This exhibit features high resolution digitized copies of Rudyard Kipling’s “Letters of Marque,” as they were published in the Pioneer Mail in 1887 and 1888, from the scrapbook created by Sir William Garth (1854-1923).
It also includes full-text transcriptions of each ‘Letter,’ an interactive map that plots the locations Kipling visited, and images of various sites in Rajasthan, India. The exhibit also links to other scrapbooks dedicated to the life and works of Kipling that are now housed in the Dalhousie Libraries’ Kipling Collection, and the site contains information about Rudyard Kipling and his appointment in India, the Kipling scrapbooks, a brief history of British travel writing and the British Empire’s colonial rule in India.
A chapter about the process of developing this exhibit, co-written with Roger Gillis and Diana Doublet, titled “‘Certain Moral Reflections:’ Digital exhibits and critical scholarship—the case of the Kipling Scrapbooks Digital Exhibit,” will appear in Special Collections as Sites of Contestation (Library Juice Press) in Winter 2019.
Jessica Ruzek 