Batemans

[poliphilo]

I may have posted this picture earlier in the year, but never mind if I did. This is Kipling's Sussex home, "Bateman's". 



And here's the water mill at the bottom of his garden, where Dan and Una met Hal O' The Draft- and where,  in Below The Mill Dam, he imagines the spirit of the Mill wheel- somewhat senile- repeating its own entry in the Domesday Book to itself...

"Here Azor, a freeman, held one rod, but it never paid geld. Nun-nun-nunquam geldavit. here Reinbert has one villein and four cottars with one plough- and wood for six hogs and two fisheries of sixpence and a mill of ten shillings- unun molinum- one mill. Reinbert's mill- Robert's Mill. then and afterwards and now- tunc et post et modo- Robert's Mill. Book- Book- Domesday Book!"

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. Is it far?

[sovay]

Is it far?

I'm in Boston; it's a couple of hours each way. I could day-trip.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So it's entirely feasible.

Is Naulakha open to the public?

[sovay]

Is Naulakha open to the public?

It looks like it . . .

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a sad story.

If he hadn't had that falling out with his bro-in-law he might well have become a US citizen.

Surely that should be Joel Chandler Harris, not William.