Stuk 1 - Memoir of Sylvia Thompson

1 item, paper

Blue exercise book containing a memoir of her life between 1877 and 1916. This covers her childhood, family, training as a kindergarden nurse, the month she spent with Rudyard Kipling and his wife Carrie looking after their children during their trip to South Africa, and her subsequent career looking after Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Hudson, and becoming Matron in a rest home for Army nurses and sisters in Monte Carlo in 1916. The last page ends "New book" but no further books have survived.

There is also a printed copy of The Kipling's Onetime Governess: Sylvia Thompson's Memoir by Jeffery D. Lewins, Magdalene College Occasional Paper No. 26 which contains a transcript of the Memoir relating to Sylvia's time with the Kiplings.

The author has added notes dated 1962.