Something of Myself
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marycatelliSomething of Myself by Rudyard Kipling
An autobiographical account.
With tales ranging from childhood, through his returning the first attempt to bribe him -- his servant, hearing of it, told him to not eat or drink anything except from the servant's hands for the rest of the visit -- to a cruise, late in his life, where a friend of his secured their table for the rest of the cruise by assuring another passenger that actually, he could verify that the food was worse than prison food from personal experience.
He met very many famous people in the incidents of life -- his uncle was the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones -- though to Theodore Roosevelt when he was Under-Secretary of Navy, and how Kipling told him that the Boers regarded themselves as the Dutch, and the actual Dutch, and Roosevelt himself, as Hollanders.
The final chapter discusses his writing process.
An autobiographical account.
With tales ranging from childhood, through his returning the first attempt to bribe him -- his servant, hearing of it, told him to not eat or drink anything except from the servant's hands for the rest of the visit -- to a cruise, late in his life, where a friend of his secured their table for the rest of the cruise by assuring another passenger that actually, he could verify that the food was worse than prison food from personal experience.
He met very many famous people in the incidents of life -- his uncle was the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones -- though to Theodore Roosevelt when he was Under-Secretary of Navy, and how Kipling told him that the Boers regarded themselves as the Dutch, and the actual Dutch, and Roosevelt himself, as Hollanders.
The final chapter discusses his writing process.