Identifier: americanizationo00boke (find matches)
Title: The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
Subjects: Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 Editors -- United States
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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phants head, the lotus, and the swastika,which the father had made for the son. It was theoriginal model of the insignia which, as a watermark,is used in the pages of Kiplings books and on the coverof the subscription edition. I am sending with this for your acceptance, wroteKipling to Bok, as some little memory of my father towhom you were so kind, the original of one of the plaquesthat he used to make for me. I thought it being theswastika would be appropriate for your swastika. Mayit bring you even more good fortune. To those who knew Lockwood Kipling, it is easier tounderstand the genius and the kindliness of the son.For the sake of the publics knowledge, it is a distinctloss that there is not a better understanding of the realsweetness of character of the son. The publics onlyidea of the great writer is naturally one derived fromwriters who do not understand him, or from reporterswhom he refused to see, while Kiplings own slogan isexpressed in his own words: I have always managed
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