Colt-Kipling Collection letters
Contributors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, correspondent; Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1890
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Correspondence; C. A. Kilvert & Co; Book collectors; Field Roscoe & Co; Records and correspondence; Manuscripts; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Facsimiles; English Authors
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: Letters written by Rudyard Kipling and related correspondence collected and compiled by Mr. H. Dunscombe Colt. Items are numbered and rehoused in clear sealed sheets mounted in four albums. Photocopies of portions of letters provided with original. Some letters accompanied by envelopes and comprise of multiple pages. Albums are in custom made linen covered boxes with compartments in second and fourth volumes for miscellaneous accompanying materials.
Notes: Rudyard Kipling correspondence in the section "Friends" includes letters from Rudyard Kipling to Alfred Baldwin, Sir James Barrie, Lord Blythe, Guy Boothby, Mr. Brown, Colonel Chapman, Marie Corelli, Sir David Dundas, Sir General Geoffrey Feilding, The Rev. Prebendary W.A. Gough, Charles L. Graves, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Henry Arthur Jones, Sir Walter Lawrence, John Thomas Lee, Mr. Leigh, Lady Lovat, "Dear Madam", Mrs. Manley, Harry B. Neilson, Jenny [Oliver?] or Jenny [Owen?], OWT editor, Cape-Town, Lady Roberts, Sergeant Rose, F. Schofield, "Dear Sir", Herbert Stephen, F.W. Thomas, Miss Tuke, Alick Watt and Lt. White. Correspondence in the section "Letters, personal" include letters from Rudyard Kipling to Moberly Bell, Rev. J. Breeden, Ernest Cooper, Lawrence Cope-Cornford, Leslie Cope-Cornford, Mrs. Cope-Cornford, Henley & Lawrence Cornford, E.F. Duncannon, Mr. Durand, Beatrice Erskine, Mr. Home-Gall, E.W. Martindell, W. Morten, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe, N. MacGrath, W.H. Parker, Mr. Shorter and Dr. Clarence Sinclair. Also letters to Elsie Bambridge, George E. Buckle, Chisholm, Edward German, Miss Lawrence and Miss Ralling.

Also includes correspondence from Ann and Henley Cornford to Miss Lawrence, from T.K. Brockland to H. Dunscombe Colt, from C.A. Kilvert & Co., Providence R.I. to George Sutcliffe, from C.A. Kilvert & Co. to Rudyard Kipling, from Field Roscoe & Co. to G. Sutcliffe, from Anthony Rota to H. Dunscombe Colt, from Carrie Kipling to Walter Creighton, from C.L. Graves to J. Hugh Thursfield, from M.E. Walford, Kipling's secretary to Milton Lesser, from M. Chamberlain, Kipling's secretary to W.V. Morten and from W. Morten to Rudyard Kipling.

Includes holograph text of Kipling's poem "A pilgrim's way" supplied to E.B. Merriman. Also includes miscellaneous items related to Viscountess Scarsdale in section on Household bills.

Title from collector's typewritten labels affixed to boxes.

Finding aid compiled by Library staff consists of detailed list of contents (13 p.) in envelope of accompanying material. Copy of corresponding portion of contents list laid in each box.

LC copy: Part of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987.

Published in part in: The letters of Rudyard Kipling / edited by Thomas Pinney. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990-c2004.
Table of contents: title: (from section captions) [Vol. 1]. Section 1: Kipling on Reodean Magazine [i.e. Rottingdean; letters to Cope-Cornford family], 1.1-1.41. Section 2: Bell letters [Moberly Bell], 2.1-2.63; title: [Vol. 2]. Section 3: Baldwin letters [Oliver Baldwin], 3.1-3.12. Section 4: To Lady Edward Cecil-Bodian, [Lady Milner] 4.1-4.7. Section 5: To Keiffer [i.e. Mr. Kiefer], 5.1-5.8. Section 6: To Cornford "Old Man" [Leslie Cope-Cornford], 6.1-6.43; title: [Vol. 3]. Section 7: To friends, 7.1-7.35. Section 8: To Hughes [Cyril Hughes], 8.1-8.38; title: [Vol. 4]. Section 9: Letter to Harry and family history [Harry F. Lewin], 9.1-9.2. Section 10: Letters to Merriman, ill., Queen's Doll House, poems, etc. [E. Bruce Merriman], 10.1-10.12. Section 11: Letters to Maj. Walter Creighton, 11.1-11.15. Section 12: Letters to Thursfield [James R. Thursfield], 12.1-12.11. Section 13: Letters, personal, 13.1-13.17. Section 14: Bills, household, 14.1-14.12. Section 15: Letters to Rawlings [i.e. W.L. Ralling], 15.1-15.6. Section 16: Letter to Balfour [Arthur James Balfour], 16.1. Miscellaneous, M.1-M.7.