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:
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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:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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
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