Can anyone help Mr Mackenzie ?
Grateful for any assistance, John R
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From: "john mackenzie" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 10:23 PM
Subject: kipling's bicycle
> Dear subscribers,
> I am a Briton who is resident in Vermont, and am trying to research
> Rudyard Kipling's Brattlboro period. I am looking for any information
> about his bicycle in particular. Not knowing all that much about the
> evolution of the bicycle, I am also after a simple history. I am trying
> to answer questions such as what kind of bicycle did RK ride? Who gave it
> to him? What would it have looked like/been made of? How would the
> locals have taken to seeing the Englishman pedalling around the steep
> lanes of southern Vermont? Also, peripherally, it has recently been told
> to me that RK had a passion for motorcars, although was himself unable to
> drive. Did this fact make the bicycle the closest thing he could find to
> driving an automobile?
> I would be grateful for any leads in relation to any of the above! I live
> in Peacham, Vermont, and am residing in Vershire in the Upper Valley for
> the duration of the summer as a break from my year-round job of teaching
> English to high-schoolers. So, if anyone knows of a good bicycle rental
> company in the Dummerston/Brattleboro area, I might just head down there
> one evening to take myself out along RK's fateful route along Pine Tree
> Hill..!
> Many thanks in advance.
> Sincerely,
> John Mackenzie
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