Kipling Interviews and Recollections Volume 2

Kipling Interviews and Recollections Volume 2

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KIPLING Interviews and Recollections Volume 2 Edited by Harold Orel

Selection and editorial matter Harold Orel 1983 So ftc over reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1983 978-0-333-27807-9 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1983 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-05111-3 ISBN 978-1-349-05109-0 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05109-0

Contents Acknowledgements Vlll INTERVIEWS AND RECOLLECTIONS PART V KIPLING AND THE UNITED STATES How Kipling Discovered America Bailey Millard I 73 A Visit to the Bohemian Club of San Francisco Robert H. Fletcher I 8o An Inside Light on Rudyard Kipling Marguerite Stabler I 85 An Unsuccessful Effort to Sell Short Stories George Hamlin Fitch I go When I Turned Down Rudyard Kipling Francis L. H. Noble 191 Kipling before He Was Famous Joseph M. Rogers I94 Still He Likes Us Ig6 Rudyard Kipling at Naulakha Charles Warren Stoddard 207 Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud Frederic F. Van De Water 220 Why Kipling Did Not Become an American Citizen George Calvin Carter 23 I Teaching Kipling How to Golf Arthur Conan Doyle 237 A Chat with Rudyard Kipling Cyril Clemens 239 A Visit to Elmira, New York Mildred Howells 245 Mark Twain in Eruption Samuel Langhorne Clemens 24 7 Conversations with Some American Authors Hamlin Garland 250 A Children's Story for St Nicholas Magazine William Webster Ellsworth 260 Rudyard Kipling, Maker of Magic Hildegarde Hawthorne 262 A Kipling Miscellany Collinson Owen 263 v

Vl CONTENTS PART VI TRAVELS A Snap-shot of RK 'Victorian' When Rudyard Kipling Was in New Zealand Tom L. Mills Rudyard Kipling John Oldham and Alfred Stirling Kipling and Edgar Wallace Margaret Lane Kipling's Days at the Cape Basil Fuller RK and his Rolls-Royce Car G. R.N. Minchin Kipling and Winter Sports Alfred Frohlich 268 27I 276 28I 285 288 PART VII THE FINAL YEARS Something of Kipling B. S. Townroe 293 A Kipling Memory: the Oneness of All Life Coulson lrernahan 295 Kipling's Precaution Christopher Morley 298 The Unfading Genius of Rudyard Kipling (I) Arthur Windham Baldwin 299 Life at The Elms, Rottingdean Angela Thirkell 307 Memories of Rudyard Kipling (I) Julia Tauiflieb 3 I 6 Memories of Rudyard Kipling (2) Julia Tauiflieb 3I9 Kipling Interviewed at Last 322 At Thomas Hardy's Funeral Blanche Patch 325 A Conversation with Kipling on Conrad Edmund A. Bojarski 326 Kipling at Home (I) Dorothy Ponton 33 I Kipling at Home ( 2) Dorothy Ponton 334 Kipling at Home (3) Dorothy Ponton 340 Meeting Kipling Roger Burlingame 344 Kipling Memories ]. A. de Courcy Hamilton 346 The Unfading Genius of Rudyard Kipling (2) Arthur Windham Baldwin 350 Bateman's Rupert Croft-Cooke 358 More 'Old Bookman Days' Arthur Bartlett Maurice 367 M. Andre Maurois on the Englishman of Today 368 Impressions of Rudyard Kipling ( r) Harry Furniss 369 Impressions of Rudyard Kipling (2) E. P. lrinsella 375 Kipling's Reaction to a Young Man's Criticism Beverley Nichols 380

CONTENTS Vll Rudyard Kipling-a Biographical Sketch Anice Page Cooper 382 Six Hours with Rudyard Kipling Arthur Gordon 383 Poets' Corner 387 Epilogue: 'Twilight in the Abbey' 392 Index 396

Acknowledgements Thanks are due to the American Philosophical Society for a grantin-aid from the Primrose Fund; to Robert P. Cobb, Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas, and to Gerhard Zuther, Chairman of the English Department, for encouragement on this project; to Frances D. Horowitz, Vice-Chancellor for Research, Graduate Studies and Public Service, and Dean of the Graduate School, and Robert C. Bearse, Associate Vice-Chancellor in the same office, for their support, provided through the General Research Fund; to Sankaran Ravindran for his help on some problems relating to Kipling's years in India; to Mary Davidson for assistance in solving a variety of annotation questions; and to the following individuals for responding helpfully to specific inquiries: Mrs T. P. Srinivasan, William Fletcher, Georgejerkovich, Oliver C. Phillips, George]. Worth, L. E. James Helyar, Eleanor Symons and Helmut Huelsbergen. Nancy Kreighbaum, Peggy Wessel and Paula Oliver prepared the manuscript. I am grateful to those who staff the Reference Desk and take care oflnter-library Loan Services at the University ofkansas Library, and to Alexandra Mason, Director, and William Mitchell, of the Spencer Research Library. Special thanks are due to Julia Steward and Valery Brooks of Macmillan for their thoughtful and helpful editorial assistance. Kipling's writings are dated in terms of their first publication, to enable readers to relate a particular poem, short story, or book to a period in his life. The basic authority used for these identifications is Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue, by James MeG. Stewart, ed. A. W. Yeats (Toronto: Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press, 1959). Difficult words, phrases, topical allusions, place-names and literary references are annotated whenever possible, and to the fullest extent within space limitations. While reviewing Kipling's own writings, I have found particularly helpful the 5672 pages of The Readef)s Guide to Rudyard Kipling's Work, prepared by Roger Lancelyn Green, Alec Mason, and especially R. E. Harbord between 1961 and 1972 (Canterbury: Gibbs & Sons; later, Bournemouth: Boscombe Printers). All persons interested in Kipling are indebted to the contents of the Kipling Journal, published by the Kipling Society continuously since March Vlll

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX I927. A notable bibliography of secondary materials- of writings about Rudyard Kipling -was compiled and edited by Helmut E. Gerber and Edward Lauterbach, and published in English Fiction in Transition, III, nos 3-5 (I 960), and VIII, nos 3-4 (I 965). Three biographies of Kipling, based on intensive research and travel as well as first-hand information, are collectively indispensable: Charles Carrington's Rudyard Kipling (London: Macmillan, I955, revised in I978); Angus Wilson's The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling (London: Seeker & Warburg, I977); and Lord Birkenhead's Rudyard Kipling (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, I 978). I regret that the scope of this work prevents me from drawing more often on the surprisingly ample literature dealing with Rudyard Kipling's parents and family. They were colourful in their own right, and superb achievers of almost anything they set out to do; fascinating information about their lives and accomplishments turns up in many memoirs. But that is another story. In addition, the editor and publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly given permission for the use of copyright material: The Atlantic Monthly Co., for the extract from 'The Young Kipling' by Edmonia Hill, published in The Atlantic Monthly, April I936, copyright I936 by The Atlantic Monthly Co., Boston, Mass. The Earl Baldwin ofbewdley, for the extract from 'The Unfading Genius of Rudyard Kipling' by Arthur Windham Baldwin. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, for the extract from The Cloak That I Lift by Lilias Rider Haggard. Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of Beverley Nichols, for the extract from 25: Being a Young Man's Candid Recollections of his Elders and Betters. Faber & Faber Ltd, for the extract from Listening for the Drums by Sir Ian Hamilton. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, for the extracts from 'Kipling and Edgar Wallace' by Margaret Lane in Edgar Wallace: The Biography of a Phenomenon. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., for the extracts from Mark Twain in Eruption, edited by Bernard DeVoto, copyright I 940 by the Mark Twain Co. Houghton Mifflin Co., for the extract from A Golden Age of Authors by William Webster Ellsworth. John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, for the extracts from Francis Younghusband, Explorer and Mystic by George Seaver, and from The

X ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lost Historian: A Memoir if Sir Sidney Low.by Desmond Chapman Huston. Oxford University Press, for the extract from Three Houses by Angela Thirkell. The executors of the Estate ofdorothy C. Ponton, for the extracts from her articles published in the Kipling Journal. Charles Scribner's Sons, for the extracts from These Many Years: Recollections if a New Yorker by Brander Matthews, copyright 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons, and renewed in 1945 The Vermont Country Store, for the extract from Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud by Frederic F. Van De Water. Whilst every effort has been made to locate owners of copyright in some cases this has been unsuccessful. The publishers apologise for any infringement of copyright or failure to acknowledge original sources and shall be glad to include any necessary corrections in subsequent printings.