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A memorable day was one spent with Rudyard Kipling at Bateman’s, Burwash. It was i June 1920. I was directed to take the morning train down from Charing Cross Station to Etchingham,1 where the Kipling motor-car was to meet me. I remember that a few months before ‘Tark’2 and I had been speculating about the personal Kipling. We pictured a wizened, prematurely old man, burned out in the fire of early achievement. The Kipling I found looked almost boyish in his sport clothes, and there was the vigour of youth in his action. I did not go to interview him. I cannot conceive of anyone interviewing Kipling. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he did all the interviewing.
The Bookman, lxx (Sep 1929) 64.
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Maurice, A.B. (1983). More ‘Old Bookman Days’. In: Orel, H. (eds) Kipling. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05109-0_43
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