Rudyard Kipling at his desk.

Visit to The Grange Museum and Art Gallery in Rottingdean. Kipling didn't actually live there, but lived nearby, and mixed with the literary and artistic community there, for example Burne-Jones and William Morris, and William Nicholson.

Rottingdean was a smugglers paradise, there were tunnels up from the beach to many of the houses, including the church.  Kipling wrote a poem about it  - A Smuggler's Song. 

His only son John was killed early in WW1, aged 18, after Kipling had pulled strings to get him into the British Army in spite of poor eyesight.