Dear John
I think that this is in Tanya Barben's purlieu. The
University of Capetown website
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/rarebks/rare_collection.htm#kipling
has the following description:
With best regards
David Page
Harrow UK
KIPLING COLLECTION (BDK)
This is one of the most important, if not the finest,
of the University Library's non-Africana special
collections. It was donated by John Scott Ivan
McGregor in 1959. He was a retired schoolteacher in
Potchefstroom who had been a collector of books and
poetry all his life. The University Library had
previously been a beneficiary of his generosity. A
great admirer of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936), the Indian-born 'poet of empire',
McGregor was an avid collector of Kipling material:
books by and about Kipling; any books in which
Kipling's name was mentioned; books influenced by
Kipling's writings or giving him inspiration;
ephemera, scrap book material; anything of relevance
to Kipling. All were meticiously annotated and
indexed. The collection continues to live on, and is
now a very good resource for, inter alia, works on
colonialism in literature.
--- [log in to unmask] wrote: > I have been asked by
Jean-Francois Saada of National
> Geographic France what
> if anything remains of such a collection of Kipling
> works and if so where it
> can be found.
>
> This means nothing to me. Can anyone help?
>
> Best wishes
>
> John Slater
> Hon Librarian, Kipling Society
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