This was the summary link of Today’s letters that I found at The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/fair-trade-cocaine-wouldnt-delight-dealers

Yes, the letter about cocaine has the top of the draw. 

Regards

Geoff Maloney
Brisbane Australia 


On 2 Aug 2018, at 7:54 pm, john <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello,
Would it be possible to find Mike's letter online? It's very difficult, if not impossible, to find British papers in Norway.
Thanks,
John Seriot


From: To exchange information and views on the life and work of Rudyard Kipling <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 02 August 2018 11:34
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou
 
Geoff,

 

Many thanks. The credit is really due to Andrew Lycett, who had described Angelou’s opinions on Kipling in his masterful biograph of Kipling nearly 2 years ago.

 

It was Andrew who encouraged me to write this letter.

 

Best wishes.

 

Mike

 

 

From: To exchange information and views on the life and work of Rudyard Kipling <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Geoff Maloney
Sent: 02 August 2018 10:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou

 

All respect to you Mike for the letter.  

 

As a left-leaning Kipling appreciator, I grow disinterested in The Guardian’s standard of journalism day by day.  

 

A decent journalist across their subject would have made the connection that you have pointed out in your letter and then cried - "Oh the irony!”

 

Personally, I deeply appreciate that there are well-read people still living on this planet who can make these connections.  The Guardian really does need some journalists who are as well read. Not just in literature but history as well.  

 

Best wishes

 

Geoff Maloney
Brisbane, Australia  


On 2 Aug 2018, at 5:04 pm, angela eyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Mike has a letter in The Guardian

 

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 21:16, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks, Kelly.

 

Best wishes

 

Mike

 

From: The Landmark Trust USA <[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: 01 August 2018 19:28
To: Michael Kipling <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou

 

FYI - I posted this on the Landmark Trust USA’s Facebook page yesterday.  I’ve gotten 1 “like” but no other comments….

 

 

Kelly Carlin
Operations Manager
The Landmark Trust USA
802-254-6868

 

 

 

 

 
 
On Aug 1, 2018, at 2:11 PM, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Diana,

 

Thanks for this suggestion. I have done as you suggest.

 

Mike Kipling
Chairman
The Kipling Society

 

From: DCB Gmail <[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: 01 August 2018 15:30
To: [log in to unmask]; Kipling Society <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Kipling and Maya Angelou

 

Please can you post this comment on their Facebook page? Nothing like pointing out to the young that they need to do their research before jumping in feet first….

Many thanks
Yours ever

Diana C. Briscoe, PhD
London NW6 1UP

Email: [log in to unmask]



On 30 Jul 2018, at 20:41, Mike Kipling <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Many will have seen the story recently that the words of ‘If’ which had been painted on a wall at Manchester University Students’ Union had been erased because the students considered Kipling Imperialist and racist. In its place they inscribed the Maya Angelou poem ‘Still I Rise’.
Whatever one may think of their opinion of Kipling, it is rather ironic that Angelou herself had a soft spot for his work, and particularly for ‘If’.
As Andrew Lycett points out in his biography, she wrote (of a difficult time in her life when she was a young, single mother) “I could, and often did to my baby and myself, recite … Kipling’s ‘If’…” (in Gather Together in my Name). She also wrote, in I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing, that she “…enjoyed and respected Kipling …” and that, eventually, ‘If’ was supplanted by another uplifting work, ‘Invictus’.

 

Mike Kipling
Chairman, The Kipling Society

 

 

 

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