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Title

  • [Miss Coxen scrapbook]

Summary

  • Portion of scrapbook with letters by Rudyard Kipling to Miss Susie Coxen from 1884 mounted on back pages removed from a photograph album presumably belonging to Miss Coxen. Includes six holograph letters written in Lahore from Kipling to Miss Coxen from May 1884, June 14, June 16, June 20, Sept. 2, and "Thursday morning". Includes newspaper clipping from the Civil & Military Gazette with review "Theatricals at Lahore", April 15, 1884 describing performance of "The Palace of Truth" which had cast Miss Coxen as Palmis and Kipling as Chrysal. Kipling rehearsed the part but did not appear in the actual performance. Also includes greeting card with initials "R.K." and hand colored photomechanical print of the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Miss Coxen married Edgar de Broë on August 4, 1885 and scrapbook pages include photographs of their daughter Noel de Broë and the Conrad de Broë [Susie's brother-in-law] family group in Montreux in 1896 and Villars, Switzerland in 1899 and views of the Springfield, Woolston home of Conrad de Broë near Southampton, England with house; barn; horse; chickens and "Mother learning to ride the bike".

Names

  • Coxen, Susie, 1859-1923.
  • Coxen, Susie, 1859-1923, recipient, addressee.
  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, correspondent.
  • De Broë, Edgar, 1851-1918, associated name.
  • Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1884-1899.

Headings

  • -  Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936--Friends and associates--India
  • -  Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936--Homes and haunts--India
  • -  Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936--Correspondence
  • -  Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936--Caricatures and cartoons
  • -  Coxen, Susie,--1859-1923

Genre

  • Scrapbooks--1880-1900
  • Drawings--1880-1900
  • Caricatures--1880-1900
  • Autographs--1880-1900
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1890
  • Group portraits--1880-18090
  • Snapshots--1880-1900
  • Photographic prints--1880-1900
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Notes

  • -  Photographs have handwritten captions in English in pencil.
  • -  Manuscript letters addressed to Miss Coxen and signed either R.K. or Rudyard Kipling. Letter from dated "May 1884" in another hand includes caricature by Kipling of "Chrysal looking nearly as big a ruffian as he did last night". Note dated "Thursday morn." signed "Yours theatrically 'Chrysal'". Letter dated June 14th, 1884 and manuscript verse dated "My stables, June 20th" both addressed to "Fair Mistress" and signed "Old Joe".
  • -  Manuscript verse dated June 20, [1884] begins: "Fair mistress, to my lasting sorrow, I learn you leave Lahore tomorrow ...".
  • -  Letter from Sept. 2, 1884 cited and reproduced in Kipling, R.The letters of Rudyard Kipling / edited by Thomas Pinney. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990-c2004. The other letters are not cited.
  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Additional scrapbook pages apparently separated and cataloged separately. See: lccn 2008570852.
  • -  Kipling, R. Letters of Rudyard Kipling, I, p. 73-74
  • -  LC copy rehoused in portfolio 38 x 31 cm.
  • -  LC copy part of the gift of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, 1984-1987.
  • -  Published in part in: The letters of Rudyard Kipling / edited by Thomas Pinney. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990-c2004.

Medium

  • [8] p. (11 photographic prints, 6 manuscript letters, 3 other items) ; 25 x 28 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PR4856 .C69 1884

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2007567073

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Coxen, Susie, Susie Coxen, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar De Broë, and Colt Kipling Collection. Miss Coxen scrapbook. India, 1884. to 1899. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2007567073/.

APA citation style:

Coxen, S., Coxen, S., Kipling, R., De Broë, E. & Colt Kipling Collection. (1884) Miss Coxen scrapbook. India, 1884. to 1899. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2007567073/.

MLA citation style:

Coxen, Susie, et al. Miss Coxen scrapbook. to 1899. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2007567073/>.