This rewritten story does not feature Psmith. * Note that parts of this serialised story were rewritten and incorporated into a novel for an American audience, published in the US as The Prince and Betty (1912). "The Lost Lambs" was later republished separately as: (The first half republishes the serial "Jackson Junior", in which Psmith does not appear.) "The Lost Lambs" forms the second half of the novel Mike (1909). Psmith appears in four novel-length works, all of which appeared as magazine serials before being published in book form. Rupert's daughter, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, however, believed that the Wykehamist schoolboy described to Wodehouse was not her father but his elder brother Lucas. Carte was a school acquaintance of a cousin of Wodehouse at Winchester College, according to an introduction to Leave it to Psmith. Wodehouse said that he based Psmith on Rupert D'Oyly Carte (1876–1948), the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, as he put it "the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a silver plate with watercress around it".
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