The Ramsay - Mrs Kipling Letters. Correspondence ofthe Widow of Rudyard Kipling and A.B. Ramsay, Master of Magdalene by Jeffery D. Lewins
The Kipling’s Onetime Governess: Sylvia Thompson’s Memoir edited by Jeffery D. Lewins.
Book containing sketches made by Sylvia Thompson during her trip to South Africa accompanying the Kiplings and acting as the Governess to their two children.
Contains documents and photocopies about Rudyard Kipling:
(1) Typescript copy from his diaries of motor tours, taken between 1911-14 and 1920-1926 (originals held in the Macmillan Archive).
(2) Photocopies of the wills of Rudyard Kipling, Caroline Kipling (wife) and Elsie Bainbridge (daughter) (originals are held in the University of Sussex)
(3) Copy of the Pocket Edition of Kim, 1960 (the ‘Heatthen edition’)
(4) Copies of Magdalene College Occasional Papers:
Kipling and His 'Coll' by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 9)
The Kipling that Nobody Reads by Thomas Pinney, (No. 19)
The Ramsay - Mrs Kipling Letters by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 25)
The Kipling Onetime Governess: Sylvia Thompson's Memoir by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 26).
Also:
The Kipling Journal, June 2001;
Rudyard Kipling's IF - in Translation, edited by Jeffrey Lewins, August 2001;
Kipling on Magdalene, Two Un-published Letters about his Honorary Fellowship from the College Magazine, No. 41 1996-1997.
(5) Papers relating to the Kipling Centenary Conference held in Magdalene College, on 5-7 September 2001 to mark the centenary of the publication of Kim. Includes the programme, attendance list, and abstracts of papers given.
(6) Photocopy of a photograph of a plaque at the University of Cape Town
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.
Kipling and his Coll. Rudyard Kipling's Connection with Magdalene College, Cambridge by Jeffery D. Lewins.
Book containing poems written by Sylvia Thompson.