The Wooster Papers

Cast

Silversmith

Also called Uncle Charlie, Charlie Silversmith, Uncle Charlie Silversmith, Jeeves’s Uncle Charlie

Charlie Silversmith, the austere butler of Deverill Hall, Jeeves's Uncle Charlie and Queenie's father; bitten by Sam Goldwyn.

In each book 3 books
  • In The Mating Season
    Charlie Silversmith, the austere butler of Deverill Hall, Jeeves's Uncle Charlie and Queenie's father; bitten by Sam Goldwyn.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Jeeves's uncle, a butler.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Charlie Silversmith, Jeeves's uncle, a butler of great pomp at Deverill Hall.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (1)

Scenes they are in

  1. Bertie arrives late at Deverill Hall, is overawed by Jeeves's Uncle Charlie the butler, gives his name as Fink-Nottle, and learns dinner has already begun.Chapter 5, Deverill Hall, as butler
  2. At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.Chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall, as Uncle Charlie
  3. Dame Daphne catches Bertie on a chair and Esmond on the table singing, sends Esmond cringing to the drawing room, tells Bertie his dog Sam Goldwyn has chased Charlotte and bitten Silversmith, and packs him off to bed.Chapter 6, the dining room at Deverill Hall
  4. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as the man
  5. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall
  6. Over his first days at Deverill Hall Bertie becomes certain that Gussie has fallen for Corky, and the aunts grow bitter at the absent guest they take for Wooster.Chapter 10, Deverill Hall
  7. Catsmeat returns from London with Jeeves's plan to keep Aunt Agatha away by luring Thos from school to visit Corky; after he leaves, Bertie breaks the code of the Woosters, opens Gussie's telegrams, and learns that Madeline is arriving at Deverill Hall tomorrow.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  8. Dame Daphne catches Bertie in the hall and is delighted to hear 'Augustus' went to Wimbledon on the milk train to see Madeline, and Silversmith announces that his daughter Queenie is engaged to Meadowes.Chapter 21, the hall at Deverill Hall
  9. In the hall the new Esmond calls Silversmith a pompous old ass, prods him in the ribs, and cheerfully answers back Dame Daphne when she asks why he is late.Chapter 25, the hall at Deverill Hall
  10. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall

Talked about, but not there

The Mating Season 7 scenes
  1. Jeeves briefs a reluctant Bertie on Esmond Haddock, his five aunts and Gussie's coolness with Madeline Bassett before a low-spirited Catsmeat Pirbright is shown in.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Uncle Charlie
  2. Gussie returns besotted with Corky and keen on the act, reports that Sam Goldwyn bit Dobbs and was arrested, that Catsmeat will now play Mike, and hands Bertie the Christopher Robin poems he must recite at the concert.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  3. Catsmeat bursts into Bertie's room with the news, picked up from Silversmith, that Aunt Agatha is coming to stay at Deverill Hall.Chapter 12, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  4. Walking back to the hall brooding on Corky's job, Bertie runs into Esmond Haddock.Chapters 18–20, the road to the hall, as my Uncle Charlie
  5. Walking on, Bertie is horrified to see Gussie coming out of the village police station closely escorted by Constable Dobbs.Chapters 20–21, the police station
  6. Catsmeat tells Bertie how, kissing a weeping Queenie in brotherly fashion, he was caught by Silversmith and Gertrude, found himself engaged to Queenie, and has had his elopement with Gertrude cancelled.Chapter 21, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  7. Jeeves reports he has got Gussie out of his beard, Bertie tells him Gussie is cured of Corky and off to Madeline and that Esmond needs a way to defy his aunts, and Jeeves leaves to help his Uncle Charlie with the refreshments just before Esmond returns.Chapter 25, Deverill Hall, as my Uncle Charlie
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Over a cheerful breakfast Bertie welcomes Jeeves back from Brinkley and is aghast to hear that Sir Watkyn Bassett, Madeline, Stiffy, Bartholomew and Gussie were among Aunt Dahlia's guests.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Uncle Charlie
Much Obliged, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Jeeves reveals that the typewriter Bertie heard was him writing up the Totleigh affair for the club book.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Charlie Silversmith
  2. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as Uncle Charlie Silversmith
  3. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street, as Uncle Charlie Silversmith
  4. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library, as Uncle Charlie Silversmith
  5. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Uncle Charlie