Dear Fred
That (vol 1 at least) was interesting. I learnt a lot. Thanks.
Andrew Lycett
On 29/10/2017 04:03 PM, Fred Lerner wrote:
> In his article on “Heroes of Westward Ho!” in the September 2017
> Kipling Journal, Rodney Atwood cites a book previously unknown to me:
> H.A. Tapp’s “United Services College 1874-1911” (Privately printed,
> 1933). As someone who has long been fascinated by “Stalky & Co” — I
> began my first trip to Britain, in 1971, with a pilgrimage to Westward
> Ho! — I had of course read Dunsterville’s “Stalky’s Reminiscences” and
> Beresford’s “Schooldays with Kipling”, and so I would certainly want
> to read what Major Tapp had to say. But his book seemed unobtainable:
> Amazon couldn’t supply it, and the few copies in American libraries
> were likely to be in special collections and thus unavailable on
> interlibrary loan. After a bit of web-surfing I found a virtually
> complete copy (two pages are lacking) of Tapp’s book at
> <http://www.westwardhohistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/United-Services-College-book-1.pdf>
> A supplementary volume (not mentioned in Mr Atwood’s article) can be
> found at
> <http://www.westwardhohistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/United-Services-College-book-2.pdf>
> These files are both readable and dowloadable. I mention this in case
> anyone on this list shares my interest in the USC and would like to
> read Major Tapp’s little book.
>
> Fred Lerner
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