Dear Peter,
The World Wide Web is silent about Beresford’s drawings, and it seems to be an ill omen.
I think you’ve already seen this catalogue of University of Sussex’ “Kipling-Beresford Collection”:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_catalogues/beresford.html
http://specialcollections.lib.sussex.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.catalog&id=SxMs69&pos=15
'Agreement for publication of Beresford's Schooldays with Kipling, 1936; Letters and cards from Kipling to Beresford, 1899-1928 (10 items); Letters from other correspondents to Bereford (30 items) and others (3 items), 1899-1933; Documents of the Kipling Society, 1932-1936; Statement of claim referring the publication of articles about the school life of Kipling based on letters of GCB, [1899]; Papers, photographs and plans relating to the United Services College, 1899-1936; N. V. Wilson's inventory of this collection, 1997.'
The family archive seemed to be very prospective place for such papers, having not only family but public interest as well, but alas...
You wrote that the drawings “have all been reduced to about the size of a large postage stamp”. It seems to be interesting to talk about it in, so to speak, hypothetical sense with a specialist on printing trades at the time.
With my regards,
Yan Shapiro
P> Dear All
P> I have recently brought a copy of Schooldays with Kipling. [Well worth reading] It includes many drawings by Beresford. These have all been reduced to about the size of a large postage stamp. The attachment is one of Kipling acting in a play which I have scanned and enlarged: the quality is not very good.
P> Are the drawings accessible in the original size?
P> Regards
P> Peter
P> Borcherds +44 [0] 121 475 3029
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