Samuel PepysItem of the Month
List of Passengers booklet 1898

List of Passengers

  • Castle Line passenger list booklet
  • “Carrying the British & Colonial Royal Mails”
  • Front cover
  • 133 x 203mm (5¼ x 8in)
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List of Passengers booklet for the RMS "Norham Castle" sailing from Cape Town for London via Madeira and Southampton, 13 April 1898. Amongst the First Saloon Passengers are recorded Mr Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Kipling and family and Mr J Lockwood Kipling CIE.

 

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