Stories from Cosmopolitan
The list below includes all of Wodehouse’s stories that appeared in Cosmopolitan through the end of 1929. Later stories are still in USA copyright, so cannot be included here. Stories with annotations are flagged with the symbol ✎ below.
The magazine announced the beginning of their initial series of Wodehouse stories with a remarkable comparison:
Gus Caywood notes that Wodehouse remembered this blurb when writing the preface to the 1969 Herbert Jenkins reissue of Uneasy Money, although he tells the story there as if they had taken only one story in 1910 rather than the first four listed below. “And the Cosmopolitan in its blurb when my little thing was published had said that the public would be well advised to watch my progress, as in their opinion I was going to be a second O. Henry. Well, I was perfectly willing to be a second O. Henry, but the Cosmopolitan would not do its share. You can’t be a second O. Henry if editors will not co-operate.”
✎ The Matrimonial Sweepstakes — February 1910
The Man Up-stairs — March 1910
The Man, the Maid, and the Miasma — June 1910
“Rough-hew Them How We Will” — August 1910
Ten stories in the series Archie in America, later reworked into the novel Indiscretions of Archie:
✎ The Man Who Married a Hotel — May 1920
The Sausage Chappie — June 1920
Doing Father a Bit of Good — August 1920
Paving the Way for Mabel — September 1920
Washy Makes His Presence Felt — October 1920
(✎) A Bit of All Right — November 1920
First Aid for Loony Biddle — December 1920
“Mother’s Knee” — January 1921
The Wigmore Venus — February 1921
✎ Jeeves in the Springtime — December 1921
Jeeves the Blighter — April 1922
The Great Sermon Handicap — June 1922
The Purity of the Turf — July 1922
Bertie Changes His Mind — August 1922
The Metropolitan Touch — September 1922
✎ Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer — October 1922
The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace — November 1922
Bingo and the Little Woman — December 1922
✎ Ukridge’s Dog College — April 1923
✎ Ukridge’s Accident Syndicate — May 1923
✎ The Début of Battling Billson — June 1923
✎ First Aid for Dora — July 1923
The Return of Battling Billson — August 1923
✎ Ukridge Sees Her Through — September 1923
✎ No Wedding Bells for Him — October 1923
✎ The Long Arm of Looney Coote — November 1923
✎ The Exit of Battling Billson — December 1923
Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner — January 1924
The Passing of Ambrose — August 1928
The Reverent Wooing of Archibald — September 1928
Company for Gertrude — October 1928
Franklin’s Favorite Daughter — July 1929
The Song of Songs — September 1929
The Borrowed Dog — October 1929
Jeeves and the Love that Purifies — November 1929
Jeeves and the Spot of Art — December 1929
[Note: Thanks to Neil Midkiff for the text and images of these stories.]