Searching the Index today
The contents page of all journals is held in one index which can then be searched or browsed by Title (part title or keyword) or Author. This enables you to locate the specific journal and page number you require.
The full contents of each journal are searchable from the website’s search engine. This however, will only point you to the KJnumber, not the page number (unless you get lucky).
The following (quite extensive) information relates to the compilation of the original index, which lives on in older copies of the journal. It may be of use to some researchers, but is mainly kept as a historical record of the labours of past members of the society.
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Introduction
The Kipling Journal has been, and continues to be, the most important single forum for the exchange of ideas between Kipling scholars and enthusiasts around the world. Since its inception in 1927, there have now been nearly 400 editions.
Because of its great value as a resource, John Morgan of Harrow, assisted by his wife Marian, undertook the massive task of creating an Index for the Journal.
The Index has since been extensively revised and integrated. It enables one to track down articles and contributions on particular subjects or by particular authors, and to follow this up in one of the various libraries which hold sets of the Journal back-numbers. It is available on-line on this site.
The on-line index is now updated as soon as a new journal is published.
Abbreviations
Kipling’s works are printed in upper case.
These upper-case titles may be a complete work or a part of a collected work. In the latter case, the ‘initial letter title’ of the collected work will follow in brackets, thus: MRS BATHURST (T&D) …
The key to the bracketed abbreviations is as follows [v=verse]:
| A&R | Actions and Reactions |
| ATF | Abaft the Funnel |
| BOW | Book of Words |
| BRBv | Barrack Room Ballads |
| D&C | Debits and Credits |
| DDv | Departmental Ditties |
| DOC | Diversity of Creatures |
| DW | The Day’s Work |
| Ev | Echoes |
| FNv | The Five Nations |
| FSTS | From Sea To Sea |
| HOE | History of England |
| HT | Humorous Tales |
| JB | Jungle Books |
| JB1 | The Jungle Book. Vol 1 |
| JB2 | The Jungle Book. Vol 2 |
| JSS | Just So Stories |
| K | Kim |
| L&R | Limits and Renewals |
| L&ST | Land and Sea Tales |
| LH | Life’s Handicap |
| LOT | Letters of Travel |
| MI | Many Inventions |
| POPH | Puck of Pook’s Hill |
| PTFTH | Plain Tales From the Hills |
| R&F | Rewards and Fairies |
| S&C | Stalky & Co |
| SSv | The Seven Seas |
| ST | Soldiers Three |
| SW | Sea Warfare |
| T&D | Traffics and Discoveries |
| WWW | Wee Willie Winkie |
| YBv | The Years Between |
The abbreviations K/ RK/ K’s/ RK’s are used where space in the printed version was limited and the context self-evident.
Headings
To avoid onerous secondary searching, ‘Kipling’ is not used as a filing word, other than for the following exceptions:
– Kipling Journal
– Kipling Society
– Book titles with Kipling as the initial word
– Articles where title inversion is not practical
As far as possible, a specific heading word is followed by the article title, e.g. Bermuda. Kipling and Bermuda. This principle is also applied to entries with general headings, e.g. ‘A request from Russia‘ is listed as ‘Russia. State University, Perm, request …‘
However, the unavoidable extensive listings under ‘Kipling’ have been split into several sequences by the program, those sequences determined by the punctuation. Thus, in order:
| – Kipling [space] | Kipling appendix |
| – Kipling [‘s] | Kipling’s Japan |
| – Kipling [comma] | Kipling, Auden & Co |
| – Kipling [colon] | Kipling: incidence of a name |
No article is used as a filing word even with known work titles.
Notes
In the earlier years, editorials were not necessarily written by the Editor, but by other members of the Society, and called Notes, or News and notes. After Number 061 these entries include the name of the contributor with (Notes) added: they are sometimes of a fragmentary nature. ‘Kiplingiana’ references usually reprint items from other publications, and they, too, may be short comments – but not always so.
The sequential Journal volume numbers (a volume for each year) only began in April 1940, arbitrarily, with 7. In the printed version these are shown, with the 13 earlier years (1927-1939) notated with the roman numerals i – xiii. These volume numbers are omitted in the on-line search version. (See the editorial in Number 223 page 9 for more details under the heading ‘Figures that should speak volumes’)
Correspondence
Correspondence is coded ‘C’/’R'[reply] in the Author field. In the printed version every effort is made to cross-reference letters dealing with the same subject matter with supporting coding. Thus:
C = Correspondence
C1 = First independent mention
C2 = Second independent mention
C + R = Correspondence with reply
CR = Correspondence reply
When space is available, relevant correspondence and/or reply/replies may be indexed on the same line as the main heading of the entry, thus:
RECANTATION (YBv). Who was ‘Lyde’ R 102/16 (3 replies).
Cross-references
The symbols —–> and <—– are used for ‘See’ and ‘See Also’ references, with directions to other parts of the Index; this convention is also used to avoid repetitive entries within the main text.
Anomalies
There is a degree of inconsistency in the form of Names used in the Journal, especially where titles are involved (i.e. Wavell). Compromises have been made in the interests of simplicity.
Users’ comments
Although much care has been taken with this compilation and with its proof reading, a wholly error-free index is unlikely. Please send any amendments or corrections to me at jmorgan@argonet.co.uk or to Sharad Keskar at sharadkeskar@hotmail.com .
Platform
The index has been prepared using the Advance Database on an Acorn A7000 computer, with a Canon BJC-4100 color bubble jet printer. There are 4663 Main and 2580 Name entries covering the period from 1927 to 1999. The printed index sits comfortably on a 1.6 Kb RISC disc.
Our thanks are due to Dr Noel Thompson for creating a Windows version in Microsoft Excel, for porting to the web.
John Morgan, February 2000