Kipling, Rudyard /repositories/5/archival_objects/953777 1 folder 1935 5 16 Scope and Contents Kipling to Florence Doubleday, January 3, 1935. Bateman's. Thanks for candied grapefruit peel. Have had quiet Christmas with Elsie and George. Hope to get away soon for the south of France. Is much better than he was. Asks for news. "Indeed we don't seem to get much news about the U.S.A. except now and again a very sympathetic broadcast on the wireless. It's a bit startling to see the whole world 'reconstructing' itself -- in various ways." Kipling to ND, August 22, 1935. Golf-Hotel, Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Returns proof of the foreword to the "Kipling Pageant." Elsie and Carrie doing a cure here. "...a most perfect climate and a dream of a golf-course which belongs to the Hotel. I never saw -- outside of Vermont -- woods and hills to match these." "Foreword to the Publisher, Being The Instructions to the Nakoda, The Captain, of This Ship" [1935?], one sheet galley proof by Kipling with corrections in Kipling's hand. Enclosed with letter of 22 August. [This appeared as "Foreword" to A Kipling Pageant, published by Doubleday, 1935. This foreword (addressed to Nelson Doubleday) was published separately, together with the earlier foreword (addressed to FND) which had appeared in Vol. I of Outward Bound Edition of Kipling's works (1897), in the Christmas 1935 volume, Two Forewords. "Foreword to the Publisher," undated typescript, carbon copy [with no Kipling Ms. Notations] of "Foreword to the Publisher." Kipling to ND, August 30, 1935. Golf-Hotel, Marienbad. Has received Nelson's letter of the 15 August. Never thought Long Island a good place for children in summer. "It's those damp hot nights that wilt 'em. Why not park then somewhere above the 1000 foot line in New England?" Waters here doing Aunt Carrie good. Adorable little golf course. Adds on second page an idea for Kipling Pageant. Suggests reprinting the old foreword from the Scribner's Bombay [Outward Bound] edition, following the new foreword, of which he has returned proofs. He supplies a final paragraph for the latter, providing a transition to the early foreword. [This was included in the published version]. Also, as a suggestion for ornaments Kipling appends on separate sheet drawing of a big tramp steamer (as seal for the first, latest, foreword), and of an Arab dhow (as seal for a second, older, foreword). [Both of these drawings were used in the published version.] Kipling to ND, September 15, 1935. Bateman's. Back Marienbad yesterday. Has found your large-size picture of the Old Galley that I did for your Dad. Could be used as tail-piece of the New Foreword to Pageant book. Question for "the boys in the office" to decide. [Apparently not used.] Kipling to ND, November 22, 1935. Bateman's. "Pageant" copies have come to hand. "I'm very pleased with the nature of the selections, prose and verse: barring, always, that I think the 200 pp. of ' The Light' makes it a bit heavy. It wasn't a job, anyway, that I could have done for myself. Who chose the 'samples?' Please give my compliments to him -- or her. I think the double-preface covering something like forty years was a good notion, and gives the book extra respectability and venerability." Series of floods in our little valley. "Both of us are fairly well. Our best love to you & yours, Always your affectionate old Uncle Rud." Kipling to Florence Doubleday, December 28, 1935. Bateman's. Thanks for Christmas gift. Elsie and her husband here for Christmas. "She finds housekeeping among the Britons -- after ten years on the continent -- Brussels, Madrid, and Paris -- not quite so easy as she expected. The British servant of today is ----. Never mind. But she is." "I'm most pleased that you liked the preface to the 'pageant' book. I wrote it from my heart full of the old days." Carrie keeping well. Floods have been added to our winter diversions. Hope to get away to the south of France in February as usual, if the European situation clears up as I think it will. [Note: Kipling died January 18, 1936.] "Prologue to Scrap Book of Kipling articles," undated typewritten copy of verses written for Edmund Gosse by Kipling. Apparently not collected by Kipling, but was printed in The Library of Edmund Gosse, Being a Descriptive and Bibliographical Catalogue . . ., 1924. This typed copy may have been sent to FND by Kipling but there is no evidence to indicate that this was so. It may simply be a copy that FND had had made, and saved. Pencilled "doodle" on a scrap of newspaper, undated, size of postage stamp. In a Doubleday-Doran envelope marked "R. K. Drawing."