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Introduction
The Dunscombe Colt Collection contains photocopies of over 450 letters written by Rudyard Kipling to family and friends. Recipients include his aunt Edith Macdonald, aunt Louisa Macdonald, Louisa’s husband Alfred Baldwin, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell and Cormell Price, headmaster of United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon, while Kipling was a pupil. Correspondence and invoices relating to the collection is included. Mr H Dunscombe Colt was a Kipling collector and member of the Kipling Society. He formed his collection by purchase at auction, from dealers and by making copies. The Collection was subsequently sold to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, but before disposal photocopies and, in some cases, manuscript transcriptions of texts, had been prepared. In the summer of 1994 his widow presented the copies and transcripts to the National Trust to join the Kipling Archive.
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