Guide to the Rudyard Kipling Collection,
1881-1960

Collection Number: 4610

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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EAD encoding:

Martin Heggestad, May 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Rudyard Kipling collection, 1881-1960 (bulk 1890-1920)

Collection Number:

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936.

Forms of Material:

Manuscripts, letters, clippings, photographs, and other materials.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Manuscripts, letters, clippings, and photographs by, to, or relating to Rudyard Kipling.

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Rudyard Kipling was an English author and journalist.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Manuscripts, letters, clippings, and photographs by, to, or relating to Rudyard Kipling. Included are autograph and typewritten manuscripts of poems and stories by Kipling, with his autograph corrections; 258 letters written by Kipling, ranging in date from 1886-1935; letters by others to or about Kipling; and numerous newspaper and magazine clippings and photographs, including newspaper articles by or about Kipling, obituaries of him, and reviews of and publishers' advertisements for his books. Also included are a questionnaire Kipling filled out in 1881 concerning his favorite authors and his views on literature and life; typewritten memoirs about Kipling by his friend Edmonia Taylor Hill; a diary kept by Mrs. Hill from 1888-1890, including material about Kipling; 10 chapters of a typewritten manuscript biography of Kipling by Betty Miller; 50 photographs taken by Prof. Hill to accompany the text of Kipling's book From Sea to Sea; and an album of photographs of India dating from 1888.

Kipling's letters include comments and instructions concerning the publication of his books and stories; contemporary political developments in England and in British foreign affairs, especially the question of home rule for India; and a few requests for research materials which he used in writing his novel Captains Courageous. Correspondents include John Frederick Bridge, George Sydenham Clarke, Sir Henry Craik, Monsieur Garnier, Macmickan, General Sterling, Edward Lucas White, and Leonard Raven-Hill. Also included are transcripts of 61 letters written by Charles J. Paterson, many of them to Edmonia Taylor Hill.

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Bridge, Frederick, 1844-1924.

Clarke, George Sydenham, 1848-

Craik, Henry, 1846-1927.

Hill, Edmonia Taylor.

Paterson, Charles J.

Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942.

White, Edward Lucas, 1866-1934.

English literature--19th century.

English literature--20th century.

Authors and publishers--England.

Press and politics--England.

Women--Diaries.

Authors, English.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1901-1936.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--India.

India--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

India--Description and travel.

India--Politics and government--1919-1947.

Form and Genre Terms:

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:

Collection #13-6-1232 is restricted.

Rudyard Kipling collection, #4610. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Includes collection #13-6-1232.

Book collection also held in the repository, including many first English and first American editions of Kipling's works and copies signed by him.

Date	Description	Container
	Manuscripts	Box 1
	Outgoing correspondence
	1886-1898	Box 2
	1899-1922	Box 3
	1923-1935 , undated	Box 4
	Incoming correspondence and manuscripts
	A-Mr	Box 5
	Ms-Z	Box 6
	Kiplingiana	Box 7
	Bound Manuscripts
	"Captains Courageous" notebook		Bound Ms.1
1896-1929	Transcripts of Kipling letters		Bound Ms.2, 3+
1893-1937	"Kipling: The End" scrapbook		Bound Ms.4+
November 9, 1892	Letter to Lady Dufferin		Bound Ms.5
October 10, 1897	Letter to R.I. Harding		Bound Ms.6 tiny
January 15, 1895	Letter to Dr. Hale		Bound Ms.7
1886?	Photograph album on India		Bound Ms.8+
	Kipling memoir by Edmonia Hill (draft)		Bound Ms.9++
circa 1890-1928	Fiction and criticism scrapbooks		Bound Ms.10-14
circa 1891-1954 (bulk 1891-1924)	Kiplingiana
	Kiplingiana		Bound Ms.15+
	Kiplingiana		Bound Ms.16++
	Kiplingiana		Bound Ms.17
	Kiplingiana		Bound Ms.18++-20++
	Kipling memoir by Edmonia Hill (2 fair copies)		Bound Ms.21+, 22+
	Signed verse from "In the Neolithic Age"		Bound Ms.23
circa 1891-1933	Kipling cuttings
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.24-28
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.29+- 31+
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms. 32++
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.33+
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.35++
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.36+
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms. 37++
	Kipling cuttings		Bound Ms.38+ (index)
1900	Putnam, (printing specimen by Kipling)		Bound Ms.41 tiny
August 25, 1894	Letter to Howard Pyle		Bound Ms.42
1895-1920	Kipling stories in American and illustrated magazines		Bound Ms.43
	Katy Anne Eaton, Rudyard Kipling miscellany		Bound Ms.44+
	Photographs for From Sea to Sea (copies)		Bound Ms.45 tiny
May 5, 1918 - September 13, 1930	Letters to Lord Sydenham		Bound Ms.46
	Verse from "A Tree Song" with leaves and Kipling portrait		Bound Ms.47++
1889-1931	John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling notebooks		Bound Ms.48 2 vols.