October 15, 1881

Leonora Rowley, (1904-1944) was the product of passion bridled a little late. Her father died in a few years from drinking unclean water in India. Her mother, herself the product of sad lives, remarried, this time to a tailor. Leonora's mother was exceptionally beautiful. When her second husband committed suicide the mother returned to a previous profession, dancing as an "artiste." Her third husband was a writer and soon to be wealthy. Leonora became the step-daughter of P. G. Wodehouse, in 1915, the same year that Jeeves made his first appearance in a Wodehouse novel.

P. G. Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 to February 14, 1975) and Leonora were very close and here is a sample of a letter he wrote to her, (dated, November 14, 1923):

...We miss the delicately nurtured. Life has lost its savour. The world is dull and gray. The only bright spot is Jack the Cat Supreme...

Above and below, in another letter, we see his signature humor extends beyond the fictional page:

(dated December 23, 1923) ...Oh by the way Mummie tells me that you have taken to wine in your old age. I wish you wouldn't. I have always pointed with pride to you as the one female in the world who can subsist on water. I should preserve the record, if I were you.... Jack the cat has a red ribbon around his neck today. Looks an awful ass. That's all. Cheerio.

We found all the above in P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (2011.) The editor, Sophie Ratcliffe, did an great job of annotation.