Proof of J-Low and a Letter from Rudyard Kipling
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Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday to Juliette Gordon Low, or as I affectionately call her, The Original J-Low. I was once admonished in a comment about how disrespectful I was to refer to her as J-Low instead of Daisy. Well, I have proof that she even referred to herself as J-Low! I once highlighted the The Juliette Gordon Low Papers Collection from the Digital Library of Georgia in a previous post, so I’d like to refer back to it for a glimpse at how she signed some of her letters:
See! 🙂
While browsing through the collection at some point, I came across a letter that Juliette’s dear friend and famous author Rudyard Kipling wrote after her death to George Arthur Gordon, her brother. He sums up her spirit in so few words:
Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex
October 14, 1928
Dear. Mr. Gordon:
We are both most grateful to you for sending the book about Daisy whom you know we loved. Even now, I don’t think that sufficient justice has been done to her superb courage and selflessness but that was a side of her nature which she dismissed as casually as she would a customs official. We saw a good deal or her one way and another both in Scotland with her birds and when she came down here.
There is a brook, with trout, at the foot of our garden so that if you like (and she did) you can go out after dinner in evening dress and try your luck for a fish. Also there is a high black ridge, under which trout lie, facing a stone walled bank some eight feet high. It was here naturally that Daisy got a fairly big one, and equally naturally, it was I, in dinner costume, who lay on my stomach with a long-handled net taking Daisy’s commands while she maneuvered the fish into the net. We got him between us but that wasn’t my fault for I was too weak with laughing to do more than dab and scoop feebly in the directions that she pointed out. And she had ways of her own in driving her Ford in Scotland that chilled my blood and even impressed our daughter. But her own good angels looked after her even with she was on one wheel over a precipice; and there was nobody like her.
We both send you our warmest greetings and good wishes since Mabel has told us so much about you and the family and the old days.
Most sincerely,
Rudyard Kipling
I love these letters and information about our Founder, J. Low… The Original. Thanks so much for posting them!
Very cool. I am going to refer to her as J. Low from now on.
As an archivist/librarian who helps institutions put their historical material online, I am thrilled to see you using the Digital Library of Georgia. It takes a lot of time and money to digitize these materials, so good to know that our efforts are not for naught.
It is nice to her more “regular people” stories about our founder and Girl Scout. She does have her own ways. I can only guess how you felt in a car with her in Scotland. She was certainly ahead of her time.