I think you need to ascertain exactly what William Howard Taft did during his visit to England in 1922. There is an account of some of what he did in "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" Vol 2 by Pringle - if you do a search on archive.org you will find a copy - the account starts around page 1000 - it mentions he dictated on his return to the US "an extraordinary and charmingly indiscrete" account of 30000 words which he sent to his children - that account will probably cover most of what he did on that trip - the papers of William Howard Taft are held by various institutions in the US but suggest you ask the Library of Congress
From: Paddy at Tiscali.co.uk <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Seeking three honest serving-men: can you help?
In response, attached is the image I built of people in the picture, as far as possible from the 1920s. Would never have managed it without Google images! I think Kipling IS wearing specs but the light is not right to catch the frames. Perhaps a slight glint over the left eyebrow? In the attachment you will see that he appears to be wearing on one eye only, again a trick of the light. Thanks everyone for all the expert advice and interest, had given up but this has revived my original excitement at finding the photo! Paddy
Dear All,
Does anyone have access to photographs of Captain Bambridge, Elsie and Carrie Kipling of this period? Perhaps we could try and identify them?
Julia Hett
On 21 Feb 2017 08:58, "John Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear All,
Paddy has kindly sent me a higher resolution copy of the group photograph, from which I have cropped and enlarged the figures in question.
I still have problems with identifying this image of what seems to be bushy white hair white haired, relatively long face, apparently without spectacles, as JRK.
In fact, the lack of clearly visible spectacles may well have been the major problem for me (only one other such photograph known?) On very close inspection, I can begin to imagine some spectacles!
Nevertheless, if not him, then who?
John
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Meredith,
I think you're right. My mistake. Apologies.
Mike
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> If the photo was at the latest 8th July, it could not have been the subject of an event around over a week later described in a letter to Elsie.
I don't think Paddy meant to suggest that the photo had been taken on "his visit to London the day before;" I think he quoted the letter because of its mention of "the lunch" and the Duke of Connaught, "“Then I to my graves commission, after having writ our names in the D. of C.’s book - a detail I had omitted since the lunch...,"
reasoning that the photo might have been taken at "the lunch," which had evidently taken place on a previous day (always presuming that by "the lunch" Kipling did not mean that day's lunch at the Carlton with Uncle Stan!)
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