Dear Alastair,
It seems that Carry meant the speech at the Opening of the Burwash Institute at December, 4 (one may find it in 'Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words').
A> Can anyone please give me some information, chapter and verse, on the
A> subject of village institutes? So far as I am aware, they no longer
A> exist, as such, though I suspect that many of their functions were taken
A> over by the public libraries when they appeared.
A> I ask because in Carrie's diaries, there is an entry in December 1907,
A> "At work on his speech for opening the Institute at Burwash", and I can
A> find nothing on the Web to tell me about village institutes, nor
A> Burwash's in particular. Nor is there any mention in any of the usual
A> biographies.
A> /Alastair Wilson/
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