WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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Archive of correspondence to Leslie Havergal Bradshaw. These letters to Bradshaw shed "some new light... on Wodehouse's life, thinking, and writing in his New York years before World War I, and on the early months of his marriage, in New York, to English Ethel" (Usborne, p. 61). The collection was last seen for sale at auction over four decades ago.The editor of Wodehouse's selected letters states that the author's "early letters to his friend Leslie Bradshaw contain some revealing details" (Ratcliffe, p. 2), and that their association "was a writing partnership as well as a friendship" (Ratcliffe, p. 71).Bradshaw (1892-1950) and Wodehouse first met in 1909 in New York when Bradshaw interviewed Wodehouse for a feature in the boys' magazine, The Captain. Bradshaw worked as an editor and journalist for a variety of New York publications, and also as the private secretary for the writer and financier Thomas Lawson. Soon Bradshaw started acting as Wodehouse's literary agent on an informal basis. Indeed, the two writers assisted each other both creatively and commercially, commenting on each other's work and assisting each other in finding publishers. In 1910 Wodehouse dedicated his novel Psmith in the City to Bradshaw, and in 1912 Bradshaw reciprocated by dedicating his novel The Right Sort to Wodehouse.The correspondence includes numerous references to work including Psmith Journalist, The Intrusion of Jimmy, The Little Nugget, the unsuccessful play Brother Alfred, a "new Ukridg

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