Family papers of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), comprising correspondence, copies, printed pieces and photographs. Included are manuscript recollections of India, and 34 letters, 1881-1933, from Kipling to his parents John Lockwood and Alice Kipling, and to Edith Plowden, a family friend. There are also letters from Kipling to his Macdonald aunts, one of whom married Alfred Baldwin, father of Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley.
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