TYPESCRIPT. – P.G. WODEHOUSE and Owen B. HOWELL. Money in the Bank. A Comedy. [Typescript based on Wodehouse’s novel. New York and Middlesex, N.p.: 1955.] 121pp., with a covering typed letter signed in ink by P.G. Wodehouse, string-bound (255 x 216mm.) 121pp. typed and numbered recto only with stage directions underlined in red ink and numerous small emendations in blue and black ink, title leaf, ‘Characters’ leaf, and outline of ‘Acts/Scenes’. (Toning, occasional corner creases, small tear to Wodehouse letter.) Original card wrappers, typed label to upper cover, string-bound (short tears and creasing to edges). Note: the letter from Wodehouse reads: ‘Feb 27. 1955/ 1000 Park Avenue New York/ Dear Mr. Howell. Yes, certainly try the play with T.V./ But I do think it wants simplifying. There are so many threads in it at present. Still, you can attend to that/ Best wishes/ Yours sincerely/ P.G. Wodehouse’. Wodehouse’s novel was first published in America in 1942 and in the U.K. in 1946. Known for his complicated plots, there’s an irony in Wodehouse airily suggesting to his co-writer that this script needs simplifying. However, it does suggest that Owen Howell was the writer of this theatre version and there’s no record that it was ever produced. And yet, this story would have been on Wodehouse’s mind because in January 1957 he published ‘Something Fishy’ which also contains the character Lord Uffingham and his seat at Shipley Hall.