The young reliable Honoria Glossop can always be trusted to come up with a scintillating tribute to P G Wodehouse, especially on the occasion of his birth anniversary!
Read on…..
PG Wodehouse was born on this day, 15 October 1881, in Guildford England. I make no apology for mentioning it each year as an occasion to celebrate, because, as his latest biographer Paul Kent puts it:
…his 100 or so books must represent one of the largest-ever bequests to human happiness by one man, at least in literature.
in Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Volume 1: ‘This is jolly old fame’
Five of these gifts to humanity were, like Wodehouse himself, also published on 15 October – in four different decades.
1925 – Sam the Sudden
Published on P.G. Wodehouse’s 44th birthday, this hidden gem is much loved by Wodehouse fans.
For a moment Kay stared speechlessly; then, throwing her head back, she gave out a short, sharp scream of laughter which made a luncher at the next table stab himself in the cheek with an oyster fork. The luncher…
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ashokbhatia 
P.G.Wodehouse is one of my favourite authors. I love Jeeves.
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Same here! Thank you for going through and commenting. Permit me to share a blog post which I suspect you may like: https://ashokbhatia.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/a-brand-called-jeeves
Allow me also to congratulate you on the success of your latest book. If you could spare some time and advise me on my next book, I shall be obliged. If so, shall need your mail id, please; mine is akb.usha1952@gmail.com.
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Neil Midkiff commented thus:
In addition, Simon & Schuster published the anthology “The Most of P. G. Wodehouse” on 15 October 1960, and to commemorate the occasion commissioned the advertisement which appeared in the New York Times the day before, with dozens of signatures of famous writers giving tribute to Plum “as he embarked on his 80th year”. That led to confusion about it being his 80th rather than 79th birthday. (Those signatures are reproduced on the back dust jacket of Frances Donaldson’s biography of Wodehouse, and were discussed and reproduced in a thread on Facebook recently:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theseniorconservatives/posts/10153223624309953/)
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