The Baldwin / Kipling Papers

Item date: Late 19th and early 20th century
Grant Value: £10,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £33,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex

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.

Item Provenance
Elspeth, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley