Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > First thing first. Re Mandeep's views on Kipling: > > Mandeep, dear friend, you have the full right to hold any view on any > subject and also the full right to express it. There is no doubt about that. > > However, at the same time, you'll admit that we who love Kipling, also > have a similar right. That's why, although I respect your opinion, I must > say that I don't share it. So we agree to disagree on this and proceed > further from here. <very long snip> Harshawdhan - Many times in the past I have envied your turn of phrase and ability to put points across succinctly; but never more so than in your reply to Mandeep. I only wish I had half of the facility with words that you display. To bring this marginally within the ambit of family history Patty Caroline Sellon, a great grand aunt of mine, married, as his second wife, Lionel D'Arcy Dunsterville, whose son by his first marriage Lionel Charles Dunsterville had shared a study with Kipling at the Imperial Service College, Westward Ho!, and was the character that Stalkey was modeled on. A tenuous connection indeed! It so happens that I concur with those that feel the preservation of this house would not be a correct use of government funds. Yours Aye Andrew Sellon It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.