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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1399

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). English short story writer and novelist. Nobel Prize winner. His important works include "The Jungle Book", "Gunga Din", "Kim" and "The White Man's Burden". To H. Rider Haggard, and English writer of adventure novels, and a pioneer of Lost World literature in the Victorian era. ALS, 8vo.6." Bateman's, Burwash, Etchingham and Sussex. March 16, 1923. Included is the envelope the letter was received in, and an image of Kipling.

"Dear old mon, Been deep all this afternoon in "Wisdom's Daughter" for which a thousand thanks. As for its 'the vitality of the I am' thing that dumbfounds me. I've been enjoying a set-back of about a fortnight - or you'd have heard from me long ago. I'm better now, but nothing to sing about - yet. Can you come for lunch next Tuesday?...I'd dearly love to see you. Ever, Rudyard."


Ex. Lot 105, R. M. Smythe & Co., Sale #256, November 16, 2005.
From the collection of Diana Herzog

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