| Unique ID | CWGC/1/1/12/25 |
| File Number | SDC 8 |
| Title | Rudyard Kipling; Letters From |
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| Description | File of selected hand written and typed letters from Rudyard Kipling, created in his capacity as literary advisor and Commissioner of the Imperial War Graves Commission. |
| Content Note | Contents:/1: Cartoon from 'Punch'; 15 Feb. 1928. /2: Letter to F. Ware re receipt of minutes of Prince of Wales's Committee for the Care of Soldiers' Graves; 25 Oct. 1917. /3: Note to Ware re words used in seconding resolution of gratitude to Belgium; no date. /4: Letter to Col. Stobart re seconding above resolution; 17 Nov. 1917. /5: Letter to Ware asking to be removed from Memorials to Missing Committee; 11 Feb. 1921. /6-/13: Letters with enclosures to Principal Assistant Secretary; Director of Records and Ware re inscriptions on tablets in Paris and Amiens cathedrals; on memorial to British Salonika Force; next of kin inscriptions on headstones; and wish to see Villers-Cotterets cemetery plan; 5 May 1921 - 25 June 1923. /14-/15: Letters to F. Ware re proposed private tour of cemeteries and attending ceremony at Portsmouth; 8 Apr. and 6 Oct. 1924. /16: Letter to F. Ware from Kilping acknowledging receipt of Royal Warrant appointing Kipling as a Commission for the Imperial War Graves Commission, 29 Oct. 1917. |
| Date | 25/10/1917 - 6/10/1924 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Collection | Archive |
| Category | Archive |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/4 | Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet | 1865-1936 |
| DS/UK/2 | Ware; Sir; Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869-1949); newspaper editor and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1869-1949 |
| DS/UK/61 | Windsor [formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]; Edward (1894-1972); King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, Prince of Wales, Duke of Windsor, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Saxony, and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; President of the Imperial War Graves Commission | 1894-1972 |