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Introduction
Charles Edmund Carrington (1897–1990) was a writer, lecturer and biographer who wrote the official life of Kipling. Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Work (London: Macmillan, 1955) was authorised by Rudyard’s only surviving child Elsie Bambridge who gave Carrington full access to the papers at Wimpole Hall, her family home. The collection contains Carrington’s working papers retained from writing the biography. These include copies of writings by Kipling, extracts from the diaries of Kipling’s wife, 1892–1936 (the diaries were later destroyed), drafts of the biography, working notes, reviews of it, and copies of other works on Kipling. Carrington placed the Papers at Sussex by deposit in 1979 and bequeathed them to the University.
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