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The Carrington Extracts THE CARRINGTON EXTRACTS CUMULATIVE INDEX – PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS – TO 1923 (INCLUSIVE) This index has been compiled straight from the text of the ‘Extracts’ (from January 1914 onwards, these include the ‘Rees Extracts’. – in the Index we have differentiated between them by using the same date conventions as in the text – black date for Carrington, Red date for Rees). In listing the movements, particularly of Kipling and his family, it is not always clear when who went where and when. Thus, “R. to Academy dinner” clearly refers to Kipling himself going alone to the dinner (as, indeed would have been the case – it was, in the 1890s, a men-only affair). But “Amusing dinner, Mr. Rhodes’s” probably refers to both of them going, and has been included as an entry under both Kipling, Caroline, and Kipling, Rudyard. There are many other similar events. And there are entries recording that, e.g., “Mrs. Kipling leaves”, without any indication of when she had come – but if it’s not in the ‘Extracts’ (though it may well have been in the original diaries) then, of course, it has not been possible to index it. The date given is the date of the diary entry which is not always the date of the event. We would also emphasise that the index does not necessarily give a complete record of who the Kiplings met, where they met them and what they did. It’s only an index of what remains of Carrie’s diaries, as recorded by Carrington and Rees. (We know a lot more about those people, places and things from, for example, Kipling’s published correspondence – but if they’re not in the diary extracts, then they won’t be found in this index.) Another factor is that both Carrington and Rees quite often mentions a name without further explanation or identification. We assume that they were recorded, with a view to mentioning the subject in the text of the biography, but that the author changed his mind or edited it out for some reason. In some cases, later biographers have picked up the reference, and explained it. In those cases, we have gratefully recorded their identification. It will also be noted that there are discrepancies in dates between Carrington and Rees (i.e, the same event is given one date in Rees and another in Carrington – usually no more than one day apart). We have not commented on such discrepancies, because we do not know the cause – it’s a case of “you pays your penny and you takes your choice”. A Abinger Visit to Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard 27 Sept. `03 Academy Dinner (see Royal Academy Dinner) Adams, Henry (American writer) Meets Kiplings on board Teutonic 3 Feb. `92 Aitken, Sir Max (later Lord Beaverbrook), Canadian-born politician and newspaper Proprietor First mention 12 July `11 Accompany Kiplings on part of their tour of Normandy 4 Aug. `11 At Rouen 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre: the Aitkens leave to return to England 6 Aug. `11 The Kiplings visit them at Cherkley Court Nov. `11 To the Kiplings for Christmas 25 Dec. `11 The Kiplings visit at Cherkley 13 July `12 The Kiplings come for christening of Peter Rudyard Aitken 28 Oct. `12 Kiplings spend Christmas with them Dec. `12 Sir Max at Kessingland with the Kiplings 28 Aug. `13 Visiting Bateman’s with Lady Aitken 10 Oct. `13 Meets with Kipling, Bonar Law and F E Smith in Paris 12 Apr. `14 Visiting Bateman’s 15 Aug. `14 Made ‘Canadian Eye-witness’: Kipling helps him 29 Jan. `15 Kipling helps Aitken again: rewrites his newsletter to accord with more sombre news 12 May & May 12 `15 ‘Tips Kiplings the wink’ about forthcoming Battle of the Somme 23 June `16 Alexandria (Egypt) Left for Marseilles by a “comfy French boat” 15 Mar. `13 Algiers (capital of Algeria - then French) Kiplings arrive 20 Feb `21 It is cold 26 Feb. `21 Allen, George, engraver and publisher (possible identification) Visits Bateman’s with Rider Haggard 21 Nov. `04 Kiplings visit at The Chase (recte Freechase), Warninglid 13 July `07 Visits Kiplings, advises on investments 14 May `08 Kipling sees him again about investments 14 Dec. `08 Calls with members of his house party 2 July `10 The Kiplings visit at Free Chase 22 June `12 The Kiplings at the Allens 10 May `13 The Kiplings at his funeral 22 June `17 Amery, L S, representative of The Times, later a prominent politician Kipling dines with him 7 Feb. `00 Kipling lunches with him and Moberly Bell 28 Sep. `00 Kipling lunches with him and ‘Billy’ Hughes (Australian Premier) & Mark Sykes 17 May `16 Present at meeting between Kipling, Baldwin and Milner 20 May `21 Anderson, Miss Sara, Kiplings’ Secretary Comes, “a great relief to us both” 12 July `99 “A treasure” Dec. `99 Comes for two days 18 Oct. `02 Visits 25 May `03 Kiplings and John call on her in London 10 May `07 Calls at Bateman’s 1 Aug. `13 Appleton, D. & Co. New York publishers Kipling insists they use English spelling 1 Apr. `93 Archbishop of Canterbury. Rt. Rev. Randall Davidson and Mrs. Brought to tea at Bateman’s by the Husseys 10 Oct. `13 Arnold, Sir Edwin – English poet, living in Japan Kipling meets 20 Apr. `92 Arundell, Lord, Kiplings dine with him at his seat, Wardour Castle 8 May `94 Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis, war correspondent Calls, on return from Balkan war. 8 Dec. `12 Asquith, Mrs. Raymond, daughter-in-law of Liberal Prime Minister Calls 3 Nov. `12 Astley, the home of the Baldwins, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire The Kiplings visit 3 Sep. & 4 Sep. `19 The Kiplings arrive at Astley for Christmas Dec. 23 `19 They leave for Bath Dec. 30 `19 Kiplings leave Bateman’s for Astley Dec. 23 `21 Astor, William Waldorf, American by birth, but English by inclination Calls 8 Oct. `13 Astor, Nancy, his daughter-in-law Hostess to Kiplings at Cliveden 4 July `14 Kiplings see her in Algiers 20 Feb. `21 Athenaeum, The: one of Kipling’s clubs in London Kipling is elected to the club 2 Apr. `97 Kipling and ‘Uncle Ned’ Burne-Jones propose Stanley Baldwin as a member 17 Nov. `97 Kipling attends a committee meeting 12 Apr. `10 Aunt Georgie (see Burne-Jones, Georgiana) Austen, Jane, English author Kipling reads her works aloud to Carrie at Bateman’s Jan `18 Autun, Saône-et-Loire Kipling visits the French cavalry school there. 27 Mar. `14 Averill , Mr. (the Kiplings’ stockbroker?) Carrie instructs him to send all her stocks and shares to USA Feb. 2 `15 B Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, later Lord Baden-Powell, Founder of the Scout movement. Calls on the Kiplings at The Woolsack 19 Mar. `01 Calls with his sister on the Kiplings 2 Apr. `01 Kiplings meet at Chillingham Castle 4 Aug. `08 Calls with his wife at Bateman’s 12 May `13 Bagot, Major Joscelyne Fitzroy, MP, chief military censor in South Africa, 1900 Kipling dines with him 27 Feb. `00 Bailey, “Abe”, (Sir Abraham), South African mining magnate and financier On board same ship going to S. Africa 8 Dec. `00 Guest of the Kiplings at supper in Johannesburg 29 Mar. `03 Also passenger in Kinfauns Castle, Cape Town to England 22 Apr. `03 Kiplings see much of his children 18 Feb. `07 Miss Howard and ‘the Bailey children’ to visit 22 Aug. `11 The Kiplings lunch with the Baileys 3 Sep. `11 The Bailey children (and Miss Howard with the Kiplings to Engelberg 28-29 Dec. `11 The Kiplings visit 4 July `12 Calls at Bateman’s with Col. and Mrs. Crewe 15 Sep. `13 Lunches at the Ritz with Kipling, General Jan Smuts and Locker-Lampson 8 Jan. `18 Kipling ‘gives away’ his daughter Cecil at her wedding 3 Mar. & Mar. 3 `19 Baker, Mr. Herbert (later Sir Herbert), architect Meets Carrie on the site of the future ‘Woolsack’ 9 Mar. `00 Calls at The Elms 8 Aug. `00 Calls at The Woolsack 10 Aug. `01 Calls 3 Feb. `07 At the same table as the Kiplings on the voyage home 6 Apr. `07 The Kiplings visit them at their house at Cobham, near Gravesend 4 July `11 To stay with the Kiplings at Bateman’s, en route to Delhi 4 Nov. `13 Baldwin, Alfred, ironmaster, and husband of Kipling’s Aunt Louisa Death 14 Jan. `08 Baldwin, Leonora (Lorna), second daughter of Stanley and Cissie Baldwin (later Lorna Howard) Goes on jaunts with John Kipling and others 1 Aug. `13 Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 Joins Kiplings for part of motor tour in France 30 Apr-4 May `21 Visits Kiplings at Bateman’s with her new husband, Arthur Howard 26-27 May `23 Baldwin, Louisa, sister of Alice Kipling (and Georgie and Aggie and Edie, mother of Stanley) Family lunch with the Kiplings and two other aunts (out of three) 2 Apr. `97 Kiplings see her “looking her age” 1 Dec. `19 (at the end of the year) Baldwin, Margaret (Margot), third daughter of Stanley and Cissie Baldwin Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 Baldwin, Oliver, elder surviving son of Stanley and Cissie Baldwin Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 To tea 16 Oct. `15 “Goes about” with Elsie 16 Oct. `15 Visiting Bateman’s Jan. `16 Has lunch and dinner with all three Kiplings in Cambridge 21 Oct. `16 Visits Kiplings on embarkation leave 24 May `18 Still there, “a lion heart” 29 May `18 Goes to France 30 May & May 30 `18 Home on leave, taken by Kipling to see ‘As You Like It’ 6 Nov.
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