Rudyard Kipling Correspondence
TitleRudyard Kipling Correspondence
ReferenceMS0019
Level of descriptionfonds
Datec1888-1943
Admin./ biographical history(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling was a novelist, poet, and journalist. He was educated at United Services College, Westward Ho! North Devon. In 1882, he joined the staff of The Civil and Military Gazette and The Pioneer in Lahore, and became Assistant Editor serving until 1889. He then settled in London though travelled widely in China, Japan, America, Africa, and Australia. For a time he lived in America with his wife Caroline and their children but from 1902 he lived with his family in Burwash, Sussex.
For more information about Kipling's life and career, please visit his profile on Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34334.
For more information about Kipling's life and career, please visit his profile on Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34334.
Scope and ContentThese papers comprise in one bound volume 5 letters, with illustrations, from Edward Burne-Jones (Uncle) to Kipling, [c1888-1897]; 20 letters from Kipling to Sir John and Lady Edith Bland-Sutton, [1917-1934]; one undated letter from Caroline Kipling to Lady Edith Bland-Sutton; 6 letters between Lord Webb-Johnson (President of the RCSE), Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt concerning the leaders receiving copies of two unpublished works by Kipling, 1943; the text of the two unpublished works, a poem 'The Burden of Jerusalem' ('To follow The Peace of Dives') and meditations 'A Chapter of Proverbs' (2 folios each, undated). There is also a folder containing typescript copies (made c1960) of Kipling's letters to Sir John and Lady Edith Bland-Sutton.
Extent1 volume and 1 folder
LanguageEnglish
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Related objectsMS0287
Persons keyword Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1874-1965, Knight, statesman, Alfred Edward Webb- Johnson, 1880-1958, Baron, surgeon, Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones, 1833-1898, Knight, painter, Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, author, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, US President, Lady Edith Bland- Sutton, 1865-1943, wife of Sir John, Sir John Bland- Sutton, 1855-1936, 1st Baronet, surgeon
