[Letter] 1928 Dec. 13, Bateman's Burwash, Sussex [to] H. A. Friedlich / M. E. Walford.

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[Letter] 1928 Dec. 13, Bateman's Burwash, Sussex [to] H. A. Friedlich / M. E. Walford.

Walford, Rudyard Kipling's secretary, responds to Friedlich's request for Kipling to answer some questions. Walford notes that "the number of letters of this description which arrive, he is obliged to make a rule not to answer them." Friedlich wrote on the back of the envelope: "I asked RK whether the 'Alice Kipling' who presented "Schoolboy Lyrics' to McPlowden would have been his mother or his sister."

[1] leaf ; 15 cm. + envelope

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SNAC Resource ID: 7565426

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...

Friedlich, Herbert,

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Walford, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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Mary Elizabeth Walford was Kipling's secretary, 1927-1931. She was a graduate of Oxford. From the description of [Letter] 1928 Dec. 13, Bateman's Burwash, Sussex [to] H. A. Friedlich / M. E. Walford. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 464263213 ...