Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 13/40
Title
Correspondence with Alice Macdonald Fleming, 1939-1945, on topics including her late brother, Rudyard Kipling, and Hamilton's wife Jean (died 1941)
Date(s)
- 1939 Feb 1 - 1945 Nov 23 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 13 letters
Scope and content
Correspondence between Hamilton and Alice Macdonald Fleming (also known as Trix Fleming, sister of (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling), including payments Rudyard received for his poetry and payments she received for her fortune telling, 20 Aug 1942; thanking Hamilton for his Jean, a memoir on Jean, Lady Hamilton (privately printed, London, 1941; Faber and Faber, London, 1942), and her memories of Jean Miller Hamilton in India in 1886, 27 Aug 1942; her recollections of Rudyard's favourites of his own poetry, 25 Apr 1945. With The Kipling Journal, vol 11 no 71, Oct 1944, containing a review of Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944). 1 file, 13 letters