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poliphiloI 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!"
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!"
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Date: 2008-11-13 11:03 am (UTC)I may well have shown you this before, but I have set of Burwash photos on my flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakegra/sets/1692863/
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Date: 2008-11-13 04:55 pm (UTC)I'm in Boston; it's a couple of hours each way. I could day-trip.
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Date: 2008-11-13 05:05 pm (UTC)Is Naulakha open to the public?
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Date: 2008-11-13 05:14 pm (UTC)It looks like it . . .
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Date: 2008-11-13 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-13 07:50 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-11-13 07:56 pm (UTC)Kipling's daughter gave it to the nation complete with furnishings- so it's maintained more or less as it was in Kipling's time.
A lot of the grounds are wild. It's very easy to imagine the Kipling children playing in the woods and by the stream- as they're shown as doing (under pseudonyms) in Puck of Pook's Hill