The Wooster Papers

Places, in New York

Bertie's New York flat

Also the flat, the old flat, the sitting-room, the apartment, a decent flat, the rooms, the old apartment, the home

Bertie's apartment on Fifty-seventh Street, found by Jeeves and lent to Motty, Bicky and Rocky in turn.

In each book 3 books
  • In My Man Jeeves
    Bertie's apartment on Fifty-seventh Street, found by Jeeves and lent to Motty, Bicky and Rocky in turn.
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    Bertie's apartment in New York, where Cyril calls.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Bertie's apartment in New York, lent to Motty, Bicky and Rocky in turn.

Connections

dealings

Inside it

Scenes set here

My Man Jeeves 23 scenes
  1. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as my apartment
  2. Corky reports that his uncle has written Muriel a warm letter inviting her to call.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as my apartment
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves that Muriel has married the uncle, and Jeeves admits he had foreseen it but did not like to say.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as my apartment
  4. Having avoided Corky for months, Bertie reads in the paper that Mrs. Alexander Worple has had a son and heir, and is too sorry for Corky to eat his breakfast.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  5. Corky telephones that the portrait is finished and his uncle is coming to inspect it, and Bertie agrees to come only if he may bring Jeeves.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Corky's series is a hit and has rewarded Jeeves generously, and Bertie gives in when Jeeves vetoes the blue suit with the faint red stripe.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  7. Fresh from defying Jeeves over a hat and a pink tie, Bertie is called on by Lady Malvern, who leaves her son Motty to live with him while she tours America, and Jeeves offers no sympathy.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as my little home
  8. Motty's luggage and unopened books arrive, and late that night he is found on the doormat dead drunk and put to bed by Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  9. Bertie swallows his pride and asks Jeeves for a scheme to deal with Motty, but Jeeves, still pipped about the hat and tie, has none.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  10. After Motty brings singing pals home at three a.m., Bertie is seized in the dark by Motty's bull-terrier Rollo, who fawns on Jeeves, and Bertie decides to flee to Rocky Todd's.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as the home
  11. Back from Long Island, Bertie learns that Rollo has gone and Motty is in prison for assaulting a constable, and Jeeves suggests telling Lady Malvern he has gone to Boston.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as the old flat
  12. Lady Malvern, having seen Motty breaking stones in prison, denounces Bertie until Jeeves persuades her Motty went in voluntarily to research her book; the grateful Bertie has the pink tie burnt, sends for the Longacre and learns Jeeves bet Motty into punching a policeman.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  13. Bicky, whose uncle the Duke of Chiswick thinks him busy in business instead of on a Colorado ranch, begs for help, and Jeeves proposes lending him Bertie's flat to pose as its owner.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  14. The Duke arrives after a row over his cab fare, marvels at the cost of 'Bicky's' flat, and Bertie assures him Bicky is a business success.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as luxurious flat
  15. Leaving the lift, Bertie meets Bicky coming back from the dock and tells him the old boy is upstairs and rattled.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  16. Jeeves reports that the Duke, convinced Bicky is prospering, has cancelled his allowance.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  17. A despairing Bicky refuses Bertie's money and dreams of a chicken farm, and Jeeves suggests charging Americans a fee to shake hands with the Duke.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  18. Simms's demand for proof that the Duke is a duke exposes the paid handshaking, the furious Duke refuses Bicky a penny, and Jeeves's suggestion of selling the story to the papers makes him take Bicky on as secretary at five hundred a year.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  19. To reward Jeeves, Bertie has him shave off the moustache.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  20. Rocky wakes Bertie with his aunt's letter demanding he live it up in New York and report weekly, and Jeeves proposes that he do the town himself and supply notes for Rocky's letters.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  21. Aunt Isabel turns up at the flat believing it to be Rocky's, takes Bertie for a sponging intruder and Jeeves for Rocky's man, and moves in, driving Bertie out to an hotel.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as the apartment
  22. Converted by Jimmy Mundy, to whose meeting Jeeves 'mistakenly' took her, Aunt Isabel begs Rocky to give up wicked New York and live in the country, and he joyfully agrees.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  23. Back in his flat, Bertie learns that Jeeves sent Aunt Isabel to the meeting on purpose, inspired by his own aunt, and meekly gives up his green tie.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as the old flat
The Inimitable Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. Jeeves sends the early-calling Cyril away, brings Bertie the letter from Aunt Agatha asking him to look after Cyril, and grudgingly hands over the purple socks.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat, as my bedchamber
  2. Brooding over Cyril, Bertie receives Aunt Agatha's cable forbidding him to introduce Cyril into theatrical circles, but is too proud to ask the cold Jeeves's advice.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
  3. Cyril gleefully announces that George has given him a part in Ask Dad, which his father would never allow, and George on the telephone refuses to drop him.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat, as the sitting-room
  4. Bertie wakes Jeeves to ask how to stop Cyril going on the stage, and Jeeves promises to give the matter his best consideration.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
Carry On, Jeeves 21 scenes
  1. Jeeves proposes a ghostwritten bird book to win Worple’s approval of Muriel, with Bertie paying for it.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as my apartment
  2. Bertie finances publication by writing cheques while others do the work.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as the old flat
  3. Corky reports that Worple has warmly invited Muriel to meet him.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as my flat
  4. Jeeves admits he had foreseen the possibility of Muriel marrying the uncle.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as my flat
  5. A birth announcement tells Bertie that Corky has lost his position as Worple’s heir.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Corky telephones for moral support when his uncle comes to inspect the finished portrait, and Bertie insists on bringing Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  7. Bertie celebrates Corky’s successful comic series and rewards Jeeves’s judgement by accepting his choice of suit.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  8. Bertie returns home and learns that Motty has not yet returned before Jeeves discovers him on the mat.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  9. Bertie directly asks Jeeves for a scheme to control Motty, and Jeeves refuses to help.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  10. Motty’s noisy guests provoke a complaint from the flat management.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  11. Bertie returns to learn that Rollo has been sold and Motty imprisoned, and Jeeves suggests a Boston cover story.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as the old flat
  12. Jeeves reports Bicky’s anxious calls and explains his family and dependence on a miserly duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  13. Bicky confesses his pretence of business success, and Jeeves proposes lending him Bertie’s flat to fool the visiting duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as this flat
  14. The duke arrives, quarrels over his taxi fare, and accepts Bertie’s assurances of Bicky’s prosperity.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as this luxurious flat
  15. Jeeves reveals that the duke has cut off Bicky’s allowance because he believes Bicky is successful.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat, as the flat
  16. Bicky refuses a loan, and Jeeves suggests selling introductions to the duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  17. Simms demands proof of the duke’s identity, exposing the paid reception and causing the duke to cancel it.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  18. Jeeves suggests selling the story to a newspaper, and the duke buys Bicky’s silence with a secretaryship paying five hundred pounds a year.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  19. Bertie rewards Jeeves’s ingenuity by agreeing to have his moustache shaved off.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  20. Bertie congratulates Jeeves on the material for Rocky’s letters.Chapter 5, Bertie's New York flat
  21. With his flat restored, Bertie learns how Jeeves devised the cure and accepts his advice about a tie.Chapter 5, Bertie's New York flat, as the old flat

Talked about, but not there

My Man Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Bertie's attempt to damp Motty's revels at supper fails, Motty is seen being thrown out of a low restaurant, and Bertie wastes away with worry.Chapter 2, as the old flat
  2. Bertie mopes valetless at the hotel until Rocky telephones from the Midnight Revels in agony, squeezed into Bertie's evening clothes, his allowance stopped and his aunt cured and thriving.Chapter 4, the St. Aurea, as the flat
  3. Rocky begs Bertie to join him and his suspicious, brooding aunt at the Maison Pierre, and then to come back to the flat for a drink.Chapter 4, the Maison Pierre, as the flat
Carry On, Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2, as a decent flat
  2. Bertie discovers Motty is drunk and helps Jeeves carry him inside.Chapter 3, the front door
  3. Bertie abandons supervising Motty’s outings and grows thin with anxiety and nightly nursing.Chapter 3, as the old flat