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Lot 174
Sale 3061 - P.G. Wodehouse Collection of William Toplis
May 7, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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150
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$25
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Wodehouse, P.G. Photocopy of a letter to His Editor, Peter Schwed
T.L.s dated February 23, 1961. 8 1/2 x 14 in. Early photocopy of a letter to Wodehouse’s American editor at Simon & Schuster, Peter Schwed (1911-2003), in which he suggests his idea of a book about how to write, based on George Horace Lorimer’s Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (1903), which he would call, Letters of a Self-Made Author to his Godson.