KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)
Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked ‘Private’ to ‘Dear Sir Charles’
sending “Very many thanks for the Mason Monks[?] & the Power Alcohol[?] - which latter I will read and hold at your service for recall. I’m very glad that the... begins to move. My... there gives me the idea that he will hasten with an immense slowness - Express trains at 18 m.p.h. do not promise expedition. I’m horribly afraid I shan’t be able to be in Oxford on the 17th June but, even if I miss that, I expect we’ll be able to meet a little later on...”, 2 sides 8vo., Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex headed paper, 2nd June
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
41834
£875
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CAROLINE KIPLING WRITES TO HER FRIEND ABOUT HER BROTHER AND HER NEW BABY
KIPLING
(Caroline 'Carrie' Starr Balestier, 1862-1939, American born wife of Rudyard Kipling)
Superb Long Autograph letter to Mrs Mary Hallock FOOTE
(1847-1938, American Author and Illustrator) sending "a thousand thanks gracious Lady for your letter. We cherish your kind words which reached us this morning after our first night of 'snuffles'. My mother was attempting to convince us it was not pneumonia and quite usual and harmless when your testimony arrived. You will agree they sound serious won't you? Our little maiden sends you love, asking your pardon if she makes too bold, and hopes to welcome you one day to her very own home. Which we think of a Naulakha. 'Crows Nest' was invented by that all wise newspaper man who knows all one does not do, or think, or feel. Your interest in Benefits Forgot touches us nearly, for my brother cared so much that you should feel it to be an honest-word about the West. We used to arrange to make a pilgrimage to have a talk with you about the great, delightful dreadful West. We know Colorado best, and it was once while we were spending a few months there that Benefits Forgot was planned, but it was worked out in London. On the whole London is nearer the West than New York, it has always seemed to me. If I had been feeling up to rough travelling we should have returned from Vancouver slowly through all that fascinating part of our land, my husband is more anxious to know it well than any other part of America... The daughter - we call her Josephine - thrives, is strong and sturdy and we mean to keep her in the country so she may continue so. She has an English nurse, who promises well - she wrote to ask for the position. I don't expect you the credit the Statement for I well know its a fairy story in appearance. She can't have the baby nights though because of the cold - if only she could. I am learning to keep awake and my husband to sleep but it was not easy. We are very quiet here and go to bed at eight ourselves often...", 4 sides 8vo., on black edged paper, Brattleboro, 19th February
Item Date:
1893
Stock No:
41737
£1475
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[KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)]
Facsimile Autograph of his Poem 'The Absent-minded Beggar',
as a folding triptych, with a photo of the author by Collier on the title page, a full-page reproduction of "A gentleman in kharki", by R. Caton Woodville, 1899, in the centre, showing a 'Tommy', his head bandaged but defiantly drawing the bolt of his rifle, framed by 2 verses each on the pages on either side, together 48 lines, publisher's note on side 5, printed on cream paper by Eyre & Spottiswoode as Queen's Printers showing the Royal Arms, the lettering in green, the two illustrations in reddish-brown, "Copyright in England and the United States by the Daily Mail Publishing Co.", 6 sides 12½" x 8",
several light creases, very lightly dusty on side 1, small split in part of one vertical fold but otherwise a pleasing copy
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
56354
£85
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[KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)]
Small collection of ephemera relating to his funeral
comprising two tickets to the Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey on the 23rd January 1936, giving access to the West Cloister Door via Dean's Yard, together with the printed Order of Service, 4 pages 4to., and a cutting from a newspaper of his poem 'Bonfires on the Ice' in 1933, the funeral 23rd January
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
39735
£175
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KIPLING WRITES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
KIPLING
(Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)
Fine Typed letter signed in full to ‘Dear Sybil’
thanking her for her “letter and for your news which I am glad to have, although I am sorry it is not better. I know that you will understand that letter-writing is outside the possibilities these days; we are all so hard at work. I though of you when I was At Dartmouth. I was only there twenty-four hours; I went for a certain purpose and returned directly I achieved it. Trix is still at Jersey, and the news is about the same. I have, myself, some hope that the war may serve to rouse here a little...”, 1 side 4to., Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex headed paper, 22nd August
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
42020
£850
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