Kipling-Courtauld Letters

Photographic reproductions of 29 letters from Rudyard Kipling to S. A. Courtauld.

Samuel Augustine Courtauld (1865-1953) was the eldest surviving son of George Courtauld and was for many years a director of Courtaulds Ltd (formerly Samuel Courtauld & Co). He devoted his ample fortune and leisure to public service and philanthropic works in Essex and at the Middlesex Hospital. He edited others translations of Horace, whose writings were a shared enthusiasm with Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the author. Courtauld spoke to the Kipling Society in 1933 on Kipling's literary allusions , a text of which is in the Kipling papers from Wimpole Hall, but without any correspondence (SxMs 38/27/13).

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Gift by Lady (Mollie) Butler of Saffron Walden, widow of R. A. Butler and daughter of Augustine Courtauld, son of S. A. Courtauld.

Prepared by John Farrant, July 2002.

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The original letters have been pasted into 28 bound volumes.

This collection supplements the main collection of the papers of Rudyard Kipling, his parents, his wife and his daughter, which accumulated at Wimpole Hall, near Cambridge and which is deposited at the University of Sussex as SxMs 38, Kipling Papers - Wimpole Archive. The record for that collection includes a list of all the supplementary collections.

In 1984 the originals were in the possession of the donor.