![]() ![]() ![]() Tapp’s United Services College (1933), pp. 58, 17th December, 1894 (and reprinted in H. He was at Westward Ho! again on 25th July, 1894 at the leavetaking of Cormell Price and made a short speech on behalf of the Old Boys, which was printed in the U.S.C. He had visited the School once since his return from India – during the Summer Term of 1890, when he spent a week with Cormell Price, the Head. Nevertheless, though it shows that Kipling’s thoughts were turning back to Westward Ho!, and that he was looking at it with the perspective of manhood, there was no sign then that he had any idea of using the setting in fiction. ![]() “An English School” is an important source for an understanding of Stalky & Co., and any commentary on the stories must of necessity refer to it. Chronicle where it appeared in October, 1884, two years after Kipling had left. ![]() The previous writing concerned with the School was a poem contributed to the U.S.C. This was the first evidence in his published writings of his deep interest in his old School. In October, 1893, there appeared in an American periodical called Youth’s Companion the article “An English School” which was included at the end of Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides thirty years later. Rudyard Kipling went to the United Services College at Westward Ho!, near Bideford, North Devon, as a small capering twelve-year old in January 1878, and left in the autumn of 1882, a precociously sophisticated teenager, to take ship for journalism in India. ![]()
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