The Wooster Papers

Places, in Totleigh Towers

the collection-room

Also collection room, Sir Watkyn’s collection room, Uncle Watkyn’s collection room, the ruddy collection room, a sort of minor drawing-room, a room on the ground floor, the window, the place

A minor drawing-room at Totleigh Towers full of Sir Watkyn's silver.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    A minor drawing-room at Totleigh Towers full of Sir Watkyn's silver.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Sir Watkyn's locked collection room at Totleigh Towers, behind a steel door, where the statuette is kept.

Connections

dealings

Scenes set here

  1. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room, as a room on the ground floor

Talked about, but not there

The Code of the Woosters 4 scenes
  1. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as the collection room
  2. Bertie finds Spode battering Gussie's door, cows him, and takes from him the notebook he found in the cow-creamer, then hands it to Gussie to show Madeline.Chapter 10, the passage
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  4. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as the room
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Sir Watkyn’s collection room
  2. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house, as collection room
  3. Bertie drives into the Totleigh stable yard and Spode orders him out of the car so he can search it.Chapters 11–12, the stable yard, as the collection room
  4. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room, as collection room
  5. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers, as the collection room