The collection also includes unique items such as the copy of Kim that stopped a bullet and saved the life of a French soldier in World War I and Kipling’s tobacco bowl. Photocopies of 450 letters in this collection were given to the Kipling archive at the University of Sussex, UK by Mrs. It contains printed editions, variants, periodicals, books about Kipling, books Kipling owned, a few photographs and drawings, manuscripts, letters, clippings and realia. Dunscombe Colt Kipling Collection of some 2,500 items was given by Mrs. There is a total of 476 volumes in the two collections as well as a typescript collection index which includes published Kipling editions, periodicals containing Kipling works and pamphlets and a file of correspondence. He located items, particularly from Kipling's years as a journalist in India, that had not been collected previously. Chandler secured texts of 846 prose and 1,100 verse pieces written or attributed to Kipling and annotated them in preparation of a special edition of Kipling's works. Chandler, given to the Library in 19, is known through his publication A Summary of the Work of Rudyard Kipling, Including Items Ascribed to Him, which was published in 1942. The Library also offers some black and white images from this collection as captured by the Prints and Photographs Division. Some material is described in William Montelle Carpenter's A Few Significant and Important Kipling Items! The Carpenters based their biographical sketch, Rudyard Kipling, a Friendly Profile, on material in their 1,675 item collection. The collection also includes such items of associational interest as a copy of Euclid's Elements which Kipling annotated while studying at the United Services College at Westward Ho, North Devon, and a set of dessert plates on which Kipling painted fruit and wrote verse. Among the manuscripts is the earliest known draft of " Mowgli's Brothers," the first story of The Jungle Book, which Kipling inscribed to Susan Bishop. Lucile Russell Carpenter in 1941, contains autograph manuscripts of Kipling's stories and poems, original letters, drawings, corrected galley proofs, photographs, auction catalogs, books about Kipling, pamphlets, periodicals, and an unusually large collection of early printed editions. The William Montelle Carpenter Collection, presented to the Library by his widow, Mrs. The Library of Congress.įour complementary collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division richly document the life and works of the British author, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Selected Special Collections Rudyard Kipling Collection Early editions of Rudyard Kipling's writings related papers and research materials. Rudyard Kipling Collection (Selected Special Collections: Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress) The
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