Poems and Articles from The Daily Express (UK)
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Terry Mordue for tracking down scans of most of these rare items, and for ✎ annotations. Thanks also to Parthasarathy Uppilisrinivasan for part of the transcription. These items have been freshly compared with the originals, reformatted, corrected, and updated with additional ✎ annotations in January 2015.
✎ The Parrot verses — September 30–December 21, 1903 *
✎ Screech Day — December 18, 1903
✎ A Fiscal Pantomime: The Sleeping Beauty (with B. Fletcher Robinson) — December 28, 1903 *
Fiscal Problems for Breakfast — February 6, 1904
✎ Election Songs: II. Dear Old Johnny (verse) — January 11, 1906
It Was the Stout Progressive on the Tram (verse) — February 8, 1907 **
✎ To Thomas, Songster (verse) — March 15, 1907
“The Island of Lots-of-Time” (Wodehouse letter to the editor) — March 12, 1912 ***
✎ The New Drama (verse) — January 13, 1913 ****
* With annotations by Terry Mordue
** McIlvaine lists this as “The Professor on the Train”, following Wodehouse’s mistaken entry in his account book
*** Discovered January 2015 by Neil Midkiff
**** Discovered January 2015 by John Dawson