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Dear Leslie The letter is to be found in Pinney vol. 2 p. 381, dated Oct 13 1899. Stalky & Co. had been published a week earlier. All best John Radcliffe Sent from my iPad > On 29 Jul 2015, at 11:10, Leslie Katz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Thank you so much. > > I've now found the relevant page of Richards on-line. > > I've also discovered that a local university library has the Pinney edition of Kipling's letters and will search it for the letter referred to by Richards. > > Thanks again, > > Leslie > > > >> On 15-07-29 04:52 AM, George Simmers wrote: >> Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, by Jeffrey Richards records that Farrar wrote to Kipling in protest, and Kipling replied: >> >> I can assert honestly that it was no part of my intention to injure you with gratuitous insult. Your years and your position in the English Church alike forbid the thought of that. >> >> He added, though, that it would have been impossible to write about 'schoolboy life of twenty years ago' without alluding to the books, and the fact that boys (ignorant, vulgar-minded it may be') noticed the disparity between the novels and 'the facts of schoolboy life'. >> >> Presumably the letter is included in the Pinney edition. >> >> George >> >>> On 29/07/2015 10:27, Leslie Katz wrote: >>> According to Clive Bloom, Victoria's Madmen (2103), page 42, Kipling “had to apologise to Farrar” for his treatment in Stalky & Co of Farrar's novel Eric. >>> >>> I tried by Googling to find any other references to this claimed apology, but failed. >>> >>> I know nothing about Kipling and so don't know where I should be looking to try to find any other references. >>> >>> I'd be grateful for guidance. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Leslie >> >> >> -- >> George Simmers's research blog is at >> http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com > > > -- > > Leslie Katz > > email: lesliek [at] mymts [dot] net > > Please visit http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 to find hyperlinks > > to papers that I’ve written on literary and legal topics