“...A certain critic - it’s a pity, they exist in the world - said about my last novel: “All the old Wodehouse characters under new names.” I hope he was eaten by bears, like the children who laughed at Elisha; but if he is alive, he will not say that about the “Summer Storm”. I, with my intelligence, outwitted him by inserting old characters under old names into the novel. He will feel stupid! Before you, so to speak, are still my same puppets. You met Hugo Carmody and Ronnie Fish in the novel “Gift Money”, Pilbam in “Bill the Conqueror”. The rest - Lord Emsworth, Secretary Baxter, butler Bidge - participated in the books “Something Like That” and “Lean on Psmith.” The Empress, the glorious pig, is not the first time - her debut was in the story “Swi-i-i-ni-ou-ou!..”, which will be published in a special volume along with other stories about Blanding Castle; but I won’t talk about them, they are too good. The fact is that I cannot part with this castle. He bewitched me. I'm visiting Shropshire to hear the latest news. I hope the reader finds this interesting too. I called some of them “Summer Thunderstorm”…”