BIB_ID
104862
Accession number
MA 1155
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1894].
Credit line
Purchased, 1942.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 27.7 cm
Notes
Apparently taken from Kipling's wastepaper basket.--Cf. Parke-Bernet description.
Watermark: Crane & Co. Dalton Mass 1894 Bond No. 21.
Watermark: Crane & Co. Dalton Mass 1894 Bond No. 21.
Provenance
From the Kipling collection of Ellis Ames Ballard; his sale (New York, Parke-Bernet, 21 January 1942, lot 4); purchased from Rosenbach in 1942.
Summary
Rough draft of the beginning of the Brushwood Boy and various drafts of the song "Annieanlouise" in the Brushwood Boy. Being 6 sheets of paper, which were torn into 14 pieces. The sheets have been reconstituted, and 4 remain fragmentary.
Housed in
Laid in a portfolio of blue half leather over blue paper covered boards (29 cm)
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