JohnNevertheless, if not him, then who?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!
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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