The Entry for November 14th begins, "I must make a note of this day as one of the absolutely flawless ones of my life." Even if his private journal was a kind of performance-- for himself? for future readers?-- it was a very convincing one. (The penciled journal pages can be read in the rare-books room of the British Library.)COMMENT
P.G. Wodehouse spent forty-eight weeks in a German internment camp in 1940 and 1941. While he was there he kept a relentlessly cheerful diary which is he British Library rare books room.
- P.G. Wodehouse Archive at the British Library: https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2016/12/pg-wodehouse-archive-at-the-british-library-.html
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