THE CARRINGTON EXTRACTS

CUMULATIVE INDEX – PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS – TO 1921 (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 Sarah, 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 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 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. `18 Calls frequently when they are in London 3 Mar. `19 Comes to stay at Bateman’s to help with Irish Guards history 10 Nov. 19 Leaves again: has been like having a son abound the house 13 Nov. `19 Visits on return from Russia 19 July `21 Comes to stay with Kiplings and goes about with Elsie Nov. `21 Baldwin, Stanley (Rudyard’s cousin) Dines with Rudyard and Carrie 20 Jan. `92 Calling on the Kiplings (possibly in London, or in Torquay) 25 Apr. `97 “Foregathers” with Kipling 3 Sep. `97 Ditto 5 Sep. `97 His wife, Cissie, has a daughter 16 Sep. `97 Put up for the Athenaeum by Kipling & Ned Burne-Jones 17 Nov. `97 Long walk with Kipling 1 Jan `98 “Comes to play” 31 Dec. `99 The Kiplings visit at Wilden 28 Aug `00 The Baldwins are the first visitors at Bateman’s – “charmed” 11 Sep. `02 Carrie Kipling and children staying with Baldwins 18 Oct. `03 The Kiplings stay with the Baldwins “at Bewdley” Nov. `04 The Kiplings visit the Baldwins at Astley Hall, Aug. `05 The Kiplings visit the Baldwins en route from Northumberland 19 Aug. `08 Present at dinner at House of Commons with Kiplings, Bonar Laws 21 July `09 Baldwin family staying with Kiplings for a long visit 22 July `09 Baldwins staying at Engelberg at the same hotel as the Kiplings 16 Feb. `10 (and note) Elsie and John to dance at Baldwin’s home, Astley 8 Sep. `10 Baldwins present at Engelberg Jan `11 Kiplings to stay in Kensington, the night before the Coronation 21 June `11 Margo (Pamela Margaret) and Oliver Baldwin to stay at Bateman’s 9 Sep. `11 Holidaying at St. Moritz at the same time as the Kiplings 21 Jan. `14 Visits Bateman’s 6 June `14 Stan Baldwin dines and sleeps at Bateman’s 27 Aug. `14 Baldwin visits Bateman’s with Julius Lay, American consular official 8 Oct. `14 Becomes President of the Board of Trade 9 Mar. `21 (note) Taken by Kipling to Sturry to meet Milner and Amery 20 May `21

Balestier, Anna (Mother, or M) Meets Kipling on return from Bombay 10 Jan. `92 Sails with Kiplings in Teutonic 3 Feb. `92 Arrives New York 11 Feb. `92 Visits ‘Naulakha’ with Carrie 8-10 June. `99 Meets Carrie (and Kipling) at Montreal 27 Sep. `07 Attends reception at McGill, and goes home 23 Oct. `07 Dies (23 Mar `19) 25 Mar & Mar. 25 `19 Business about Josephine and their mother’s estate Aug. `21 Balestier, Beatty Meets them at Brattleboro depot 16 Feb. `92 Offers Kipling and Carrie a site for a house 18 Feb. `92 Arguing with Carrie about finance: agrees to sell her the site 26 Feb. `92 Beatty & Mai dine at ‘Naulakha’ 21 Oct. `93 Sends his insurance policies to Carrie 6 June `94 Settles accounts with Carrie 4 Nov. `94 Kiplings and Conan Doyles attend Thanksgiving dinner 27 Nov. `94 Nip &Tuck (carriage horses), sold to Kipling 1 Feb. `95 Lunch with Kiplings 1 May `95 Beatty “complications” – the start of the final break 10 Oct. `95 “Dolefully true” – Beatty’s financial problems 13 Jan. `96 Files for bankruptcy 6 Mar. `96 (note) The fateful meeting; threatens Kipling 6 May `96 Arrested for threatening Kipling 9 May `96 Beatty’s trial – bailed to a later appearance. 12 May `96 Balestier, Caroline (Carrie) Meets Kipling on return from Bombay 10 Jan. `92 Marries Rudyard Kipling 18 Jan. `92 (see ‘Kipling, Carrie’ hence forward) Balestier, Caroline Starr Wolcott (Grandmamma) Kiplings call on her in New York shortly after arrival 12 Feb. `92 They dine with her at Beechwood 30 Sept. `92 They call on her 6 May `93 Balestier, John (Uncle John) Calls to discuss Beatty’s case 11 May `96 Visits Carrie in New York 2 June `96 Balestier, Josephine (J) (Carrie’s sister) Meets Kipling on return from Bombay 10 Jan. `92 Sails with Kiplings in Teutonic 3 Feb. `92 Arrives New York 11 Feb. `92 Engaged to Theodore Dunham 19 Nov. `96 Business about winding up their mother’s estate Aug. `21 Balestier, Mai (Beatty’s wife) Fun in the snow 16 Feb. `92 Lunch with Kiplings 1 May `95 Balestier, Marjorie (daughter of Beatty and Mai) Fun in the snow 16 Feb. `92 Renew ‘worship’ of 26 July, `92

Balfour, Arthur J, (member of ‘The Souls’, politician, prime minister) Says he will give Henley a pension of £200 p.a. 3 Jan. `98 Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03 Offers Kipling KCMG 7 Nov. `03 The Kiplings meet him at the Lytteltons at Wittersham 26 May `10 Present at ‘the Goschen wedding’ with Milner, Salisbury, Kiplings and Princess Louise 31 Aug. `20

Bambridge, Captain George, former Irish Guards officer, later Elsie Kipling’s husband Dines with the Kiplings in London Dec. 22 `19 Comes to stay at Bateman’s to help with Irish Guards history 10 Nov. `19 Going out with Elsie in London Dec. `20

Banff, Alberta Stays (and fishes) 10-13 July `92

Barr, Robert, Scottish-Canadian author Comes to stay with the Kiplings 12 Oct. `94

Barrie, J M, playwright and author Kipling lunches with him 26 May `97 Long walk with Kipling, Burne-Jones and ‘Crom’ Price 17 Oct. `97

Bateman’s, Burwash, their final home (NB, Kipling always used the apostrophe in referring to his home – Carrington and Rees were less particular and in the text of the Extracts we have reproduced what they wrote. Here, we have used the apostrophe for consistency.) By train and cab to Etchingham and Burwash to see Bateman’s 14 Aug. `00 They “talk Burwash” 18 Aug. `00 Kipling sees George Macdonald (his cousin and solicitor) about buying 21 Sep. `00 Disappointment about Bateman’s 23 Sep. `00 By train and cab again to see Bateman’s 26 May `02 To Bateman’s again: they determine to buy: telegrams fly 28 May `02 George Macdonald buys Bateman’s on their behalf for £9300 10 June `02 Kipling takes Ambo Poynter to see Bateman’s 11 June `02 Both Kiplings and Ambo visit – decide to install electricity 18 June `02 Kiplings to Bateman’s, most days July `02 Purchase of Bateman’s complete 29 July `02 Move to Bateman’s – “chaos and black night” 3 Sep. `02 The Baldwins their first visitors – “charmed” 11 Sep. `02 Looking divine (on arrival home from South Africa – their first view of the house and garden in spring. 10 May `03 Laying of electric cable from the Mill to the house 5 Aug. `03 Borrow church records to trace previous owners 14 Nov. `03 Nursery chimney catches fire 26 Nov. `03 Buying Little Bateman’s 1 June `04 Turbine, for electricity, under repair 17 Sep. `04 Planting trees to shield Bateman’s from the road. 18 Sep. `04 The hot water radiator in our bedroom a great success 8 Nov. `04 Dudwell Farm added to the Kipling’s land. Dec. `04 Bricklayers building a wall 21 Sep. `05 They start to tear down the mill at Dudwell Farm 26 June `06 Looking beautiful, and peace of its shelter never more welcome 15 Dec. `07 Bateman’s features in ‘Country Life’ 13 Aug. `08 The river floods, right up to the south front door 26 Oct. `09 Flower show, with destructive results 10 Aug. `10 The brook in high flood again 16 Dec. `10 Floods in the brook 12 Nov. `11 The Aitkens and Bonar Laws for Christmas 25 Dec. `11 Home from France 27 Mar. `12 The start to drain the mill pond 24 June `12 The brook in flood 1 Oct. `12 Arrive home from Egypt 7 Apr. `13 Return to Bateman’s from Kessingland 10 Sep. `13 Sir E. Poynter to paint Bateman’s 24 Sep. `13 Floods (again) 11 Nov. `13 Return to Bateman’s 7 Feb. `14 Leave for France again 19 Feb. 14 Return again from France - dead tired – leave again to visit The Bathursts 17 Apr. `14 Return again 20 Apr. `14 Return from Kessingland and London 12 Aug. `14 The brook flooded 10 Dec. `14 An officer calls to arrange for billeting of officers at Bateman’s Feb. 23 `15 Six officers of the Loyals billeted 26 Feb. `15 Carrie finds reserve dynamo out of order, results in gardener giving notice 30 Oct. `15 A new between maid starts work Dec. 6 `15 Heavy floods 8 Jan `18 Landon very ill – brought to Bateman’s 26 Mar. `18 Kiplings return to Bateman’s after 6 weeks away at Bath Mar. 23 `19 Home again after their visit to Oxford May 25 `19 All the servants to the village for peace celebrations July 19 `19 Oatfield cut by machine and German prisoners of war 8 Aug. `19 Home again after their motor tour and stay in Scotland 29 Sep. `19 Mr. Bennett reports to Carrie on new purchase of cottages Jan. 27 `20 Sewing maid gives notice Mar. 2 `20 Cook gives notice Mar. 4 `20 Housemaid gives notice Mar. 6 `20 Gardener gives notice (Aug.) `20 Christmas Day kept in the old style – “much pleasure but no joy” 20 Dec. `20

Bath, English spa city. Kiplings to Bath, Carrie to take the cure 1 Feb. & Feb. 1 `16 Lunch in London, thence to Bath 6 Feb. `17 To Bath in bitter weather 7 Feb. `17 Kiplings to Bath, via London 18 Feb. & Feb. 18 `18 Kipling and Carrie to Bath 10 Feb. & Feb. 10 `19

Bathurst, Lord and Lady, each a newspaper proprietors in their own right Call 19 May `09 Fellow guests with Kiplings and Ian Hamiltons at Lord Roberts’. 6 Nov. `09 Lunch at Bateman’s 22 June `10 The Kiplngs to visit at Cirencester 29 July `11 The Kiplings visit at Cirencester 17 Apr. `14 All to the races 18 Apr. `14 Kiplings visit her at Cirencetster Sep. 1-4 `20

Battenberg, Princess Henry of (Beatrice, Princess, Queen Victoria’s daughter) Arrives at Vernet-les-Bains 10 Mar. `14 Kiplings meet her at Algiers 26 Feb. `21

Beardsley, Aubrey (English artist) Kipling meets 21 July `95 Beardsley, Mr. (Possibly Judge Samuel Beardsley?) Kipling calls on him 10 Apr. `93

Beatrice, Princess (Queen Victoria’s daughter) – See Battenberg, Princess Henry of

Beaverbrook, Lord (formerly Sir Max Aitken – see under Aitken for earlier entries) & Lady Beaverbrook (Gladys) Offers Kipling a post in Home Propaganda service – declined 19 Feb & Feb 19 `18 All three Kiplings visiting Gladys Beaverbrook at Cherkley Sep. `28 `18

Beaufront Castle Kiplings visit Mrs. Cuthbert at Beaufront Castle Aug. 18 `17 Kiplings visit again 3 Sep. & Sep. 11 `19 And again (Mrs. Cuthbert now Lady Rayleigh) 18 Sep. & Sep. 19 `21

Becke, Louis, Australian trader, journalist and writer Visits Kipling at Bateman’s 13 Aug. `07

Beechwood – Mrs. Caroline Balestier’s home They dine there (and call several times) 30 Sept. `92 They call again 6 May `93

Bell, Moberly, manager of The Times Kipling dines with him: Bell offers to print anything he sends 30/31 Jan/ `92 Kipling lunches with him and L S Amery 28 Sep. `00 Gives a dinner “to meet Joseph Chamberlains”: Kiplings present 7 Nov. `05

Bender, A.P., Chief Rabi in South Africa Calls on Kipling 4 Mar `07

Benson, Mr, architect Calls 25 Aug. `10

Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Call 22 Jan. `99

Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles Meets Kipling at RN College Greenwich; 23 June `09 Kipling presides at Cecil Club dinner in Beresford’s honour 13 July `10

Bermuda Arrive: their first visit 27 Feb. `94

Besant, Walter, British author, who inspired Kipling Meets Kipling in New York 16 June `93 Kipling dines with him 8 June `94

Bessborough, Lord Present at Lord Milner’s 17 May `14

Bigelow, Pountney, American journalist Calls at Bateman’s 23 June `10

Birkenhead, Lord (see also Smith, F E)

Birkenhead, Lady, wife of Lord Birkenhead Carrie meets at dinner with Lady Colefax Dec. 7 `20

Black, William, Scottish novelist Calls with his wife at North End House 21 July `97 Kiplings attend his funeral 15 Dec. `98

Blackwood, Lord Basil, Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland Present at Lord Milner’s 17 May `14

Blaikie, Miss, Governess to Elsie and John Kipling Engaged at £60 p.a. 5 May`04 There are now two Miss Blaikies, governess and secretary July `04 Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13

Blandford, Lucy, children’s nurse during their trip to USA, 1899 Is sick, on day 1 of the voyage 25 Jan. `99 Is sick again on the return voyage 14 June. `99

Bland-Sutton, Sir John and Lady: he was Carrie’s doctor and later Kipling’s Visit Bateman’s 2 Sep. `06 Visit Bateman’s 21 June `08 Meets Kipling 1 Oct. `08 Advises Kipling to give up smoking 8 Oct. `08 Removes three cysts from Carrie’s head 8 Oct. `08 (note) They stay for the week-end at Bateman’s 19 July `13 Reports on John 15 Sep. `13 Changes his mind, says they can go to Switzerland 26 Nov. `13 Kiplings lunch with them in London 12 Aug. `14 Carrie consults him: he says “Take the cure at Bath Jan. 11 `15 Kipling takes Carrie to consult him. July 11 `17

Bliss Cottage, Dummerston, Brattleboro They go to see it 28 July `92 They move in 10 Aug. `92 Really settled in 29 Aug. `92 They give the cottage the nickname ‘The Blizzard’ 29 Aug. `92 Packing up, before their move to ‘Naulakha’ 5 Aug. `93

Blumenfeld, R D, editor of the Daily Express Visits 22 July `09 Visits 14 June `11

Bodiam Castle (Sussex/Kent border) Kiplings drive to visit several times June `07

Bonar Law, Andrew, British politician, later, briefly, Prime Minister Dinner at the House of Commons with Baldwin and Kiplings 21 July `09 To dinner at Bateman’s 22 Sep. `11 To the Kiplings for Christmas (with the Aitkens) 25 Dec. `11 Meets with Kipling, Max Aitken and F E Smith in Paris 12 Apr. `14

Boscombe (near Bournemouth, Dorset. Kiplings staying, Ambo Poynter also – house-hunting 14 June `94

Boston, Mass. Kipling to a dinner of the Tavern Club 23 Apr. 95

Botha, General Louis. Boer leader, later Prime Minister of Union of South Africa Present at a dinner given by Sir Abe Bailey 2 Jan. `19

Bournemouth To Lee Evans, a crammer’s establishment 13 Feb. `14 John to the crammer’s at Bournemouth 5 May `14

Bowman, Miss, Secretary Succeeds Miss Hogg 3 July `13

Brattleboro Their first arrival, met by Beatty 16 Feb. `92 They go to see the site for Naulahka 15 Mar `92 Return after honeymoon 26 July `92

Brede Place; near Rye, East Sussex, the home of Moreton Frewen, Kipling’s friend Kipling shoots at Brede Place Oct. `10 Kiplings to tea at Brede Place 3 July `11

Briand, M. Aristide, French Prime Minister Present at the lunch given by Princess Marie of Greece 21 Feb. `14

Browning, Mrs. Pen., daughter-in-law of English poet, Robert Browning Comes to stay 5 Sep. `95

Browns Hotel. Mayfair, London Party after wedding 18 Jan. `92 Do not render an account for wedding party 26 Jan. `92 Staying 5 July `94 Base for a month 14 (?16) July `95 Arrive from South Africa 28 Apr. `00 En route to Canada 20 Sep. `07 Stay overnight on return from Ireland 24 Oct. `11 Staying 31 Oct. `13 Stay one night on return from France 16 Apr. `14 Kiplings arrive from Kessingland 10 Aug. `14 Hotel full of stranded Americans 11 Aug. `14 Family lunch at Browns 14 Sep. `14 Kiplings staying: all the staff desolated 15 Oct. `15 One night there, on the way to a holiday in the north Aug. 17 `16 Kiplings return from Bath “to find pleasant rooms” Mar `15 `18 Arrive from Newquay after 11 hour journey Sep. 23 `18 Leave Sep 28 `18 Back again Sep. 30 `18

Buckle, Ada, parlour maid at Bateman’s Comes 29 Sep. `14

Buller, Colonel (should be Butler) Lieut. Col Hon. L J P, commanding 2IG Writes re John’s death. 5 Oct & Oct. 5 `15

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward (‘Ned’): Victorian artist, and one of Kipling’s mentors Calls exchanged on 23 Apr., but entry dated 19 Apr. `94 Writes to Kiplings suggesting they stay on in North End House until the baby is born 18 June `97 Long walk with Kipling, Barrie and ‘Crom’ Price 17 Oct. `97 Puts Baldwin up for the Athenaeum with Kipling 17 Nov. `97 Dies suddenly 17 June `98 Burne-Jones, Georgiana (née Macdonald) (Aunt Georgie) Kiplings “see a lot of” 5 July `94 Dine at the Misses Craik and Miss Wiinnard with Kiplings 11 Aug. `95 Family lunch with the Kiplings and two other aunts (out of three) 2 Apr. `97 Comes to North End House 14 July `97 Working with Kipling on life of her husband 17 Oct. `01 Puts up a banner disapproving the South African peace 2 June `02 Very fragile 1 July `03 Staying at Bateman’s with her unmarried sister, Edith 15 Nov. `03 Her ‘Life’ of her husband published 25 Nov. `04 Visits Kiplings at Bateman’s 28 May `10 “Sadly aged” 11 Apr. `11 To visit at Bateman’s 12 Sep. `11 Kiplings visit her at Rottingdean: she seems “old and weary” 11 Oct. `18 Kiplings attend her funeral at Rottingdean 6 Feb. & Feb. 6 `20 Burne-Jones, Margaret (Margot) (Mrs. Margaret Mackail) Calls on newly-returned Kiplings at Royal Palace Hotel 23 June `99 Burne-Jones, Phil, Margaret’s brother and Kipling’s cousin Calls on newly-returned Kiplings at Royal Palace Hotel 23 June `99 Starts on Kipling’s portrait 8 June `99 Joins the Kiplings in Scotland 8 Aug `99 Starts portrait of Carrie 8 Aug. `99 Continues Kipling’s portrait 2 Nov. `99 Visits Bateman’s 3 May `10

Burton, Mrs Isabella – the original of Mrs. Hauksbee Kipling calls on her in London 27 Oct. `03

Burwash, East Sussex: Wealden village, their home from 1902-1936 Their first visit 14 Aug. `00 They “talk Burwash” 18 Aug. `00 Borrow records from church to trace owners of Bateman’s 14 Nov. `03 Thinks of bringing drill hall from Rottingdean to Burwash July `04 Meeting of National Service League “in our gym” (?) – tea for 130 27 Apr. `10 Memorial Service for King Edward VII attended by Kipling household ‘ 20 May `10 Meeting of Burwash Nursing Association of which Carrie is Secretary – she signifies her intention to resign Oct. 16 `18 They hear the Burwash bells ringing in the New Year 1 Jan. & Jan. 1 `19

C Cabot, Mr and Mrs (Norman and Lucy – parents of Will and Mary) Call on Kiplings on arrival in Brattleboro 19 Feb. `92 Cabot, Mary (daughter of Norman and Lucy) Records first meeting with Kipling 19 Feb. `92 (note) Lunch with Kiplings 1 May `95 Lunch with Kiplings 8 May `96 Calls (to say farewell) 28 Aug. `96

Cairo Stay at Semiramis Hotel 11 Feb. `13

Calgary Kiplings arrive from Moosejaw and Winnipeg 3-4 Oct. `07

Cannan, Mr, Secretary of Oxford University Press Kiplings stay with him while discussing with Charles Fletcher 6 June `10

Carnegie. Andrew, American industrialist and philanthropist Lends Kipling family The Manse at Creich 8 Aug. `99 Cape Town Arrive for first time (as a family) 25 Jan. `98 Leave 12 Apr. `98 Arrive 5 Feb. `00 Leave 11 Apr. `00 Arrive 25 Dec. `00 Leave 17 Apr. `01 Arrive 7 Jan. `02 Leave 16 Apr. `02 Arrive 13 Jan. `03 Leave 22 Apr. `03 Arrive 29 Dec. `03 Leave 13 Apr. 04 Arrive 27 Dec. `04 Leave 5 Apr. `05 Arrive 9 Jan. `06 Leave 18 Apr. `06 Arrive 1 Jan. `07 Leave 6 Apr. `07

Carr, Mrs. Carmichael, professional pianist Calls 12 Aug. `98

Cars (and motoring generally) Hires a motor from London: they drive to Brighton 6 Dec. `99 The motor breaks down 22 Dec. `99 Motor to Seaford and Alfriston 5 June `00 A 30-mile drive through lovely villages 16 June `00 A drive on the London road as far as Cuckfield 28 June `00 Motor drive to Arundel 13 July `00 Drive to Uckfield 17 July `00 A drive across the Downs to ‘Friston 18 Aug. `00 They try out an American automobile 12 Oct. `00 New motor arrives – most beautiful 18 June `01 An American driver to try to make the car go 26 Nov. `01 A Lanchester car 5 June `02 The motor in charge of Mr. Colgate arrives 26 Sep. `02 Mr. Lanchester arrives with the machine to assure us all is well 3 Oct. `02 The motor breaks down, embarrassingly, at Rye 13 Oct. `02 Amelia II (18 HP Lanchester) arrives 1 June `04 “Motor most unsatisfactory” 18 June `04 A Siddeley car on trial 17 Dec. `05 Buying a Daimler car (“Gunhilda”) 24 May `06 Lent a Rolls-Royce car and chauffeur to take them from Vernet-les-Bains to Paris by Claude Johnson 23 Mar. `10 Johnson calls at Bateman’s with Lord Montagu 29 May `10 To Oxford via Stoke Poges 6 June `10 Johnson calls on Kipling to discuss a new Rolls-Royce 2 Nov. `10 Motor tour in borrowed Rolls-Royce starts 25 Mar. `11 Narbonne - Pont du Gard – Arles – Les Baux – Aigues Mortes 25-26 Mar’11 Beziers – Carcassonne 27 Mar. `11 Toulouse 28 Mar. `11 Bergerac 29 Mar. `11 Angoulême – Poitiers 30 Mar. `11 Tours 31 Mar. `11 Chaumont – Loches - Blois – Chartres 1 Apr. `11 Rouen – Beauvais 2 Apr. `11 Amiens – Paris 3 Apr, `11 Collision with a tram in Paris 5 Apr. `11 Abbéville 7 Apr. `11 Home to Bateman’s via Boulogne and Folkestone 8 Apr. `11 Leave for a motor tour of Normandy, 4 Aug. `11 In Rouen, 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre 6 Aug. `11 Bayeux and the Normandy coast 7 Aug. `11 Mont St, Michel 10 Aug. `11 Mortain 11 Aug. `11 Visit the Depews at Chateau d’Anel, Compiègne 13 Aug. `11 Return to Bateman’s, 18 Aug. `11 Motor Tour in the west: Salisbury 8 Sep. `12 Cawsand 8 Sep. `12 Tintagel and Lands End 10 Sep.12 Westward Ho! 11 Sep. `12 Kiplings met at Marseilles, Landon has brought their car out 19 Mar. 13 Drive to Albi 22 Mar. `13 Long journey to Bourges 24 Mar. `13 Abbéville – pass through en route to Boulogne and Folkestone 6 Apr. `13 Kipling sacks Moore the chauffeur after six years’ service 16 June `13 Kiplings meet up with the Rolls and the new chauffeur, Eaves at Bordeaux 18 Mar. `14 Kiplings acquire a second car – a Ford – ‘for station work’ 30 Apr. `14 New chauffeur, Vincent, arrives with his family. May 14 `15 Car returns from Warley with John’s kit Aug. `15 Last trip to London in car before it is put by because of the war Dec. 10 `15 The first jaunt in their own car again 1 Jan. `19 Home from London by car Mar. 23 `19 A new chauffeur, Taylor, takes on Apr. 26 `19 A wonderful drive with S S McClure 13 May `19 To Oxford, by car May 21 `19 The car, and Taylor, chauffeur, waiting for them at Marseilles 23 Mar. `21 New Rolls-Royce motor car comes at &.7.30 p,m. June 2 `21 They get £1550 for their old car June 9 `21 “The car has been perfect” (on their return from Scotland). Sep. 27 `21

Carson, Sir Edward, Ulster Unionist politician and barrister The Edward Carsons 6 Sep. `00 Calls on Kiplings in company of Lady Londonderry 16 Dec. `12

Carman, Bliss, Canadian poet Calls on Kipling in Washington 5 Mar. `95

Catlins, (Mother, May, Julia and Edith) (see also Depew) First meeting en route to Bermuda and at hotel 1 Mar `94 The Kiplings stay with them at Morristown, NJ. 20 Sep. `94 The Catlin girls stay at ‘Naulakha’ 10 Oct. `94 The Kiplings stay with them at Morristown, NJ. 20 Sep. `94 The girls go off on their bicycles 24 June `95 Kipling comes to continue his convalescence 9 May `99 Edith visits the Kiplings at Creich 8 Aug. `99 The Catlins staying at The Elms 2 Oct. `99 Kiplings stay with them at rue de Varennes, Paris 7 Oct. `01 Julia, now Mrs Chauncey Park Depew, arrives with her husband at Vernet-les-Bains 27 Feb. `11

Cecil, Hon. George, son of Lord and Lady Edward Cecil Missing in France 1 Oct. `14 (note) Kipling meets three Grenadier Guardsmen who saw him killed 3 Dec. `14 Both Kiplings to Winchester to open rifle range in memory of George Cecil. Kipling makes a speech. 11 Dec. `15 Kiplings visit his grave at Villers-Cotteret 21-22 July `20 Cecil, Hon. Helen, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward Cecil Calls at Kessingland 31 July `14 Engaged to (Eric) Hardinge 15 Oct. `20 Cecil, Lord Edward Kiplings meet in Cairo 11 Feb. `13 Cecil, Lady Edward Lunches at Bateman’s in company of Lord Milner 18 Oct. `03 Kiplings visit her at Great Wigsell 24 Apr. `07 Uses Bateman’s as a base while works going on at Gt. Wigsell 30 July `07 To tea with the Kiplings, with her sister, Miss Maxse and M. Georges Clemenceau 23 Sep. `09 Visits Kiplings: also H A Gwynne and the Husseys of Scotney Apr. `10 Lunch with Kiplings at Bateman’s 26 May `10 Calls on Kiplings with Miss Maxse, Lord Milner and Harry Cust 6 Nov. `10 Visits Bateman’s with her children 20 Apr. `11 Kiplings meet in Cairo 11 Feb. `13 With Lord Milner to celebrate Empire Day at Bateman’s 24 May `13 To Kiplings for the week-end 19 July `13 Calls to tell of her adventure in Paris, searching for her son 1 October `14 Carrie calls on her after news of John’s being missing 3 Oct. `15 To a music hall in London with the Kiplings, Lord Milner & the Salisburys 16 Oct. `15 Mention of her marriage to Lord Milner 17 July `21 (note)

Chamberlain, Joseph, Liberal Unionist politician Kipling and he meet at Kipling’s club 11 Oct. `99 A good talk with Kipling at the Club 1 May `00 Kipling comes up to London to meet Chamberlain 25 May `00 Speaks at a Cape Town meeting but Kipling does not attend 18 Feb. `03 Attend lunch for Chamberlain, seated unsuitably 20 Feb. `03 Farewell banquet at Cape Town (but Rudyard at high table) 24 Feb. `03 Meeting with Kipling in London (on South African affairs) 20 May `03 Dinner at club 29 May `03 Kipling disturbed at Chamberlain’s resignation 18 Sept. `03 Dinner at Moberly Bells’: Kipling among those present 7 Nov. `05 Kiplings attend the memorial service to him in London 6 July `14 Chamberlain, Miss, Carrie’s secretary Returns from holiday Jan. 3 `17 Carrie has a “desperate day” with her Mar. 28 `18 A week of “utter stupidity and muddle” June 22 `18 Is given notice Dec. 31 `18 Finishes her service Feb. 8 `19

Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, home of Sir Max and Lady Aitken Kiplings visit Nov. `11 Kiplings visit, Tim Healy a fellow guest 13 July `12 Kiplings spend Christmas Dec. `12 Kiplings spend the night 14 Feb. `14 Kiplings staying, Kipling ill in the night 21 Sep. `14 Kiplings visiting 28 Sep. `18

Chevrillon, M. André, French man of letters Calls 23 Nov. `09 Kiplings meet him (and his wife) in Paris 4 Feb. `14 Kipling gathering material for him Oct. `19 Writes to ask if Kipling will accept honorary degree from University of Paris 23 July & July `23 `21

Chicago, Ill., Arrive 26 Mar. `92

Chirol, Sir Vincent, British journalist, author and imperialist Fellow gust with Kiplings at Allens 22 June `12

Choate, Joseph. America Minister in London Meets Kiplings at Skibo Castle 17 Aug. `99

Christmas 1892, spent at Maplewood 25 Dec. `92 1893, spent with Beatty and Mai again 24 Dec. `93 1899 rather sad, both children and their nurse have influenza 25 Dec. `99 1908 spent at Bateman’s 25 Dec. `98 1911 at Bateman’s with Aitkens and Bonar Laws 25 Dec. `12 1912 spent at Cherkley with Aitkens and Bonar Laws Dec. `12

Churchill, Winston S, politician and Liberal minister (at the time of the diaries) Present at a dinner given by Sir Abe Bailey 2 Jan. `19 As Secretary for War, presides at meeting of Imperial War Graves Commission 21 Jan. `19

Clark, Sir George Sydenham, Governor of Bombay Long talk with Kipling at their club. 22 July `07

Clarke, Commander Henry (later Vice-Admiral (reited), Rottingdean resident First meeting – details illegible 20 Sep. `98 Kipling’s trip up-channel in HMS Nile July `01 (note) Call at Bateman’s with the Joneses Jan. `22 Clarke, Sub-Lieutenant Lawrence, son of above, in HMS Repulse Kipling writes verse for his gunroom mess in Repulse 7 Nov. `17

Clemenceau, M. Georges, French politician and prime minister To tea with the Kiplings, with Lady Edward Cecil, and her sister, Miss Maxse 23 Sep. `09

Cleveland, Grover, President of the USA Receives Kipling. Kipling is unimpressed. 5 Apr. `95

Coates, Miss, Secretary Leaves to better herself 30 June `11

Cobham, Viscount, Liberal politician Kiplings call on them at Hagley Hall, on way to Baldwins 19 Aug. `08

Colefax, Arthur and Sibyl Call at Bateman’s 5 Aug. `12 Carrie to tea at Mrs. Colefax’s – meets some notables 1 Oct. `19

Collier, John, English portrait painter Starts Kipling’s portrait at Rottingdean 19 May `00 Another sitting 27 May `00 The portrait finished 10 June `00

Colvin, Ian, journalist and leader-writer on the Morning Post Visits Kipling at Bateman’s 21 July `11 His Life of Jameson (in M/S form) disappoints the Kiplings 6 July `21

Colvin, (Sir) Sidney Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03 Kiplings meet the Colvins at the Allens 10 May `13

Conan Doyle, (Sir) Arthur (English author) Invited to visit 29 Oct. `94 Apologises for ‘stuffy’ reply 5 Nov. `94 Stays with Kiplings at ‘Naulakha’ 26 Nov. `94 Plays golf with Kipling 27 Nov. `94 Thanksgiving dinner at Beatty’s home 27 Nov. `94 Leaves ‘Naulakha’ 30 Nov. `94

Conland, Dr. James – physician, Kipling’s family doctor and friend Attends Josephine’s birth 29 Dec. `92 Worried about Carrie 25 Jan. `95 Calls and supplies details of fishing on the Grand Banks 9 Feb. `96 Calls and spends the morning (in the aftermath of Beatty’s threat.) 7 May `96 To Gloucester with Kipling. 19 May `96 Comes to New York to consult over their illnesses 8 Feb. `99 Calls again: says lung healed but needs six months rest May `99 Advises in strongest terms not to spend winters in N. hemisphere May `99 (note)

Connaught, Duke and Duchess of Fellow passengers with Kiplings to South Africa: daily discussions. 23 Dec. `05 Kiplings produce list of social contacts for the Connaughts Jan. `06 Kiplings stay with them at Bagshot Park 14 June `10 Kipling writing notes on Canada for the Connaughts 3 Oct. `11

Connaught, Princess Patricia of, Sketches Carrie on board ship Jan. `06 Kiplings disappointed at inability to attend her wedding 27 Feb. `19

Connor, Ralph – see Gordon, Rev. Charles Gordon, Presbyterian Minister

Conrad, Joseph – Author Visits 30 Aug. `04

Cornford, Leslie Cope, journalist Discusses a pension for W E Henley with Kipling 13 Nov. `97 Much friendship with him and his wife May `98 Calls at Bateman’s 4 July `10

Courthope, George L Brings petition for Henley’s pension 24 Nov. `97 Kipling speaks in Burwash for him in the Dec. `10 election 3 Dec. `10 And again 7 Dec. `10

Craik, Miss Mary and Miss Georgina (two of the three “old ladies of Albemarle Road”) (see also Miss Winnard) Kiplings call on them and dine with them 11 Aug. `95 Kipling sees them 24 June `04

Crane, Stephen, American author Lunches with Kipling, Ripley Hichcock, and Dean Howells 25 Apr. `96

Creich, Sutherland, Scotland: The Manse, house lent to Kiplngs by Andrew Carnegie. August-September The Kiplings go north from Euston 8 Aug. `99 Kiplings revisit it 15 Sep. & Sep. 15 `21

Crewe, Colonel and Mrs, he a member of Cape Province legislature. Call at Bateman’s with Sir Abe Bailey 15 Sep. `13

Cunliffe, Colonel Frederick, OUSC, Commanding Nigeria Regiment Calls 4 July `16

Curtis, Lionel, British lawyer, active in South Africa Meets Kipling in Pretoria 16 Mar. `06 Comes “laden with federation schemes”. 2 Feb. `07 Calls again 3 Feb. 07 Fellow guest with Kiplings and Jameson at Baileys 4 July `12

Curzon, Lord, politician and later Viceroy of India Kipling meets at dinner to Sir G. Robertson 31 May `97 Kipling declines an invitation to the Delhi durbar from Curzon 17 Sep. `02 Kipling meets at degree ceremony at Oxford 27 June `07

Cust, Harry Calls on Kiplings with Lady E. Cecil, Miss Maxse and Lord Milner 6 Nov. `10 Fellow guest of Lady Desborough with the Kiplings 23 May `14

Cuthbert, Mrs. Harold, widow of Captain Cuthbert, Scots Guards, late Irish Guards (later Lady Rayleigh) Kiplings visit Mrs. Cuthbert at Beaufront Castle Aug. 18 `17 Kiplings visit again 3 Sep. & Sep. 11 `19 Kiplings visit 18 Sep. & Sep. 19 `21

Cycling The girls (Catlins) go off on their bicycles 24 June `95 Kipling gets a bicycle 10 Sep. `95 Takes a bicycle lesson 21 Mar. `96 Master of his “wheel” 31 Mar. `96 Carrie given a bicycle by Kipling 23 May `96 They both (Kipling and Carrie) order cycling suits) 17 Nov. `96 “Cycling in the mud” at Torquay Jan. `97 A tandem cycle comes, the gift of S. McClure 21 June `97 To Newhaven and back on the tandem 18 June `98

D Dartmouth, Lord, Vice-Chamberlain of Queen Victoria’s household Passenger with Kiplings on board SS Persia, Marseilles to Port Said. 7 Feb. `13

Davis, Richard Harding, American author Their first visitor to Naulakha 4 Sep. `93

Day, Rev. Charles O. Day, Pastor of Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro Visits, possibly to play golf 10 Feb. `96 Plays golf with Kipling 26 Feb. `96 Spends the day with Kipling (in the aftermath of the Beatty case) 15 May `96

Deakin, Alfred, Prime Minister of Australia Meeting in London with Kipling, Jameson, Gwynne and Milner 7 May `07

De Forest, Lockwood - see Forest, L. de

Depew, Mrs Chauncey Park (formerly Mrs Trevor Park, née Julian Catlin (qv)) Arrives at Vernet-les Bains, with husband and car 27 Feb. `11 Kiplings visit them at Chateau d’Anel 13 Aug. `11 Kiplings part of a large party at Chateau d’Anel 23 Mar. `12 Kiplings part of a cosmopolitan party at Chateau d’Anel 22 Dec. 13 Arrives at Bateman’s, tells of her flight from Compiègne 9 Sep. `14

Derby, Lady Fellow guest of Lady Desborough with the Kiplings 23 May `14

Desborough, Lady The Kiplings and Elsie to the Desboroughs at Taplow Court 22 Nov. `13 The Kiplings for a weekend party 23 May `14 d’Humières, Vicomte Robert – see Humières, Vicomte Robert d’

Dodge, Mary Mapes; American author and editor Kiplings call on her and meet Mark Twain and Dean Howells 5 Apr. `93

Doubleday, Frank Nelson (FND, or ‘Effendi’) First meeting, as a representative of Scribners’ 30 Nov. `95 Writes re setting up on his own 9 Feb. `97 Drives with Kipling and Carrie at Lakewood, NJ 17 Apr. `99 All Kipling family guests at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June `99 Farewell dinner in New York (RK, ‘the Pater’, FND, McClure and de Forest) 13 June `99 FND still faithful (in London) 23 June `99 Kiplings staying with Doubledays as their guests at Brown’s Hotel 6 July `99 “Our dear Doubledays leave: depended on them for six months” 14 July `99 Comes to visit at The Elms 27 May `00 Given power of attorney over ‘Naulakha’ 2 Dec. `00 FND and Dorothy arrive 8 May `02 Visit at Bateman’s 14 Oct. `04 Meet with Kiplings 20 Apr. `07 A mysterious and inexplicable entry re Doubledays (see Finney, F.N. 19 June `07 Meet Kiplings at Montreal 27 Sep. `07 Visiting Bateman’s 4 July `11 With his wife, meet Kiplings at Wady Halfa 28 Feb. `13 Business conferences with Kipling 24 Mar. 13 Visiting Bateman’s 27 May `14 Visits Bateman’s with his new wife 17 Dec. `18

Douglas, General Sir Charles, GOC Southern Command Kipling attends cavalry manoeuvres at his invitation 28 Aug. `12

Dryden, Ruth (Kipling), a distant relative on his father’s side of the family Kipling supports her by sending cheques 4 Nov. `19

Du Chaillu, Paul, African explorer Lectures in Brattleboro 19 Jan. `93

Dudwell Farmhouse, used as a convalescent home for officers Elsie and Carrie meet Mr. Marks and wife, new guests for Dudwell May 1 `17 Trix and a companion come to stay at Dudwell 20 Sep. & Sep. 20 `17 Second Lieut. White and wife arrive Apr. 26 `18 Lieut. White leaving tomorrow, much improved June 4 `18 Mr. and Mrs. Parkin and son arrive July 26 `18 Mrs. Matthews and two children arrive Sep. 1 `18 Dudwell’s guest “rather a bother” Sep. 5 `18

Dunham, Dr. Theodore, Carrie’s brother-in-law (husband of Josephine) Comes to attend Kipling in New York. 21 Feb. `99

Dunlop Smith, Sir James, Viceroy’s Private Secretary Calls with George Allen and others 2 July `10 Provides Kipling with the raw material for The Eyes of Asia June 26 `16

Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, home of Duke and Duchess of Sutherland Kiplings visit in Carnegie’s yacht 19 Aug, `99

Dunsterville, Major Lionel Charles – the original of ‘Stalky’ (later Major-General) Visits 30 May `04 Visits again with his wife 1 June `04 Visits 24-25 Sep. `09 Comes to stay – Kipling enjoys the visit very much 11 June `20 Dunsterville, Lionel (son of ‘Stalky) Comes to stay 5 July `13

Durand, Ralph, author of A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling Calls and has tea. 13 Oct. `13

Durnford, Vice-Admiral Sir John, C-in-C, Cape of Good Hope station Kipling dines and sleeps at Simonstown as his guest 18 Feb. `07 Kipling meets him at Grays Inn dinner 12 June `07 Kiplings stay with him for two days at RNC Greenwich 25 Sep. `08 Kipling to RNC Greenwich to meet Admiral Beresford 23 June `09

Durham University Kipling awarded Hon. D. Litt. 14 June `07

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Edinburgh, capital of Scotland Kiplings go to Edinburgh 6 July & July 6 `20 Kipling awarded LLD degree by University 8 July & July 8`20 Leave for London July 12 `20

Elcho, Lady The Kiplings meet her at the Lytteltons at Wittersham 26 May `10 Fellow guest of Lady Desborough with the Kiplings 23 May `14

Ellen, parlour maid at Bateman’s Retires on a pension, after 11 years’ service 6 June `14

Elms, The – the house in Rottingdean they rented 1897-1902 They pay £3.3.0 per week for The Elms, Rottingdean 25 Sep. `97 Lockwood de Forest visiting July `98 Mrs Kipling to stay with ‘the Pater’s note on Kim 20 Sep. `98 Return quietly after the disastrous trip to USA 24 June `99 Arrive home from South Africa 3 May `01 Last night at The Elms 31 Aug. `02

Engelberg, Switzerland Kipling family arrive to stay 31 Dec. `08 Kipling family arrive to stay 31 Dec. `09 Carrie (and Kipling) unwell at Engelberg Jan. `10 (note) Baldwins also staying at Engelberg 16 Jan. `10 Kiplings to Engelberg with the Wares 29 `Dec. `10 Kiplings to Engelberg with Miss Howard and Bailey children 28-29 Dec. `11 Kiplings at Engelberg Jan. `12 Kiplings leave Engelberg for Florence 14 Feb. `12 Kiplings at Engelberg 27 Dec. `12 Kiplings at Engelberg 29 Dec. `13 John leaves Engelberg to return to school 20 Jan. `14 Kipling, Carrie and Elsie leave Engelberg for Zurich and St. Moritz 21 Jan. `14

Everitt, Sam (Assistant to Nelson Doubleda) Comes with his wife and two nieces to lunch Aug, 24 `21

F Fairbridge, Kingsley, founder of "Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies", Calls on Kipling 9 Sep. `08 Kipling “making friends with Kingsley Fairbridge” 25 Sep. `09

Feilden, Colonel Henry, friend of Rider Haggard and Burwash resident Kipling meets (first mention in the ‘Extracts’) 22 Nov. `04 Calls, shortly after news of King’s death 8 May `10 Elsie and Kipling call on him to congratulate him on 80th birthday Oct. 6 `17 Mrs. Feilden (Julia), the Colonel’s wife, dies 13 June & June 13 `20 Kiplings hear of the Colonel’s death 18 June & June 18 `21 Funeral June 21 `21

Feisal, Emir, later King Feisal of Iraq. Kipling meets at Goschens 23 Jan `21

Films and Cinema Kipling selecting tales for Pathé to film 14 Aug & Aug. 14 `19 Mr Lewis reports on success of Without Benefit of Clergy July 14 `21

Finney, F.N., American railway magnate. Visits Bateman’s – “charming” 19 June `07

Fitzpatrick, Percy (later Sir Percy), South African author, politician and financier Splendid talk 3 Dec. `99 The Kiplings stay with them in Johannesburg 27 Mar. `03 Guest of the Kiplings at supper in Johannesburg 29 Mar. `03

Fleming, Colonel Jack, Trix’s husband Arrives at Tisbury after Mrs Kipling’s death 24 Nov. `10 (and note) Kiplings lunch with Col. Fleming and Trix, in Edinburgh 26 Aug. `17 & Aug. 26 `17 Has sold their Edinburgh house: Trix goes to Jersey 13 Oct. `19 Fleming, Mrs. Jack (‘Trix’) – Kipling’s sister Comes for Christmas with her parents 22 Dec. `97 Worrying news received from Mrs. Kipling that she is ill 5 Dec. `98 Worse 7 Dec. `98 Problems over Trix 18 Sep. `99 More anxiety over Trix 29 Oct. `99 Bad news of Trix 29 Apr. `00 Trix better 1 May `00 Staying with Kiplings as guest (with Mrs. Kipling) 20 May `02 To stay at Bateman’s with both her parents 22 June `04 To stay at Bateman’s with both her parents 2 May `10 Arrives at Tisbury shortly after Kipling on news of mother’s illness 25 Nov. `10 (note) Kipling returns from Tisbury with poor account of her 23 Dec. `10 Kipling visits her at Andover 16 Oct. `11 Kiplings visit her at Tisbury where she is under a doctor’s care. May `12 She stays with the Walkers at Worplesdon 26 Oct. 12 The Kiplings visit her at Scarborough 14 July `13 Kipling sees Dr. Craig about her state of health 14 Sep. `14 Trouble over Trix 6 Nov. `14 Kiplings lunch with Col. Fleming and Trix, in Edinburgh 26 Aug. `17 & Aug. 26 `17 Comes to stay at Dudwell, with a companion, till Christmas Sep. 20 `17 Kiplings meet her in London, she being on her way to Jersey Oct. 15 `19

Fletcher, Charles, Oxford History don, collaborator with Kipling in A History of England Meets Kipling in Oxford to discuss history project 6 June `10 Calls at Bateman’s 12 Sep. `10

Fonthill Abbey The Kiplings visit 13 May `94

Forest, L. de (friend of Kipling’s father, and a good friend to Kipling and Carrie) Meets them on arrival in New York 11 Feb. `92 The Kiplings stay with him at Coldspring Harbor. Long Island 18 Aug. `92 Stays with the Kiplings at ‘Naulakha’ 21 Oct. `93 Stays with the Kiplings at ‘Naulakha; 3 Oct. `94 Stays with the Kiplings at Naulakha 25 May `96 Leaves with Kipling for fishing trip in Canada 15 June `96 Returns 1 July `96 Visiting the Kiplings at the Elms July `98 Meets the Kiplings on arrival in New York 2 Feb. `99 Josephine Kipling taken there for nursing 23 Feb. `99 Farewell dinner in New York (RK, ‘the Pater’, FND, McClure and de Forest) 13 June `99 With his wife, visits Kiplings at Bateman’s 27 Aug. `11 Visits Kiplings at Bateman’s 6 May `14

Folkestone, Kent Working at a speech to be made there (but it may not come off) 31 Jan. `18

Forbes, Cameron, American, Governor of the Philippines Visits at Bateman’s 11 Nov. `13

Fortescue, Hon John, Librarian at Windsor Castle, historian and author Fellow guest of the Kiplings at the Roberts: shows all of them round the Castle 1 June `12

Fox, Captain, Game Warden from the Soudan Visits Bateman’s 22 July `12

Frewen, Moreton, friend of George Allen’s and through him a friend of Kipling Kipling shoots with him at Brede Place Oct. `10 The Kiplings to tea at Brede Place 3 July `11 He and his wife to stay for the week-end at Bateman’s 19 July `13

Freyburg, Captain (later Lieut.-Gen. Lord, VC, etc.. Calls ay Bateman’s 29 Aug. 20 Visits again 15 Sep. `20

G Garvin, J L, British journalist, editor of the Observer Visits Bateman’s 5 Aug. `12

German, Edward, English composer Calls on Kipling about a musical setting for The Irish Guards. 4 Feb & Feb. 4 `18

Gilbert, Surgeon Captain (Indian Army doctor and a Brighton resident) Kipling cycles to see him 15 Aug. `98

Gill, Sir David, Astronomer in charge of Cape Town Observatory Kipling spends much of his 1905 visit in his company Jan. `05

‘Goat’, The; largely Naval dining club Lunches there for the first time 6 Jun `18 Lunches there frequently 21 June `18

Goldie, Sir George, Colonial administrator, particularly in Nigeria Calls 2 Mar. `02 Calls, talking army reform 26 Feb. `04

Golf Plays golf 7 Oct. `94 Golf with the Conan Doyle brothers 27 Nov. `94 Plays golf with red balls in the snow 10 Feb, `96 Goode, Miss, governess for Elsie Comes 0 Apr. `10

Gordon, Rev. Charles Gordon, Presbyterian Minister and author Meets Kipling at Winnipeg 2 Oct. `07

Goschen, George (Viscount Goschen) Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03 Goschen, Lady, wife of above. Visits Bateman’s 20 Apr. `11 Kiplings attend ‘the Goschen wedding’ 31 Aug. `20 Kiplings visit Goschens at Flimwell to meet Emir Feisal 23 Jan. `21

Gosse, Edmund Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92 Sees the Kiplings off on their honeymoon 2 Feb `92 With his mother, calls on Kiplings at Rock House 5 Jan. `97 Gosse, Philip Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92 Gosse, Tessa Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92

Grainger, Percy – Australian musician and composer Calls July `05

Grays Inn, one of the Inns of Court Kipling attends Benchers’ dinner 12 June `07

Grayson, Rupert, John’s friend and fellow Guardsman Comes to tea at Bateman’s with John 17 Jul. `15 Visiting Bateman’s Jan. `16 Kiplings go to christening of his son, Kipling standing Godfather Dec. 17 `16

Great Wigsell, Jacobean House near Hawkhurst, home of the Cecils (later Milners) Kiplings look at the house, but it is not suitable 24 Sep. `00 Kiplings visit Lady Edward Cecil 24 Apr. `07 Lady Cecil using Bateman’s as a base while works being carried out at Great Wigsell 30 July `07

Green, Arthur, private soldier befriended by Kipling in Bath hospital Kipling says farewell 28 Feb. `16 & note Kipling gives him £25, acting as Green’s patron 15 Mar. `16

Guillims’ Heraldry - 1690 book of reference Bought by Kipling for £5 9 Nov. `03

Gully, William (Speaker of the House of Commons) Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03

Gwynne, Howell A, journalist Colleague on the Friend in Bloemfontein 10 Apr. `00 (note) To lunch with Kipling 1 Jan. `01 Calls 5 Apr. `01 Leaves: “a nice man” 5 Apr. `01 Great talks with 20 Feb. `03 Also passenger in Kinfauns Castle. Cape Town to England 22 Apr. `03 Takes the children ashore at Madeira 5 May `03 Kipling lends him £145 9 Dec. `03 Tells Kipling that Reuter’s subscribers snap up his verses 29 July `04 Visits Kipling in company of Sir E. Ward 10 Oct. `04 Meets Kipling on return from the Cape, takes him to meet Jameson 20 Apr. `07 Meeting in London with Kipling, Jameson, Milner and Deakin 7 May `07 Visits Kiplings: also Lady E. Cecil and the Husseys of Scotney Apr. `10 Calls at Bateman’s 18 Sep. `10 Responds to Kipling’s anxious enquiries about strikes and advises them that the can travel 18 Aug. `11 Kipling visits him in his office 28 Sep. `11 Meets with Kipling and Jameson in London 27 May `13 On manoeuvres with Kipling in Aldershot area 30 June `13 Undertakes to make enquiries about John through Catholics 6 Oct & 6 Oct. `15 Kipling sends him Green’s account of life in a PoW camp 28 Feb. `16 note Visits Bateman’s for the week end 21 July `21

Gwynne, Llewellyn Henry, Archdeacon of the Sudan, later Bishop, brother of Howell Visits the Kiplings at Bateman’s 22 July `08 H Haggard, Henry Rider, author and agriculturalist Visits Bateman’s with George Allen 21 Nov. `04 With Professor Macphail (from McGill) visit Bateman’s to Discuss formation of branch of National Service League 10 Dec. `09 Visits Bateman’s for two days 30 Sep. `11 Goes fishing with Kipling, at Bateman’s 22 May `18 Visits Bateman’s, “in great form” 15 Nov. `18

Haig, General Sir Douglas (later Field-Marshal Earl), British Army C-in-C in France 1915-18 Present at a dinner given by Sir Abe Bailey 2 Jan. `19 Kipling is filmed for the Earl Haig Fund Aug. 19 `21

Hall, Arthur, Bishop of Vermont Carrie hears him preach 11 Feb. `94 Lunch with Kiplings 1 May `95

Hamilton, General Sir Ian, Adjutant-General Fellow guests with Kiplings and Bathursts at Lord Roberts’. 6 Nov. `09 Hamilton, Lord George, politician Kipling dines with him 3 May `94

Harmsworth, Alfred (later Lord Northcliffe), press baron They meet again at the Stracheys 30 Oct. `04 Harmsworth, “Young Harmsworth, John’s fellow Officer”) To tea 6 Oct. `15 & note

Harris, Colonel A. Sutherland Harris, a Burwash neighbour of the Kiplings Involvement with building of Village Institute 3 Dec. `07 (note) Col. and Mrs Harris call 18 Sep. `10

Haskins, Kittredge, Brattleboro lawyer Calls re drain dispute with Beatty 28 Feb. `96

Hatchard’s bookshop, Piccadilly. Kipling meets Milner there: they have a “good talk” 14 Oct. `03

Hay, John, American lawyer, and diplomat Calls on Kiplings in Washington 2 Mar. `95 Kipling lunches with him 27 May `97 Kipling dines with him the evening they arrive from South Africa 30 Apr. `98 He dines with Kipling and Rhodes 3 May `98

Healy, Tim, Irish lawyer, MP and ‘Home Ruler’ Fellow guest with Kiplings at Cherkley Court 13 July `12

Heath Robinson, William, cartoonist and illustrator To lunch at Bateman’s 21 Dec. `08

Heinemann, William Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92 Sees the Kiplings off on their honeymoon 2 Feb `92 Kipling writes: “time, light and quiet” – not found in London 16 Sept. `92 Sends cheque (royalties from The Naulakha) 2 Mar. 93 Sends cheque for $100 on account for Many Inventions 22 May `93

Heley-Hutchinson, Sir Walter, Governor of Cape Colony Kiplings dine with them at Government House 9 Apr `01 Lady Hely-Hutchinson calls at Bateman’s 6 June `14

Helm, Major (Major Ernest Helme) Plays German’s setting of Irish Guards song to Kiplings at Bath Mar. 1 `18

Henley, W E, Editor of National Observer Calls on Kipling with Charles Whibley, his Assistant Editor 13 Apr. `94 Kipling discusses a pension for Henley with Cope Cornford 13 Nov. `97 Balfour will give Henley a pension 3 Jan `98 Kiplings lunch with him at Worthing 12 June `00

Hitchcock, Ripley, publisher’s editor for Appleton & Co. Visits Kipling 11 Jan. `95 Leaves 14 Jan. `95 Lunches with Kipling, Dean Howells and Stephen Crane 25 Apr. `96

Hogg, Miss? New Secretary 19 Aug. `11

Holbrook, Frederick, former Governor of Vermont. Kiplings visit him for tea 23 Feb. `95 Holbrook, Miss Emerline Paints Josephine’s portrait 19 Dec. `94

Honeymoon To Chicago, Ill 26 Mar. `92 To St, Paul, MN 28 Mar `92 To Winnipeg 30 Mar. `92 Vancouver 3 Apr. `92 Sail Empress of India to Japan 6 Apr. `92 Yokohama 20 Apr. `92 Sociable in Tokyo and Yokohama 27 Apr. `92 An Earthquake 11 May `92 Another earthquake (severe) 3 June `92 Leave Yokohama 27 June `92 Arrive Vancouver 8 July `92 Arrive Banff 10 July `92 At Montreal 19 July `92 At Quebec 22 July `92

Arrive Brattleboro 26 July `92

Hooper, Miss (possibly misidentification of Miss Hannah Winnard) Visits Oct. `05 Visits 21 May `10

Hoppé, Emil Otto, photographer Visits Bateman’s to take Kipling’s likeness 22 July `12

Hornung, E W, English novelist. Mr. and Mrs. Hornung call, 27 Dec. `10 Kiplings go as his guest to opening night of ‘Raffles’ 23 Dec, `14

Howard, Matthew Engaged as coachman 1 Sep. `94 Involved in accident with carriage and pair 27 Oct. `94 Has everything in good order 8-10 June `99 Brings Josephine’s portrait from ‘Naulakha’ 27 Dec. `99

Howard, Miss (Governess to Sir Abe Bailey’s children?) Miss Howard and ‘the Bailey children’ to visit 22 Aug. `11

Howells, William Dean (American author and magazine editor) Kiplings call on Mrs. Dodge and meet him and Mark Twain 5 Apr. `93 Lunches with Kipling, Ripley Hitchcock and Stephen Crane 25 Apr. `96

Hughes, William Morris (‘Billy’). Premier of Australia Lunches with L S Amery, Kipling and Sir Mark Sykes 17 May, `16

Humières, Vicomte Robert d’, Franco-American translator Calls 8 Aug. `00 Visits Bateman’s with his wife 29 July `07 Present at the lunch given by Princess Marie of Greece 21 Feb. `14

Hunt, Mr and Mrs, Acquaintances in Japan – staying with them? 3 June `92 Successful ball given 14 June `92

Hunter, Sir William (“Grand old man of Indian letters”) Kipling with him 2 May `97

Husseys of Scotney Castle Visits Kiplings: also Lady E. Cecil and H A Gwynne Apr. `10 Calls, bringing Archbishop of Canterbury & Mrs Davidson 10 Oct. `13 Kiplings call on them. 1 Jan/ `19

I Imperial Service College – see Westward Ho!

Imperial War Graves Commission Kipling attends meeting, Churchill in the chair 21 Jan. `19 Kipling speaks to 150 MPs on the subject 27 Apr. & Apr. 27 `20 Col. and Mrs. Goodland visit Bateman’s (much talk of work of War Graves Commission) (Nov). `20

Income Tax Demand received for £742 9 Jan, `13

Irish Guards: John’s Regiment John receives commission (backdated to 14[15?] Aug.) 12 Sep. `14 John joins at Warley Barracks 14 Sep. `14 Kipling finishes his ‘song’ about the Irish Guards 28 Jan. `18

Irving, Sir Henry Kiplings calls on them after seeing play at Lyceum 28 May `97

J James, Henry Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92 Sees the Kiplings off on their honeymoon 2 Feb `92 Carrie lunches with him in London 24 July `94 Comes to stay at Tisbury 31 July `94 Lunches with them in London 13 Aug. `95 Comes to dinner 6 Jan. `98 Kiplings to lunch the motor breaks down 13 Oct. `02 Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03 Lunch in Rye 26 June `03 Comes to lunch at Bateman’s with American cousin 25 Sept. `03 Visits Bateman’s 21 May `06 Visits Bateman’s 21 June `08 Kiplings visit 28 Oct. `11 Kiplings attend his funeral 3 Mar. & Mar. 3 `16 James, William – brother of Henry and a Harvard professor Comes to visit with his wife 8 June `95

Jameson, Leander Starr, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1904-08) Calls 10 Jan. `01 Calls at The Woolsack 13 Feb. 02 Discusses Rhodes’ will and funeral with Kipling 28 Mar. `02 To lunch with the Kiplings at The Elms 8 June `02 Calls at ‘The Woolsack 25 Jan. `03 Guest of the Kiplings at supper in Johannesburg 29 Mar. `03 Most of Kipling’s visit spent with Jameson 5 April `05 Visits Bateman’s “looking ill and wretched” 21 Sep. `05 Meets with Kipling to discuss Rhodes Memorial 1 Jan. `07 Meeting in London with Kipling, Milner, Gwynne and Deakin 7 May `07 Kipling plays “much golf” with Jameson 15 Apr. `08 Dr. Jameson “on the ship: a more tolerable voyage because of his company” 15 Apr. `08 Leaves for Africa to attend Union conference 9 Sep. 08 Lunches at Bateman’s with Metcalfe 12 Oct. `09 Fellow guest with Kiplings and Lionel Curtis at Baileys 4 July `12 Meets with Kipling and Gwynne in London 27 May `13 Calls at Bateman’s 26 Apr. `14 Fellow guest with the Kiplings at Cliveden 4 July `14 Kiplings dine with him at the Ritz 4 Mar. `16 Asks Kipling to become a trustee of the Rhodes Trust 27 Aug. 17 Ill: Kiplings (in London) postpone their return home Nov. 20 `17 Better Nov. 21 `17 Dies 26 Nov. & Nov. 26 `17 Kiplings attend Jameson’s memorial service Dec. 5 `17 Colvin’s Life of Jameson received by Kiplings in M/S 6 July `21

Janeway, Dr. In attendance on Kipling 21 Feb. `99

Johannesburg Kipling visits with Carrie 27 Mar. `03

Johnson, Claude, Sales Director of Rolls-Royce. Lends the Kiplings a Rolls-Royce car and chauffeur to take them from Vernet-les-Bains to Paris 23 Mar. `10 Calls at Bateman’s with Lord Montagu 29 May `10 Calls on Kipling to discuss a new Rolls-Royce 2 Nov. `10

Jones, Roderick (later Sir Roderick) Reuters’ Chief Correspondent in Africa Kipling meets Feb. `06 Kipling, Jones and Jameson discuss Rhodes Memorial 1 Jan. `07 Visits, with South African news 10 Aug. `09 Visits Bateman’s Nov. `12 Visits Bateman’s – discussing propaganda Jan `17 Visits Bateman’s with his wife 19 June `21 Jones, William West, Archbishop of Cape Town Lunches with Rhodes and Kipling (to discuss the conditions for ‘Rhodes Scholarships’ at Oxford) 1 Feb. `01 Preaches at Sunday service on board ship, en route to the Cape 20 Dec. `03

K Kessingland Grange, a house in Suffolk, owned by Rider Haggard The Kiplings spend the week-end there 30-31 July `13 All the family to Kessingland Grange 28 Aug. `13 The Kiplings agree to rent it from Haggard for a year 31 Aug. `13 Children’s holiday party at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 Kiplings to Kessingland for a summer holiday 23 July `14 John arrives at Kessingland 28 July `14

Keylands: cottage on Bateman’s estate Offered to Landon to rent 5 Dec. `12 Being rebuilt for Landon 5 Dec. `12 The Kiplings call there almost daily 23 May `13 Landon to dinner, arranges to give up ‘Keylands’ Aug. 24 `18

Kingsley, Mary, British explorer Calls on Carrie 29 Mar. `00 Calls on Carrie 31 Mar. `00 Dines with the Kiplings 10 Apr. `00

Kinnaird, Hon. ?: unknown member of Lord Kinnaird’s family Evidently meets Kipling at the Cape: Carrie disapproves of him Jan `08

Kipling, Alice (née Macdonald – Kipling’s mother) Kipling sends $100 as a Christmas present 30 Nov. `92 Visits them at Rock House – leaves 26 Oct. `96 Visits them at North End House 21 July `97 Comes for Christmas with ‘the Pater’ and ‘Trix’ 22 Dec. `97 To stay at The Elms with ‘the Pater’s note on Kim 20 Sep. `98 Sends “worrying news” concerning ‘Trix’ who is ill 5 Dec. `98 Calls on newly-returned Kiplings at Royal Palace Hotel 23 June `99 Staying with Kiplings as guest (with Trix ) 20 May `02 Staying with Kiplings (she “looks feeble”) 22 June `04 Has Graves’ disease 16 Oct. `09 Visits Bateman’s with Lockwood and Trix 2 May `10 Taken ill – Kipling wired for 19 Nov. `10 Dies 22 Nov. `10 Funeral 25 Nov. `10 Kipling, Alice (‘Trix’) - Kipling’s sister – see Fleming, Mrs. Jack (‘Trix’) Kipling, Caroline (Carrie) Sails for honeymoon in Teutonic 3 Feb. `92 Arguing with Beatty about finance: agrees to buy house site 26 Feb. `92 Arrives New York 11 Feb. `92 Calls on Grandmamma in New York 12 Feb. `92 Social life in New York 12-16 Feb. `92 To Brattleboro; met by Beatty 16 Feb. `92 Beatty and Mai offer the Kiplings the site for a house 18 Feb. `92 Back to New York 20 Feb. `92 Much arguing with Beatty over finance 26 Feb. `92 Discussions with Marshall the architect 5 Mar. `92 Back to Brattleboro 14 Mar. `92 Go to see our land 15 Mar. `92 Back to New York 17 Mar. `92 Start of their honeymoon voyage – to Chicago 26 Mar. `92 St. Paul MN 28 Mar. `92 Through Dakota to Winnipeg 30 Mar. `92 Vancouver 3 Apr. `92 Sail Vancouver for Japan in SS Empress of India 6 Apr. `92 Yokohama – meet Sir Edwin Arn old 20 Apr. `92 An earthquake 11 May `92 A severe earthquake 3 June `92 They leave Yokohama for Vancouver 27 June `92 Arrive Vancouver 8 July `92 At Banff, Alberta 10-13 July `92 Montreal 19-20 July `92 Mama (Mrs. Balestier) wires that they can rent “the Bliss Cottage” at $10 a month 22 July `92 Back to Brattleboro 26 July `92 Grandma calls (old Mrs. Balestier) 27 July `92 They go to inspect the Bliss cottage 28 July `92 Staying at Raponda with Carrie’s mother 1-8 Aug. `92 Moved in to the Bliss cottage 10 Aug. `92 To stay with the de Forests at Coldspring Harbor 18 Aug. `92 Working at house plans 21 Aug. `92 Hires a maid at $18 a month 21 Aug. 92 Really settled in at “The Blizzard” 29 Aug. `92 Her maid ‘defaults’ 5 Sep. 92 Siting Naulakha 8 Sep. `92 Starts to hand out money to Beatty for purchases 8 Sep. `92 The day wrecked by two reporters from Boston 14 Sep. 92 Christmas party at Maplewood for everyone 25 Dec. `92 Gives birth to Josephine, Dr. Conland in attendance 29 Dec. `92 To New York 17 Mar. `93 Has a rough time moving in to ‘Naulakha’ on her own 12 Aug. `93 Signs an agreement saying the house is finished 11 Sep. `93 Carrie and Kipling accompany JLK to New York 23 Sep, `93 Return to Brattleboro 19 Sep. `93 To New York for a holiday 11 Jan. `94 Returns home 17 Jan. `94 Hears Bishop Hall preach 11 Feb `94 To Bermuda – a bad trip and Carrie Ill 27 Feb. `94 Back to New York – another bad trip 24 Mar. `94 Left for Europe with Rudyard and Josephine 2 Apr. 94 Arrive Southampton and to London 10 Apr. `94 Sails again, back to the USA 5 Sep. `94 Arrives New York and back to Brattleboro 14 Sep. `94 Left for Europe with Rudyard and Josephine 2 Apr. 94 Arrive Southampton and to London 10 Apr. `94 Carrie ill 8 June `94 Carrie ill 14 June `94 Lunches with Henry James, in London. 24 July `94 Sails again, back to the USA 5 Sep. `94 Arrives New York and back to Brattleboro 14 Sep. `94 To stay with the Catlins 20 Sep. `94 Home to Brattleboro 26 Sep. `94 Involved in accident with carriage and pair 27 Oct. `94 Still upset by her accident 1 Nov. `94 Thanksgiving dinner at Beatty’s home 27 Nov. `94 Rud gives her a Persian cat 1 Dec `94 Burns her face with the stove 14 Jan. `95 To New York 25 Feb. `95 To Gloucester, Mass. with family 1 July `95 To Boston 8 July `95 To New York and on to England 9 July `95 Returns to Brattleboro 22 Aug `95 Birth pains at midnight: Elsie born 3.20 am 1/2 Feb. `96 To Lakewood, NJ 18 Mar `96 Back to New York 8 Apr. `96 Back to ‘Naulakha’, “happy to be home” 28 Apr. `96 “Most wretched and unhappy day of my life” 9 May `96 Sends duplicate deed of parcel of land to John Balestier 21 Nay `96 Given a bicycle by Kipling 23 May `96 To Brattleboro to consult Judge Reed about meadow question 20 July `96 Packing to leave for England 28 Aug. `96 Leaves ‘Naulakha’ for final time 29 Aug. `96 Sails New York (Hoboken) for Southampton 1 Sep. `96 Arrives Southampton 9 Sep. `96 To Rock House, St. Mary Church, Torquay 9 Sep. `96 Struggling with house moving 17 Sep. `96 Lunch in HMS Britannia (Kipling also) 7 Nov. `96 To church with Josephine 15 Nov. `96 They both (Kipling and Carrie) order cycling suits) 17 Nov. `96 “Cycling in the mud” at Torquay Jan. `97 To London for a visit 3 Feb. `97 Kent – house-hunting – thence London 1 Apr. `97 Family lunch with the three aunts (out of four) 2 Apr. `97 To London – house-hunting in Kent 19 Apr. `97 All the family move into the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington 12 May `97 House-hunting in Kent 14 May `97 To Brighton to discuss taking a house from Aunt Georgie 24 May `87 To the Lyceum theatre: call on Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry 28 May `97 They move into North End House, temporarily 2 June `97 House-hunting towards Lewes 3 June `97 Has a bad time of it in the three weeks before John’s birth 21 July `97 Gives birth to son, John 17 Aug. `97 They pay £3.3.0 per week for The Elms, Rottingdean 25 Sep. `97 Sends signed notes for Beatty’s share of the estate 8 Oct. `97 Full of labour and preparations for Christmas 22 Dec `97 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 Dines with Milner 4 Feb. `98 Amusing dinner at Rhodes’s 21 Feb. `98 To England aboard SS Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Arrive Southampton: to London, Royal Palace Hotel 30 Apr. `98 Back to The Elms 5 May `98 Much friendship with the Cope Cornfords, Sir G. Robertson. and G. Wyndham May `98 To London for memorial service for E. Burne-Jones 22 June `98 To Wilden to stay with the Baldwins 12 July `98 Back to the Elms 16 July `98 A pony arrives 15 Oct. `98 To Royal Palace Hotel 9/10 Nov. `98 Attends William Black’s funeral 15 Dec. `98 All the family board the Majestic at Liverpool, en route to New York 25 Jan. 99 Arrive New York. “Greatest anxiety about the children who have colds.” 2 Feb. `99 Sends for Doctor Macdonald 2 Feb. `99 A pleasant day but anxiety about the children 3 Feb. `99 Worse anxiety about the children; suspected whooping cough 4 Feb. `99 Great anxiety. Carrie in bed and feverish 8 Feb. `99 Carrie and children better 12 Feb. `99 All go to the Park 20 Feb. `99 Carrie takes Josephine to de Forests on Long Island 23 Feb. `99 Sees Josephine three times today 5 Mar. `99 Takes Kipling to Lakewood NJ 17 Apr. `99 Elsie and John have whooping cough – have to leave their hotel 17 Apr. `99 Uncle John [Balestier] comes 2 June `99 All to Doubleday’s house at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June. `99 Carrie and her mother visit ‘Naulakha’ 8-10 June `99 All to New York prior to sailing for England 13 June `99 Sail in RMS Teutonic 14 June `99 Returns quietly to The Elms after the disastrous trip to USA 24 June `99 Staying in London at Brown’s Hotel as guests of the Doubledays 6 July `99 Family all leave for Scotland 8 Aug `99 Phil Burne-Jones starts her portrait 8 Aug. `99 Visited the Carnegies at Skibo Castle 17 Aug. `99 They all return to Euston and thence to The Elms 15 Sep. `99 Takes Elsie to church for first time 24 Sep. `99 All ill and Carrie peevish Jan. `00 Leaves Southampton with all the family 20 Jan. `00 Arrives Cape Town – to Mount Nelson Hotel 5 Feb. `00 To No. 7 Hospital at Wynberg with Kipling 10 Feb. `00 To Portland Hospital with Kipling 11 Feb. `00 Hospitals 17 Feb. `00 Winding bandages 18 Feb. `00 Hospitals – dine at Government House 19 Feb. `00 Lunch with Rhodes – shows them the site of the house he will build for them 7 Mar. `00 Meets Baker at the house site to plan the house 9 Mar. `00 Hospitals 12 Mar. `00 Ill and depressed: receives a letter from Kipling at Bloemfontein 26 Mar. `00 Kipling wires he is leaving Bloemfontein today 29 Mar. `00 Mary Kingsley calls 29 Mar. `00 Kipling will stay in Bloemfontein until 2 April 30 Mar. `00 Papers say Kipling was at a battle yesterday 31 Mar. `00 Mary Kingsley calls 31 Mar. `00 Kipling wires he will be back 4 or 5 Apr. 1 Apr. `00 Kipling returns 3 Apr. `00 Mary Kingsley “the delightful” to dinner 10 Apr. `00 Family left for home 11 Apr. `00 Back in London, Brown’s Hotel 28 Apr. `00: Tea with the vicar 7 June `00 Declines dinner invitations from Duchess of Sutherland and Mrs. Humphry Ward 9 June `00 They lunch with Henley at Worthing 12 June `00 To Guildford to stay with the Stracheys 15 June `00 A 30-mile drive through lovely villages 16 June `00 Carrie and Kipling have a walk on Merrow Down 17 June `00 A drive on the London road as far as Cuckfield 28 June `00 Motor drive to Arundel 13 July `00 Drive to Uckfield 17 July `00 Drive to Haywards Heath to see a house 23 July `00 Mr. Baker from the Cape calls 8 Aug. `00 By train and cab to Etchingham and Burwash to see Bateman’s 14 Aug. `00 Gives away prizes at village flower show 16 Aug. `00 A drive across the Downs to (Al)friston 18 Aug. `00 “We talk Burwash” 18 Aug. `00 Visit to the Baldwins at Wilden 28 Aug. `00 The Mackail children (visiting the Kiplings?) 3 Sep. `00 The Edward Carsons 6 Sep. `00 Disappointment about Batemans 23 Sep. `00 To Hawkhurst – Jacobean House 24 Sep. `00 They try out an American automobile 12 Oct. `00 They don’t like Georgian houses 18 Oct. `00 Head of USC to lunch 31 Oct. `00 To Leamington to stay with Wolcott cousins 1 Nov. `00 To Stratford 2 Nov. `00 Return with presents and a Persian cat 3 Nov. `00 Power of Attorney over ‘Naulakha’ to FND 2 Dec. `00 Off to South Africa 8 Dec. `00 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 25 Dec. `00 Mr. Baker calls 10 Jan. 01 Rhodes sends them a lion cub, to see if they can rear it 13 Feb. `01 The saddest day of our year 6 Mar. `01 Lunch at Groote Schuur with 60 Australian & NZ officers 14 Mar. `00 The Baden-Powells call 19 Mar. `00 Baden-Powell and his sister call 2 Apr. `00 The Mackays to call 5 Apr `01 Dined at Government House 9 Apr. `01 Col Mackay and a dozen Australians to tea 13 Apr. `01 Leave “dear Woolsack” 17 Apr. `01 Arrive Southampton 3 May `01 Told she must have an operation 14 June `01 New motor arrives 18 June `01 A motor picnic in St. Leonard’s Forest with Stracheyss 6 July `01 Carrie ill with a nurse July `01 Still ill and depressed 9 Aug. `01 Cross from Newhaven to France to stay with Catlins in Paris 7 Oct. `01 Return to Newhaven 12 Oct. 01 Kipling gives her a ring 28 Nov. `01 The family sails from Southampton to the Cape. 21 Dec. `01 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 7 Jan. `02 Left The Woolsack for England 16 Apr; `02 Arrive Southampton and to Rottingdean 3 May `92 Engages secretary – Miss E. Parker 6 May. `02 FND and Dorothy arrive 8 May `02 Mrs. Kipling and Trix as guests 20 May `02 By train and cab again to see Bateman’s 26 May `02 To Bateman’s again: they determine to buy: telegrams fly 28 May `02 Invitations to the Abbey for the Coronation 6 June `02 Dr. Jameson to lunch 8 June `02 George Macdonald buys Bateman’s on their behalf for £9300 10 June `02 To London for a reception for colonials 16 June `02 To Bateman’s with Kipling and Ambo Poymter 18 June `02 Kiplings visit the Stracheys at Guildford 21 June `02 Back to The Elms – news of the King’s illness 24 June `02 New Secretary, Miss Parker, takes up her duties 30 June `02 To Bateman’s, most days July `02 Visit to the Loders at Free Chase 15-17 July `02 Uncle Fred (Macdonald) calls 22-30 July `02 Purchase of Bateman’s complete 29 July `02 Spent Coronation day at home 9 Aug. 02 To Isle of Wight to buy leather hangings for Bateman’s Aug. `02 Last night at The Elms 31 Aug. `02 Farewell reception at the Ridsdales 1 Sep. `02 Move to Bateman’s – “chaos and black night” 3 Sep. `02 Heavy work till about the 9th 3 Sep. `02 To Rye: lunch with Henry James, where the motor breaks down 13 Oct. `02 Miss Anderson comes for two days 18 Oct. `02 The vicar to tea 16 Dec. `02 Lunch at the vicarage 22 Dec. `02 Quiet Christmas at home 25 Dec. `02 To Southampton 27 Dec. `02 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 13 Jan. `03 Visit to HMS Good Hope 21 Jan. `03 Attend lunch for Chamberlain, seated unsuitably 20 Feb. `03 To Johannesburg with Kipling 25-27 Mar. `03 Packing to leave “The Woolsack” 20 Apr. `03 Sails in Kinfauns Castle for England 22 Apr. `03 Arrive Southampton and to Bateman’s via London 9 May `03 Saw the play “The Light that Failed” 15 May `03 To lunch with Henry James at Rye 26 June `03 Henry James to lunch with an American cousin 25 Sep. `03 To lunch with the Lugards at Abinger 27 Dep. `03 Milner and Lady Edward Cecil to lunch 18 Oct. `03 Carrie and the children to stay with the Baldwins at Wilden 18 Oct. `03 To Tunbridge Wells to sign the deeds of Naulakha 21 Nov. `03 Sails for Cape Town 12 Dec. `03 Arrive Cape Town and to “The Woolsack” 29 Dec. `03 To Kimberley with Rudyard 9 Mar. `04 Sails in Kildonan Castle for England 13 Apr. `04 Visits Admiral Fisher at Portsmouth with Kipling 29 July `04 Doubledays visiting Bateman’s 14 Oct. `04 To Sir E. Loder’s wonderful park 29 Oct. `04 To the Stracheys at Merrow Down 30 Oct. `04 To the Baldwins at Bewdley Nov. `04 Haggling over purchase of Dudwell Farm Dec. `04 Off to South Africa 10 Dec. `04 Arrive Cape Town 27 Dec. `04 To stay with the Leonards at Maesllwch Castle Aug. `05 To stay with the Baldwins at Astley Aug. `05 To Cambridge “to see the Backs” 12 Aug. `05 To the Haggards 14 Aug. `05 To the Jessops 14 Aug. `05 Attends a dinner at Moberly Bells’ to meet Joseph Chamberlains 7 Nov. `05 Sailed for Africa 23 Dec. `05 Is sketched by Princess Patricia of Connaught Jan. 06 To the Woolsack 9 Jan. `06 Carrie ill March `06 To Johannesburg by train 9 Mar. `06 To Pretoria 16 Mar. `06 Leave Cape Town 18 Apr. `06 Arrive Southampton 5 May `06 Attends Aunt Aggie’s funeral 15 June `06 (note) Leaves for South Africa 17 Dec. `06 Arrives Cape Town and to The Woolsack 1 Jan. `07 Leave Cape Town 6. Apr. `07 Arrive Southampton 20 Apr. `07 To see Lady Edward Cecil at Great Wigsell 24 Apr. `07 To town, anxious about John’s eyes 10 May `07 To military tournament 10 May `07 Meet Poynter (Ned? Ambo?) 10 May `07 Meets Sara Anderson 10 May `07 Frequently visit Bodiam Castle June `07 Lord Milner for lunch and tea – a delightful visit 8 Sep. `07 To London, then Liverpool & RMS Empress of Britain 20 Sep. `07 Met by Sir William Van Horne at Rimouski, QP 26 Sep. `07 Quebec to Montreal in private railway car 27 Sep. `07 Meet Carrie’s mother, Doubledays and McClures in Montreal 27 Sep. `07 At Ottawa 30 Sep. `07 At Winnipeg, 2 Oct. `07 Moosejaw – Calgary 3-4 Oct. `07 Vancouver and Victoria 5 Oct. `07 Medicine Hat 13 Oct. `07 Toronto – reporters 16 Oct. `07 Ottawa, staying with Governor-General at Rideau Hall 19 Oct. `07 McGill University 23 Oct. `07 A town reception 23 Oct. `07 Carrie’s mother returns to Brattleboro. 23 Oct. `07 Sails for England – Allan liner Virginian 24 Oct. `07 Spends two hours with chief engineer, learning about turbines 29 Oct. `07 Arrive home 2 Nov. `07 Left for Stockholm 7 Dec. `07 Esbjerg – very seasick 8 Dec. `07 Stockholm 10 Dec. `07 Nobel ceremonies 11-12 Dec. `07 Back by Hamburg and Flushing – another rough crossing 12 Dec. `07 Back at Bateman’s – peace and shelter most welcome 15 Dec. `07 To Southampton – a dull voyage to the Cape 28 Dec. `07 Left the Woolsack 15 Apr. `08 Comment [A1]: Home 2 May `08 Decides to take on secretary’s task when Miss Matters leave 4 May `08. Calls on Conan Doyles at Crowborough 11 May `08 Visits to Rottingdean to see John who is homesick 21 May `08 Starts a stamp collection with John (and Kipling) 21 June `08 Family tour to the north – York-Kendal-Skipton-Carlisle 4-11 Aug. `08 Along the Wall to Rothbuty 4 Aug. `08 Staying with the Leonards at Biddlestone Hall, 11-18 Aug. `08 4 Aug. `08 Visit to Alnwick 13 Aug `08 Newcastle and Birmingham, to the Baldwins 18-19 Aug. `08 Kiplings call on Viscount & Viscountess Cobham at Hagley Hall, on way to Baldwins 19 Aug. `08 Stratford-Oxford 21 Aug. `08 Horsham and home 22 Aug. `08 To Brookland in Romney Marsh to see the church 27 Aug, `08 Staying with Admiral Durnford for two days at RNC Greenwich 25 Sep. `08 Bland-Sutton removes three cysts from Carrie’s head 8 Oct. `08 (note) To Switzerland 29 Dec. `08 Lucerne 30 Dec. `08 Engelberg 31 Dec. `08 Left for Lucerne 25 Feb. `09 Milan 28 Feb `09 Rome 2 Mar. `09 Tivoli, Hadrian’s Walls (Villas) 11 Mar. `09 Sir Rennell Rodd, British Ambassador to Italy 11 Mar. `09 Sir William Van Horne 11 Mar. `09 To Paris 13 Apr. `09 Home 17 Apr. `09 To dinner at the Swedish Embassy & to meet the Crown Prince and Princess 14 July `09 Dinner at the House of Commons with Baldwin and Bonar Laws 21 July `09 Motor tour to the west 18-21 Aug. `09 Winchester – Graves of Jane Austen and Isaak Walton 19 Aug. `09 Scout camp in the New Forest 20 Aug. `09 Carrie and Elsie return home 21 Aug. `09 A drive to Romney Marsh 8 Sep. `09 Lady Edward Cecil, Miss Maxse and M. Georges Clemenceau to tea 23 Sep. `09 Making friends with Kingsley Fairbridge 25 Sep. `09 Rector and his wife to lunch 16 Oct. `09 The Kiplings make a settlement on their children 26 Oct. `09 To Englemere, to stay with the Roberts 6 Nov. `09 She goes to church 7 Nov. `09 To Engelberg 31 Dec. `09 To Zurich for consultation with Dr. Eichorst 26 Feb. `10 (note) To Geneva, en route to Vernet-les-Bains 26 Feb. `10 Lyons-Avignon-Montpellier-Nimes-Vernet-les-Bains by train 1-2 Mar. `10 They meet Lord Montagu at Avignon, with Claude Johnson and a Rolls Royce car 1-2 Mar. `10 (note) Carrie has sulphur treatment at Vernet. 1-2 Mar. `10 Spectacular ride in Rolls-Royce with Lord Montagu 23 Mar. `10 (note) Lent same car (and chauffeur) to take them back to Paris 23 Mar. `10 Perpignan-Narbonne-Montpellier-Nimes. 26 Mar. `10 Pont du Gard-Les Baux-Avignon. 27 Mar. `10 Avignon to St. Etienne 28 Mar. `10 Moulins 29 Mar. `10 Fontainebleau 30 Mar. `10 Paris 1 Apr. `10 Bateman’s 2 Apr. `10 A new governess for Elsie – Miss Goode 9 Apr. `10 Lady Edward Cecil: H A Gwynne: the Husseys of Scotney Apr. `10 Bought two puppies for the children 20 Apr. `10 Meeting of National Service League at Burwash – tea for 130 27 Apr. `10 ‘ To Browns Hotel, while Kipling attends Academy Banquet 30 Apr. `10 ‘ Death of King Edward VII 7 May `10 To London, to buy mourning 9 May `10 Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton calls 15 May `10 Attends memorial service for King Edward VII in parish church 20 May `10 To London: to see solicitor (G Macdonald) about super-tax 25 May `10 Lord Milner and Lady E. Cecil to lunch 26 May `10 Meets Lady Elcho and A J Balfour at Wittersham 26 May `10 To Oxford with Kipling to hear Roosevelt 6 June `10 To Bagshot Park to stay with the Connaughts 14 June `10 Hugh and Mollie Poynter call 18 June `10 Carrie busy with County Nursing business 18 June `10 The Bathursts and Sir Lewis Mitchell to lunch 22 June `10 Kiplings buy more land at Rye 1 July `10 To tea with Miss Gould 27 July `10 A motor trip to the west: yachting with Walton: visit Leonards at Stanmer; visit Stanstead 12-19 Aug/ `10 Mr. Benson, architect, calls 25 Aug. `10 Teddy Price to stay 25 Aug. `10 Percival Landon calls, and they visit his cousin at Possingworth 8 Sep. `10 The Kiplings stay at Farnborough and inspect Wellington College as a possible school for John 30 Sep. `10 Lady E. Cecil, Miss Maxse, Lord Milner and Harry Cust call 6 Nov. `10 Report on John’s eyes – worse 7 Nov. `10 To South Western Hotel at Tisbury 24 Nov. `10 To The Gables (Kipling’s parents’ home) 25 Nov. `10 To Alice Kipling’s funeral and to London 25 Nov. `10 Mr and Mrs Hornung call 27 Dec. `10 To Engelberg with the Wares 29 Dec. `10 To Paris (from Engelberg) 16 Feb. `11 To Vernet-les-Bains 18 Feb. `11 Tour back to Paris and England starts – for details, see under Cars 25 Mar `11 Opens the little rifle range at Burwash 3 June `11 To London, to buy a gown in which to attend the Coronation 6 June `11 Lunch with the Hammond at Mr. Burdett-Coutts house 9 June `11 To stay with the Baldwins in Kensington before the Coronation 21 June `11 Attend the coronation of King George V, in Westminster Abbey 22 June `11 To tea with the Frewens at Brede Place 3 July `11 To the Bakers at Cobham, near Gravesend 4 July `11 The Doubledays visiting 4 July `11 Sir Max and Lady Aitken visit (twice) 12 July `11 To stay with the Bathursts at Cirencester 29 July `11 All the Kiplings leave for a motor tour of Normandy, with the Aitkens 4 Aug. `11 In Rouen, with the Aitkens 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre: the Aitkens leave to return to England 6 Aug. `11 Bayeux and the Normandy coast 7 Aug. `11 Mont St, Michel 10 Aug. `11 Mortain 11 Aug. `11 Visit the Depews at Chateau d’Anel 13 Aug. `11 Return to Bateman’s, Gwynne having given ‘all clear’. 18 Aug. `11 New Secretary – Miss Hogg? 19 Aug. `11 Laying in stocks of food in case of strikes disrupting supplies 19 Aug. `11 To Lord Milner, at Sturry Court 21 Aug. `11 Miss Howard and ‘the Bailey children’ to visit 22 Aug. `11 Lady Edward Cecil and George Cecil call 22 Aug. `11 The Nelson Spencers call 22 Aug. `11 To lunch with the Baileys 3 Sep. `11 Margo and Oliver Baldwin to visit 9 Sep. `11 Aunt Georgie and Teddy Price to visit 12 Sep. `11 John to Pearson’s House at Wellington College 21 Sep. `11 Bonar Law to dinner 22 Sep. `11 To Dublin with Kipling, sightseeing 17 Oct. `11 Drove to Belfast: to the cinema 19 Oct. `11 To Portrush and the Giant’s Causeway 19 Oct. `11 Back to Brown’s Hotel 24 Oct. `11 To see Henry James 28 Oct. `11 The Aitkens and Bonar Laws for Christmas 25 Dec. `11 The Kiplings to Engelberg (with Bailey children) 28-29 Dec. 11 At Engelberg Jan. `12 Leave Engelberg for Florence, via Lucerne 14 Feb. `12 To Venice 7 Mar. `12 Taken to see Mrs. Ritchie 18 Mar. `12 By train to Paris 20 Mar. `12 Staying with the Depews at Chateau d’Anel 23 Mar. `12 To Dover and home to Bateman’s 27 Mar. `12 They visit Trix at Tisbury May `12 To spend week-end with Lord and Lady Roberts 1 June `12 They visit Windsor Castle with Hon. John Fortescue, the Castle Librarian as their guide 1 June `12 To visit Oliver Baldwin at Eton 4 June `12 Speech Day at Wellington 15 June `12 To the Allens 22 June `12 To the Baileys 4 July `12 To London: dinner at Carlton Hotel to meet Bonar Law and Canadian premier 8 July `12 To Cherkley 13 July `12 Mr. and Mrs. Colefax visit 5 Aug. `12 Kipling and John pick up Carrie at Exeter for motor-tour 10 Sep. `12 (note) Tintagel and Lands End 10 Sep. `12 Westward Ho! 11 Sep. `12 Glastonbury and Tolland (Balestier ancestors) 12 Sep. `12 To London for operation by Bland-Sutton 20 Sep. `12 Operation to remove tumour from her back 21 Sep. `12 Home again 22 Sep. `12 Back at work again end Oct. (? Sep.) `12 To the Aitkens for christening of Peter Rudyard Aitken 28 Oct. `12 Mrs. Raymond Asquith 3 Nov. `12 At Farnborough to visit John at school (staying at Queen’s Hotel) 24 Nov. `12 Lady Aitken and Canadian friend Mrs. Ogilvie to dine and sleep ? Nov. `12 Lady Londonderry and Sir E. Carson call 16 Dec. `12 Christmas at Cherkley (Aitkens and Bonar Laws) Dec. `12 Crossed channel in drenching rain 26 Dec. `12 Engelberg 27 Dec. `12 Carrie sends for drafts of money 9 Jan. `13 To Marseilles by train 6 Feb. `13 To Port Said, by SS Persia (P&O) 7 Feb, `13 Port Said and Cairo 11 Feb. `13 Semiramis Hotel, Cairo 11 Feb. `13 Lord and Lady Edward Cecil: Sir James and Lady Wilcocks 11 Feb. `13 A fancy dress dance 12 Feb. `13 They leave cards on Kitchener 14 Feb. `13 SS Rameses III on the Nile 15 Feb. `13 Above Assouan 24 Feb. `13 Abu Simbel 27 Feb. `13 Wady Halfa 28 Feb. `13 Thebes, stay in J. Pierrepont Morgan’s house 7 Mar. `13 Carrie ill 8 Mar. `13 Back to Cairo 9 Mar. 13 Tea at the British Agency 13 Mar. `13 Marseilles – met by their car and Landon 19 Mar. `13 Albi 22 Mar. `13 Bourges 24 Mar. `13 Abbéville – pass through en route to Boulogne and Folkestone 6 Apr. `13 Home 7 Apr. `13 Carrie, Elsie and John to a matinée of The Harbour Watch 29 Apr. `13 To Wellington to see John’s housemaster about his joining the army 2 May `13 Visiting the Allens at Free Chase 10 May `13 They meet the Sidney Colvins 10 May `13 Baden-Powell calls with his new wife at Bateman’s 12 May `13 Lord Milner and Lady E. Cecil for Empire day 24 May `13 Kiplings to lunch at Eton with Headmaster, Rev. Edward Lyttelton 4 June `13 Kiplings (and Elsie) to dinner with Mr. Stewart 13 June `13 To Farnborough (for the army) 28 June `13 Meet General Maxse: Colonel Marker 28 June `13 Carrie home to Bateman’s 30 June `13 Miss Bowman succeeds Miss Hogg as Secretary 3 July `13 Visit to Trix at Scarborough 14 July `13 Their own house party: the Bland-Suttons, Miss Ellaline Terriss, the Moreton Frewens. Steel-Maitland and Lady E. Cecil 19 July `13 Miss Veysey (secretary) comes 22 July `13 Carrie ill 1 Aug. `13 All the family to Kessingland Grange 28 Aug. `13 The agree to rent it for a year 31 Aug. `13 Greatly distressed by Bland-Sutton’s report on John 15 Sep. 13 Miss Chamberlain, new secretary, comes 23 Sep. `13 The Kiplings call on Lady Sackville at Knole 27 Sep. `13 To Brooklands and New Romney 2 Oct. `13 Mr. Astor of Hever, Lady Sackville and Sir E. Poynter 8 Oct. `13 To the Astors at Hever Castle 19 Oct. `13 To funeral of Mrs. Charles Leonard at Brompton Cemetery 24 Oct. `13 Herbert Baker to stay, en route to Delhi 4 Nov. `13 The Kiplings and Elsie to the Desboroughs at Taplow Court 22 Nov. `13 Carrie to lunch at the Rectory 11 Dec. `13 To a meeting at Mrs. Husseys about refugees from a possible civil war in Ireland 15 Dec. `13 Leave for Folkestone and on to Compiègne (the Depews) 22 Dec. `13 At Paris, the Hotel Bristol 27 Dec. `13 Arrive Engelberg 29 Dec. `13 To Zurich, then St. Moritz with Kipling and Elsie. 21 Jan. `14 To Paris 3 Feb. `14 Meet the Chevrillons 4 Feb. `14 Home to Burwash 7 Feb. `14 With Kipling visits John at Wellington to tell him the arrangements for his going to Mr. Evans, the Bournemouth crammer 14 Feb. `14 To the Aitkens at Cherkley 14 Feb. `14 To London, to hear Rudyard speak at the RGS 14 Feb. `14 To Paris, to buy Elsie’s presentation dress 19 Feb. `14 Kipling gives her a pearl ‘dog-collar’ for their 22nd wedding anniversary. 19 Feb. `14 Lunch party given by Princess Marie of Greece. To Vernet-les-Bains 22 Feb. `14 Lunch with M. Viollet, the wine millionaire 1 Mar. `14 All the family take John to the crammer’s at Bournemouth 5 May `14 To London to take Elsie to her first ‘big’ dance – Mrs Saxton Noble’s 15 May `14 To Lady Desborough’s for the week-end 23 May `14 Accompanies Elsie to Court for her presentation 4 June `14 To London for Ulster women’s committee meeting 10 June `14 Kiplings visit RNC Dartmouth 17-19 June `14 House-party at Cliveden 4 July `14 Kiplings attend memorial service to Joseph Chamberlain 6 July `14 Kermit Roosevelt and his newly-wedded wife visit 7 July `14 Kiplings attend Eton and Harrow match at Lords 10-11 July `14 To Bournemouth to John’s christening 19 July `14 To Sherborne to stay with the Lawrence Drummonds 21 July `14 To Kessingland for a summer holiday 23 July `14 To London for an Ulster women’s meeting 28 July `14 Helen Cecil calls 31 July `14 Starts a most dreadful cold 2 Aug, `14 “My cold possesses me” 4 Aug `14 Leaves Kessingland with Kipling and Elsie – to London 10 Aug. `14 Lunch with the Bland-Suttons in London and to Bateman’s 12 Aug. `14 Busy with work for the Red Cross 14 Aug. `14 Sends a basket of linen to the London Hospital 15 Aug. `14 The Aitkens visiting 15 Aug. `14 Stan Baldwin to dine and sleep 27 Aug. `14 Accompanies Kipling to Brighton to dine and he makes a recruiting speech 7 Sep. `14 Julia Depew arrives, tells of her flight from Compiègne 9 Sep. `14 They all take John to London 13 Sep. `14 To Cherkley 21 Sep. `14 With Kipling and Elsie to lunch at Canterbury 29 Sep. `14 Plans for the week changed by death of Lord Roberts in France 15 Nov. `14 To ‘Raffles’ (the play) in London 23 Dec. `14 Christmas (at Bateman’s?) with Aitkens and Bonar Law 25 Dec. `14 Carrie ill 26-27 Dec. `14 To London to consult Bland-Sutton Jan. 11, `15 “The most beautiful day in my memory” 26 Jan. `15 To London, Jan. 27, `15 Seeing much of the Aitkens 29 Jan. `15 The Kiplings send their securities to America 29 Jan. `15 Write to Mr Averill with instructions to send all her securities to USA Feb 2 `15 Kiplings agree to take six officer as billetees Feb. 23 `15 Kiplings (Rudyard, Carrie and Elsie) leave for Bath Spa Hotel Mar 29 `15 To London, from Bath, to spend Sunday with John and the rest of the family Apr. 17, `15 Back to Bath to continue treatment Apr. 19 `15 Visiting hospitals 22 Apr. `15 Leave Bath: to Brown’s Hotel and with John to the Alhambra 24 Apr. & Apr, 24 `15` To a play, Rosy Rapture. A long stay in London together. 1 May `15 New chauffeur, Vincent, arrives with his family. May 14 `15 John wires to say he is ill May 18 `15 His father collects him and brings him home 19 May & May `19 `15 Cutting out garments for wounded soldiers with Elsie May 25 `15 John returns to duty 27 May & May 27 `15 Kiplings go to War Office to offer Bateman’s as a hospital – The offer was declined 7 June & June 7 `15 Busy at hospital work June 9 `15 To London: the whole family to the Palace Theatre 12 June `15 Both Kiplings to Liverpool: Kipling delivers recruiting speech at Southport 21 June & June 21 `15 Much business with Canadian Maple Leaf Club 17 July `15 John off to the front 15 Aug & Aug. 15 `15 Carrie awakes with a bang at the hour John parades his platoon to leave Warley Aug. 16 `15 To Folkestone to meet Kipling and Landon 26 Aug. & Aug. 26 `15 To London, to Maple Leaf Club & to engage a parlour maid Sep. 14 `15 John’s Day (the day on which John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos – though the Kiplings were not aware until later) 27 Sept. `15 Telegram from the War Office to say that John is ‘missing’. Oct. 2 `15 Calls on Lady Edward Cecil 3 Oct. `15 To town with Elsie, call on Col. Lord de Vesci 5 Oct. `15 Young Harmsworth, John’s fellow officer, to tea 6 Oct. `15 The Kiplings to Hythe to see a wounded L/Cpl who had some news of John 11 Oct. & Oct. 11 `15 To To London 12 Oct. `15 Busy at my desk with correspondence about John’s men, and to Sandgate and Shorncliffe Oct. 17 `15 Kiplings to London in their search for men who might have seen John on 27 Sept. 19 Oct. & Oct. 19 `15 Words with the gardener who gives notice 30 Oct. & Oct. 30 `15 To see Major Lord de Vesci 9 Nov. & Nov. 9 `15 7 weeks to the day since John was last seen and still no news Nov. 15 `15 Arranging for Martin’s (gardener’s) departure Nov. 27 `15 Obliged to resign from membership of Maple Leaf Club 28 Nov. & Nov. 28 `15 Kiplings leave for town, last time in their car Dec. 10 `15 Both Kiplings to Winchester to open rifle range in memory of George Cecil. Kipling makes a speech. 11 Dec. `15 Both Kiplings to Bath: Carrie takes the cure 1 Feb. `16 & Feb 1 `16 Kiplings leave by train for Cirencester 28 Feb `16 Kiplings leave Cirencester for London Mar. 2 `16 Kiplings attend Henry James’s funeral in London 3 Mar `16 & Mar. 3 `16 Kiplings dine with Jameson at the Ritz 4 Mar. `16 Lady from London to discuss use of Rye Green farmhouse as a hostel for women land-workers Mar. 23, `16 All busy at Dudwell Farmhouse, preparing it for a wounded officer and his family (‘All’ probably means Carrie and her indoor servants) Mar. 25, `16 Busy day furnishing Dudwell for guests who arrive that evening May 3 `16 Shopping in London 17 May `16 Preparing Dudwell for new guests May `31 `16 New guests arrive, Lieut. Hall, his wife and mother & sister-in-law June 1 `16 News received of Kitchener’s death June 5 `16 To Kitchener’s Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey in the afternoon with Kipling and Elsie 13 June & June 13 `16 Hears ‘Recessional’ sung for the first time 13 June & June 13 `16 Goes with Elsie to Dudwell to see that all is in order. Aug. 24 `16 Writing to PoWs in Switzerland, seeking news Sep. `16 Carrie, Kipling & Elsie to London & to a music hall with Lord Milner, Lady Edward Cecil & the Salisburys 16 Oct. `16 A visit to Cambridge: lunch and dinner with Oliver Baldwin Oct. 21 `16 Back to London by lunchtime Oct. 23 `16 Home by 1.48 Oct. 25 `16 To London to Westminster Cathedral, for Irish Guards Mass Oct. 27 `16 To town with Teddy Price for Maple Leaf Clubs committee meeting Nov. 7 `16 Busy all week with Teddy Price Nov. 13 `16 In London and to a Maple Leaf Club meeting 28 Nov. & Nov. 28 `16 Kiplings to London to christening of Rupert Grayson’s son Dec. 17 `16 Opening of new Maple Leaf Clubs: Kipling makes speech 21 Dec. `16 Christmas – almost normal again Dec. `16 Kiplings lunch at Brown’s and to Bath 6 Feb. `17 To Bath in bitter cold. 7 Feb. `17 Kiplings leave Bath, return to London: in a taxi accident 3 Mar & Mar. 3 `17 Arrange to take over Landon’s furniture in Keylands Apr. 15 `17 Miss Pilson, dairy-maid, gives notice Apr. 18 `17 With Elsie meets new guests for Dudwell at station May 1 `17 Kiplings to Bath (staying overnight in London en route) 18 Feb. & Feb. 18 `18 Sir Edward Poynter and son, Capt. E Poynter call on Kiplings 2 Mar. `18 Sends an application for £8,000 of War Loan to their bank Mar. 5 `18 Back to London, to Brown’s Hotel Mar. 15 `18 They meet the young Doubledays, Felix and Rhoda, in London 16 Mar. `18 Very anxious about battle news 23-25 Mar. `18 Much ruffled by official from Ministry of Agriculture 10 Apr. `18 All go to London to see film of ‘The Naulakha 23 Apr. & Apr. 23 `18 Carrie and Kipling re-make their wills 23 Apr. `18 In London: Kipling has been ill for some days 8 May `18 Oliver Baldwin visits them on embarkation leave 24 May `18 To London with Kipling to make their wills 6 June `18 End of a week of muddle caused by Secretary’s “utter stupidity and muddle 22 June `18 Leaves with Kipling and Elsie to stay at Newquay 10 Sep `18 & Sep. 10 `18 Return journey, to Brown’s, lasts 11 hours Sep. 23 `18 To Cherkley, to visit Gladys Beaverbrook Sep. 28 `18 Takes on a new cook, aged 17 2 Oct. `18 Kiplings to Rottingdean to visit Aunt Georgie 11 Oct. `18 Discussing, with little hope, prospects of peace 13 Oct. `18 & Oct. 13 `18 Carrie endures a meeting of the Burwash Nursing Association of which she is Secretary Oct. 16 `18 Carrie has an operation (unspecified) at home) Oct. 18 `18 All waiting for news of the Armistice 11 Nov. & Nov. 11 `18 They learn of the Armistice by hearing the church bells 12 Nov, & Nov. 12 `18 Visit from Rider Haggard 15 Nov. `18 FND and his new wife visit 17 Dec. `18 Carrie gives Miss Chamberlain (Secretary), five weeks’ notice Dec. 31 `18 The Kiplngs hear the New Year rung in by the Burwash bells 1 Jan. & Jan. 1 `19 Present at a dinner given by Sir Abe Bailey (?) 2 Jan. `19 Both unable to attend service for dead of the Guards Division at St. Paul’s due to Kipling being ill 5 Feb. `19 To Bath 10 Feb. `19 To lecture by Bruce Bairnsfather 13 Feb. `19 Disappointed not to be able to go to Princess Patricia’s wedding 27 Feb. `19 Attends Cecil Bailey’s wedding 3 Mar. & Mar. 3 `19 At work at her desk all day – no secretary Mar. 24 `19 Carrie hears of her mother’s death on 23 March. 25 Mar. & Mar. 25 `19 Carrie has a new secretary, Miss Ponton. Once Elsie’s Governess 26 Mar. & Mar. 26 `19 Correspondence with sister Josephine over her mother’s money 20 Apr. & Apr. 20 `19 To London 3 May `19 A wonderful drive with S S McClure and a return to free use of the car 13 May `19 To Oxford; glorious weather 21 May & May 21 `19 Home May 25 `19. To Lady Diana Manners’ wedding, with Elsie 2 June `19 To the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s, 6 July & July 6 `19 To London for Sir E. Poynter’s funeral. 30 July & July 30 `19 Buys a ring, bought out of the residue of John’s estate, and gives it to Elsie Aug. 17 `19 Kiplings leave for a much-anticipated motor-trip 3 Sep. & Sep. 3 `19 Lunch with Countess Roberts at Ascot Sep. 3 `19 Oxford overnight Sep. 3 `19 At Astley Sep. 4 `19 Lincoln Sep. 7 `19 Durham Sep. 9 `19 Moffatt Sep. 10 `19 Dalclathic Lodge, Comrie, Perthshire: stay with Daisy Low Sep. 11 `19 Leave for Melrose Sep. 25 `19 Back down the Great North Road, on account of railway strike 26 Sep. `19 Durham Sep. 27 `19 London Sep. 28 `19 Arrive home Sep. 29 `10 To London, to see Trix, on her way to Jersey Oct. `5 `19 To London 1 Dec. `19 To London, Captain Bambridge to dinner Dec. 22 `19 With Kipling and Elsie, arrives at Astley for Christmas Dec. 23 `19 With Kipling and Elsie, leaves for Bath Dec. 30 `19 At Bath with Kipling and Elsie Jan `20 All leave Bath for London 21 Jan `20 In London – going to the theatre to see Gilbert & Sullivan operettas 22 Jan `20 Mr. Bennett comes to report on purchase of cottages Jan. 27 `20 The Kiplings by car from London to Rottingdean for Aunt Georgie’s funeral 6 Feb. & Feb. 6 `20 We order a Ford tractor (We?) Feb. 18 `20 Leave home for Southsea Feb. 20 `20 To Chale and Freshwater, Isle of Wight 21 Feb. `20 Arrive Ventnor Feb. 21 `20 Back to Southsea – Kipling shows Carrie Lorne Lodge (the House of Desolation). 25 Feb. `20 Leave Brighton for home Feb. 26 `20 Sewing maid gives notice Mar. 2 `20 Cook gives notice Mar. 4 `20 Housemaid gives notice Mar. 6 `20 Both Kiplings to afternoon Garden Party at Buckingham Palace 12 Mar. `20 To Dover for a trip abroad 16 Mar & Mar. 16 `20 Paris – Dieppe – Newhaven – London 21/22 Apr. & 21 & 22 Apr. `20 Goes to hear Kipling’s speech to the Royal Society of St. George Apr. 23 `20 Home to Bateman’s 24 Apr. & Apr. 24 `20 Attends the unveiling of Etchingham War Memorial Apr. 28 `20 Meeting of the Liberty League 29 Apr. `20 Kiplings to Virginia Water to spend the night May 21 `20 At the Randolph, Oxford 22 May & May 22 `20 All Kiplings to Edinburgh (Roxburgh Hotel) 6 July & July 6 `20 With Kipling to Holyroodhouse garden party 6/7 July `20 Leave for London July 12 `20 Southampton-Le Havre for a battle field tour 21-22 & July 21 `20 See George Cecil’s grave at Villers-Cotteret 21-22 July `20 Identify Chalkpit Wood (Loos) 25 July & July 25 `20 At Poperinghe July 28 `20 At Arras, “the greatest desolation of all” July 29 `20 Arrive Amiens July 30 `20 Rouen July 31 `20 Trouville 2 Aug. & Aug 2 `20 Home via Southampton 4 Aug. & Aug. 4 `20 Give many of John’s books to the school library in Burwash 11 Aug. `20 Reading draft of ‘Irish Guards’ (Aug.) `20 Captain Freyburg, VC, calls – most interesting. 29 Aug. `20 Kiplings attend ‘the Goschen wedding’ 31 Aug. `20 To Lady Bathurst’s at Cirencester 1 Sep. & Sep. 1 `20 Arrive home Sep. 4 `20 Captain Freyburg visits again – “an interesting man but not a pleasant one”. 15 Sep. `20 Col. and Mrs. Goodland for the night (Nov). `20 In London, for Armistice Day 11 Nov. `20 The Kiplings dine with Lady Colefax, meet many friends Dec. 7 `20 All the Kiplings to ‘The Beggars Opera’ 20 Dec. `20 Kiplings visit Goschens at Flimwell to meet Emir Feisal 23 Jan. `21 All three Kiplings leave for Dover Feb. 17 `21 All three Kiplings arrive at Marseilles and join the steamer SS Timgad 19 Feb & Feb. 19 `21 Arrive Algiers 20 Feb. `21 All Kiplings lunch on board USS Pittsburgh 22 Feb. `21 Kiplings meet Princess Beatrice, at Algiers 26 Feb. `21 Carrie & Kipling both unwell 26 Feb. `21 Sail at noon (for Marseilles) Mar. 22 `21 Arrive Marseilles and by car to Costobello. 23 Mar. `21 Kiplings at various places on the French Riviera Mar. 24 – Apr. 7 `21 Tour back through France Apr. 18 – May 4 `21 New car comes June 2 `21 Hates to see the old car go – loss of a link to John June 9 `21 Death of Col. Feilden 18 June & June 18 `21 Visit of Sir Roderick and Lady Jones 19 June `21 To Col. Feilden’s funeral June 21 `21 Visit from Oliver Baldwin 19 July `21 To preview of Without Benefit of Clergy 20 July & July `20 All Kiplings to Buckingham Palace Garden Party 21 July & July `21 `21 Business about Josephine and their mother’s estate Aug. `21 Sam Everitt, wife and two nieces to lunch Aug, 24 `21 They all start a motor tour to Scotland 3 Sep. & Sep. 3 `21 Stamford Sep. 3 `21 Harrogate Sep. 4 `21 Ayr Sep. 6 `21 Inverary Sep. 7 `21 Ormidale (Daisy Low) 8 Sep. & Sep. 8 `21 Oban Games, Aberfeldie 14 Sep. & Sep. 14 `21 Creich, Skibo, Dornoch 15 Sep. & Sep. 15 `21 Inverness 17 Sep. & Sep. 17 `21 Peebles 18 Sep. & Sep. 18 `21 Beaufront (Lady Rayleigh) 18 Sep. & Sep. 19 `21 Edinburgh Sep. 24 `21 Carlisle Sep. 25 `21 Stamford 26 Sep. & Sep. 26 `21 Home again 27 Sep. & Sep. 27 `21 Servants idle Sep. 28 `21 Cook gives notice Sep. 30 `21 All Kiplings dine with Doubledays and S. Leacock and go to see play “Quality Street”, 24 Oct. `21 To the ‘Lord Warden’ Hotel, Dover 16 Nov. `21 To Paris, a good journey 17 Nov. & Nov. 17 `21 Degree ceremony and banquet; 19 Nov. & Nov. 19 `21 Reception at Chambre de Deputés 22 Nov. `21 To Strasbourg Nov. 24 `21 To the University for degree ceremony: splendid reception Nov. 26 `21 Lunch with High Commission: University dinner Nov. 27 `21 Home again 29 Nov. & Nov. 29 `21 Kipling, Elsie, the Kiplings’ younger daughter. Born 2 Feb. `96 Weighs 9½ lbs 16 Feb. `96 All the family move into the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington 12 May `97 They move into North End House, temporarily 2 June `97 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 To England aboard S S Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Arrive Southampton: to London, Royal Palace Hotel 30 Apr. `98 Back to The Elms 5 May `98 Children start to go barefoot 5 July `98 Children have a governess cart 15 Sep. `98 All the family board the Majestic at Liverpool, en route to New York 25 Jan. 99 All children sick 27 Jan. `99 Has a cold 31 Jan. `99 Arrive New York. “Greatest anxiety about the children who have colds.” 2 Feb. `99 Children better 12 Feb. `99 All go to the Park 20 Feb. `99 Has whooping cough 17 Feb. `99 All to Doubleday’s house at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June. `99 All to New York prior to sailing for England 13 June `99 Sail in RMS Teutonic 14 June `99 Returns quietly to The Elms after the disastrous trip to USA 24 June `99 Family all leave for Scotland 8 Aug `99 They all return to Euston and thence to The Elms 15 Sep. `99 Carrie takes her to church for first time 24 Sep. `99 All ill Jan. `00 To South Africa 20 Jan. `00 Arrives Cape Town – to Mount Nelson Hotel 5 Feb. `00 Family left for home 11 Apr. `00 Back in London, Brown’s Hotel 28 Apr. `00 Visit to the Baldwins at Wilden 28 Aug. `00 The Mackail children (visiting the Kiplings?) 3 Sep. `00 Off to South Africa 8 Dec. `00 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 25 Dec. `00 Rhodes sends them a lion cub, to see if they can rear it 13 Feb. `01 Leave “dear Woolsack” 17 Apr. `01 Arrive Southampton 3 May `01 Children at Crowborough with a nurse July `01 The family sails from Southampton to the Cape. 21 Dec. `01 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 7 Jan. `02 Left The Woolsack for England 16 Apr; `02 Arrive Southampton and to Rottingdean 3 May `02 The children often pay visits to Crowborough 8 May `02 Last night at The Elms 31 Aug. `02 Move to Bateman’s 3 Sep. `02 Takes children to see hops being roasted 9 Sep. `02 Quiet Christmas at home 25 Dec. `02 To Southampton 27 Dec. `02 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 13 Jan. `03 Children given a terrier 19 Jan. `03 Sails in Kinfauns Castle for England 22 Apr. `03 Arrive Southampton and to Bateman’s via London 9 May `03 Carrie and the children to stay with the Baldwins at Wilden 18 Oct. `03 Children do their play “Alice in Wonderland” 26 Nov. `03 All to Southampton 12 Dec. `03 Off to South Africa 10 Dec. `04 Arrive Cape Town 27 Dec. `04 A pony – ‘Stella’ – for the children June 1905 A French governess 14 Aug. `05 The Mackail children 14 Aug. `05 Sailed for Africa 23 Dec. `05 Leave Cape Town 18 Apr. `06 Arrive Southampton 5 May `06 Leaves for South Africa 17 Dec. `06 Arrives Cape Town and to The Woolsack 1 Jan. `07 Sees much of the Bailey children this trip 18 Feb. `07 Leave Cape Town 6. Apr. `07 Arrive Southampton 20 Apr. `07 Arrive Southampton 20 Apr. `07 Kipling accompanies her to see her do her milking 14 Sep. `07 Family tour to the north – York-Kendal-Skipton-Carlisle 4-11 Aug. `08 Along the Wall to Rothbuty 4 Aug. `08 Staying with the Leonards at Biddlestone Hall, 11-18 Aug. `08 4 Aug. `08 Visit to Alnwick 13 Aug `08 Newcastle and Birmingham, to the Baldwins 18-19 Aug. `08 Stratford-Oxford 21 Aug. `08 Horsham and home 22 Aug. `08 To Switzerland 29 Dec. `08 Lucerne 30 Dec. `08 Engelberg 31 Dec. `08 Left for Lucerne 25 Feb. `09 Milan 28 Feb `09 Rome 2 Mar. `09 Catches Measles 11 Mar. `09 To Paris 13 Apr. `09 Home 17 Apr. `09 Elsie’s little dance 10 Dec. `09 Motor tour to the west 18-21 Aug. `09 Winchester – Graves of Jane Austen and Isaak Walton 19 Aug. `09 Scout camp in the New Forest 20 Aug. `09 Carrie and Elsie return home 21 Aug. `09 The Kiplings make a settlement on their children 26 Oct. `09 To Engelberg 31 Dec. `09 Carrie ill at Engelberg Jan. `10 (note) To Geneva, en route to Vernet-les-Bains 26 Feb. `10 Lyons-Avignon-Montpellier-Nimes-Vernet-les-Bains by train 1-2 Mar. `10 Perpignan-Narbonne-Montpellier-Nimes.by car with her parents 26 Mar. `10 Pont du Gard-Les Baux-Avignon. 27 Mar. `10 Avignon to St. Etienne 28 Mar. `10 Moulins 29 Mar. `10 Fontainebleau 30 Mar. `10 Paris 1 Apr. `10 Bateman’s 2 Apr. `10 A new governess – Miss Goode 9 Apr. `10 Gets a puppy 20 Apr. `10 Attends memorial service for King Edward VII in parish church 20 May `10 A motor trip to the west: yachting with Walton: visit Leonards at Stanmer; visit Stanstead 12-19 Aug. `10 With John to their first real dance 2 Sep. `10 To Engelberg 29 Dec. `10 To Paris (from Engelberg) 16 Feb. `11 To Vernet-les-Bains 18 Feb. `11 Day trip to Perpignan: they meet a(n) (Arch)Bishop 12 Mar. `11 Tour back to Paris and England starts – for details, see under Cars 25 Mar `11 All the Kiplings leave for a motor tour of Normandy, with the Aitkens 4 Aug. `11 In Rouen, with the Aitkens 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre: the Aitkens leave to return to England 6 Aug. `11 Bayeux and the Normandy coast 7 Aug. `11 Mont St, Michel 10 Aug. `11 Mortain 11 Aug. `11 Visit the Depews at Chateau d’Anel 13 Aug. `11 Return to Bateman’s, Gwynne having given ‘all clear’. 18 Aug. `11 Miss Howard and ‘the Bailey children’ to visit 22 Aug. `11 Margo and Oliver Baldwin to visit 9 Sep. `11 Aunt Georgie and Teddy Price to visit 12 Sep. `11 Leave Engelberg for Florence, via Lucerne 14 Feb. `12 To Venice 7 Mar. `12 Taken to see Mrs. Ritchie 18 Mar. `12 By train to Paris 20 Mar. `12 Staying with the Depews at Chateau d’Anel 23 Mar. `12 To Dover and home to Bateman’s 27 Mar. `12 Speech Day at Wellington 15 June `12 Kipling, Carrie and John pick up Elsie at Ludgershall for motor-tour 10 Sep. `12 (note) Tintagel and Lands End 10 Sep. `12 Westward Ho! 11 Sep. `12 Glastonbury and Tolland (Balestier ancestors) 12 Sep. `12 Christmas at Cherkley (Aitkens and Bonar Laws) Dec. `12 Crossed channel in drenching rain 26 Dec. `12 Engelberg 27 Dec. `12 To Paris, where she stays 4 Feb. `13 Carrie, Elsie and John to a matinée of The Harbour Watch 29 Apr. `13 Accompanies her parents to dinner with Mr. Stewart 13 June `13 All the family to Kessingland Grange 28 Aug. `13 Mary Lyttelton to stay 11 Nov. `13 Two dancing mistresses come to teach Elsie and John the tango 17 Nov. `13 Goes with her parents for her first grown-up house party at Taplow Court 22 Nov. `13 Leave for Folkestone and on to Compiègne (the Depews) 22 Dec. `13 At Paris, the Hotel Bristol 27 Dec. `13 Arrive Engelberg 29 Dec. `13 To Zurich, then St. Moritz with her parents 21 Jan. `14 Elsie’s 18th birthday 2 Feb. `14 To Paris 3 Feb. `14 Home to Bateman’s 7 Feb. `14 To Paris, with her parents, to buy her presentation dress (?) 19 Feb. `14 Arrives on her own in Paris for fittings for her dress 30 Mar. `14 All the family take John to the crammer’s at Bournemouth 5 May `14 To London for her first ‘big’ dance – Mrs Saxton Noble’s 15 May `14 Presented at Court 4 June `14 Leaves Kessingland with her parents – to London 10 Aug. `14 They all take John to London 13 Sep. `14 With her parents to lunch at Canterbury 29 Sep. `14 With her father to visit wounded at Crowborough 21 Oct. `14 Has chicken pox Mar. 14, `15 To London, from Bath, with her father Apr. 10, `15 Cutting out garments for wounded soldiers with her mother May 25 `15 To London: the whole family to the Palace Theatre 12 June `15 John’s Day (the day on which John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos – though the Kiplings were not aware until later) 27 Sept. `15 With Carrie to see Lord de Vesci at the Guards HQ 5 Oct. `15 Elsie goes about with Oliver Baldwin 16 Oct. `15 Goes with her father to the movies (war pictures) 15 Mar `16 To Kitchener’s Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey in the afternoon with her parents 13 June & June 13 `16 Goes to Dudwell (Farmhouse) & discovers guests are leaving Aug 22 `16 Goes with Carrie to Dudwell to see that all is in order. Aug. 24 `16 With her parents to London & to a music hall with Lord Milner, Lady Edward Cecil & the Salisburys Oct. 16 `16 A visit to Cambridge: lunch and dinner with Oliver Baldwin 21 Oct. `16 Back to London by lunchtime 23 Oct. 16 Home by 1.48 25 Oct. `16 To London to Westminster Cathedral, for Irish Guards Mass 27 Oct. `16 Her coming of age 2 Feb. & Feb. 2 `17 With Carrie meets new guests for Dudwell at station May 1 `17 Returns home after stay in London Jan. 31 `18 All go to London to see film of ‘The Naulakha 23 Apr. & Apr. 23 `18 Happy with Oliver Baldwin visiting them on embarkation leave 24 May `18 Leaves with Carrie and her father to stay at Newquay 10 Sep `18 & Sep. 10 `18 In London, Elsie has ‘flu Oct. 26 `18 Still ill 6 Nov. `18 All waiting for news of the Armistice 11 Nov. & Nov. 11 `18 They learn of the Armistice by hearing the church bells 12 Nov, & Nov. 12 `18 The Kiplings hear the New Year rung in by the Burwash bells 1 Jan. & Jan. 1 `19 Attends Cecil Bailey’s wedding 3 Mar. & Mar. 3 `19 To Lady Diana Manners’ wedding, with hr mother 2 June `19 Elsie to May week at Cambridge 6 June `19 Given a ring, bought out of the residue of John’s estate Aug. 17 `19 To London (“meeting many young guardsmen”) 1 Dec. `19 To London, Captain Bambridge to dinner Dec. 22 `19 With her parents, arrives at Astley for Christmas Dec. 23 `19 With her parents, leaves for Bath Dec. 30 `19 At Bath with her parents Jan `20 All leave Bath for London 21 Jan `20 In London – going to the theatre to see Gilbert & Sullivan operettas 22 Jan `20 All Kiplings to Edinburgh (Roxburgh Hotel) 6 July & July 6 `20 Leave for London July 12 `20 Kiplings attend ‘the Goschen wedding’ 31 Aug. `20 Harold Maxwell and George Bambridge going out with Elsie Dec. `20 All the Kiplings to ‘The Beggars Opera’ 20 Dec. `20 All three Kiplings leave for Dover Feb. 17 `21 All three Kiplings arrive at Marseilles and join the steamer SS Timgad 19 Feb & Feb. 19 `21 Arrive Algiers 20 Feb. `21 All Kiplings lunch on board USS Pittsburgh 22 Feb. `21 Kiplings meet Princess Beatrice, at Algiers 26 Feb. `21 Sail at noon (for Marseilles) Mar. 22 `21 Arrive Marseilles and by car to Costobello. 23 Mar. `21 Kiplings at various places on the French Riviera Mar. 24 – Apr. 7 `21 Tour back through France Apr. 18 – May 4 `21 With Kipling to the Zoo 7 June `21 All Kiplings to Buckingham Palace Garden Party 21 July & July `21 `21 They all start a motor tour to Scotland 3 Sep. & Sep. 3 `21 Stamford Sep. 3 `21 Harrogate Sep. 4 `21 Ayr Sep. 6 `21 Inverary Sep. 7 `21 Ormidale (Daisy Low) 8 Sep. & Sep. 8 `21 Oban Games, Aberfeldie 14 Sep. & Sep. 14 `21 Creich, Skibo, Dornoch 15 Sep. & Sep. 15 `21 Inverness 17 Sep. & Sep. 17 `21 Peebles 18 Sep. & Sep. 18 `21 Beaufront (Lady Rayleigh) 18 Sep. & Sep. 19 `21 Edinburgh Sep. 24 `21 Carlisle Sep. 25 `21 Stamford 26 Sep. & Sep. 26 `21 Home again 27 Sep. & Sep. 27 `21 All Kiplings dine with Doubledays and S. Leacock and go to see play “Quality Street”, 24 Oct. `21 Oliver Baldwin comes to stay and goes about with Elsie Nov. `21 Kipling, John – the Kipling’s son Birth 17 Aug. 97 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 To England aboard SS Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Arrive Southampton: to London, Royal Palace Hotel 30 Apr. `98 Back to The Elms 5 May `98 Children start to go barefoot 5 July `98 Children have a governess cart 15 Sep. `98 All the family board the Majestic at Liverpool, en route to New York 25 Jan. 99 All children sick 27 Jan. `99 Arrive New York. “Greatest anxiety about the children who have colds.” 2 Feb. `99 Children better 12 Feb. `99 All go to the Park 20 Feb. `99 Has whooping cough 17 Feb. `99 All to Doubleday’s house at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June. `99 All to New York prior to sailing for England 13 June `99 Sail in RMS Teutonic 14 June `99 Returns quietly to The Elms after the disastrous trip to USA 24 June `99 Family all leave for Scotland 8 Aug `99 They all return to Euston and thence to The Elms 15 Sep. `99 All ill Jan. `00 To South Africa 20 Jan. `00 Arrives Cape Town – to Mount Nelson Hotel 5 Feb. `00 Family left for home 11 Apr. `00 Back in London, Brown’s Hotel 28 Apr. `00 Visit to the Baldwins at Wilden 28 Aug. `00 The Mackail children (visiting the Kiplings?) 3 Sep. `00 Off to South Africa 8 Dec. `00 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 25 Dec. `00 Rhodes sends them a lion cub, to see if they can rear it 13 Feb. `01 Leave “dear Woolsack” 17 Apr. `01 Arrive Southampton 3 May `01 Children at Crowborough with a nurse July `01 The family sails from Southampton to the Cape. 21 Dec. `01 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 7 Jan. `02 Left The Woolsack for England 16 Apr; `02 Arrive Southampton and to Rottingdean 3 May `02 The children often pay visits to Crowborough 8 May `02 Last night at The Elms 31 Aug. `02 Move to Bateman’s 3 Sep. `02 Kipling takes children to see hops being roasted 9 Sep. `02 Quiet Christmas at home 25 Dec. `02 To Southampton 27 Dec. `02 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 13 Jan. `03 Children given a terrier 19 Jan. `03 Carrie and the children to stay with the Baldwins at Wilden 18 Oct. `03 Children do their play “Alice in Wonderland” 26 Nov. `03 All to Southampton 12 Dec. `03 Off to South Africa 10 Dec. `04 Arrive Cape Town 27 Dec. `04 A pony – ‘Stella’ – for the children June 1905 A French governess 14 Aug. `05 The Mackail children 14 Aug. `05 Sailed for Africa 23 Dec. `05 Leave Cape Town 18 Apr. `06 Arrive Southampton 5 May `06 Leaves for South Africa 17 Dec. `06 Arrives Cape Town and to The Woolsack 1 Jan. `07 Sees much of the Bailey children this trip 18 Feb. `07 Leave Cape Town 6. Apr. `07 Arrive Southampton 20 Apr. `07 To London with parents to see ophthalmologist 10 May `07 To military tournament with parents 10 May `07 Kipling takes him back to pre. School (St. Aubyn’s, Rottingdean for first time 18 Sep.`07 Homesick at school: his parents visit 21 May `08 Starts a stamp collection with Carrie (and Kipling) 21 June `08 Family tour to the north – York-Kendal-Skipton-Carlisle 4-11 Aug. `08 Along the Wall to Rothbuty 4 Aug. `08 Staying with the Leonards at Biddlestone Hall, 11-18 Aug. `08 4 Aug. `08 Visit to Alnwick 13 Aug `08 Newcastle and Birmingham, to the Baldwins 18-19 Aug. `08 Stratford-Oxford 21 Aug. `08 Horsham and home 22 Aug. `08 To Switzerland 29 Dec. `08 Lucerne 30 Dec. `08 Engelberg 31 Dec. `08 Georgina Grant (cook at Bateman’s) comes to take John back to school Jan. `09 (note, Jan. 19) Motor tour to the west 18-21 Aug. `09 Winchester – Graves of Jane Austen and Isaak Walton 19 Aug. `09 Scout camp in the New Forest 20 Aug. `09 Kipling and John to Plymouth 21 Aug. `09 Returns with Kipling via Tisbury 26 Aug. `09 The Kiplings make a settlement on their children 26 Oct. `09 To Engelberg 31 Dec. `09 Goes home “with Ellen” 26 Jan. `10 Gets a puppy 20 Apr. `10 Attends memorial service for King Edward VII in parish church 20 May `10 A motor trip to the west: yachting with Walton: visit Leonards at Stanmer; visit Stanstead 12-19 Aug/ `10 Teddy Price to stay 2 Aug. `10 With Elsie to their first real dance 2 Sep. `10 Report on his eyes – worse 7 Nov. `10 To Engelberg 29 Dec. `10 Gets measles while at Engelberg Jan. `11 Returns to school 13 Feb. `11 All the Kiplings leave for a motor tour of Normandy, with the Aitkens 4 Aug. `11 In Rouen, with the Aitkens 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre: the Aitkens leave to return to England 6 Aug. `11 Bayeux and the Normandy coast 7 Aug. `11 Mont St, Michel 10 Aug. `11 Mortain 11 Aug. `11 Visit the Depews at Chateau d’Annel 13 Aug. `11 Return to Bateman’s, Gwynne having given ‘all clear’. 18 Aug. `11 Miss Howard and ‘the Bailey children’ to visit 22 Aug. `11 Margo and Oliver Baldwin to visit 9 Sep. `11 Aunt Georgie and Teddy Price to visit 12 Sep. `11 To Pearson’s House at Wellington College 21 Sep. `11 Kipling speaks to the boys of John’s House at Wellington (25) May `12 With Kipling to a service at Salisbury Cathedral 8 Sep. `12 With Kipling fishing with Walton at Cawsand 8 Sep. `12 Tintagel and Lands End 10 Sep. `12 Westward Ho! 11 Sep. `12 Glastonbury and Tolland (Balestier ancestors) 12 Sep. `12 With Kipling to see flying machines at Aldershot 1 Nov. `12 Christmas at Cherkley (Aitkens and Bonar Laws) Dec. `12 Crossed channel in drenching rain 26 Dec. `12 Engelberg 27 Dec. `12 Has a motor-bike 7 Apr. `13 Carrie, Elsie and John to a matinée of The Harbour Watch 29 Apr. `13 His parents come to Wellington to see hiss housemaster about his joining the army 2 May `13 Kipling and John to Aldershot for his army medical: his eyes still below standard 19 May `13 Sir William Ward, Permanent Under-Secretary at the War Office promises he will do what he can to help John into the army. 25 May `13 Drives the car (the Rolls) 1 Aug `13 Has mumps 1 Aug `13 All the family to Kessingland Grange 28 Aug. `13 Bland-Sutton reports on John – thyroid trouble 15 Sep. `13 Two dancing mistresses come to teach John and Elsie the tango 17 Nov. `13 Leave for Folkestone and on to Compiègne (the Depews) 22 Dec. `13 At Paris, the Hotel Bristol 27 Dec. `13 Arrive Engelberg 29 Dec. `13 Returns to England with other schoolboys 20 Jan. `14 His parents visit him at Wellington to tell him the arrangements for his going to Mr. Evans, the Bournemouth crammer 14 Feb. `14 With Kipling in Paris – they go to “see the aviation” 8 Apr. `14 With Kipling to see Grand Guignol 9 Apr. `14 To the Baldwins at Astley 17 Apr. `14 Has a room of his own at Bateman’s 21 Apr. `14 To a crammer at Bournemouth 2 May `14 His parents attend his christening at Bournemouth 19 July `14 Arrives at Kessingland from his crammer’s 28 July `14 To War Office to apply for a commission – thence Burwash 10 Aug `14 17th birthday, Kipling takes him to recruiting offices at Hastings and Maidstone but they will not accept him 17 Aug. `14 To London for typhoid inoculation 28 Aug. `14 To London with Kipling who decides to ask Lord Roberts for a nomination for him 2 Sep. `14 Ordered to report (to the Irish Guards depot) at once 10 Sep. `14 Orders his uniform 11 Sep. `14 His commission comes, antedated 14 [15?]Aug. 12 Sep. `14 All the family take him to London 13 Sep. `14 Has fittings for his uniform, then family lunch at Brown’s then to Warley Barracks 14 Sep. `14 Returns to Bateman’s for week-end leave 26-27 Sep. `14 Has a small car 21 Oct. `14 Home for Christmas 25 Dec. `14 Writes from Dublin about recruiting difficulties 18 Mar. `15 Goes with the family to the Alhambra (music hall) 24 Apr. `15 Wires home from Warley to say he is ill May 18 `15 His father collects him and takes him home 19 May & May `19 `15 Improving May 23 `15 Returns to duty 27 May & May 27 `15 Warned for next draft 31 May & May 31 `15 The whole family to the Palace Theatre 12 June `15 Writes to say he will go to France when he is 18 July 6 `15 Arrives for tea with brother officer, (Lewis) Grayson 17 July `15 Swims at the Bath Club, with Kipling 11 Aug. 15 John’s Day (the day on which John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos – though the Kiplings were not aware until later) 27 Sept. `15 Telegram from War Office to say John is “missing” 2 Oct. & Oct. 2 `15 Still no news after 7 weeks Nov. 15 `15 John’s kit arrives 28 Jan. `16 Carrie records John’s 19th birthday 17 Aug. `16 “A world to be remade without a son” 12 Nov. `18 Carrie buys a ring from the residue of John’s estate; given to Elsie Aug. 17 `19 John’s memorial plaque for Burwash Church a failure – to be re-cast 18 May & May 18 `20 The plaque set up in Burwash church June 23 `20 Many of his books given to the school library in Burwash 11 Aug. `20 Sale of their old car breaks another link to John June 9 `21

Kipling, John Lockwood (the Pater – Kipling’s father) Lord Lansdowne will use influence for pension for Lockwood 27 Feb. `93 Kipling meets him in New York 16 June `93 Arrives in Brattleboro 19 June `93 JLK attends church with Mrs. Caroline Balestier 23 July `93 Leaves for Montreal with Rudyard 3 Aug. `93 Arrives Quebec with Rudyard 5 Aug. `93 Visits Boston with Kipling 14 Aug. `93 Returns to Brattleboro 28 Aug. `93 Carves motto for fireplace 1 Sep. `93 To the circus with Rudyard 6 Sep. `93 Leaves with Rudyard to stay with C E Norton 8 Sep. `93 Returns 11 Sep. `93 Leaves New York for England 27 Sep. `93 To Westward Ho! (ISC) with Rudyard 24 July `94 Modelling in the coach-house at Rock House 2 Oct. `96 Leaves Rock House (Mrs. Kipling also) 26 Oct. `96 Comes to Rock House (till 31st) 17 Mar. `97 Comes to stay at North End House 19 June `97 To Portsmouth and back with Kipling to see the Fleet Review 24 June `97 Comes for Christmas with Alice and ‘Trix’ 22 Dec. `97 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 To Johannesburg 28 Jan. `98 Back in Cape Town 7 Mar. `98 Returns from Kimberley 30 Mar. `98 Attends a big dinner in Cape Town with Kipling 11 Apr. `98 To England aboard SS Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Joins them in New York to help them through their crisis 29 Mar. `99 (note to 6 Mar.) All to Doubleday’s house at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June. `99 All to New York prior to sailing for England 13 June `99 Farewell dinner in New York (RK, ‘the Pater’, FND, McClure and de Forest) 13 June `99 Sails back to England with Kiplings in RMS Teutonic 14 June `99 Joins Kiplings at Creich 8 Aug. `99 Staying at Rottingdean: goes target shooting with Kipling 13 May`00 Kipling sends a cheque to him 21 June `00 Arrives to join them at the Cape 11 Feb. `02 Left The Woolsack for England 16 Apr; `02 Arrives Southampton 3 May `02 Staying with Kiplings 22 June `04 Comes to stay, along with Florence Macdonald 30 May `05 Ill 20 Apr. `07 Visits Bateman’s with Alice and Trix 2 May `10 Ill at ‘Clouds’ 23 Jan. `11 News of his death received at Engelberg 27 Jan. `11 Funeral 30 Jan. `11

Kipling, Josephine (Kipling’s elder daughter) Born 29 Dec. `92 Weighs 7 lb 8 Jan. `93 Left for Europe with her parents 2 Apr. 94 “An unquestionable beauty” 30 Apr. `94 Sails again, back to the USA 5 Sep. `94 Arrives New York and back to Brattleboro 14 Sep. `94 Portrait painted by Miss Holbrook 19 Dec. `94 To New York 25 Feb. `95 To Gloucester, Mass. with family 1 July `95 Pleased with her baby sister 8 Feb. `96 To church with Carrie 15 Nov. `96 All the family move into the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington 12 May `97 They move into North End House, temporarily 2 June `97 Swims 50 yards 9 Nov.`97 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 To England aboard SS Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Arrive Southampton: to London, Royal Palace Hotel 30 Apr. `98 Back to The Elms 5 May `98 Children start to go barefoot 5 July `98 Children have a governess cart 15 Sep. `98 All the family board the Majestic at Liverpool, en route to New York 25 Jan. 99 All children sick 27 Jan. `99 Has a cold 31 Jan. `99 Worse 1 Feb. `99 Arrives New York. “Greatest anxiety about the children who have colds.” 2 Feb. `99 Children better 12 Feb. `99 All go to the Park 20 Feb. `99 High temperature and fever in the night. Dr. Macdonald fears complications. 23 Feb. `99 Taken to the de Forest’s on Long Island 23 Feb. `99 Carrie sees her for the last time: Josephine sends her love to “Daddy and all” 5 Mar. `99 Dies 6 Mar. `99 Matthew Howard brings Josephine’s portrait to The Elms 27 Dec. `99

Kipling, Rudyard Returns from Bombay 10 Jan. `92 Gets Special Licence 11 Jan. `92 Marries Caroline Balestier 18 Jan. `92 Sails for honeymoon in Teutonic 3 Feb. `92 Arrives New York 11 Feb. `92 With Carrie calls on Grandmamma in New York 12 Feb. `92 Social life in New York 12-16 Feb. `92 To Brattleboro; met by Beatty 16 Feb. `92 Beatty and Mai offer the Kiplings the site for a house 18 Feb. `92 Back to New York 20 Feb. `92 Reworking of dedication to Wolcott Balestier 11 Mar. `92 Back to Brattleboro 14 Mar. `92 Go to see our land 15 Mar. `92 Back to New York 17 Mar. `92 Start of their honeymoon voyage – to Chicago 26 Mar. `92 St. Paul MN 28 Mar/ `92 Through Dakota to Winnipeg 30 Mar. `92 Vancouver 3 Apr. `92 Sail Vancouver for Japan in SS Empress of India 6 Apr. `92 Yokohama – meet Sir Edwin Arn old 20 Apr. `92 An earthquake 11 May `92 Kills two snakes 23 May `92 Gives up stateroom in Empress of China 8 June `92 His bank, New Oriental Banking Corporation, fails 9 June `92 Attends creditors’ meeting 24 June `92 They leave Yokohama 27 June `92 Arrive Vancouver 8 July `92 At Banff, Alberta 10-13 July `92 Montreal 19-20 July `92 Back to Brattleboro 26 July `92 Staying at Raponda with Carrie’s mother 1-8 Aug. `92 Moved in to the Bliss cottage 10 Aug. `92 To stay with the de Forests at Coldspring Harbor 18 Aug. `92 Working at house plans 21 Aug. `92 Offer of ten shillings in the pound from his failed bank 30 Aug. `92 Siting Naulakha 8 Sep. `92 The day wrecked by two reporters from Boston 14 Sep. 92 Sends his mother $100 for Christmas 30 Nov. `92 Christmas party at Maplewood for everyone 25 Dec. `92 Dr, Conland attends Josephine’s birth 29 Dec. `92 To New York 17 Mar. `93 Back to Brattleboro 20 Apr. `93 Leaves for Montreal with his father 3 Aug. `93 Arrives Quebec with his father 5 Aug. `93 Visits Boston with his father 14 Aug. `93 Leaves for New York 16 Aug. `93 Returns to Brattleboro 19 Aug. `93 To the circus with his father 6 Sep. `93 Leaves with his father to stay with C E Norton 8 Sep. `93 Returns 11 Sep `93 Kipling and Carrie accompany JLK to New York 23 Sep, `93 Return to Brattleboro 19 Sep. `93 “Continually goes to dentist” 12 Nov. `93 To New York for a holiday 11 Jan. `94 Returns home with a toy theatre 17 Jan. `94 To Bermuda – a bad trip and Carrie ill 27 Feb. `94 Back to New York – another bad trip 24 Mar. `94 Left for Europe with Carrie and Josephine 2 Apr. 94 Arrive Southampton and to London 10 Apr. `94 Lunches at the Savile Club 12 Apr. `94 Goes to visit his parents at Tisbury, Wiltshire 14 Apr. `94 Returns to London 16 Apr. `94 Sits to Leslie Ward (‘Spy’ of Vanity Fair) 19 Apr. `94 To Westward Ho! (ISC) with John Lockwood Kipling 24 July `94 Returns to Tisbury 26 July `94 Sails again, back to the USA 5 Sep. `94 Arrives New York and back to Brattleboro 14 Sep. `94 A trip to Gloucester, Mass. 31 Aug. `94 To stay with the Catlins 20 Sep. `94 Home to Brattleboro 26 Sep. `94 Thanksgiving dinner at Beatty’s home 27 Nov. `94 To stay with the Nortons in Cambridge (Mass.) 6 Dec. `94 Returns again 10 Dec. `94 Protests about the Brattleboro trolley car 19 Feb. `95 To New York 25 Feb. `95 To Washington, DC 26 Feb. `95 Spends the afternoon at the US Navy yard 28 Mar. `95 Visits the beavers at the Zoo with Roosevelt 29 Mar. `95 Meeting with A P Watt in Washington 1 Apr. `95 Lunch with Beerbohm Tree 1 Apr. `95 Has fever 29 June `95 To Gloucester, Mass. with family 1 July `95 To Boston 8 July `95 To New York and on to England 9 July `95 Returns to Brattleboro 22 Aug `95 Gets a bicycle 10 Sep. `95 Elected to Century Club, New York 25 Oct. `95 To stay with the Nortons in Boston 20 Nov. `05 He returns 23 Nov. `95 Unsettled by American bellicosity towards England. 24 Dec. `95 To New York 26 Dec. `95 Returns 28 Dec. `95 To New York “for a treat” 17 Mar. `96 To Lakewood, NJ 18 Mar `96 Takes a bicycle lesson 21 Mar. `96 Master of his “wheel” 31 Mar. `96 Back to New York 8 Apr. `96 Back to ‘Naulakha’, “happy to be home” 28 Apr. `96 Threatened by Beatty: goes to his lawyer 6 May `96 Beatty’s trial: “Rud a wreck” 12 May `96 To Gloucester with Dr. Conland 19 May `96 Back from Gloucester, gives Carrie a bicycle 23 May `96 Leaves with de Forest for fishing trip in Canada 15 June `96 Returns 1 July `96 To Gloucester with Dr. Conland 4 Aug. `96 Returns 7 Aug. `96 To Ashfield (Boston) to see the Nortons 15 Aug, `96 Returns 17 Aug. `96 Leaves ‘Naulakha’ for final time 29 Aug. `96 Sails New York (Hoboken) for Southampton 1 Sep. `96 Arrives Southampton 9 Sep. `96 To Rock House, St. Mary Church, Torquay 9 Sep. `96 Has toothache 23 Sep. `96 To HMS Britannia at Dartmouth 26 Sep. `96 Lunch in HMS Britannia (Carrie also) 7 Nov. `96 They both (Kipling and Carrie) order cycling suits) 17 Nov. `96 To Tisbury 18 Nov. `96 To dentist again 5 Dec. `96 “Cycling in the mud” at Torquay Jan. `97 Shooting with Hugh Poynter Jan. `97 To London for a visit 3 Feb. `97 Returns (via Tisbury) 9 Feb. `97 Gravely annoyed with Thacker, Spink over unauthorised Dedication 29 Mar, `97 Kent – house-hunting – thence London 1 Apr. `97 Family lunch with the three aunts (out of four) 2 Apr. `97 Elected to Athenaeum 2 Apr. `97 To London – house-hunting in Kent 19 Apr. `97 All the family move into the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington 12 May `97 To Chatham for sea-trials in a TBD 18 May `97 To dinner at Royal Society 19 May `97 With Sir William Hunter 23 May `97 To Brighton to discuss taking a house from Aunt Georgie 24 May `87 Dines at Balliol (Oxford College) 24 May `97 Lunch with J M Barrie 26 May `97 Lunch with John Hay 27 May `97 To the Lyceum theatre: call on Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry 28 May `97 Attends dinner in honour of Sir G. Robertson & meets Lord Curzon 31 May `97 They move into North End House, temporarily 2 June `97 House-hunting towards Lewes 3 June `97 To London, to a “colonial lunch” 11 June `97 Kipling “plays long and lovingly” with the new tandem bicycle 21 June `97 To Portsmouth and back with his father to see the Fleet Review 24 June `97 To Portsmouth to join HMS Pelorus, the guest of Captain Bayly 30 June `97 Dines with Captain Prince Louis of Battenberg 8 July `97 Returns to Rottingdean 14 July `97 To dentist 21 July `97 To Tisbury for two days 30 Aug. `97 “Foregathers” with Stan Baldwin 3 Sep. `97 Ditto 5 Sep. `97 Leaves for Dorchester, house-hunting 11 Sep. `97 Returns 15 Sep. `97 Finds a house near Hastings 18 Sep. `97 They pay £3.3.0 per week for The Elms, Rottingdean 25 Sep. `97 Long walk with Barrie, Burne-Jones and ‘Crom’ Price 17 Oct. `97 Discusses a pension for W E Henley with Cope Cornford 13 Nov. `97 Puts Baldwin up for the Athenaeum with Ned Burne-Jones 17 Nov. `97 Long walk with Stan Baldwin 1 Jan `98 To Southampton (en route to South Africa) 8 Jan `98 Arrives Cape Town 25 Jan `98 Lunch with Cecil Rhodes and Sharpe 26 Jan. `98 Dines with Milner 4 Feb. `98 To Simonstown 11 Feb. `98 Memorable day with Rhodes 13 Feb. `98 Visits Merriman at Stellenbosch 16 Feb. `98 Amusing dinner at Rhodes’s 21 Feb. `98 Amusing arguments with Rhodes 25 Feb. `98 To Kimberley, by special train with Rhodes 5 Mar. `98 In Kimberley 7 Mar. `98 To Bulawayo 9 Mar. `98 At Bulawayo 12 Mar. `98 Out to the Matoppos Hills 14 Mar. `98 Back in Kimberley, leaving for Johannesburg 28 Mar `98 Returns from Johannesburg 6 Apr. `98 Given a big dinner in Cape Town with ‘the Pater’ 11 Apr. `98 To England aboard SS Norham Castle – a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Much talk with Rhodes and Milner on the trip 30 Apr. `98 Arrive Southampton 30 Apr. `98 Dines with John Hay on the evening of his arrival 30 April `98 Dines with Rhodes and John Hay 3 May `98 Dines with Hay and Rhodes 3 May `98 Back to The Elms 5 May `98 Much friendship with the Cope Cornfords, Sir G. Robertson. and G. Wyndham May `98 Too upset to work (death of Uncle ‘Ned’ Burne-Jones) 18 June `98 Keeps vigil in Rottingdean church before interment of ashes 20 June `98 Attends funeral service for E. Burne-Jones 20 June `98 To London for memorial service for E. Burne-Jones 22 June `98 Lockwood de Forest visiting July `98 To Wilden to stay with the Baldwins 12 July `98 Back to the Elms 16 July `98 At Tisbury 29 July-2 Aug. `98 To HMS Pelorus at Devonport 1 Sep. `98 At Berehaven 3 Sep. `98 In Bantry Bay 6 Sep. `98 Much talk with Prince Louis of Battenberg 10 Sep. `98 Returns home 12 Sep. `98 “Much interested” in Robertson’s book on Chitral 22 Oct. `98 To Royal Palace Hotel 9/10 Nov. `98 Worrying news from Mrs Kipling concerning ‘Trix’ who is ill 5 Dec. `98 ‘Trix’ worse 7 Dec. `98 Attends William Black’s funeral 15 Dec. `98 To Tisbury to discuss Kim with the Pater 6-9 Jan. `99 To London to oculist (at end of above visit) 9 Jan. `99 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Benson call 22 Jan. `99 Beerbohm Tree calls (on business?) 22 Jan/ `99 All the family board the Majestic at Liverpool, en route to New York 25 Jan. 99 Arrive New York 2 Feb. `99 Kipling apparently still well 12 Feb. `99 Called on the McClures 20 Feb. `99 Lunches at the Century 20 Feb. `99 Feels dull and has a fever in the night 20 Feb. `99 Too ill to get up 21 Feb. `99 An anxious night and still more anxious day 22 Feb. `99 Sane and quiet: doing a story 23 Feb. `99 Taken to Lakewood, NJ 17 Apr. `99 S. McClure calls 6 May `99 Has gained 15 lbs at Lakewood 8 May `99 By special (railway) car to Catlins at Morristown 9 May `99 Dr. Conland calls: says lung healed, but needs six months’ rest May `99 Conland advises in strongest terms not to spend winters in N. hemisphere. May `99 (note) Chapin of St. Nicholas Magazine calls May `99 All to Doubleday’s house at Cold Springs, Long Island 5 June. `99 All to New York prior to sailing for England 13 June `99 Farewell dinner in New York (RK, ‘the Pater’, FND, McClure and de Forest) 13 June `99 Leaves New York by RMS Teutonic 14 June `99 Enjoys his voyage 14 June `99 To London, Palace Hotel 23 June `99 Returns quietly to The Elms after the disastrous trip to USA 24 June `99 Staying in London at Brown’s Hotel as guests of the Doubledays 6 July `99 V. happy with Phil (Burne-Jones) who starts portrait 8 July `99 Unpacking a printing press 8 July `99 Has a poisoned finger (to 14 July) 8 July `99 Family all leave for Scotland 8 Aug. `99 Visited the Carnegies at Skibo Castle 17 Aug.`99 They all return to Euston and thence to The Elms 15 Sep. `99 Meets Joseph Chamberlain at his club 11 Oct `99 Worried over troops in S. Africa 23 Oct. `99 Bad news of Trix 30 Oct. `99 Sits to Phil Burne-Jones again 2 Nov. `99 Gives testimony in a suit against a German publisher 7 Nov. `99 Goes to see a Pelorus friend, Lieutenant Pelly 15 Nov. `99 Takes the chair at a Navy League meeting in Rottingdean 24 Nov. `99 Hires a motor from London: they drive to Brighton 6 Dec. `99 Grieved over the Modder River reverse 13 Dec. `99 Offered the KCB, which he declines 14 Dec. `99 Depressed over bad war news: occupied with Volunteer business 16 Dec. `99 Deeply absorbed: starts the notion of a Volunteer Corps 17 Dec. `99 Speaks at a recruiting meeting 19 Dec. `99 To London – lawyers 21 Dec. `99 Has influenza 28 Dec. `99 Better: Ambo (Poynter) and Stanley (Baldwin) “come to play” 31 Dec. `99 All ill Jan. `00 Working with (or for) the village volunteers Jan `00 To town to sign his testimony in the Putnam case 19 Jan. `00 Leaves Southampton with all the family 20 Jan. `00 Enjoys himself with the volunteers in the ship 20 Jan. `00 Arrives Cape Town – to Mount Nelson Hotel 5 Feb. `00 An hour’s talk with Lord Roberts 6 Feb. `00 Dines with L S Amery, “the Times man” 7 Feb. `00 Calls on Milner, “who is glad to see him”. 8 Feb. `00 To No. 7 Hospital at Wynberg with Carrie 10 Feb. `00 To Portland Hospital with Carrie 11 Feb. `00 Sees Milner about a wire to The Times 12 Feb. `00 Talks to over 200 men at No. 2 Hospital 13 Feb. `00 Talks to over 200 men at No. 2 Hospital 15 Feb. `00 Relief of Kimberley – at No. 3 Hospital 16 Feb. `00 Hospitals 17 Feb. `00 Winding bandages 18 Feb. `00 Hospitals – dine at Government House 19 Feb. `00 Recites verses at a hospital 20 Feb. `00 To Modder River in a hospital train 22 Feb. `00 At Magersfontein 23 Feb. `00 At Modder River 24 Feb. `00 Returns 26 Feb. `00 No. 1 Hospital – dunes with Bagot the censor 27 Feb. `00 Lunches with an old Indian friend 28 Feb. `00 No. 1 Hospital 2 Mar. `00 A lot of talk with Indian Army officers 6 Mar. `00 Lunch with Rhodes – shows them the site of the house he will build for them 7 Mar. `00 With Rhodes to Stellenbosch and the Paarl 8 Mar. `00 Returns from the Paarl 10 Mar. `00 Hospitals 12 Mar. `00 Visits Rhodes, who is ill 15 Mar. `00 Asked to edit a camp paper by Roberts 17 Mar. `00 Off to Bloemfontein 19 Mar. `00 At Norval’s Post 21 Mar. `00 At Niewpoort 22 Mar. `00 Papers say he was at a battle yesterday 31 Mar. `00 He wasn’t, but had been at engagement at Karree Siding on 29 Mar. 31 Mar. `00 (note) Kipling returns to Cape Town 3 Apr. `00 Goes to see a troopship of New Zealanders 7 Apr. `00 Nursing a sick colleague from Bloemfontein 10 Apr. `00 Family left for home 11 Apr. `00 Meets Chief Justice de Villiers on board ship 11 Apr. `00 Back in London, Brown’s Hotel 28 Apr. `00 Bad news of Trix 29 Apr. `00 Calls on his ‘Old Ladies’ in Aviemore Road 29 Apr. `00 Returns to Rottingdean, via Tisbury 1 May `00 Trix better 1 May `00 A good talk with Chamberlain at the Club 1 May `00 Academy Banquet 5 May `00 Volunteer Committee Meeting 6 May `00 The Pater staying: they go target shooting 13 May `00 Declines further publicity scheme with the Daily Mail 15 May `00 Relief of Mafeking: he rouses the village to celebrate 18 May `00 Sits for his portrait to Collier 19 May `00 Percival Landon calls 19 May `00 To London to meet Chamberlain 25 May `00 They hear of the fall of Pretoria: cousin Hugh Poynter staying 31 May `00 Motor to Seaford and Alfriston 5 June `00 Rifle range matters: tea with the vicar 7 June `00 The Collier portrait finished 10 June `00 They lunch with Henley at Worthing 12 June `00 To Guildford to stay with the Stracheys 15 June `00 A 30-mile drive through lovely villages 16 June `00 Kipling and Carrie have a walk on Merrow Down 17 June `00 Kipling returns by way of Tisbury 18 June `00 Sends a cheque to his father who is depressed and ill 21 June `00 Mr. Scott (an Australian litigant before the Privy Council) calls 23 June `00 The Nortons call 23 June `00 A drive on the London road as far as Cuckfield 28 June `00 Rifle Committee meetings 28 June `00 Motor drive to Arundel 13 July `00 George Wyndham calls 14 July `00 Drive to Uckfield 17 July `00 Drive to Haywards Heath to see a house 23 July `00 To London to testify before South African Hospitals Committee 1 Aug. `00 Mr. Baker from the Cape calls 8 Aug. `00 Vicomte Robert d’Humières calls 8 Aug. `00 By train and cab to Etchingham and Burwash to see Bateman’s 14 Aug. `00 A drive across the Downs to (Al)friston 18 Aug. `00 “We talk Burwash” 18 Aug. `00 Visit to the Baldwins at Wilden 28 Aug. `00 The Edward Carsons 6 Sep. `00 Meet an Indian editor friend 8 Sep. `00 Shooting most evenings 11 Sep. `00 Sees George Macdonald about Bateman’s 21 Sep. 00 Disappointment about Batemans 23 Sep. `00 To Hawkhurst – Jacobean House 24 Sep. `00 Shoots on the new rifle range 26 Sep. `00 To lunch with L S Amery and Moberly Bell 28 Sep. `00 More legal business over the lawsuit with Putnams 5 Oct. `00 Makes a speech at Tisbury in support of Conservative candidate 9 Oct. `00 They try out an American automobile 12 Oct. `00 Re-elected President of the Rifle Range Committee 16 Oct. `00 They don’t like Georgian houses 18 Oct. `00 Takes the chair at Navy League meeting in Rottingdean 19 Oct. `00 Head of USC to lunch 31 Oct. `00 To Leamington to stay with Wolcott cousins 1 Nov. `00 To Stratford 2 Nov. `00 Return with presents and a Persian cat 3 Nov. `00 Village celebrations for a returned soldier 17 Nov. `00 Power of Attorney over ‘Naulakha’ to FND 2 Dec. `00 Off to South Africa 8 Dec. `00 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 25 Dec. `00 Bothering war news 31 Dec. `00 H A Gwynne to lunch 01 Jan. `01 Rhodes, Jameson and Baker call (and Sir David Gill) (he sees them repeatedly in the following days) 10 Jan, `01 Lunches with Rhodes and the Archbishop (to discuss the conditions for ‘Rhodes Scholarships’ at Oxford) 1 Feb. `01 Rhodes sends them a lion cub, to see if they can rear it 13 Feb. `01 Learning shorthand 13 Feb. `01 The saddest day of our year 6 Mar. `01 Invested £3500 in War Loan 10 Mar. `01 Lunch at Groote Schuur with 60 Australian & NZ officers 14 Mar. `01 The Baden-Powells call 19 Mar. `01 Baden-Powell and his sister call 2 Apr. `01 Mr. Gwynne to call 5 Apr. `01 The Mackays to call 5 Apr `01 Dined at Government House 9 Apr. `01 Col Mackay and a dozen Australians to tea 13 Apr. `01 Leave “dear Woolsack” 17 Apr. `01 Arrive Southampton 3 May `01 To the drill shed to practise 8 May `01 To New Gallery to see his portrait 13 May `01 Jack Mackail to tea 20 May `01 Loses his suit against Putnams 22 May `01 Mr. Landon calls 26 May `01 Works at a ritual for The Friend 1 June `01 Goes to the Police Court to testify 7 June `01 New motor arrives 18 June `01 A motor picnic in St. Leonard’s Forest with Stracheyss 6 July `01 Rud yachting at Sandown, a long trip along the south coast July `01 Sir E. Carson calls 18 Aug. `01 Cross from Newhaven to France to stay with Catlins in Paris 7 Oct. `01 Return to Newhaven 12 Oct. 01 Working with Aunt Georgie on life of her husband 17 Oct. `01 Kipling gives Carrie a ring 28 Nov. `01 An American driver to see if he can make the motor go 26 Nov. `01 The family sails from Southampton to the Cape. 21 Dec. `01 Arrive Cape Town: to The Woolsack 7 Jan. `02 Reporters asking about “The Islanders” 7 Jan. `01 Working in the garden at The Woolsack. 7 Jan. `02 To hospital where he reads his poems to 500 men 18 Jan. `02 To lunch at Groote Schuur, shocked at Rhodes’ appearance 7 Feb. `02 The Pater arrives to join them at the Woolsack 11 Feb. `02 Rhodes and Jameson call 13 Feb. `02 Edgar Wallace calls 26 Feb. `02 Rhodes ill 27 Feb. `02 Goes to Muizenberg and finds Rhodes better 2 Mar. `02 Sir G. Goldie calls 2 Mar. `02 Calls on Rhodes at Muizenberg and daily thereafter 7 Mar. `02 Very hot: Rhodes worse 15 Mar. `02 Rhodes unconscious 18 Mar. `02 Rhodes dies 26 Mar. `02 Rhodes lies in state at Groote Schuur 27 Mar. `02 Discusses the will and funeral with Jameson 28 Mar. `02 Reads his verses at service at Groote Schuur 2 Apr. `02 Service for Rhodes at Cape Town Cathedral and procession 3 Apr. `02 Reads verses at soldiers’ concert 5 Apr. `02 Milner arrives and wants to see Kipling 6 Apr. `02 Telegram from Jameson and F. Rhodes describing funeral 10 Apr. `02 Left The Woolsack for England 16 Apr; `02 Arrive Southampton and to Rottingdean 3 May `92 A new secretary - E. Parker – engaged by Carrie 6 May `02 FND and Dorothy arrive 8 May `02 Dines with Roberts at the Athenaeum 14 May `02 Mrs. Kipling and Trix as guests 20 May `02 By train and cab again to see Bateman’s 26 May `02 To Bateman’s again: they determine to buy: telegrams fly 28 May `02 A Lanchester car 5 June `02 Invitations to the Abbey for the Coronation 6 June `02 Rifle Club Committee 7 June `02 Jameson to lunch 8 June `02 George Macdonald buys Bateman’s on their behalf for £9300 10 June `02 To Bateman’s with Ambo Poynter 11 June `02 To London for a reception for colonials 16 June `02 To Bateman’s with Carrie and Ambo Poymter 18 June `02 To visit the Stracheys at Guildford 21 June `02 Back to The Elms – news of the King’s illness 24 June `02 New Secretary, Miss Parker, takes up her duties 30 June `02 To Bateman’s, most days July `02 Visit to the Loders at Free Chase 15-17 July `02 Uncle Fred (Macdonald) calls 22-30 July `02 Shooting 22-30 July `02 A visit to London – Charing Cross Hotel 22-30 July `02 Purchase of Bateman’s complete 29 July `02 Spent Coronation day at home 9 Aug. 02 To Isle of Wight to buy leather hangings for Bateman’s Aug. `02 Last night at The Elms 31 Aug. `02 Farewell reception at the Ridsdales 1 Sep. `02 Move to Bateman’s – “chaos and black night” 3 Sep. `02 Takes children to see hops being roasted 9 Sep. `02 Packages from Naulakha arrive 11 Sep. `02 Declines an invitation to the Delhi durbar from Curzon 17 Sep. `02 The motor in charge of Mr. Colgate arrives 26 Sep. `02 Mr. Lanchester arrives with the motor to assure us all is well 3 Oct. `02 To Rye: lunch with Henry James, where the motor breaks down 13 Oct. `02 Miss Anderson comes for two days 18 Oct. `02 The weather turns bitterly cold and Kipling has a bad cough 7 Nov. `02 The vicar to tea 16 Dec. `02 To lunch at the vicarage 22 Dec. `02 Quiet Christmas at home 25 Dec. `02 To Southampton 27 Dec. `02 Arrive Cape Town: to the Woolsack 13 Jan. `03 Visit to HMS Good Hope 21 Jan. `03 Jameson calls 25 Jan. `03 To Simonstown 9 Feb. `03 Dines in the mess at Wynberg with Col. Sturgis and his “old regiment” 13 Feb. `03 Attend lunch for Chamberlain, seated unsuitably 20 Feb. `03 Farewell banquet at Cape Town (but Rudyard at high table) 24 Feb. `03 To Johannesburg with Carrie 25-27 Mar. `03 Sails in Kinfauns Castle for England 22 Apr. `03 Arrive Southampton and to Bateman’s via London 9 May `03 Saw the play “The Light that Failed” 15 May `03 To London to see Chamberlain, by appointment 20 May `03 Beerbohm Tree calls about making a play from “The Man Who Was” 24 May `03 To lunch with Henry James at Rye 26 June `03 Electric cable laid from dynamo to stables 5 Aug. `03 Meets Mr. Shee of National Service League 14 Sep. `03 Disturbed by news of Chamberlain’s resignation 18 Sep. `03 Henry James to lunch with an American cousin 25 Sep. `03 To lunch with the Lugards at Abinger 27 Sep. `03 “Good talk” with Milner in Hatchard’s bookshop 14 Oct. `03 Milner and Lady Edward Cecil to lunch 18 Oct. `03 To London to meet Mrs, Burton (“Mrs. Hauksbee”) 27 Sep. `03 Declines KCMG offered by Balfour 7 Nov. `03 To Tunbridge Wells to sign the deeds for sale of Naulakha 21 Nov. 03 Sails for Cape Town 12 Dec. `03 Arrive Cape Town and to “The Woolsack” 29 Dec. `03 To dine at the ‘Mount Nelson’ to meet French admiral, Pinter(?) 13 Jan. `04 Sir G. Goldie calls, talking army reform 26 Feb, 04 To Kimberley with Carrie 9 Mar. `04 Sails in Kildonan Castle for England 13 Apr. `04 London – to Academy dinner 30 Apr. `04 Calls on Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary 5 May `04 Visits Admiral Fisher at Portsmouth with Carrie 29 July `04 Meets Lord Selborne and Mr. Chalmers to brief the former on South African situation 27 Aug. `04 Mr Conrad calls 30 Aug. `04 P. Landon, fresh from Lhasa 2 Oct. 04 Sir E. Ward and Mr. Gwynne 10 Oct. `04 Doubledays visiting Bateman’s 14 Oct. `04 Interested in North Sea troubles 27 Oct. `04 To Sir E. Loder’s wonderful park 29 Oct. `04 To the Stracheys at Merrow Down 30 Oct. `04 To the Baldwins at Bewdley Nov. `04 Rider Haggard and George Allen call 21 Nov. `04 Haggling over purchase of Dudwell Farm Dec. `04 Off to South Africa 10 Dec. `04 Arrive Cape Town 27 Dec. `04 Sees his old ladies, the Misses Craik 24 June `05 To stay with the Leonards at Maesllwch Castle Aug. `05 To stay with the Baldwins at Astley Aug. `05 To Cambridge “to see the Backs” 12 Aug. `05 To the Haggards 14 Aug. `05 To the Jessops 14 Aug. `05 Reads Puck stories to his children and the Mackails 14 Aug. `05 The Editor of the Paris Figaro. 22 Aug. `05 Mr. Landon 25 Aug. `05 Takes out £4000 life insurance to cover Death Duties 18 Sep. `05 Dr. Jameson “looking ill and wretched 21 Sep. `05 Miss Hooper (? Miss Winnard) Oct. `05 Lunch with the Bishop of London 2 Nov. `05 Returns from Tisbury 4 Nov. `05 Attends a dinner at Moberly Bells’ to meet Joseph Chamberlains 7 Nov. `05 To Oxford 7 Dec. `05 Dines with the Rhodes Trustees and Scholars 7 Dec. `05 Sailed for Africa 23 Dec. `05 Daily discussions with Duke of Connaught on board ship 23 Dec. `05 To the Woolsack 9 Jan. `06 Roderick Jones Feb. `06 To Johannesburg by train 9 Mar. `06 In Fitzpatrick’s motor to see the Chinese 12 Mar. `06 To Pretoria 16 Mar. `06 Leave Cape Town 18 Apr. `06 Arrive Southampton 5 May `06 Attends Academy dinner 5 May `06 Henry James and Owen Wister visit 21 May `06 Aunt Aggie (Poynter) dies 12 June `06 Attends her funeral 15 June `06 (note) Sailing on Oulton Broad 11 Aug. `06 Manoeuvres at Newhaven 31 Aug. `06 Sees new field-gun 31 Aug. `06 The Bland-Suttons 2 Sep. `06 Thinks over a reply to The Times Book Club 9 Oct. `06 Leaves for South Africa 17 Dec. `06 Arrives Cape Town and to The Woolsack 1 Jan. `07 Jameson and Roderick Jones: site of Rhodes Memorial 1 Jan. `07 Mr. Curtis, to talk federation 2 Feb. `07 And again 3 Feb. `07 To Simonstown to dine and sleep 18 Feb. `07 Mr. Bender, Jewish Rabbi spends two hours with Kipling 4 mar. `07 Tea with Inspector Richards, Cape Government Railways 16 Mar. `07 Leave Cape Town 6 Apr. `07 Kipling made Vice-President of Sports for voyage home 6 Apr. `07 Arrive Southampton, met by Gwynne, with Baker to meet Jameson 20 Apr. `07 To see Lady Edward Cecil at Great Wigsell 24 Apr. `07 Attends Academy Dinner 4 May `07 To town to meet Gwynne, Milner, Jameson and Deakin (Australian Prime Minister) 7 May `07 Stephen Leacock, from McGill 10 May `07 To town, anxious about John’s eyes 10 May `07 To military tournament 10 May `07 Meet Poynter (Ned? Ambo?) 10 May `07 Visit Sara Anderson 10 May `07 Frequently visit Bodiam Castle June `07 To Benchers’ Dinner, Grays Inn 12 June `07 Visit by F.N. Finney to Bateman’s 19 June `07 Proposes reduction in commission to A P Watt 19 June `07 A tour in the North – York – Durham 22 June `07 Receives honorary degree at Durham University 24 June `07 To Oxford to stay with Oslers 26 June `07 Receives honorary degree at Oxford 26 June `07 Attends Oxford pageant with Mark Twain 27 June `07 To London to see model of Rhodes Memorial 3 July `07 Watt agrees to reduction in commission 8 July `07 To stay with the Allens at Warninglid 13 July `07 Meets Leo Maxse (brother of Lady Edward Cecil) 13 July `07 Long talk with Sir George Clark at Club 22 July `07 Spends an hour with old Lusted, the builder 29 Aug. `07 Attends funeral of Lusted. 3 Sep. `07 Lord Milner for lunch and tea 8 Sep. `07 Walks with Elsie to see her do her milking 14 Sep. `07 Takes John to boarding school 18 Sep. `07 To London, then Liverpool & RMS Empress of Britain 20 Sep. `07 Met by Sir William Van Horne at Rimouski, QP 26 Sep. `07 Quebec to Montreal in private railway car 27 Sep. `07 Meet Carrie’s mother, Doubledays and McClures in Montreal 27 Sep. `07 At Ottawa 30 Sep. `07 At Winnipeg, speeches and receptions 2 Oct. `07 Meets Ralph Connor (author) – real name Revd. Charles Lewis) 2 Oct. `07 Moosejaw – Calgary 3-4 Oct. `07 Vancouver and Victoria – speeches 5 Oct. `07 Medicine Hat 13 Oct. `07 Toronto – reporters 16 Oct. `07 Ottawa, staying with Governor-General at Rideau Hall 19 Oct. `07 Meets Sir W. Laurier, Prime Minister 19 Oct. `07 McGill University – Honorary doctorate and reception 23 Oct. `07 A town reception 23 Oct. `07 Sails for England – Allan liner Virginian 24 Oct. `07 Spends two hours with chief engineer, learning about turbines 29 Oct. `07 Arrive home 2 Nov. `07 Receives notification of award of Nobel Prize for Literature 12 Nov. 07 Working on speech for opening of Burwash Institute 3 Dec. `07 Left for Stockholm 7 Dec. `07 Esbjerg – very seasick 8 Dec. `07 Stockholm 10 Dec. `07 Nobel ceremonies 11-12 Dec. `07 Back by Hamburg and Flushing – another rough crossing 12 Dec. `07 Back at Bateman’s – peace and shelter most welcome 15 Dec. `07 To lunch of mutiny veterans at Albert Hall 23 Dec. `07 To Southampton – a dull voyage to the Cape 28 Dec. `07 Description in Carrie’s own words of Kipling under stress Mar. `08 Left the Woolsack 15 Apr. `08 Home 2 May `08 Calls on Conan Doyles at Crowborough 11 May `08 Visit from George Allen, who gives investment advice 14 May `08 Speech to Royal Literary Fund 21 May `08 Visits to Rottingdean to see John who is homesick 21 May `08 Visit by Archdeacon Gwynne, brother of H.A Gwynne 22 July `08 Family tour to the north – York-Kendal-Skipton-Carlisle 4-11 Aug. `08 Along the Wall to Rothbuty 4 Aug. `08 They meet Baden-Powell at Chillingham 4 Aug. `08 Staying with the Leonards at Biddlestone Hall, 11-18 Aug. `08 4 Aug. `08 Visit to Alnwick 13 Aug `08 Newcastle and Birmingham, to the Baldwins 18-19 Aug. `08 Stratford-Oxford 21 Aug. `08 Horsham and home 22 Aug. `08 To Brookland in Romney Marsh to see the church 27 Aug, `08 Staying with Admiral Durnford for two days at RNC Greenwich 25 Sep. `08 Speech at the Middlesex Hospital 1 Oct. `08 Bland-Sutton advises Kipling to give up smoking 8 Oct. `08 Sees George Allen about investments 14 Dec. `08 W. Heath Robinson to lunch (discuss illustrations to “The Song of the English” 21 Dec. `08 To Switzerland 29 Dec. `08 Lucerne 30 Dec. `08 Engelberg 31 Dec. `08 Left for Lucerne 25 Feb. `09 Milan 28 Feb `09 Rome 2 Mar. `09 Tivoli, Hadrian’s Walls (Villas) 11 Mar. `09 Sir Rennell Rodd, British Ambassador to Italy 11 Mar. `09 Sir William Van Horne 11 Mar. `09 To Paris 13 Apr. `09 Home 17 Apr. `09 To Tisbury 27 Apr. `09 Occupied with investments, as a result of Liberal budge t 14 May `09 Lord and Lady Bathurst (at Bateman’s (?))I 19 May `09 A party of imperialists from Toronto 9 June `09 To RNC Greenwich as a guest of the Durnfords 23 June `09 To dinner at the Swedish Embassy & to meet the Crown Prince and Princess 14 July `09 Dinner at the House of Commons with Baldwin and Bonar Laws 21 July `09 Motor tour to the west 18-21 Aug. `09 Winchester – Graves of Jane Austen and Isaak Walton 19 Aug. `09 Scout camp in the New Forest 20 Aug. `09 Kipling and John to Plymouth 21 Aug. `09 Return with John via Tisbury 26 Aug. `09 Jameson and Metcalfe to lunch 12 Oct. `09 A drive to Romney Marsh 8 Sep. `09 A bee exhibition at the Crystal Palace 17 Sep. `09 Lady Edward Cecil, Miss Maxse and M. Georges Clemenceau to tea 23 Sep. `09 Making friends with Kingsley Fairbridge 25 Sep. `09 Rector and his wife to lunch 16 Oct. `09 The Kiplings make a settlement on their children 26 Oct. `09 To Englemere, to stay with the Roberts 6 Nov. `09 To St, John’s College, Cambridge 9 Nov. `09 Mr. Salano calls to discuss realisation of “The Army of a Dream 12 Nov. `09 M. André Chevrillon calls 23 Nov. `09 Rider Haggard and Professor Macphail (from McGill) to discuss formation of branch of National Service League 10 Dec. `09 To Engelberg 31 Dec. `09 To Zurich with Carrie (she has consultation with Dr. Eichorst) 26 Feb. `10 (note) To Geneva, en route to Vernet-les-Bains 26 Feb. `10 Lyons-Avignon-Montpellier-Nimes-Vernet-les-Bains by train 1-2 Mar. `10 They meet Lord Montagu at Avignon, with Claude Johnson and a Rolls Royce car 1-2 Mar. `10 (note) Rud swims in and drinks hot sulphur water – gargles and massage 8 Mar. `10 Meets Mr. Woodward of the Evening Standard & his American wife 15 Mar. `10 Spectacular ride in Rolls-Royce with Lord Montagu 23 Mar. `10 (note) Lent same car (and chauffeur) to take them back to Paris 23 Mar. `10 Perpignan-Narbonne-Montpellier-Nimes. 26 Mar. `10 Pont du Gard-Les Baux-Avignon. 27 Mar. `10 Avignon to St. Etienne 28 Mar. `10 Moulins 29 Mar. `10 Fontainebleau 30 Mar. `10 Paris 1 Apr. `10 Bateman’s 2 Apr. `10 To a committee meeting of his club (The Athenaeum?) 12 Apr. `10 A new governess for Elsie – Miss Goode 9 Apr. `10 Lady Edward Cecil: H A Gwynne: the Husseys of Scotney Apr. `10 Goes to Brighton to visit ‘Crom’ Price 22 Apr. `10 Meeting of National Service League at Burwash 27 Apr. `10 To Browns Hotel: attends Academy banquet 30 Apr. `10 His parents and Trix come for a visit 2 May `10 Mr. Stevenson Reece calls 3 May `10 Phil Burne-Jones calls 3 May `10 ‘Uncle Crom’ Price dies 4 May `10 To Brighton, to ‘Crom’ Price’s funeral 6 May `10 Death of King Edward VII 7 May `10 Colonel Feilden and Gibbs family call 8 May `10 To London, to buy mourning 9 May `10 London representative of Le Figaro calls 15 May `10 Swiss aviator Lowenthal visits 15 May `10 Attends memorial service for King Edward VII in parish church 20 May `10 To London: to see solicitor and call on Theodore Roosevelt 25 May `10 Lord Milner and Lady E. Cecil to lunch 26 May `10 The Kiplings call on the Lytteltons at Wittersham 26 May `10 Meet Lady Elcho and A J Balfour at Wittersham 26 May `10 Lord Montagu and Claude Johnson call (re cars) 29 May `10 To Oxford via Stoke Poges: stays with Cannan, Sec of OUP 6 June `10 Discussion with Charles Fletcher re History of England 6 June `10 Attends Romanes lecture by Roosevelt in Sheldonian 6 June `10 To Bagshot Park to stay with the Connaughts 14 June `10 Hugh and Mollie Poynter call 18 June `10 The Bathursts and Sir Lewis Mitchell to lunch 22 June `10 Pountney Bigelow calls 23 June `10 To Lewes for jury service – not called 1 July `10 Kiplings buy more land at Rye 1 July `10 George Allen, Sir James Dunlop Smith, Sir Montague Turner and “a nice Knutsford boy” call 2 July `10 Mr Cornford calls 4 July `10 Presides at a Cecil Club dinner in honour of Admiral Beresford 13 July `10 Mr Scott of Century magazine calls 19 July `10 A motor trip to the west: yachting with Walton: visit Leonards at Stanmer; visit Stanstead 12-19 Aug/ `10 Mr. Benson, architect, calls 25 Aug. `10 Teddy Price to stay 25 Aug. `10 Percival Landon calls, and they visit his cousin at Possingworth 8 Sep. `10 Mr Gwynne calls 18 Sep. `10 The Sutherland Harrises call 18 Sep. `10 ‘China’ Mo(r)rison calls 23 Sep. `10 Writes notes for Duchess of Connaught on S. Africa 25 Sep. `10 The Kiplings stay at Farnborough and inspect Wellington College as a possible school for John 30 Sep. `10 Shooting with Lord Warwick, Moreton Frewen, and others Oct. `10 To international aviation meeting at Folkestone 25 Oct `10 Mr Claude Johnson to discuss a new Rolls-Royce 2 Nov.. `10 Lady E. Cecil, Miss Maxse, Lord Milner and Harry Cust call 6 Nov. `10 Report on John’s eyes – worse 7 Nov. `10 Makes a speech at Brighton for the Mayor 9 Nov. `10 To a Conservative Party meeting at the Constitutional Club 14 Nov. `10 Wire from Tisbury; Alice Kipling seriously ill: motors to Tisbury 19 Nov. `10 Alice Kipling dies 22 Nov. `10 Helping with funeral arrangements, etc. 22-25 Nov. `10 Funeral, and to London 25 Nov. `10 On arrival in London, carried off to election meeting 25 Nov. `10 Speaks in Burwash for Courthope in the Dec. `10 election 3 Dec. `10 And again 7 Dec. `10 Back from Tisbury – poor account of Trix 23 Dec. `10 Mr and Mrs Hornung call 27 Dec. `10 To Engelberg with the Wares 29 Dec. `10 Receives news that his father is ill at ‘Clouds’ 23 Jan. `11 News received of his father’s death: leaves for England 27 Jan. `11 At Tisbury 28 Jan. `11 His father’s funeral 30 Jan. `11 To Paris (from Engelberg) 16 Feb. `11 To Vernet-les-Bains 18 Feb. `11 Crippled by sciatica 27 Feb. `11 Day trip to Perpignan: they meet a(n) (Arch)Bishop 12 Mar. `11 Percival Landon joins them for their motor tour back to Paris 24 Mar. `11 Tour back to Paris and England starts – for details, see under Cars 25 Mar `11 Dines at the Middle Temple (Thackeray centenary 26 May `11 Lunch with the Hammond at Mr. Burdett-Coutts house 9 June `11 Mr. Blumenfeld calls 14 June `11 Lunch for colonial Prime Ministers 17 June `11 To stay with the Baldwins in Kensington before the Coronation 21 June `11 Attend the coronation of King George V, in Westminster Abbey 22 June `11 Sir Leander Starr Jameson and Sir Thomas Smartt visit 26 June `11 To tea with the Frewens at Brede Place 3 July `11 To the Bakers at Cobham, near Gravesend 4 July `11 The Doubledays visiting 4 July `11 Sir Max and Lady Aitken visit (twice) 12 July `11 Ian Colvin calls 21 July `11 To stay with the Bathursts at Cirencester 29 July `11 All the Kiplings leave for a motor tour of Normandy, with the Aitkens 4 Aug. `11 In Rouen, with the Aitkens 5 Aug. `11 At Le Havre: the Aitkens leave to return to England 6 Aug. `11 Bayeux and the Normandy coast 7 Aug. `11 Mont St, Michel 10 Aug. `11 Mortain 11 Aug. `11 Visit the Depews at Chateau d’Annel 13 Aug. `11 Return to Bateman’s, Gwynne having given ‘all clear’. 18 Aug. `11 New Secretary – Miss Hogg? 19 Aug. `11 To Lord Milner, at Sturry Court 21 Aug. `11 Lady Edward Cecil and George Cecil call 22 Aug. `11 The Nelson Spencers call 22 Aug. `11 To lunch with the Baileys 3 Sep. `11 Margo and Oliver Baldwin to visit 9 Sep. `11 Aunt Georgie and Teddy Price to visit 12 Sep. `11 John to Pearson’s House at Wellington College 21 Sep. `11 Bonar Law to dinner 22 Sep. `11 “Wonderful news” of Canadian Conservatives election victory 22 Sep. `11 Kipling to visit Gwynne in his office 28 Sep. `11 Rider Haggard visits Bateman’s for two days 30 Sep. `11 Writing notes on Canada for the Connaughts 3 Oct. `11 Kipling visits his sister Trix at Andover 16 Oct. `11 To Dublin with Carrie, sightseeing 17 Oct. `11 Drove to Belfast: to the cinema 19 Oct. `11 To Portrush and the Giant’s Causeway 19 Oct. `11 Back to Brown’s Hotel 24 Oct. `11 Sees Dr. Jameson (Sir Leander Starr) 24 Oct. `11 The Aitkens and Bonar Laws for Christmas 25 Dec. `11 The Kiplings to Engelberg (with Bailey children) 28-29 Dec. 11 At Engelberg Jan. `12 Leave Engelberg for Florence, via Lucerne 14 Feb. `12 Anxious about coal-strike in England 3 Mar. `12 To Venice 7 Mar. `12 Taken to see Mrs. Ritchie 18 Mar. `12 By train to Paris 20 Mar. `12 Staying with the Depews at Chateau d’Annel 23 Mar. `12 To Dover and home to Bateman’s 27 Mar. `12 Oliver Locker-Lampson visits 7-8 Apr. `12 Speaks to the RGS 20 May `12 Speaks to the boys of John’s House at Wellington (25) May `12 They visit Trix at Tisbury May `12 Speaks at the Royal Geographic Society 20 May `12 To spend week-end with Lord and Lady Roberts 1 June `12 They visit Windsor Castle with Hon. John Fortescue, the Castle Librarian as their guide 1 June `12 To visit Oliver Baldwin at Eton 4 June `12 Speech Day at Wellington 15 June `12 To the Allens 22 June `12 Sir William Wilcocks to visit and advise 24 June `12 Kipling to rifle club match 3 July `12 To the Baileys 4 July `12 To London: dinner at Carlton Hotel to meet Bonar Law and Canadian premier 8 July `12 To Cherkley 13 July `12 Guest of the Royal Society at the Guildhall 16 July `12 Mr. Hoppé, photographer, to take Kipling’s likeness 22 July `12 Captain Fox, game warden from the Soudan visits 22 July `12 Mr. and Mrs. Colefax visit 5 Aug. `12 J L Garvin visits 5 Aug. `12 To the Munsters’ mess 5 Aug. `12 Cavalry manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain at the invitation of General Sir Charles Douglas 28 Aug. 12 With John to a service at Salisbury Cathedral 8 Sep. `12 With John fishing with Walton at Cawsand 8 Sep. `12 Tintagel and Lands End 10 Sep. `12 Westward Ho! 11 Sep. `12 Glastonbury and Tolland (Balestier ancestors) 12 Sep. `12 To a political meeting in the village 8 Oct. `12 Makes a political speech in the village 18 Oct. `12 To visit the Curzons at Hackwood 26 Oct. `12 To the Aitkens for christening of Peter Rudyard Aitken 28 Oct. `12 With John to see flying machines at Aldershot 1 Nov. `12 Mrs. Raymond Asquith 3 Nov. `12 At Farnborough to visit John at school (staying at Queen’s Hotel) 24 Nov. `12 Roderick Jones ? Nov. `12 Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett calls 8 Dec. `12 Lady Londonderry and Sir E. Carson call 16 Dec. `12 Christmas at Cherkley (Aitkens and Bonar Laws) Dec. `12 Crossed channel in drenching rain 26 Dec. `12 Engelberg 27 Dec. `12 Income tax demand received 9 Jan. 13 To Paris 4 Feb. `13 To Marseilles by train 6 Feb. `13 To Port Said, by SS Persia (P&O) 7 Feb, `13 Arrive Port Said and to Cairo 11 Feb. `13 Semiramis Hotel, Cairo 11 Feb. `13 Lord and Lady Edward Cecil: Sir James and Lady Wilcocks 11 Feb. `13 A fancy dress dance 12 Feb. `13 Left cards on Kitchener: met Fitzgerald, his ADC 14 Feb. `13 SS Rameses III on the Nile 15 Feb. `13 Above Assouan 24 Feb. `13 Abu Simbel 27 Feb. `13 Wady Halfa 28 Feb. `13 Visits the tomb of the Kings at Thebes 8 Mar. `13 Back to Cairo 9 Mar. 13 Tea at the British Agency 13 Mar. `13 Marseilles – met by their car and Landon 19 Mar. `13 Albi 22 Mar. `13 Bourges 24 Mar. `13 Conferences with Doubleday and Watts 24 Mar. `13 Abbéville – pass through en route to Boulogne and Folkestone 6 Apr. `13 Home 7 Apr. `13 Attends rehearsals of The Harbour Watch 14 Apr. `13 To Wellington to see John’s housemaster about his joining the army 2 May `13 Visiting the Allens at Free Chase 10 May `13 They meet the Sidney Colvins 10 May `13 Baden-Powell calls with his new wife at Bateman’s 12 May `13 Kipling and John to Aldershot for his army medical: his eyes still below standard 19 May `13 Lord Milner and Lady E. Cecil for Empire day 24 May `13 To London to meet Gwynne and Jameson 27 May `13 Kiplings to lunch at Eton with Headmaster, Rev. Edward Lyttelton 4 June `13 Kiplings (and Elsie) to dinner with Mr. Stewart 13 June `13 Sacks Moore the chauffeur after six years’ service 16 June `13 To Farnborough (for the army) 28 June `13 Meet General Maxse: Colonel Marker 28 June `13 On manoeuvres in Aldershot area with Gwynne 30 June `13 Home from manoeuvres 1 July `13. Miss Bowman succeeds Miss Hogg as Secretary 3 July `13 Stalky’s son to stay 5 July `13 Photographer from the Sphere (magazine) 7 July `13 Photographer from Elliott and Fry 13 July `13 Dines with the King’s Guard at St. James’s 14 July `13 Visit to Trix at Scarborough 14 July `13 Their own house party: the Bland-Suttons, Miss Ellaline Terriss, the Moreton Frewens. Steel-Maitland and Lady E. Cecil 19 July `13 Miss Veysey (secretary) comes 22 July `13 Being cultivated by Tyler, an American theatre manager 22 July `13 All the family to Kessingland Grange 28 Aug. `13 Back to Bateman’s 1 Sep. `13 Sir Abe Bailey, Col. and Mrs. Crewe call 15 Sep. `13 Miss Chamberlain, new secretary, comes 23 Sep. `13 Presides over a village meeting re National Service 25 Sep. `13 The Kiplings call on Lady Sackville at Knole 27 Sep. `13 To Brooklands and New Romney 2 Oct. `13 Kipling sits to Sir E Poynter for a portrait in Charcoal 5 Oct. `13 Mr. Astor of Hever, Lady Sackville and Sir E. Poynter 8 Oct. `13 To the Astors at Hever Castle 19 Oct. `13 To funeral of Mrs. Charles Leonard at Brompton Cemetery 24 Oct. `13 To a music hall in London, with Landon 31 Oct. `13 Herbert Baker to stay, en route to Delhi 4 Nov. `13 The Kiplings and Elsie to the Desboroughs at Taplow Court 22 Nov. `13 Leave for Folkestone and on to Compiègne (the Depews) 22 Dec. `13 At Paris, the Hotel Bristol 27 Dec. `13 Arrive Engelberg 29 Dec. `13 To Zurich, then St. Moritz with Carrie and Elsie. 21 Jan. `14 To Paris 3 Feb. `14 Meet the Chevrillons 4 Feb. `14 Home to Burwash 7 Feb. `14 With Carrie visits John at Wellington to tell him the arrangements for his going to Mr. Evans, the Bournemouth crammer 14 Feb. `14 To Cherkley, the Aitkens 14 Feb. `14 To London, to dine and speak at the RGS 14 Feb. `14 To Paris, to buy Elsie’s presentation dress 19 Feb. `14 Gives Carrie a pearl ‘dog-collar’ for their 22nd wedding anniversary. 19 Feb. `14 Lunch party given by Princess Marie of Greece 21 Feb. `14 To Vernet-les-Bains 22 Feb. `14 Return to Paris by car 29 Mar. `14 With John in Paris – they go to “see the aviation” 8 Apr. `14 With John to see Grand Guignol 9 Apr. `14 Meets with Max Aitken, Bonar Law and F E Smith in Paris 12 Apr. `14 To the Academy Dinner 2 May `14 All the family take John to the crammer’s at Bournemouth 5 May `14 Lockwood de Forest at Bateman’s 6 May `14 To London to take Elsie to her first ‘big’ dance – Mrs Saxton Noble’s 15 May `14 Makes a violently anti-Government speech on Ulster at Tunbridge Wells 16 May `14 To Lord Milner’s – Lord Bessborough and Lord Basil Blackwood also present 17 May `14 To Lady Desborough’s for the week-end 23 May `14 Accompanies Elsie to Court for her presentation 4 June `14 Asked to stand as MP for a Birmingham constituency – refuses 7 June `14 Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. Wild visit 8 June `14 To executive meeting of English Covenanters 16 June `14 Kiplings visit RNC Dartmouth 17-19 June `14 Ill in the night 26 June `14 House-party at Cliveden 4 July `14 Kiplings attend memorial service to Joseph Chamberlain 6 July `14 Kermit Roosevelt and his newly-wedded wife visit 7 July `14 Kiplings attend Eton and Harrow match at Lords 10-11 July `14 Kipling attends the naval review on board HMS Exmouth 18 July `14 To Bournemouth to John’s christening 19 July `14 To Sherborne to stay with the Lawrence Drummonds 21 July `14 To Kessingland for a summer holiday 23 July `14 Leaves Kessingland with Carrie and Elsie – to London 10 Aug. `14 Lunch with the Bland-Suttons in London and to Bateman’s 12 Aug. `14 The Aitkens visiting 15 Aug. `14 Takes John to recruiting offices at Hastings and Maidstone 17 Aug. `14 Starts to do some verses (‘For All We Have and Are’) 25 Aug. `14 Stan Baldwin to dine and sleep 27 Aug. `14 To London with John. Decided to ask Lord Roberts for a nomination for him 2 Sep. `14 Makes a recruiting speech at Brighton 7 Sep. `14 Julia Depew arrives, tells of her flight from Compiègne 9 Sep. `14 To town to see Roberts: successful 10 Sep. `14 Writing letters to America: Lord Milner calls 12 Sep. `14 They all take John to London 13 Sep. `14 Kipling to see Dr. Craig about Trix 14 Sep. `14 Ill during a visit to Cherkley 21 Sep. `14 Recovers at home 26-27 Sep. `14 With Carrie and Elsie to lunch at Canterbury 29 Sep. `14 Lord Milner staying 4-5 Oct. `14 Stan Baldwin and Julius Lay, American consular official, visit 8 Oct. `14 To Crowborough, to territorial camp. 13 Oct. `14 Elsie and Kipling to visit wounded at Crowborough 21 Oct. `14 Trouble over Trix 6 Nov. 14 Visits to Maresfield and Uckfield to see troops in training 13 Nov. `14 To the Naval Brigade at Crystal Palace 14 Nov. `14 Plans for the week changed by death of Lord Roberts in France 15 Nov. `14 Visit to Territorials at Sevenoaks 16 Nov. `14 Indian Troops in the New Forest 21-22 Nov. `14 Canadians on Salisbury Plain 23 Nov. `14 Meets three men from the Grenadier guards who saw Hon. George Cecil killed 3 Dec. `14 Dines at ‘The Club’ 8 Dec. `14 Visiting Cherkley – present, Lord Murray, Lord Rothermere and Sir George Parkin 20 Dec. `14 To ‘Raffles’ (the play) in London 23 Dec. `14 Christmas (at Bateman’s?) with Aitkens and Bonar Law 25 Dec. `14 To London with Carrie who consults Bland-Sutton 11 Jan `15 To Brighton to visit Indian wounded 23 Jan. `15 To London for lunch at Mansion House: makes a speech about bands for recruiting Jan. 27, `15 Seeing much of the Aitkens 29 Jan. `15 Helps Max Aitken in his role of ‘Canadian Eye-witness’ 29 Jan. `15 The Kiplings send their securities to America 29 Jan. `15 To Newcastle (to munitions and engineering factories Feb. `15 & note. Refuses to write a history of the battle of Ypres 29 Mar and Mar. 29 `15 Leave by train for Bath Spa Hotel Mar. 29 `15 To London, from Bath, with Elsie Apr. 10, `15 Back to Bath Apr. 19 `15 Visiting hospitals Apr. `22 `15 They leave Bath Apr. 24 `15 With John to the Alhambra (music hall) 24 Apr. `15 To Aldershot to see Kitchener’s Army 26 Apr. `15, Apr. 26 `15 & Note To a play, ‘Rosy Rapture’ 1 May `15 To London> helping Max Aitken to re-write ‘Eye-witness’ 12 May New chauffeur arrives with family May 14 `15 To Warley to bring back John who is ill. Lunches in mess May 19 `15 Both Kiplings to War Office to offer Batemans as a hospital 7 June `15 In London: they all go to the ‘Palace’ theatre 12 June `15 Kipling writing recruiting speech to be delivered at Southport 12 June `15 Both Kiplings to Liverpool: Kipling delivers recruiting speech at Southport 21 June & June 21 `15 Kipling makes his will July `15 Kipling to see his tailor about his khaki correspondent’s uniform July 8 `15 Getting a Commission for Teddy Price 5 Aug. & Aug. 5 `15 Kipling and John to the Bath Club 11 Aug. `15 Kipling to France with Landon, to visit French front 12 Aug. & Aug. `12 `15 Writes home from Jonchéry Aug, 15 `15 Sees a big review, Joffre and Kitchener: sleeps at Nancy Aug. 17 `15 Reaches Troyes, from Belfort Aug. 20 `15 Paris Aug. 22 `15 Kipling and Landon met at Folkestone by Carrie 26 Aug. & Aug. 26 `15 Kipling visiting the Dover Patrol Sept. `15 Leaves for Dover Sept. 18 `15 Returns – an interesting time Sept. 19 `15 Leaves for the east coast Sept. 22 `15 With the Maidstone at Harwich 24 Sept. `15 Returns, tired Sept. 25 `15 John’s Day (the day on which John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos – though the Kiplings were not aware until later) 27 Sept. `15 To London to see an Admiral about a trip with the Grand Fleet: comes home feeling very ill Sept. 27 `15 Has gastritis: Doctor puts him on a diet 29 Sept. & Sept. 29 `15 Ill with gastritis and miserable 30 Sept. `15 Telegram from War Office to say John is “missing” 2 Oct. & Oct. 2 `15 Much better and begins to eat proper food Oct. 6 `15 The Kiplings to Hythe to see a wounded L/Cpl who had some news of John 11 Oct. & Oct. 11 `15 Kiplings to London 12 Oct. `15 Kiplings to Sandgate and Shorncliffe in search of wounded men who might have seen John during the fighting Oct. 17 `15 Kiplings to London in their search for men who might have seen John on 27 Sept. 19 Oct. & Oct. 19 `15 To see Colonel Lord de Vesci (Regimental adjutant) 9 Nov. & Nov. 9 `15 Kipling to London, thence Cardiff and Swansea. Nov. 29 `15 Kiplings to London last trip by car Dec. 10 `15 Both Kiplings to Winchester to open rifle range in memory of George Cecil. Kipling makes a speech. 11 Dec. `15 Both Kiplings to Bath: Kipling visits hospitals 1 Feb. `16 & Feb 1 `16 Kiplings leave by train for Cirencester 28 Feb `16 Kipling takes leave of the friend he has visited in hospital daily 28 Feb `16 & note Kiplings leave Cirencester for London Mar 2 `16 Kiplings attend Henry James’s funeral in London 3 Mar `16 & Mar. 3 `16 Kiplings dine with Jameson at the Ritz 4 Mar. `16 Goes with Elsie to the movies (war pictures) 15 Mar `16 Gives Arthur Green £25 (see Green, Arthur, above) 15 Mar. `16 All busy at Dudwell Farmhouse, preparing it for a wounded officer and his family Mar. 25, `16 Lunches with Leopold Amery to meet Hughes (Australian Premier) and Mark Sykes 17 May, `16 News received of Kitchener’s death June 5 `16 To Kitchener’s Memorial Service in St. Paul’s with Carrie 13 June & June 13 `16 To Kitchener’s Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey in the afternoon with Carrie and Elsie 13 June & June 13 `16 MI (Military Intelligence) consult him on dissemination of information to neutrals 18 June `16 Major Goldman & Brig.-Gen. Cockerill to consult re giving out of information to neutrals and at home (probably same event as previous one, but differently dated) June 19 `16 Colonel Cunliffe, OUSC, calls 4 July `16 Haymaking 4 July `16 Captain Brownrigg, RN, wires asking Kipling to call July 14 `16 Confusing entries re visit of Capt. Brownrigg with material for Destroyers at Jutland. 20 July & July 20; 19 Aug.`16 In pain Sep. `16 In less pain, and outdoors most of the day Sep. 14, `16 Kipling and Elsie put Dudwell in order Sep. 20 `16 Kipling, Carrie & Elsie to London & to a music hall with Lord Milner, Lady Edward Cecil & the Salisburys Oct. 16 `16 A visit to Cambridge: lunch and dinner with Oliver Baldwin 21 Oct. `16 Back to London by lunchtime 23 Oct. `16 Home by 1.48 25 Oct. `16 To London to Westminster Cathedral, for Irish Guards Mass 27 Oct. `16 Kiplings to London to christening of Rupert Grayson’s son: Kipling stands Godfather. Dec. 17 `16 Opening of new Maple Leaf Clubs: makes speech 21 Dec. `16 Visits Irish Guards H Q in London to discuss proposal that he write the regimental history of the war. 17 Jan. & Jan. 17 `17 Kiplings lunch at Brown’s and to Bath Feb. 6 `17 To Bath in bitter cold. 7 Feb. `17 Kiplings leave Bath, return to London: in a taxi accident 3 Mar & Mar. 3 `17 Kipling to a lunch of the ‘Pilgrims’ in London Apr. `17 (but see next entry) Not fit to go to London for ‘Pilgrim’s’ dinner Apr. 12 `17 Arrange to take over Landon’s furniture in Keylands Apr. 15 `17 Kipling to Italy with Landon May 1 `17 Goes to Italy 2 -17 May `17 At Modane May 4 `17 In Rome May 5 `17 Leaves Rome for Udine May 8 `17 Arrives Udine on way to the front May 9 `17 Returns home May 17 `17 Tells Stanley Baldwin (PPS to Bonar Law) that he will not accept any Honour 28 May & May 28 `17 In London, tells Baldwin again that he will not accept an honour, specifically the KBE 6 June & June 56 `17 Asked by Jameson to become a Rhodes Trustee: accepts 27 Aug & Aug. 27 `17 Receives news of Jameson’s death 26 Nov. & Nov. 26 `17 Attend Jameson’s memorial service 5 Dec. `17 Reading Jane Austen aloud to Carrie Jan. `18 Lunches at the Ritz with Abe Bailey General Jan Smuts and Oliver Locker-Lampson 8 Jan `18 Does Latin verses 23 Jan. `18 Finishes the Irish Guards ‘song’ 28 Jan. `18 Working at Folkestone speech 31 Jan. `18 Proposes to Col. Hall that he give Irish Guards song to the Regiment to be recited at a charity matinee Feb. 3 `18 Edward German calls about setting Irish Guards song to music 4 Feb & Feb. 4 `18 Beaverbrook calls about his appointment as ‘propaganda chief’ 5 Feb. `18 Makes his speech (on War Aims) at Folkestone 15 Feb. & Feb. 15 `18 Kiplings to Bath (staying overnight in London en route) 18 Feb. & Feb. 18 `18 Declines post in propaganda service 19 Feb. & Feb. 19 `18 Sir Edward Poynter and son, Capt. E Poynter call on Kiplings 2 Mar. `18 Kipling makes speeches to munitions workers at Bristol 2 Mar. `18 Kipling makes speeches to munitions workers at Bristol Mar. 13 `18 Back to London, to Brown’s Hotel Mar. 15 `18 They meet the young Doubledays, Felix and Rhoda, in London 16 Mar. `18 Irish Guard Matinee: the Kiplings in a box. Kipling’s verses recited. 18 Mar. `18 & Mar. `18 Kipling off on his own affairs 19 Mar. `18 Very anxious about battle news 23-25 Mar. `18 Starts to consider arranging verse for new collection Mar. 28 `18 All go to London to see film of ‘The Naulakha 23 Apr. & Apr. 23 `18 Kipling and Carrie re-make their wills 23 Apr. `18 In London: ill for some days; sees Bland-Sutton and is X-rayed 8 May `18 Has breakfast in bed: the first time that Carrie can remember May 11 `18 Negative result of X-rays 18 May & 18 May `18 Kipling’s weight 8st. 12lbs May 19 `18 He is better: goes fishing with Rider Haggard 22 May `18 Oliver Baldwin visits them on embarkation leave 24 May `18 Work interrupted by telegrams about ‘The Old Volunteer forgery 27 May & May 27 `18 Rud’s weight down to 8st 11½lb June `18 To London with Carrie to make their wills 6 June `18 Kipling goes to the ‘Goat’ 6 June `18 Kipling goes to Scotland Yard to see the Head of CID about the forgery (‘The Old Volunteer’) 8 June `18 Ditto 18 June `18 Dines at Buckingham Palace 12 July & July 12 `18 Both Kiplings to Winchester 20 July & July 20 `18 Kipling make speech of welcome to US troops at Winchester 20 July & July 20 `18 Speaks to many American soldiers and attends a service in Winchester Cathedral 21 July `18 Cheered by war news 4 Aug. `18 Hurts his leg Sep `18 Leaves with Carrie and Elsie to stay at Newquay 10 Sep `18 & Sep. 10 `18 Dawson of The Times is a fellow traveller Sep. 10 `18 Kiplings to Rottingdean to visit Aunt Georgie 11 Oct. `18 Discussing, with little hope, prospects of peace 13 Oct. `18 & Oct. 13 `18 Kipling takes Oliver Baldwin, home on leave to see ‘As You Like It’ 6 Nov. `18 All waiting for news of the Armistice 11 Nov. & Nov. 11 `18 They learn of the Armistice by hearing the church bells 12 Nov, & Nov. 12 `18 Visit from Rider Haggard 15 Nov. `18 To meeting of Imperial War Graves Commission; proposes text for all altars, which is accepted 19 Nov. & Nov. 19 `18 Visited by Captain Mundy, formerly a prisoner, taken at Kut 21 Nov. `18 FND and his new wife visit 17 Dec. `18 To London to dine at Buckingham Palace, to meet President Wilson 26 Dec. & Dec. 26 `18 The Kiplngs hear the New Year rung in by the Burwash bells 1 Jan. & Jan. 1 `19 Present at a dinner given by Sir Abe Bailey 2 Jan. `19 Goes to see old Isted (the original of Hobden) 3 Feb. `19 Greek Minister presents Kipling with ‘gold coin’ 4 Feb. `19 Both unable to attend service for dead of the Guards Division at St. Paul’s due to Kipling being ill 5 Feb. `19 Kipling in great pain 5 Feb. `19 To Bath 10 Feb. `19 To lecture by Bruce Bairnsfather 13 Feb. `19 Meets Professor Saintsbury 18 Feb. & Feb. 18 `19 Doctor Melsom (?Milsome) examines him and says his abdominal pain is caused by adhesions on his liver 1 Mar. & Mar. 1 `19 Gives Cecil Bailey away at her wedding 3 Mar. & Mar. 3 `19 Starts work on the Irish Guards’ history Mar. 24 `19 At work on the Irish Guards’ history 25 Mar. `19 Has a bad fall 6 Apr. `19 Suffers eye trouble June 8, 10, 11 `19 Meets Marshal Joffre 24 June `19 “As usual, in pain” 5 July `19 To the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s, 6 July & July 6 `19 To London for Sir E. Poynter’s funeral: Kipling a pall-bearer 30 July & July 30 `19 Sees Herbert Baker about a plaque in John’s memory, to be placed in Burwash church July 31 & 1 Aug. `19 Selecting stories for Pathé to film 14 Aug & Aug. 14 `19 Captain Ponsonby, RN visits, tells stories of secret service 26 Aug. `19 Kiplings leave for a much-anticipated motor-trip 3 Sep. & Sep. 3 `19 Lunch with Countess Roberts at Ascot Sep. 3 `19 Oxford overnight Sep. 3 `19 At Astley Sep. 4 `19 Lincoln Sep. 7 `19 Durham Sep. 9 `19 Moffatt Sep. 10 `19 Dalclathic Lodge, Comrie, Perthshire: stay with Daisy Low Sep. 11 `19 Leave for Melrose Sep. 25 `19 Back down the Great North Road, on account of railway strike 26 Sep. `19 Durham Sep. 27 `19 London Sep. 28 `19 Arrive home Sep. 29 `10 Gathering material for André Chevrillon Oct. `19 To London, to see Trix, on her way to Jersey Oct. `5 `19 Is supporting a distant relative, Ruth (Kipling) Dryden 4 Nov. `19 Is also continuing to support both Prices 4 Nov. `19 Amuses himself chopping wood. 13 Nov. `19 To London, dines with the Guard at Buckingham Palace 1 Dec. `19 To London, Captain Bambridge to dinner Dec. 22 `19 With Carrie and Elsie, arrives at Astley for Christmas Dec. 23 `19 With Carrie and Elsie, leaves for Bath Dec. 30 `19 At Bath with Carrie: calls on Professor Saintsbury Jan `20 Leave bath for London 21 Jan `20 In London – going to the theatre to see Gilbert & Sullivan operettas 22 Jan `20 The Kiplings by car from London to Rottingdean for Aunt Georgie’s funeral 6 Feb. & Feb. 6 `20 We order a Ford tractor (We?) Feb. 18 `20 Leave home for Southsea Feb. 20 `20 To Chale and Freshwater, Isle of Wight 21 Feb. `20 Arrive Ventnor Feb. 21 `20 Back to Southsea – shows Carrie Lorne Lodge (the House of Desolation). 25 Feb. `20 Leave Brighton for home Feb. 26 `20 Both Kiplings to afternoon Garden Party at Buckingham Palace 12 Mar. `20 To Dover for a trip abroad 16 Mar & Mar. 16 `20 Made a Fellow of the Zoological Society 21 Mar. & Mar 21 `20 Makes speech to the Royal Society of St. George Apr. 23 `20 Home to Bateman’s 24 Apr. & Apr. 24 `20 Speaks to 150 MPs in a committee room of the House of Commons 27 Apr. & Apr. 27 `20 Busy at speech for, and conducts, the unveiling of the Etchingham war memorial Apr. 28 `20 Meeting of the Liberty League 29 Apr. `20 Kipling to London to see John’s memorial for Burwash Church 18 May & May `18 `20 Kiplings to Virginia Water to spend the night May 21 `20 At the Randolph, Oxford 22 May & May 22 `20 Met Dick Bonar Law, many Rhodes scholars & T E Lawrence 22-26 May `20 Lends £709”to be repaid” to Teddy Price who has gone to India 31 May & June 4 `20 Enjoys a visit from ‘Stalky’ 11 June `20 To see about the placing of John’s memorial tablet in Burwash church June 23 `20 All Kiplings to Edinburgh (Roxburgh Hotel) 6 July & July 6 `20 With Carrie to Holyroodhouse garden party 6/7 July `20 Receives LLD degree from Edinburgh University 8 July & July 8 `20 Leave for London July 12 `20 Southampton-Le Havre for a battle field tour 21-22 & July 21 `20 See George Cecil’s grave at Villers-Cotteret 21-22 July `20 Identify Chalkpit Wood (Loos) 25 July & July 25 `20 At Poperinghe July 28 `20 At Arras, “the greatest desolation of all” July 29 `20 Arrive Amiens July 30 `20 Rouen July 31 `20 Trouville 2 Aug. & Aug 2 `20 Home via Southampton 4 Aug. & Aug. 4 `20 To a committee meeting for the village war memorial: declines to perform the unveiling ceremony 15 Aug. & Aug. 15 `20 Gets on with draft of ‘Irish Guards’ (Aug.) `20 Captain Freyburg, VC, calls 29 Aug. `20 Kiplings attend ‘the Goschen wedding’ 31 Aug. `20 To Lady Bathurst’s at Cirencester 1 Sep. & Sep. 1 `20 Arrive home Sep. 4 `20 Captain Freyburg visits again 15 Sep. `20 Frank Doubleday 28-29 Sep. `20 Mr. Lewis of Pathé to lunch and dinner to work with Kipling on films Oct. `20 Mr. Lewis working with Kipling at Bateman’s on a film of ‘Without Benefit Of Clergy. 18 Oct. & Oct. 18 `20 Mr. Lewis comes several times more, working with Kipling on ‘The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows’. Nov. & Nov. 3 `20 Col. and Mrs. Goodland for the night (much talk of work of War Graves Commission) (Nov). `20 To see Emery Walker, mapmaker and printer about maps for the Irish Guards history 10 Nov. `20 In London, for Armistice Day 11 Nov. `20 Sells all his Indian securities 11 Nov. & Nov. 11 `20 Is using the little Corona typewriter hr bought in London Nov. 13 `20 Writes to Watt complaining about his American affairs 20 Nov. `20 Harold Maxwell (Irish Guards) to lunch 7 Dec. `20 The Kiplings dine with Lady Colefax Dec. 7 `20 Col. .Harold Alexander helps to revise the Irish Guards history Dec. `20 Working with Mr. Lewis on ‘Without Benefit of Clergy’ Dec. `20 All the Kiplings to ‘The Beggars Opera’ 20 Dec. `20 Finishes reading the last of Scott’s novels aloud and starts on Lockhart 20 Dec. `20 Working with Mr. Lewis of Pathé on ’Gate of a Hundred Sorrows’. Jan 5 `21 Working with Mr. Lewis of Pathé discussing a film of Soldiers Three’. 20 Jan & Jan 20 `21 Kiplings visit Goschens at Flimwell to meet Emir Feisal 23 Jan. `21 To Brighton to see the Prince of Wales open the Indian War Memorial on the Downs above Brighton. 1 Feb. `21 Advised by Bland-Sutton to have all his teeth out 7 Feb. `21 All three Kiplings leave for Dover Feb. 17 `21 All three Kiplings arrive at Marseilles and join the steamer SS Timgad 19 Feb & Feb. 19 `21 Arrive Algiers 20 Feb. `21 All Kiplings lunch on board USS Pittsburgh 22 Feb. `21 Kiplings meet Princess Beatrice, at Algiers 26 Feb. `21 Kipling & Carrie both unwell 26 Feb. `21 Goes around in Algiers with a M. de Galland, & speaks French 9 Mar. `21 Sail at noon (for Marseilles) Mar. 22 `21 Arrive Marseilles and by car to Costobello. 23 Mar. `21 Kiplings at various places on the French Riviera Mar. 24 – Apr. 7 `21 Tour back through France Apr. 18 – May 4 `21 With Baldwin to Sturry to meet Milner and Amery 20 May `21 With Elsie to the Zoo (his first visit as a Fellow) 7 June `21 Death of Col. Feilden 18 June & June 18 `21 Visit of Sir Roderick and Lady Jones 19 June `21 To Col. Feilden’s funeral June 21 `21 Dines at ‘The Club, first time for four years 5 July `21 Has his new teeth fitted 8 July `21 & July 8 `21 Works for days on Colvin’s Life of Jameson 8 July `21 Lewis Page reports on success of Without Benefit of Clergy July 14 `21 Visit from Oliver Baldwin 19 July `21 To preview of Without Benefit of Clergy - disappointed 20 July & July `20 `21 All Kiplings to Buckingham Palace Garden Party 21 July & July `21 `21 Chevrillon rites to ask if he will accept honorary degree from University of Paris 23 July & July `23 `21 Allows himself to be filmed for Earl Haig’s Fund 19 Aug & Aug. 19 `21 With Milner, decides that Life of Jameson must be re-written 19 Aug. `21 Sam Everitt, wife and two nieces to lunch Aug, 24 `21 They all start a motor tour to Scotland 3 Sep. & Sep. 3 `21 Stamford Sep. 3 `21 Harrogate Sep. 4 `21 Ayr Sep. 6 `21 Inverary Sep. 7 `21 Ormidale (Daisy Low) 8 Sep. & Sep. 8 `21 Oban Games, Aberfeldie 14 Sep. & Sep. 14 `21 Creich, Skibo, Dornoch 15 Sep. & Sep. 15 `21 Inverness 17 Sep. & Sep. 17 `21 Peebles 18 Sep. & Sep. 18 `21 Beaufront (Lady Rayleigh) 18 Sep. & Sep. 19 `21 Edinburgh Sep. 24 `21 Carlisle Sep. 25 `21 Stamford 26 Sep. & Sep. 26 `21 Home again 27 Sep. & Sep. 27 `21 Has a stiff neck Oct. `21 All Kiplings dine with Doubledays and S. Leacock and go to see play “Quality Street”, 24 Oct. `21 Pays the deficit (£10) on the village war memorial fund. Nov. `21 Receives letter from Rector of the Sorbonne, offering degree Nov. 5 `21 To the ‘Lord Warden’ Hotel, Dover 16 Nov. `21 To Paris, a good journey 17 Nov. & Nov. 17 `21 Degree ceremony and banquet; makes a speech, well-received 19 Nov. & Nov. 19 `21 Lionised by French society: reception at Chambre des Deputés 22 Nov. `21 To Strasbourg Nov. 24 `21 To the University for degree ceremony: splendid reception Nov. 26 `21 Lunch with High Commission: University dinner and speech Nov. 27 `21 Home again 29 Nov. & Nov. 29 `21 Depressed about the terms of the Irish Settlement 7 Dec. & Dec. 7 `21 Letter from Lord Stamfordham offering the OM 16 Dec. & Dec. 16 `21 Declines the Honour 17 Dec. & Dec. 17 `21 Decides not to accept an offer from Doubledays to publish his works in England Dec. 20 `21 To Astley for Christmas Dec. 23 `21 Christmas at Astley, Aunt Edie there Undated (1921) Leave for London Dec. 29 `21 Home. Kipling’s birthday – has his ‘notions’ book rebound 30 Dec. `21

Kirkland, Mrs., Brattleboro landlady Kiplings go to stay 19 Feb. `95 Carrie and Mrs. Balestier stay when Carrie goes to ‘Naulakha’ for the last time 8-10 June `99

Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord, of Khartoum A fatted Pharaoh in spurs 13 Mar. `13 Kiplings hear the news of his death June 5 `16

“Knutsford Boy” – unknown member of Lord Knutsford’s family Calls with George Allen and others 2 July `10

L Lakewood, NJ The Kiplings’ first visit 18 Mar. `96

Lamont, Daniel S. – US Democratic Politician Kipling visits at War Office 5 Apr. 1895

Landon, Percival, journalist, colleague at Bloemfontein and afterwards A lifelong friend Calls on them at ‘The Elms 19 May `00 Calls 26 May `01 Sends an amber necklace from Lhasa 11 Aug. `04 Visits 2 Oct. `04 Visits, “always amusing” 25 Aug. `05 Calls, and they visit his cousin at Possingworth 8 Sep. `10 Joins them at Vernet-les-Bains and travels with them back to England 24 Mar. `11 Tour back to Paris and England starts – for details, see under Cars 25 Mar `11 Kiplings offer him Keylands to rent as a home in England 5 Dec `12 Meets them with their car at Marseilles and accompanies them 19 Mar. `13 On their motor tip home. Kiplings call almost daily 23 May `13 Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 Meets Husseys, Aitkens and Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Davidson at Bateman’s 10 Oct. 13 To a music hall in London, with Kipling 31 Oct. `13 Kiplings seeing much of him (Landon was ill in bed) 21 May `14 Makes an excellent suggestion about some Kipling verses 31 Aug. `14 Goes to France with Kipling Aug. 12 `15 He and Kipling met by Carrie in car at Folkestone on return 26 Aug. `15 Kiplings arrange to take over Landon’s furniture in Keylands Apr. 15 `17 Landon very ill – brought to Bateman’s 26 Mar. `18 Comes to dinner and they arrange that he will sub-let ‘Keylands’ Aug. 24 `18 Putting ‘Keylands’ in order for his tenant, a Mrs. Prentis Oct. 13 `18 Discussing, with little hope, prospects of peace Oct. 13 `18 Going to India 11 Nov. `20

Langley, Professor Samuel, Secretary of the Smithsonian Calls on the Kiplings in Washington 8 Mar `95

Lansdowne, Lord (Viceroy of India) Will use his influence to get a pension for John L. Kipling 27 Feb. `93

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, Prime Minister of Canada Proposes thanks after Kipling’s speech to Canadian Club. 19 Oct. `07

Lawrence (of Arabia). Colonel T E Lawrence, British leader of Arabs, 1914-18 Kiplings meet him in FN Doubleday’s rooms in London. Kipling meets him at Oxford 22-26 May `20

Leacock, Professor Stephen, from McGill University Dines and sleeps at Bateman’s 10 May `07 Dines with all the Kiplings and Doubledays and all go to see play “Quality Street”, 24 Oct. `21

Le Bon, M. Gustav, French anthropologist Fellow guest with the Kiplings at a Paris lunch 21 Feb. `14

Leiter, Miss Mary Victoria, later Lady Curzon, and Vice-Reine of India Calls on Kiplings in Washington. 5 Mar. `95

Leonard, Charles, South African lawyer Kiplings stay with them at Maesllwch Castle Aug. `05 Kiplings stay with them at Biddlestone Hall, 11-18 Aug. `08 4 Aug. `08 (and note) Kiplings visit them at Stanmer 12-19 Aug. `10 Kiplings attend funeral of Mrs. Charles Leonard at Brompton Cemetery 24 Oct. `13 Daisy Leonard (daughter, and Elsie’s friend) and nephew visit 21 June `14 Visits Kiplings (at Bateman’s?) 4 Nov. `19

Lewis, Randolph C., employee of Pathé Frères Comes to lunch and dinner to work with Kipling on films Oct. `20 Working with Kipling at Bateman’s on a film of ‘Without Benefit Of Clergy. 18 Oct. & Oct. 18 `20 Comes several times and working with Kipling on ‘The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows’. Nov. & Nov. 3 `20 Working with Kipling on ’Gate of a Hundred Sorrows’. Jan 5 `21 Working with Kipling discussing a film of Soldiers Three’. 20 Jan & Jan 20 `21 Goes off to USA with scripts for several films 19 July `21

Lewis, Lieutenant William, RA Comes to visit Bateman’s on his motor-bike 6 May `11

Lindquist, Mr; Agent of Nobel Prize Committee Calls 2 May `10

Liverpool Newly-married Kiplings to Liverpool on first leg of their Honeymoon 2 Feb. `92 Kiplings to Liverpool to deliver recruiting speech at Southport 21 June & June 21 `15

Lloyd, George (later Lord), right-wing politician Fellow guest with the Kiplings at Stracheys 26 July `13

Locker-Lampson, Oliver, British politician. Calls 7-8 Apr. `12 Also guest of the Stracheys with the Kiplings 26 July `13 Lunches at the Ritz with Kipling, Abe Bailey and General Jan Smuts 8 Jan `18

Loder, Sir Edmund and Lady, landowner and plantsman, owner of a private zoo Kiplings visit 15-17 July `02 They visit again 29 Oct. `04

London Scottish (a volunteer, later territorial, regiment) Kipling dines with them 9 June `94.

Londonderry, Lady, (wife of 5th Marquess), active in Ulster politics Calls on Kiplings in company of Sir Edward Carson 16 Dec. `12

Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll (daughter of Queen Victoria) Present at ‘the Goschen wedding’ with Balfour, Milner, Kiplings and Lord Salisbury 31 Aug. `20

Low, Juliette (‘Daisy’), Carrie’s cousin Kiplings stay with her at Dalclathie Lodge, Comrie 3 Sep. & Sep. 11 `19 Kiplings stay with her at Ormidale House, Argyll 8 Sep. & Sep. 8 `21

Low, Sidney, (Editor of St. James’ Gazette) Kipling writes out poem (The Ballad of the Bolivar) on his desk 28 Jan. `92

Lulworth Cove, Dorset beauty spot Kiplings and Ambo Poynter visit 22 June `94

Lusted, Stephen – Burwash builder Much talk of gardening 14 Oct. `03 Comes to report 24 Apr. `05

Lyttelton, Rt. Hon Alfred, Colonial Secretary Offers Kipling KCMG in association with A J Balfour 7 Nov. `03 Kipling calls on him on return from South Africa 5 May `04 Kiplings call on them at Wittersham House 26 May `10 Lyttelton, Mrs. (wife of Alfred - later Dame Edith) Calls 15 May `10 Lyttelton, Mary, Elsie Kipling’s friend Comes to stay 11 Nov. `13 Lyttelton, Rev. Hon Edward, brother of Alfred, Headmaster of Eton Entertains the Kiplings to lunch 4 June `13 (note)

Lytton, Lord (2nd Earl) and Lady Lytton (Businessman and colonial administrator) Call on the Kiplings 27 Aug. `11

M Macdonald, Dr. Called in by Carrie for children on arrival in New York 2 Feb. `99 Fears complications in Josephine’s case 23 Feb. `99 Macdonald – Edith (Edie) – Kipling’s unmarried aunt Comes to stay at Rock House 15 Dec. `96 Staying at North End House 14 Oct. `99 Visits 8 Oct. `00 Staying at Bateman’s with ‘Georgie’ Burne-Jones 15 Nov. `03 Macdonald, Florence, (Flo) (daughter of Kipling’s uncle Frederic, and so a cousin) For a visit 3 Feb. `97 Leaves 9 Mar. `97 Comes to dinner 3 Jan. `98 Comes (to call? To stay?) 7 July `00 Comes to stay, along with ‘the pater’ 30 May `05 Macdonald, Frederic (Fred) – uncle to Kipling Comes to stay 1 Jan. `98 Comes to dinner 3 Jan. `98 Calls 22-30 July `02 Macdonald, George, a cousin and Kipling’s personal solicitor Comes to The Elms to discuss its possible purchase for them 24 Nov. `98 Kiplings see him about purchase of Bateman’s 21 Sep. `00 Buys Bateman’s (plus 33 acres)) on Kipling’s behalf for £9300 10 June `02 Kipling to consult re super-tax 25 May `10 Attending to Lockwood Kipling’s affairs 28 Jan. `11 The Kiplings make their wills with him 6 June `18

Mackail, Angela, grand-daughter of Ned and Georgie Burne-Jones, and a near contemporary of Josephine Kipling First mention 30 May `98 Comes to stay: “Great nursery excitement” 4 Nov. `98 Staying again: “a nice child” 6-9 Jan. `99 The Mackail children (visiting the Kiplings?) 3 Sep. `00 The Mackail children at Bateman’s 14 Aug. `05 Mackail, Jack, husband of Margaret Burne-Jones and father of Angela Stays at The Elms 3 Nov. `99 Catching up on return from South Africa 29 Apr. `00 To tea with the Kiplings 20 May `01

Mackay, Lieut. Colonel J A K, Australian soldier, Chief Staff Officer to whole Australian contingent Calls on Kipling 5 Apr. `01 With a dozen Australians, to tea with the Kiplings 13 Apr. `01

Macmillan (London publishers – Kipling’s publishers for his prose in Great Britain and the colonies) Remit royalties through A P Watt 22 Nov. `92 Remit royalties of $1460 15 May `93 Remit royalties of $2500 25 Aug. `94 Kipling sees Macmillan’s New York Manager (Mr. Brett) 26 Sep. `94

Macphail, Professor Andrew, of McGill University With Rider Haggard visits Bateman’s to discuss formation of branch of National Service League 10 Dec. `09

MacPhail, Major James, brother of Professor Andrew Visits Bateman’s 14 Jan. `15

McClure, Samuel Sidney (American magazine publisher) Meets Kipling (and dines with them and Mark Twain (?) 7 Apr. `93 Comes up to ‘Naulakha’ 14 Jan. `96 Gives the Kiplings a tandem cycle 21 June `97 Visiting at The Elms May `98 Kiplings call on them 20 Feb. `99 Calls on Kipling 6 May `99 Farewell dinner in New York (RK, ‘the Pater’, FND, McClure and de Forest) 13 June `99 Meet Kiplings at Montreal 27 Sep. `07

McGill University, Montreal Presentation of Hon. D. Litt. 23 Oct. `07

Madeira Kinfauns Castle calls 12 Jan. `98 Gwynne takes the children ashore 5 May `03

Mansion House, Lord Mayor of London’s residence and centre of ceremonies Kipling lunches and makes a speech for recruiting bands Jan. 27, `15

Maple Leaf Club: club for Canadian servicemen in London – very much Carrie’s ‘baby’ Much business with committee of club 17 July `15. Carrie to club Sep. 14 `15 Carrie obliged to resign 28 Nov. & Nov. 28 `15

Maplewood – home of Beatty and Mai Balestier Christmas party for everyone 25 Dec. `92

Marker, Colonel Raymond, Coldstream Guards Kipling meets at Farnborough 28 June `13

Marks, Mr. & Mrs, guests at Dudwell (he Royal Artillery, she American) Met at station by Carrie and Elsie May 1 `17

Marseilles To Marseilles by private carriage on PLM Railway en route to Egypt 6 Feb. `13 Arrive back from Egypt 19 Mar. `13

Marshall, Herbert Rutgers (the architect of ‘Naulahka’ – (sic) First discussions about house in New York 5 Mar. `92 Siting the house with the Kiplings 8 Sept. `92

Martin, gardener at Bateman’s Gives notice after 17 years (having ‘had words’ with Carrie) 30 Oct. & Oct. 30 `15 Leaves (“latterly an unfaithful servant”) Nov. 27 `15

Maxse, Leo, journalist and editor of the National Review, brother of Lady Edward Cecil Kipling meets at Allens’ house at Warninglid. 13 July `07 Maxse, Ivor, Colonel (Brigadier-General) Meets Kiplings at Farnborough 28 June `13 Maxse, Lieutenant Henry, Royal Navy, nephew of Lady Edward Cecil Kipling attends naval review on board his ship, HMS Exmouth 18 July `14 Maxse, Miss, sister of Leo and Lady Edward Cecil To tea with the Kiplings, with Lady Edward Cecil, and M. Georges Clemenceau 23 Sep. `09 Calls on Kiplings with Lady E. Cecil, Lord Milner and Harry Cust 6 Nov. `10

Maxwell, Harold Holmes, Irish Guards Officer Helps Kipling with Irish Guards history Dec. `20 Going out with Elsie Dec. `20

Medicine Hat, Alberta Kiplings arrive, Mayoral reception 13 Oct. `07

Merchant Ships (their voyages are listed chronologically, rather than in alphabetical order of the ships’ names Teutonic – Liverpool – New York – on their honeymoon 3 Feb. `92 Empress of India - Vancouver - Japan 6 Apr. `92 Empress of China – Yokohama - Vancouver 27 June `92 Trinidad – New York – Bermuda 24 Feb. `94 Kaiser Wilhelm – England – New York 5 Sep. `94 Lahn – Hoboken – Southampton 1 Sep. `96 Kinfauns Castle – Southampton - Cape Town 8 Jan. `98 Norham Castle – Cape Town – Southampton - a rough trip 12 Apr. `98 Majestic – Liverpool – New York: a rough crossing 25 Jan. `99 Very rough – a hurricane 29 Jan. `99 Bitter cold 31 Jan. `99 Teutonic - New York - Liverpool 14 June `99 Kinfauns Castle – Southampton - Cape Town 20 Jan. `00 Tantallon Castle – Cape Town – Southampton 11 Apr. `00 Walmer Castle – Cape Town – Southampton 16 Apr. `02 Kildonan Castle – Southampton – Cape Town 27 Dec. `02 Kildonan Castle - Cape Town to Southampton 13 Apr. `04 Armadale Castle – Southampton – Cape Town 10 Dec. `04 Kinfauns Castle - Cape Town to Southampton 5 Apr. `05 Armadale Castle – Southampton to Cape Town 23 Dec. `05 (note) Kinfauns Castle – Cape Town to Southampton 18 Apr. `06 Saxon – Southampton to Cape Town 17 Dec. `06 Kennilworth Castle – Cape Town to Southampton 6 Apr. `07 Empress of Britain – Liverpool to Quebec 20 Sep. `07 Virginian – Quebec-Liverpool 24 Oct. `07 Persia – Marseilles to Port Said 7 Feb. `13 Rameses III – Nile steamer. 15 Feb. – 9 Mar. `13 Cordillère – Alexandria –Marseilles (French: Messageries Maritimes) 15 Mar. `13 Timgad – Marseilles - Algiers (French Compagnie Générale Transatlanique) 19 Feb. & Feb. 19 `21

Melville, Rear-Admiral George (Engineer in Chief of US Navy) Writes admiringly of ‘McAndrew’s Hymn’ 12 Dec. `94

Merriman, Sir John, leader of opposition in Cape parliament Kipling visits 16 Feb. `98

Metcalfe, Sir Charles, railway engineer Guest of the Kiplings at supper in Johannesburg 29 Mar. `03 Lunches at Batman’s with Jameson 12 Oct. `09

Methuen (London publisher of Kipling’s verse) Remit royalties through A P Watt 22 Nov. `92

Milner, Sir Alfred (later Lord Milner, 1901) Kiplings dine with him at Government House 4 Feb, `98 Many discussions with Rhodes and Kipling on board Norham Castle, en route from the Cape to Southampton 30 Feb. `98 Kipling calls on him 8 Feb. `00 Kipling comes to see him about a wire to The Times 12 Feb. `00 Relieved by the better war news: goes for a long walk with Kipling 18 Mar. `00 Arrives and wants to see Kipling 6 Apr. 02 Guest of the Kiplings at supper in Johannesburg 29 Mar. `03 Meets Kipling in Hatchard’s bookshop 14 Oct. `03 Lunches at Bateman’s, accompanied by Lady Edward Cecil 18 Oct. `03 Meeting in London with Kipling, Jameson, Gwynne and Deakin 7 May `07 Lunch and tea with Kiplings at Bateman’s 8 Sep. `07 Lunch with Kiplings at Bateman’s 26 May `10 Calls on Kiplings with Lady E. Cecil, Miss Maxse and Harry Cust 6 Nov. `10 Talk about visit to Lord Milner on Empire Day 24 May `11 Visit Lord Milner at Sturry Court 21 Aug. `11 Visits Bateman’s with Lady E Cecil for Empire Day 24 May `13 Kipling sends him his poem, ‘The Covenant’ to use in Milner’s Covenant paper 10 May `14 Kiplings visit him, Lord Bessborough & Lord Basil Blackwood also present 17 May `14 To tea at Bateman’s 12 Sep. `14 Staying at Bateman’s 4-5 Oct. `14 Stan Baldwin visits with Julius Lay, American Consular official 8 Oct. `14 To a music hall with all three Kiplings, Lady Edward Cecil & the Salisburys. Oct. 16 `16 Present at ‘the Goschen wedding’ with Balfour, Salisbury, Kiplings and Princess Louise. 31 Aug. `20 Kipling calls at Sturry with Baldwin; Amery also present 20 May `21 Mention of his marriage to Lady Edward Cecil 17 July `21 (note) With Kipling, decides that Life of Jameson must be re-written 19 Aug. `21

Michell, Sir Lewis, South African banker, and Cecil Rhodes’ executor Calls (and lunches?) 22 June `10

Mor(r)ison, ‘China’, Australian journalist and long-time China correspondent of The Times Calls on Kipling at Bateman’s 23 Sep. `10

Motoring – see Cars

Montagu, Lord, motoring pioneer Kiplings meet at Avignon 1-2 Mar. `10 (note) Takes Kiplings for spectacular journey in Rolls-Royce 23 Mar. `10 (note) Calls at Bateman’s with Claude Johnson 29 May `10

Montgomery, Mr and Mrs Kipling meets them at shooting party with Moreton Frewen Oct. `10

Mongomery(-Massingberd), General Sir A. A close friend at this time 14 Feb. `20

Montreal Arrive, en route Vancouver to Brattleboro 19-20 July `92 Arrive from Quebec 27 Sep. `07

Moore, chauffeur Kipling sacks after six years’ service 16 June `13

Moosejaw, Saskatchewan Kiplings arrive from Winnipeg, en route to Calgary 3-4 Oct. `07

Moreau, Emile Edouard – partner in A H Wheeler & Co. Sends $562 17 Dec. `92

Muizenberg – seaside resort on Simons Bay, Cape Province The Kiplings, Rhodes, Jameson and Baker all go there 10 Jan. `01

Murray, Lord Arthur, Parliamentary private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary Fellow guest with Kipling at Cherkley 20 Dec. `14

N ‘Naukakha’ – Kipling’s home in Brattleboro, Vermont Siting the house with the architect, Marshall 8 Sept. `92 Spring fails to run 18 July `93 Carrie has a rough time moving in to ‘Naulakha’ on her own 12 Aug. `93 JLK return from Boston and is delighted with the house 28 Aug. `93 JLK carves motto for fireplace 1 Sep. `93 Carrie signs an agreement saying the house is finished 11 Sep. `93 The spring recovers and the well is full 11 Oct. `93 Total cost, $11,175 28 Oct. `93 They decide to abandon the well 2 Dec. `93 The pump out of order – again 24 Jan. `95 Our pump gives out 17 Oct. `95 Bother about the pump 31 Oct. `95 Pump engine broken down 3 July `96 Carrie and her mother visit ‘Naulakha’ for the last time 8-10 June `99 FND given power of attorney over ‘Naulakha’ 2 Dec. `00 Packages from Naulakha arrive. 11 Sep. `02 Deeds for final sale signed 21 Nov. `03

Nelson Spencer, Robert: American hymn writer (?) With his wife, calls on Kiplings at Bateman’s 22 Aug. `11

New Century Magazine Pays $150 for “Gipsy Trail” 25 Feb. `92 (note)

Newlands, Merrow, near Guildford, home of John St. Loe Strachey Kiplings visit for the week-end 26 July `13

New Oriental Banking Corporation Fails 9 June `92 Creditors’ meeting at which Kipling makes proposal 24 June `92 Offered ten shillings in the pound by a receiver for the company 30 Aug. `92 Pays first dividend 28 Feb. `93 Dividend actually received 24 Apr. `93 2nd dividend received 20 June `93 Final dividend received 3 May `95

New York (City) Arrive 11 Feb `92 Arrive for a holiday - and business 17 Mar. `93 Leave New York for Brattleboro 20 Apr. `93 Meets his father 16 June `93 Kipling visits 16 Aug. `93 Arrive for a holiday 11 Jan. `94 Leave for Brattleboro 17 Jan. `94 Arrive en route for Bermuda 21 Feb. `94 Arrive back from England 14 Aug. `94 All the family to New York 24 Feb. `95 Back to New York from Washington, D C 6 Apr. `95 Depart New York for England 9 July `95 Arrive back 21 Aug `95 Visit “for a treat” 17 Mar. `96 Back to New York from Lakewood 8 Apr. `96 All the family arrive 2 Feb. `99

Nicholson, William, artist Calls 12 Aug. `98 Calls and stays to tea 22 May `21

Noble, Mrs. Saxton, London Society hostess Hostess of Elsie’s first ‘big’ dance 15 May `14

North End House, Rottingdean They move in, temporarily 2 June `97

Northumberland Fusiliers, 3rd Battalion Kipling dines with them at Wynberg 13 Feb. `03

Norton, Charles Eliot Stays at Naulakha, with his daughter Sally (Sallie) 14 Sep. `94 Calls with his daughter 23 June `00 Norton, Sally (or Sallie), daughter of Charles Eliot Norton Staying 28 Oct. `95 Calls on Kiplings (in London) 31 May `97 Comes to stay at North End House (“Recessional”) 12 July `97 Calls with her father 23 June `00 Visiting Bateman’s 27 May `14

O O’Hagan, Lord, Liberal politician and son-in-law of Lord and Lady Strachie Fellow guest with the Kiplings at Stracheys 26 July `13 Oriental Banking Company (OBC) – see New Oriental Banking Company.

Ottawa Kiplings arrive from Montreal 30 Sep. `07 Arrive from Toronto, staying with Earl Grey at Rideau Hall 18 Oct. `07

Osler, Mr. William and Mrs. Kiplings stay with them in Oxford for hon. Degree ceremonies 26 June `07

Oxford, University of Awarded an Hon. D. Litt. 26 June `07

P Park, Sir Maitland, South African newspaper editor Calls at Bateman’s 21 Apr. `14 Delivers a letter to Lord Milner for Kipling 26 Dec. & Dec. 26 `18 Comes for a long stay 28 Dec. `18 In financial difficulties 27 July `19

Parker, Miss Elsie, Assistant Nanny, then Secretary Engaged by Carrie as secretary, on trial 6 May `02 Takes up post 30 June `02 Leaving to better herself 30 Apr. `04 Decides to stay at salary of £130 p.a. 5 May `04 Quits. 15 Sep. `04 Parker, Sir Gilbert, Canadian novelist, British unionist politician Kipling meets at Cape Town Jan. `05

Parkin, (Sir) George, Canadian Organising Representative of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust Fellow guest with Kipling at Cherkley 20 Dec. `14 To dine and stay at Bateman’s 9 Aug. `18

Paris Arrive from Rome 13 Apr. `09 To Paris from Engelberg by train 4 Feb. `13 Elsie stays in Paris 4 Feb. `13 To Paris from St. Moritz by train 3 Feb. `14 Kiplings leave Paris for Bateman’s 7 Feb. `14 Kiplings arrive again by train via Dover-Calais 19 Feb. `14 Kiplings leave by train for Vernet-les-Bains 22 Feb. `14 Return to Paris by car 29 Mar. `14 Leave for England 14 Apr. `14

Paterson, A.B. (“Banjo”), Australian poet Calls on Kipling 1 Nov. `01

Pathé Frères, film makers, producers and distributors Kipling selecting tales for them to film 14 Aug & Aug. 14 `19

Pauncefote, Sir Julian and Lady, British Ambassador to the USA Kiplings lunch with them at the Embassy 3 Mar. `95

Pelly, Henry, Lieutenant RN, 1ST. Lieutenant of HMS Pelorus Kipling goes to visit 15 Nov. `99

Pilson, Miss, dairy-maid at Bateman’s Gives notice – wishes to start a small-holding Mar. 18 `17

Plowden, Miss Edith, long-time family friend of Kiplings from India Visits for tea 29 Oct. `99

Ponton, Miss, Elsie’s governess and later Carrie’s secretary Comes to take over as secretary 26 Mar & Mar. 26 `19 Gives notice 23 May `21 Re-starts work Aug. 31 `21

Port Said Arrive from Marseilles 11 Feb. `13

Post Office at Waite’s Corner, Dummerston Kipling gets signatories for his petition for a local Post Office 29 May `95 Sends in petition 3 June `95 Hears that petition is granted 13 June `95 Sees Mts. Waite about Post Office 25 Aug. `95

Poynter, Agatha (‘Aggie’), Kipling’s aunt Kiplings “see a lot of” 5 July `94 Kiplings “see a lot of” 14 (?16) July `95 Family lunch with the Kiplings and two other aunts (out of three) 2 Apr. `97 Catching up on return from South Africa 29 Apr. `00 Ill, and “sinking” 24 May `06 Dies 12 June `06 Funeral 15 June `06 (note) Poynter, Ambrose (Ambo) (Rudyard’s cousin) Attends marriage of Rudyard and Carrie 18 Jan. `92 Dines with Rudyard and Carrie 20 Jan. `92 The Kiplings discuss a cottage he is to build for them 13 May `94 Visits them at Rock House 17 Sep. `96 “Comes to play” 31 Dec. `99 To Bateman’s with Kipling 11 June `02 To Bateman’s again, with Kipling and Carrie 18 June `02 Poynter, Sir Edward (Ned), artist and President of the Royal Academy Kiplings “see a lot of” 5 July `94 Kiplings “see a lot of” 14 (?16) July `95 Falls into the pond at Bateman’s 19 Aug. `03 Presides at Royal Academy dinner (Kipling makes a speech) 5 May `06 Presides at Royal Academy dinner (Kipling attends) 4 May `07 Kiplings call in London 10 May `07 Stays at Bateman’s to paint the house 24 Aug. `13 Kipling sits to him for a portrait in Charcoal commissioned by Sir Max Aitken 5 Oct. `13 At Bateman’s with Mr. Astor of Hever, and Lady Sackville 8 Oct. 13 Painting hard. 10 Oct. 13 Calls on Kiplings at Bath with his son, Capt. E Poynter 2 Mar. `18 Funeral at St. Paul’s: Kipling a Pall-nearer 30 July & July 30 `19 Poynter, Hugh (Ambrose’s brother, so also Kipling’s cousin), referred to above as Captain E. Poynter (he was Hugh Edward) Shooting with Kipling at Torquay Jan. `97 Visiting at Rottingdean 31 May `00 Visits with his wife Mollie 18 June `10 Calls on Kiplings at Bath with his father 2 Mar. `18

Press, The (and Kipling’s relations with them) The day wrecked by two reporters from Boston. 14 Oct. `92 Many reporters (in New York) 7 Apr. `95 Many reporters to interview Rud about “The Islanders” 7 Jan. `02 Beset by reporters (after Burwash National Service meeting) 26 Sep. `13

Pretoria Rudyard and Carrie visit 2 Apr. `03

Price, Cormell, Headmaster of United Services College, Kipling’s headmaster. and responsible for setting him on a career as a journalist and writer Calls exchanged on 23 Apr., but entry dated 19 Apr. `94 Dine at the Misses Craik and Miss Winnard with Kiplings 11 Aug. `95 Comes to stay at Rock House 28 Dec. `96 Long walk with Barrie, Burne-Jones and Kipling 17 Oct. `97 Visiting Aug. `99 Ill in bed in lodgings at Brighton: Kipling visits 22 Apr. `10 Dies 4 May `10 Funeral 6 May `10 Price, Edward (‘Teddy’), son of Cormell Visits for a week 11 Aug. `09 Visits 25 Aug. `10 Stays with the Kiplings at Kessingland 1 Sep. `13 Visiting Bateman’s Jan. `16 Comes to London: Kipling helps him to join up. 5 Aug. & Aug 5 `15 Gets a commission in the 5th Sussex 25 Aug. `16 Comes from Rye after interview for commission Aug. 25 `16 To town with Carrie, after being commissioned into 4th Sussex Nov. 7 `16 Being supported, financially, by Kipling 4 Nov. `19 Goes to India, lent £70 by Kipling 31 May `20 His affairs become entangled due to ineffectualness of his guardian: lent £70 by Kipling (same event as above.) June 4 `20 Price, Dorothy, daughter of Cormell To a boarding school 5 Aug. & Aug 5 `15 Being supported, financially, by Kipling 4 Nov. `19

Putnams, New York publishers Kipling to London to sign testimony in his lawsuit against them 19 Jan `00 More legal business over the lawsuit with Putnams 5 Oct. `00 Kipling loses his suit against Putnams 22 May `01 Q Quebec Arrive, en route Vancouver to Brattleboro 22 July `92 Kipling and his father visit 8 Aug. `93 Arrive (by Empress of Britain) and leave by private railroad car – by courtesy of Sir William Van Horne 27 Sep. `07

Queensberry, Dowager Marchioness of Dines with the Kiplings 27 July `95

R Raemaekers, Louis, Dutch political cartoonist. Visits Kipling at Bateman’s 26 Jan. `16

Ralph, Julian, American journalist, Kipling’s colleague in Bloemfontein Staying at The Elms 18 June `00

Raponda, Vt Staying while Bliss Cottage is being made ready 1-8 Aug. `92

Rayleigh, Lady (see also Mrs. Harold Cuthbert

Reece, Mr. Stevenson Calls 3 May `10

Reform Club Lunches (presumably as a guest) 16 June `14

Rhodes, Cecil Lunches with Kipling 26 Jan `98 Memorable day for Kipling with him 13 Feb. `98 Amusing dinner with Kiplings at Rhodes’s 21 Feb. `98 Amusing arguments with Kipling 25 Feb. `98 Takes Kipling to Kimberley in his special train 5 Mar. `98 Arrives Kimberley 7 Mar. `98 Back in Cape Town 9 Mar. `98 Many discussions with Milner and Kipling on board Norham Castle, en route from the Cape to Southampton 30 Feb. `98 The Kiplings to lunch: shows them the site of the house he will build, and which they can use in future years 7 Mar. `00 Takes Kipling with him to Stellenbosch and the Paarl 8 Mar. `00 Is ill, Kipling visits 15 Mar. `00 Sends a note on arrival in Cape Town to say all ready at The Woolsack 25 Dec. `00 Kipling meets Rhodes every day Dec. `00 Calls at The Woolsack 10 Jan. `01 Kipling lunches with Rhodes and the Archbishop (to discuss the conditions for ‘Rhodes Scholarships’ at Oxford) 1 Feb. `01 Sends the Kiplings a lion cub, to see if they can rear it 13 Feb. `01 To tea at The Elms 3 Oct. `01 Kipling lunches at Groote Schuur 7 Feb. `02 Calls on Kipling 13 Feb. `02 Ill 27 Feb. `02 Kipling calls at Muizenberg and finds Rhodes better 2 Mar. `02 Kipling calls at Muizenberg and daily thereafter 7 Mar. `02 Very hot: Rhodes worse 15 Mar. `02 Unconscious 18 Mar. `02 Dies 26 Mar. `02 Lying in state at Groote Schuur 27 Mar. `02 Service at Groote Schuur: Kipling reads verses 2 Apr. `02 Memorial service at Cape Town Cathedral and procession 3 Apr. `02 Talk of Kimberley Memorial Jan. `04 Rhodes Memorial Committee Feb. `05 Consultations about the site of the memorial and its progress 1 Jan. `07

Rhodes Trust Kipling offered (and accepts) trusteeship of Rhodes Trust 27 Aug & Aug. 27 `17 Meets Rhodes Scholars at Oxford 22-26 May `20

Ribblesdale, Lady (“the new Lady Ribblesdale”), American divorcée Carrie meets her at Mrs. Colefax’s 1 Oct. `19 Ribblesdale, Lord (Lady Ribblesdale’s “ancient Lord”) Carrie meets her at Mrs. Colefax’s 1 Oct. `19

Richards, Inspector, Cape Government Railways Kiplings take tea with him in Railway Cottages 16 Mar. `07

Richepin, Jean, M. and Mme, he a French writer, poet and novelist Fellow guests with the Kiplings at a Paris lunch 21 Feb. `14

Riley, James Whitcomb (American poet and author) Exchanges verse with Kipling 13 Oct. `93

Ritchie, Mrs Anne, Thackeray’s daughter. Kipling meets her at Gray’s Inn dinner 26 May `11 Kiplings taken to meet her in Venice 18 Mar. `12

Roberts, General Sir Frederick (later Field Marshal Lord) Kipling sits next to him at lord George Hamilton’s dinner 3 May `94 Sends Kipling a copy of his Life in India 12 Jan. `97 Has an hour’s talk with Kipling before leaving for the front 6 Feb. `00 Asks Kipling to edit a camp paper, The Friend 17 Mar. `00 A Letter from Roberts about conscription 3 Dec. `01 Kipling comes to see him in London 9 Dec. `01 Kipling dines with him at the Athenaeum 14 May `02 Kiplings come to stay with them at Englemere 6 Nov. `09 Lord and Lady Roberts arrive at Vernet-les Bains 27 Feb. `11 Kiplings spend a weekend with the Roberts (at Englemere) 1 June `12 Kipling decides to ask him for a nomination for a commission for John 2 Sep. `14 Kipling sees Roberts in London – success 10 Sep. `14

Robertson, Sir George (Indian medical officer and explorer) Comes to stay 23 Jan. `97 Kipling attends dinner in his honour 31 May `97 “Much friendship with” May `98 Brings his book on Chitral to Kipling at The Elms 22 Oct. `98

Robinson, Edward Kay – British journalist and Kipling’s early mentor Comes to stay at ‘Naulakha’ with his brother 18 Nov. `95

Rock House, St. Mary Church, Torquay: their home Sep. `96 – May `97 They move in 9 Sep. `96 Effectively give up the lease 12 May `97

Rod and Rick- a pair of carriage horses for Carrie Bought at a total cost of $400 8 Sept. `92

Rodd, Sir Rennell, British Ambassador at Rome The Kiplings call on Sir Rennell and Lady Rodd 11 Mar. `09

Rodd, Lady, wife Sir Rennell Rodd, British Ambassador in Rome Fellow guest at the Curzons 26 Oct. `12

Roosevelt, Kermit, son of Theodore and Edith Comes to stay 5 Aug. `10 Visits, with his newly-wedded wife 7 July `14 Roosevelt, Theodore (‘Teddy’) (later President of the USA) & Edith The Kiplings dine with them 25 Mar. `95 Kipling dines with him (men only) 5 Apr. `95 Kipling calls on him in London 24 May `10 Kipling hears him deliver Romanes lecture in Sheldonian 6 June `10 Mr. Warrington Dawson brings messages from Roosevelt 23 May `13 Kipling much distressed by news of Roosevelt’s death 7 Jan & Jan/ 7 `19

Rottingdean, They move into North End House, temporarily 2 June `97 Kipling returns after trip to South Africa 1 May `00 Volunteer Committee meeting 6 May `00 Kipling rouses the village with the news of the relief of Mafeking 18 May `00 Village procession to celebrate 19 May `00 Visits to wind up Rifle Club 22 June `04 Kipling thinks of bringing the drill hall to Burwash July `04 Carrie thinks it “an appalling village these days” 9 Aug `04

Rothermere, Lord, newspaper proprietor Fellow guest with Kipling at Cherkley 20 Dec. `14

Roxburghe, Duchess of Fellow passenger on Cordillère 15 Mar. `13

Royal Academy (of Arts) Kiplings attend private view 4 May `94 Rudyard attends banquet 5 May `94 Attends annual dinner 30 Apr. `04 Attends annual dinner (and speaks – “Literature”) 5 May `06 Attends annual dinner (Uncle ‘Ned’ Poynter presiding) 4 May `07 Attends annual dinner (Uncle ‘Ned’ Poynter presiding) 30 Apr. `10 Attends annual dinner (Uncle ‘Ned’ Poynter presiding) 2 May `14

Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington The whole family move in there 12 May `97 Arrive back from S. Africa 30 Apr. `98 Arrive after trip back from USA 23 June `99

Royal Navy To HMS Britannia at Dartmouth 26 Sep. `96 Lunch in HMS Britannia (Carrie also) 7 Nov. `96 Kipling to Chatham for sea-trials in a TBD 18 May `97 To Spithead to see the Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review 24 June `97 To sea in HMS Pelorus as a guest of Captain Bayly for two weeks 30 June `97 To HMS Pelorus at Devonport. 1 Sep. `98 Trip in HMS Nile July `01 Visits Admiral Fisher at Portsmouth 29 Jul `04 Attends fleet mobilisation review on board HMS Exmouth 18 July `14 & July 18 `14 Playing with submarines Feb. 21 `20 (note)

Rye Lunch with Henry James 26 June `03 Kiplings buy land there 1 July `10

Rye Green Farmhouse: another part of Bateman’s estate Sister Meadley, first of convalescent Nursing Sisters arrives July 8 `18 Second sister comes July 10 `18 Sister Watson arrives July 26 `18 S St. Moritz, Swiss alpine resort. Kipling, Carrie and Elsie arrive : Baldwin family there 21 Jan. `14 Kiplings leave for Paris 3 Feb. `14

St. Paul, MN Arrive 28 Mar. `92

Sackville, Lady, chatelaine of Knole, Sevenoaks The Kiplings call 27 Sep. `13 Returns their call (Mr. Astor of Hever, and Sir Edward Poynter also present 8 Oct. `13

Saintsbury, Professor George, distinguished English man of letters Kipling meets him at Bath 18 Feb. & Feb. `19 Kipling calls on him at Bath Jan `20

Salano, Mr. “a Spaniard and an enthusiast” Calls to discuss realisation of The Army of a Dream”. 12 Nov. `09

Salisbury, 4th Marquess, politician Visits Bateman’s with his children 20 Apr. `11 To a music hall in London with the Kiplings, Lord Milner & Lady Edward Cecil 16 Oct. `15 Present at ‘the Goschen wedding’ with Balfour, Milner,, Kiplings and Princess Louise. 31 Aug. `20

Scribner, Charles, American publisher Calls at Bateman’s 1 Aug. `13

Secretaries: Rudyard’s and Carrie’s secretaries Sarah Anderson comes, “a great relief to us both” 12 July `99 Sarah Anderson, “A treasure” Dec. `99 Elsie Parker (former nanny) engaged by Carrie as secretary, on trial 6 May `02 Takes up post 30 June `02 Sarah Anderson comes for two days 18 Oct. `02 Sarah Anderson visits 25 May `03 Elsie Parker leaving to better herself 30 Apr. `04 Decides to stay at salary of £130 p.a. 5 May `04 Quits. 15 Sep. `04 Sarah Anderson: Kiplings and John call on her in London 10 May `07 New Secretary – Miss Hogg? 19 Aug. `11 Miss Bowman succeeds Miss Hogg 3 July `13. Miss Veysey 22 July `13 Sarah Anderson calls at Bateman’s 1 Aug. `13 Miss Chamberlain at £65 23 Aug. `13 Miss Chamberlain will leave my service five weeks from today Dec. 31 `18 Miss Chamberlain finishes her service in the evening Feb. 8 `19 Miss Ponton, former governess, takes on as Secretary 26 Mar. & Mar. 26 `19 Miss Ponton gives notice May 23 `21 Re-starts work Aug. 31 `21

Selborne, Earl of – appointed to succeed Milner in South Africa Kipling meets him 27 Aug. `04 Visits Bateman’s 20 Apr. `11 Shackleton, Sir Ernest, Antarctic explorer Calls at Bateman’s 8 June `14 Sharpe, Sir Alfred, Commissioner for Central African Protectorate Lunches with Kipling 26 Jan `98

Shee, George, Secretary of the National Service League Meets Kipling 14 Sep. `03

Sheridan, Clare, journalist, photographer, traveller (daughter of Moreton Frewen (qv) Motors over with her daughter 1 May `20

Ships – see Merchant Ships & Warships Simons Town

Smale, Mr., a detective employed to try to find the author of The Old Volunteer Calls at Bateman’s to discuss the matter 29 May & May 29 `18

Smith, F E. lawyer, Unionist politician and Minister, later Lord Birkenhead (qv) Meets with Kipling, Max Aitken and Bonar Law in Paris 12 Apr. `14

Smuts, General, Boer commander, 1899-1902; later Prime Minister of the Union. Lunches at the Ritz with Kipling, Abe Bailey and Locker-Lampson 8 Jan `18

Southampton Arrive from South Africa 3 May `01 Sail for South Africa 21 Dec. 01 Arrive from South Africa 3 May `02 Sail for South Africa 27 Dec. `02 Arrive from South Africa 9 May `02 Arrive from South Africa 30 Apr. `04 (note) Sail for Africa 10 Dec. `04 Arrive from Africa 22 Apr. `05 Sail for Africa 23 Dec. `05 Arrive from Africa 5 May `06 Leave for South Africa 17 Dec. `06 Arrive 20 Apr. `07 Leave for South Africa 28 Dec. `07

Spring-Rice, Cecil, British diplomat Calls on Kiplings in Washington 2 Mar. `95

Stamfordham, Lord, King George V’s

Stanstead, Rowlands Castle, West Sussex, home of the Earl of Bessborough The Kiplings visit on their tour to the West Country 12-19 Aug. `10

Steel-Maitland, (Sir) Arthur, politician and Chairman of Conservative Party To stay for the week-end 19 July `13

Stevenson, Robert Louis – English author Kipling much affected by news of his death 19 Dec. `94

Stewart, Mr. Bertrand Stewart, solicitor and incompetent spy Entertains the Kiplings and Elsie to dinner 13 June `13

Stoddard, Charles W, Comes to visit 15 June `95

Stoker, Bram (Author) Sees the Kiplings off on their honeymoon 2 Feb. `92

Strachey, John St. Loe, Editor of the Spectator Calls 26 Nov. `99 The Kiplings come to stay, to 19 June 15 June `00 A motor picnic in St. Leonard’s Forest with Kiplings 6 July `01 Kiplings visit them at Guildford 21 June `02 The Kiplings visit them at Merrow Down 30 Oct. `04 The Kiplings stay with them for the week-end 26 July `13

Strachie (Strachey), Lord and Lady, Postmaster-General in Asquith’s government Also guests of the Stracheys with the Kiplings 26 July `13

Strang, William, portrait artist Kipling sits to him 4-6 May, `97

Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of Kiplings visit them at Dunrobin Castle 19 Aug. `99 Duchess visits Kiplings at Creich 25 Aug. `99

Swettenham, Sir Frank – Colonial administrator and Governor Calls 6 May `05

Sykes, Sir Mark, Middle-Eastern affairs expert. Lunches with L S Amery, Kipling and ‘Billy’ Hughes 17 May, `16

T Talbot, (Sir Edmund – properly Lord Edmund), Unionist MP & prominent catholic Gwynne’s contact for trying to get news of John 6 Oct. & Oct. 6 `15

Terriss, Miss Ellaline, singer and actress To stay for the week-end 19 July `13

Thacker, Spink & Co (Kipling’s Indian publishers) Kipling annoyed with them over unauthorised dedication 29 Mar. `97

The Elms – see Elms, The

The Woolsack – see Woolsack, The

Thebes Kiplings stay in J Pierrepont Morgan’s house 7 Mar. `13 Shown the diggings by the Curator 7 Mar. `13

Tisbury, Wiltshire: village to which Kipling’s parents retired Kipling’s first visit 14 Apr `94 Kiplings move into a rented house, Arundel House, for 3 months 30 Apr. `94 Kiplings visit (to 9 August) 25 July `95 Kipling visits 18 Nov. `96 Kipling visits to discuss Kim with ‘the Pater’ 6-9 Jan. `99 Kipling returns from Tisbury 4 Nov. `05 Kipling motors there on receipt of wire about his mother 19 Nov. `10 Kipling arrives after his father’s death 28 Jan. `11

Toronto Kiplings arrive: plagued by reporters and non-stop telephones 16 Oct. `07

Tree, Beerbohm (Actor-Manager) Lunches with Kipling in Washington, D.C. 1 Apr. `95 Calls on business (unspecified, but possibly The Light that Failed) 22 Jan `99 Calls to discuss making “The Man Who Was” into a play. 24 May `03

Trevinian; one of Carrie’s maids (?) Promises a blessed talisman for John to wear Sept. 12 `15

Tunbridge Wells Kipling makes a violently anti-Government speech on Ulster 16 May `14

Turner, Sir Montague, Indian businessman Calls with George Allen and others 2 July `10

Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Kiplings call on Mrs. Dodge and meet him and Dean Howells 5 Apr. `93 Dines with the Kiplings 7 Apr. `93 Kipling meets again at Oxford 27 June `07

Tyler, an American theatre manager Cultivates Rudyard 22 July `13 U

V Vancouver They arrive 3 Apr. `92 Sail in Empress of India 6 Apr. `92 Arrive from Japan 8 July `92 Arrive from Calgary 5 Oct. `07

Van Horne, Sir William Gives them passage Montreal-Quebec 20 July `92 Meets them at Rimouski, QP, Canada 26 Sep. `07 Shows them much hospitality 27 Sep. `07

Védrine, Jules: pioneer French aviator They see his aircraft over Poitiers 30 Mar. `11

Vernet-les-Bains Recommended as cure for arthritis, etc. 26 Feb. `10 (note) Kiplings arrive 18 Mar. `11 Kiplings arrive (by train) to take the cure. 23 Feb. `14

De Vesci, Lord (family name Vesey), Regimental Adjutant, Irish Guards Carrie and Elsie call on him seeking news 5 Oct. `15 Carrie (and Kipling?) to see him again 9 Nov. `15

Veysey, Miss, secretary Miss Veysey comes 22 July `13

Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC Visit while at Vancouver 5 Oct. `07

De Villiers, Chief Justice of Cape Province Kipling meets on board Tantallon Castle 11 Apr. `00

Viollet, M, French wine millionaire The Kiplings lunch with him 1 Mar. `14

W Wallace, Edgar, a Daily Mail reporter, later a successful thriller writer Among the reporters questioning Kipling about “The Islanders”. 7 Jan. `02 Calls at The Woolsack 26 Feb. `02

Walker, Emery, engraver, photographer, printer Kipling consults about maps for Irish Guards history 10 Nov. `20

Walker, Sir James, proprietor of Allahabad Pioneer and CMG Lunches at Bateman’s 6 July `12 Trix stays with the Walkers at Worplesdon 26 Oct. 12

Walton, Barclay, Kipling’s friend, former stockbroker, yachtsman and occasional financial adviser Kipling and John have a day’s sailing off Plymouth in Barclay’s yacht 20 Aug. `09 Kiplings sailing with him again 12-19 Aug. `10 Kipling and John fishing with him at Cawsand 8 Sep. `12

Ward, Sir Edward, successful commissariat officer in South African war Calls with H A Gwynne 10 Oct. `04 Ward, Leslie (‘Spy’ of Vanity Fair) Kipling sits to him 19 Apr. `94 Ward, Sir William, Permanent Under-Secretary at the War Office Promises he will do what he can to help John into the army. 25 May `13

Ware, Fabian, Editor of the Morning Post and later a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission With his family, holidays at Engelberg with the Kiplings 29 Dec. `10

War Graves and War Graves Commission – see Imperial War Graves Commission

Warley Barracks, Brentwood, Essex, Irish Guards depot John joins the regiment 14 Sep. `14

Warships Breakfast on board USS Indiana in New York 23 Apr. `96 To Portsmouth and back with his father to see the Fleet Review 24 June `97 To Portsmouth to join HMS Pelorus, the guest of Captain Bayly 30 June `97 To HMS Pelorus at Devonport. 1 Sep. `98 Trip in HMS Nile July `01 Visits HMS Good Hope 21 Jan. `03 Is feted in the wardroom of the French cruiser Dupleix 13 Jan. `04 On board HMS Exmouth at the fleet mobilisation and informal review 18 July `14 All Kiplings lunch on board USS Pittsburgh at Algiers 22 Feb. `21

Warwick, Colonel Lord (Earl of Warwick) Kipling meets him at shooting party at Moreton Frewen’s estate Oct `10

Washington, DC For a visit, all the family 25 Feb. `95 They are all ill and unhappy 15-17 Mar. `95 Kipling “dining around” 23-24 Mar. `95

Watt, A.P. (Kipling’s literary agents in the UK) “Barrack Room Ballads” sent to Watt (first mention in diaries) 28 Jan. `92 Sends $100 5 Sep. `92 Sends $3888 for Nov. `92 royalties from Macmillan & Methuen 22 Nov. `92 Sends draft for $485 23 Jan `94 Sends $5624 26 May `94 Comes down from New York to Washington to see Kipling 1 Apr. `95 Calls on newly-returned Kiplings at Royal Palace Hotel 23 June `99 Kipling proposes changes to commission paid to Watt 19 June `07 Agrees to changes proposed to rates of commission 8 July `07 Business conferences with Kipling: Watt will go to USA to Sort matters out. 24 Mar. 13 Kipling writes to him complaining about his American affairs 20 Nov. `20

Wellington College The Kiplings to Wellington to see John’s housemaster about his joining the army 2 May `13 The Kiplings to Wellington to tell John about the arrangements for his going to a crammer. 14 Feb. `14

Westward Ho! (Imperial Service College (ISC)) Kipling visits with his father 24 July `94

Whibley, Charles, Assistant Editor of the National Observer Calls on Kipling with W E Henley 13 Apr. `94

Wilcocks, Sir James and Lady Kiplings meet in Cairo 11 Feb. `13.

Wild, Frank, Petty Officer with Shackleton on first two expeditions Visits Bateman’s with Shackleton 8 June `14

Wilson, Woodrow, President of the USA Kipling meets him at a state banquet at Buckingham Palace 27 Dec & Dec. 27 `18

Wingate, Lady, wife of General Sir Reginald, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. Fellow passenger on Cordillère 15 Mar. `13

Winnard, Miss (one of the three “old ladies of Albemarle Road”) (see also Miss Mary and Miss Georgina Craik) Kiplings call on them and dine with them 11 Aug. `95 (referred to as “Miss Hooper”) visits Oct. `05

Winnipeg Arrives 30 Mar. `92

Wister, Owen, American author and friend of ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt Invites himself to stay 4 Sep. `95 Leaves (he had come on 7 October) 8 Oct. `95 Visits Bateman’s 21 May `06

White, Sir Henry Attends dinner to Joseph Chamberlain 29 May `03

Wilcocks, Sir William, British civil engineer, builder of the Assouan Dam. Fellow guest with Kiplings at Allens 22 June `12 Visits Bateman’s and advises Kipling 24 June `12

Wilden, the home of Kipling’s Aunt Louisa, the mother of Stanley Baldwin Kiplings visit on their 1919 motor tour 3 Sep. `19

Williamson, Mr. C and Mrs N, popular authors Meet Kiplings at Wady Halfa 28 Feb. `13

Winnipeg Kiplings arrive from Ottawa 2 Oct. `07

Wittersham House, home of the Alfred Lytteltons The Kiplings call 26 May `10

Woodward, William (associated with Evening Standard) With his American wife, meets Kiplings at Vernet-les-Bains 15 Mar. `10

Woolsack, The Kiplings lunch with Rhodes – shows them the site of the house he will build for them 7 Mar. `00 Carrie meets Baker at the house site to plan the house 9 Mar. `00 Mr. Baker from the Cape calls 8 Aug. `00 First entry, a “dream of beauty” 25 Dec. `00 Mr. Baker calls 10 Jan. `01 Leave “dear Woolsack” 17 Apr. `01 To The Woolsack 7 Jan. `02 To The Woolsack 13 Jan. `03 To The Woolsack 29 Dec. `03 A dispute over their right to use The Woolsack 27 Mar. `04 To the Woolsack 9 Jan. `06 To the Woolsack 1 Jan. `07 Leave 6 Apr. `07 Leave, for the last time 15 Apr. `08

Wrangel, Count, Swedish Ambassador in London Hosts dinner for the Kiplings 14 July `09

Wyndham, George, son of Percy (below) “Much friendship with” May `98 Calls 14 July `00 Wyndham, Percy, of ‘Clouds’: collector and intellectual Calls on Kiplings 30 Apr. `94 Dines with Kiplings 27 July `95

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Y Yokohama Arrive 20 Apr. `92 Sail to Vancouver 27 June `92

York They visit and attend a service in the ‘Cathedral’ 22 June `07

Z Zurich Kipling and Carrie make an overnight stay to consult a Doctor Eichorst 26 Feb. `10