660/229).
p. 347, Thank you dear Thelma for your message, PGW to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 27 September 1944 (PRO FO/660/229).
p. 348, At last I am able to write, PGW to William Townend, 24 October 1944 (Dulwich).
p. 348, ‘“unwise” behaviour’, Cussen, p. 15.
p. 348, ‘suddenly woke up and saw’, Ethel Wodehouse to Denis and Diana Mackail, 26 June 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 349, Ethel and I were arrested, PGW to Malcolm Muggeridge, 22 November 1944 (Muggeridge).
p. 349, ‘it seems to me that the French are overdoing things’, Winston Churchill to the Foreign Secretary, 28 November 1944 (PRO FO/369/2963).
p. 350, ‘rather a poser’, Winston Churchill to the Foreign Secretary, 7 December 1944 (PRO FO/369/2963).
p. 350, ‘Plummie was on velvet’, Ethel Wodehouse to Denis and Diana Mackail, 26 June 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 350, How lovely to hear from you, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 25 November 1944 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 352, I wish there was some means, PGW to William Townend, 30 December 1944 (Dulwich).
p. 353, The above address is where letters, PGW to Denis Mackail, 4 January 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 354, ‘the food situation is simply terrible’, Ethel Wodehouse to Bea Davis, 20 January 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 354, ‘We don’t […] want to go into’, Ethel Wodehouse to Bea Davis, 17 April 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 354, I was in the clinic when I wrote, PGW to William Townend, 15 February 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 356, What you say about the book you want me to write, PGW to William Townend, 24 February 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 359, ‘There is not enough evidence’, Daily Mirror, 16 December 1944.
p. 360 ‘the publicity the next day was bad’, Thelma Cazalet-Keir to PGW, 8 March 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 360, Do write us all the news, PGW to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 1 March 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 361, The anguish caused by your departure, PGW to Malcolm Muggeridge, 16 April 1945 (Muggeridge).
p. 362, ‘I have my beloved Leonora’s photograph’, Ethel Wodehouse to Bea Davis, 17 April 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 363, I had a long letter from Watt the other day, PGW to William Townend, 22 April 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 364, We had a marvellous letter from Peter, PGW to Malcolm Muggeridge, 19 May 1945 (Muggeridge).
p. 365, I wonder what England is like, PGW to Frances Donaldson, 2 June 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 366, In one of your letters, PGW to William Townend, 30 June 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 367, ‘if only our Leonora could be here’, Ethel Wodehouse to Bea Davis, 20 August 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 368, I wrote to you a few days before your letter arrived, PGW to George Orwell, 1 August 1945 (Orwell).
p. 368, As far as we are concerned, PGW to Guy Bolton, 1 September 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 370, It looks to me as if my position, PGW to William Townend, 13 September 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 371, Admit candidly that I made a mistake, PGW to H. D. Ziman, 26 September 1945 (private archive).
p. 372, I wish we were together, PGW to Denis Mackail, 14 October 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 373, First of all, observe, PGW to Denis Mackail, 7 November 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 374, Yielding to the overwhelming pressure, PGW to William Townend, 8 November 1945 (Dulwich).
p. 375, ‘I had a very nice cocktail party’, Ethel Wodehouse to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, [u.d. circa 5 July 1945] (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 375, I find that my personal animosity, PGW to Denis Mackail, 27 November 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 376, You’re quite right about my books, PGW to Denis Mackail, 23 December 1945 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 377, Life here continues very pleasant, PGW to William Townend, 11 January 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 378, ‘Bill’. I am enclosing a sheet, PGW to Denis Mackail, 26 January 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 379, ‘visit from the Home Office bloke’, PGW to William Townend, 3 February 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 379, ‘was in an altogether different category’, Theobald Mathew to the Home Office, 13 September 1945 (PRO KV/2/3581).
p. 379, it was such a joy to us, PGW to Major Edward Cussen, 1 February 1946 (PRO KVZ/75).
p. 380, I am wondering, with some mild amusement, PGW to William Townend, 7 March 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 381, If I post this tonight, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 27 March 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 382, Not much news from the Paris front, PGW to Denis Mackail, 28 March 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 383, That bit in your letter, PGW to Ira Gershwin, 5 April 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 384, ‘an Old Alleynian, blast him!’, PGW to William Townend, 29 April 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 384 ‘the question of taking proceedings, PGW to William Townend, 29 April 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 385, Thelma Cazalet-Keir came over here, PGW to Compton Mackenzie, 10 April 1946, quoted in Compton Mackenzie, My Life and Times, Octave 8, 1939–1941, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969), pp. 257–8.
p. 386, Many happy returns of the day, PGW to Edward Cazalet, 23 April 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 387, George Orwell. I wish I could get hold of that book, PGW to William Townend, 29 April 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 388, How right you are, PGW to Denis Mackail, 7 May 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 389, A perspiring Frenchman, PGW to Ira Gershwin, 31 May 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 391, It was wonderful getting your letter, PGW to Compton Mackenzie, 4 June 1946, quoted in Mackenzie, My Life and Times, Octave 8, 1939–1941, pp. 259–60.
p. 392, A friend of mine has just written to tell me, PGW to V. S. Pritchett, 15 June 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 393, I saw that stinker in the Observer, PGW to Denis Mackail, 4 July 1946 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 394, Thanks for your letters, PGW to William Townend, 27 August 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 396, I simply must write, PGW to William Townend, 30 August 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 397, ‘a couple of rather chilly hotel rooms’, The Illustrated, 7 December 1944, p. 9.
p. 398, I have read the reviews, PGW to George Shively, 2 December 1946 (LOC).
p. 398, It’s curious how life nowadays, PGW to William Townend, 24 December 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 400, Many happy returns of the day, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 29 March 1947 (Wodehouse Archive).
1947–1954: ‘New York is overwhelming’
p. 405, The above is the best address to give you, PGW to Benoît de Fonscolombe, 11 May 1947 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 406, Well, sir, my visit to N.Y., PGW to William Townend, 11 May 1947 (Dulwich).
p. 407, I can’t tell you how much I appreciated, PGW to Evelyn Waugh, 31 May 1947 (Waugh).
p. 408, Both Ethel and I have been depressed lately, PGW to William Townend, 6 June 1947 (Dulwich).
p. 409, With most of my stories your question, PGW to Mr Summers, 12 August 1947 (private archive).
p. 410, Scott Meredith hasn’t reported anything, PGW to William Townend, 22 September 1947 (Dulwich).
p. 412, First about this place, PGW to William Townend, 15 November 1947 (Dulwich).
p. 413, The Strands and your letter, PGW to William Townend, 24 Feburary 1948 (Dulwich).
p. 414, Many happy returns of the day, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 28 March 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 415, Sally. I have just been to the matinee, PGW to Guy Bolton, 15 May 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 416, Thank you so much for your letter, PGW to Lawrence Durrell, 19 May 1948 (Southern Illinois)
p. 417, What a shame you should have, PGW to William Townend, 5 June 1948 (Dulwich).
p. 419, [T]he Paramount guy, didn’t think, PGW to Guy Bolton, 17 June 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 420, [A] couple of good stories, PGW to Guy Bolton, 17 July 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 420, ‘things are hotting up too much here’, PGW to Guy Bolton, 7 August 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 420, ‘wrestling with our furniture’, PGW to William Townend, 8 December 1946 (Dulwich).
p. 420, ‘very lost without her’, PGW to William Townend, 7 September 1948 (Dulwich).
p. 421, I can hardly wait to hear about the opening, PGW to Guy Bolton, 4 September 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 421, A film by Sacha Guitry has just been produced here, PGW to Guy Bolton, 17 September 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 422, In about four hours from now, PGW to William Townend, 24 October 1948 (Dulwich).
p. 422, I’ve discovered another gem in Keats, PGW to Guy Bolton, 11 November 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 423, Your letter of Nov 16, written at rehearsal, PGW to Guy Bolton, 24 November 1948 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 425, How clever you are!, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 13 January 1949 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 426, I am looking forward to getting Fool’s Gold, PGW to William Townend, 15 January 1949 (Dulwich).
p. 428, I often brood on your position as a writer, PGW to William Townend, 5 November 1949 (Dulwich).
p. 429, Sorry to trouble you again, PGW to William Townend, 16 November 1949 (Dulwich).
p. 430, I wish to God I could be with you, PGW to Denis Mackail, 18 November 1949 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 431, I feel very remorseful, PGW to William Townend, 22 June 1950 (Dulwich).
p. 432, First, thanks for that wonderful photograph, PGW to Guy Bolton, 17 July 1950 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 433, Only a short letter this time, PGW to William Townend, 17 July 1950 (Dulwich).
p. 434, Don’t go writing to the above, PGW to William Townend, 14 August 1950 (Dulwich).
p. 436, Last Thursday we had the O.A., PGW to William Townend, 25 December 1950 (Dulwich).
p. 437, Do you brood much about, PGW to William Townend, 23 January 1951 (Dulwich).
p. 437, Listen. Extract from book, PGW to William Townend, 31 January 1951 (Dulwich).
p. 439, ‘“collapsed in the street” […] “two doctors broke the news”’, Ethel Wodehouse to Joyce Wodehouse, 4 April 1951 (private archive).
p. 440, Do you remember a year or so, PGW to William Townend, 8 March 1951 (Dulwich).
p. 441, ‘This is the best play’, Observer, 6 August 1950.
p. 441, The script is in very good, PGW to Ellsworth Conkle, 12 March 1951 (Ransom).
p. 442, I call that a very pleasing conclusion, PGW to Denis Mackail, 18 June 1951 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 443, Sad news to start my letter, PGW to Denis Mackail, 11 August 1951 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 444, I think the letters scheme is terrific, PGW to William Townend, 16 October 1951 (Dulwich).
p. 445, ‘We employed a manservant’, Ethel Wodehouse to Joyce Wodehouse, 27 March 1951 (private archive).
p. 445, ‘It’s very sad and quite a shock’, Ethel Wodehouse to Joyce Wodehouse, 27 March 1951 (private archive).
p. 446, Yesterday, after sixteen weeks, PGW to William Townend, 3 March 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 447, Your two letters arrived simultaneously, PGW to William Townend, 15 April 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 448, ‘rather a depressed state of mind’, William Townend to PGW, 19 April 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 448, I don’t wonder you were upset, PGW to William Townend, 24 April 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 449, That was wonderful, you liking, PGW to Denis Mackail, 6 May 1952 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 451, Excuse it, please. Sorry, PGW to William Townend, 18 June 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 452, The stuff from the lawyers, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 13 August 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 453, I think we shall have to let truth, PGW to Guy Bolton, 4 November 1952 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 454, PIGS HAVE WINGS, PGW to Denis Mackail, 14 December 1952 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 455, Here’s a short story for you, PGW to William Townend, 31 January 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 456, Before I forget, will you send, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 28 March 1953 (private archive).
p. 457, We saw the Coronation on television, PGW to Guy Bolton, 4 June 1953 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 458, I have been meaning to write, PGW to William Townend, 25 June 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 460, ‘one of those sleepy hamlets’, Something New, Chapter 5.
p. 460, Thank you so much for your letter, PGW to Mr Slater, 2 July 1953 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 461, Bill, I’m uneasy. The proofs of the Letter book, PGW to William Townend, 8 July 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 461, ‘Ian Hay gave me your address last year’, Arthur Ransome to PGW, [u.d. 1953], Signalling from Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome (London: Pimlico, 1998), pp. 343–4.
p. 462, Thank you so much for your letter, PGW to Arthur Ransome, 23 November 1953 (private archive).
p. 462, I see old Pop Churchill, PGW to William Townend, 25 November 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 463, ‘I find in this evening of my life’, PGW to William Townend, 29 November 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 464, My poor old girl. You certainly made a pretty bloody fool, PGW to Nancy Spain, quoted in PGW to William Townend, 12 December 1953 (Dulwich).
p. 464, Gosh, Bill, will one never learn, PGW to William Townend, 13 January 1954 (Dulwich).
p. 465, Did you see a review, PGW to William Townend, 10 March 1954 (Dulwich).
p. 466, A word for your guidance, PGW to Don Iddon, quoted in PGW to Denis Mackail, 21 March 1954 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 466, If you want something good, PGW to Denis Mackail, 21 March 1954 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 467, ‘I don’t like him, but I hate the idea’, PGW to William Townend, 8 November 1952 (Dulwich).
p. 467, Poor Milne. I was shocked, PGW to Alastair Wallace, [u.d.], quoted in Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life (London: Faber, 1990), p. 483.
p. 467, My gosh, it shows how, PGW to Denis Mackail, 1 May 1954 (Wodehouse Archive).
1954–1975: ‘he did take trouble’
p. 475, Edward Cazalet is now with us, PGW to Denis Mackail, 22 August 1954 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 476, So sorry I haven’t written before, PGW to Richard Usborne, 14 January 1955 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 478, The other afternoon I managed to stir Ethel, PGW to Denis Mackail, 6 March 1955 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 479, I hope the show is going like a breeze, PGW to Guy Bolton, 23 March 1955 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 480, Yours of April 25, PGW to Richard Usborne, 3 June 1955 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 483, This is some new notepaper, PGW to Denis Mackail, 15 September 1955 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 484, About that McColl article, PGW to William Townend, 26 July 1955 (Dulwich).
p. 485, The trouble about writing to you, PGW to William Townend, 21 February 1956 (Dulwich).
p. 486, ‘Mr Wodehouse is probably the most endearing’, John Wain, ‘New Novels’, Observer, 29 January 1956.
p. 486, ‘Evelyn Waugh wrote to defend Wodehouse’, Observer, 12 February 1956, p. 12; ‘his own review of French Leave’ was ‘Dr. Wodehouse and Mr. Wain’, Spectator, CXCVI (24 February 1956), pp. 243–4.
p. 486, ’At-a-boy! That’s the stuff, PGW to Evelyn Waugh, 11 March 1956 (Waugh).
p. 487, I am still trying without any success, PGW to Guy Bolton, 5 July 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 488, Yours of August 6, PGW to Richard Usborne, 1 September 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 490, Sorry I’ve been so long writing, PGW to Denis Mackail, 10 September 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 491, Great excitement on just now, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 10 December 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 491, Before I forget, PGW to Richard Usborne, 18 December 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 492, I am now two books ahead, PGW to Denis Mackail, 18 December 1956 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 493, Nice to hear from you again, PGW to Denis Mackail, 8 June 1957 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 494, Letter from Sheran reports a visit, PGW to Denis Mackail, 17 August 1957 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 494, Delay in writing due to very strenuous, PGW to Denis Mackail, 22 April 1959 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 495, It was a terrific relief to know, PGW to Guy Bolton, 16 October 1959 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 496, I hope this won’t be too much of a bother, PGW to Lord Citrine, 29 June 1960 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 497, How frightfully kind of you, PGW to Lord Citrine, 23 July 1960 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 499, How unerring your judgement always is!, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 28 November 1960 (Dulwich).
p. 500, The letters arrived yesterday, PGW to William Townend, 3 January 1961 , repr. in P. G. Wodehouse, Author! Author! (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), p. 188.
p. 501, It really was wonderful of you, PGW to Evelyn Waugh, 23 January 1961 (Waugh).
p. 502, About the Usborne book, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 31 January 1961 (Dulwich).
p. 502, ‘bury the whole story’, Daily Mirror, 17 July 1961.
p. 502, A rather embarrassing situation, PGW to William Connor, 10 May 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 503, I suppose you saw in the London papers, PGW to Guy Bolton, 24 September 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 504, Here is the revised ‘You’re The Top’ lyric, PGW to Guy Bolton, 28 October 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 505, I’m working on the A. Goes lyric, PGW to Guy Bolton, 28 October 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 506, At last I am able to write, PGW to Evelyn Waugh, 1 November 1961 (Waugh).
p. 507, Here is the revised Anything Goes lyric, PGW to Guy Bolton, 2 November 1961 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 508, Awfully nice to hear from you after all these years, PGW to Angus Thuermer, 21 November 1961 (private archive).
p. 508, I hope this catches you, PGW to Evelyn Waugh, 14 December 1961 (Waugh).
p. 509, How wonderful that Mike, PGW to S. C. ‘Billy’ Griffith, 30 January 1962 (private archive).
p. 510, Very sad news today, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 23 February 1962 (Dulwich).
p. 510, ‘Bill Townend’s death makes me very sad’, PGW to Mrs Carroll, 28 February 1962 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 511, It was such a joy to me, PGW to Ellaline Terriss, 20 May 1962 (private archive).
p. 512, I came across enclosed, PGW to Guy Bolton, 2 July 1962 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 512, I am writing this to tell you, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 21 August 1962 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 513, Thanks for letter and the letter, PGW to Denis Mackail, 18 June 1963 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 514, This is just to tell you how much, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 23 October 1963 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 516, New development in the Wodehouse home, PGW to Guy Bolton, 16 July 1964 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 516, I have been sticking to my afternoon walk, PGW to Guy Bolton, 3 August 1964 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 517, Thank you so much for your letter, PGW to Mr Shreyer, 13 August 1964 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 518, The Galahad books arrived, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 27 November 1964 (Dulwich).
p. 518, Thanks so much for the books, PGW to Edward Cazalet, 27 January 1965 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 519, Life’s a terrible blank without, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 6 February 1965 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 520, Edward has arrived, PGW to Guy Bolton, 7 August 1965 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 521, ‘I have started a new novel’, PGW to Sheran Cazalet, 27 March 1966 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 521, How difficult it is to write stories, PGW to Guy Bolton, 19 August 1966 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 522, What wonderful news, PGW to Edward Cazalet, 4 December 1966 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 523, Gosh, how I am missing, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 6 July 1967 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 524, I am writing this in my chair, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 11 July 1967 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 525, First, before I forget, PGW to Guy Bolton, 17 July 1967 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 526, When a book parcel arrived, PGW to Anthony Powell, 16 November 1967 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 527, I am longing to see the book, PGW to Agatha Christie, [u.d.] (Christie).
p. 527, Loved your Christmas telegram, PGW to Ira Gershwin, 4 January 1970 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 528, I was just going to write, PGW to Henry Slesar, 20 March 1971 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 529, How ever did you manage, PGW to Agatha Christie, 22 April 1971 (Christie)
p. 530, I had a letter from Agatha Christie, PGW to Guy Bolton, 20 June 1971 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 531, Thinking of you gathered in, PGW to Norman Murphy et al., 19 May 1973 (private archive).
p. 534, What a wonderful surprise!!!, PGW to Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 25 May 1973 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 535, P. 10. Cut the line about Ethiopian Slaves, PGW to Scott Meredith, 9 July 1973 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 536, ‘Our visit […] had to be precisely timed’, Alan Ayckbourn, ‘A Meeting with a Living Legend’, programme for By Jeeves, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, 1 May 1996.
p. 536, I’m afraid the difficulty is, PGW to Guy Bolton, 15 August 1973 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 537, Another anniversary, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 30 September 1973 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 538, How I wish this was one, PGW to Ethel Wodehouse, 10 March 1974 (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 539, What magnificent news!, PGW to Tom Sharpe, 27 July 1974 (Sharpe).
p. 540, I would have written to you long ago, PGW to J. D. Grimsdick, 29 January 1975 (Dulwich).
p. 540, Jeeves’s bracer, PGW to Godfrey Smith, [u.d. c.1975] (Wodehouse Archive).
p. 541, Wonderful news about Raymond, PGW to Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, 3 February 1975 (Wodehouse Archive).