Two years after The Wodehouse Society was founded, 13 members and three guests gathered together in founder Bill Blood’s home territory to celebrate P. G. Wodehouse. Led by Bill, eight of them attended a daytime business meeting at which a new constitution was approved and general policies were discussed. Then, in the evening, all 16 assembled at a local inn to engage in some convivial browsing and sluicing. Louise Collins read Isaac Asimov’s foreword to Wodehouse on Crime, David Jasen gave a talk on Wodehouse’s life and career, and Paul Taylor and Audrey Ewart read “Goodbye to All Cats.” Before the event, Lady Wodehouse had sent them a note expressing her best wishes, so all present signed a card to send back to her. Thus was the very modest beginning of TWS’s conventions.
See the full report of this convention in Plum Lines, Volume 3, No. 4 (24 July 1982)
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