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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[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)
Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Trotter
regretting that he does “not see the least chance of being able to come up to London in time for your meeting, but I do not think it is necessary to assure you of my very keen interest in the object of it. Nobody who has travelled even up and down the line from the colony to Pretoria can fail to see the enormous amount of work that there is to be done, and of course away from the line that work is even more urgent...”, 1 side A4, Bateman’s, Burwash, 6th June
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
42265
£675
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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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