BIB_ID
104972
Accession number
MA 979.1
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Display Date
ca. 1886.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916.
Description
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Kipling was living and writing in India from 1882 until March 1889; this poem and 4 others in this collection were first published in the 2nd edition of 'Departmental Ditties and Other Verses' in September, 1886.
Part of a collection of autograph manuscripts of poems by Rudyard Kipling. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 979.1-7 for more detail.
There are three word changes from this manuscript to the published poem; in verse 1, line 2 "side" becomes "Pride", in line 5 in verse 1 "mystic" becomes "magic;" in line 1 of the final verse "short epithet" becomes "black epithet."
With blue pencil notation on verso "Departmental Ditties / Original."
Part of a collection of autograph manuscripts of poems by Rudyard Kipling. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 979.1-7 for more detail.
There are three word changes from this manuscript to the published poem; in verse 1, line 2 "side" becomes "Pride", in line 5 in verse 1 "mystic" becomes "magic;" in line 1 of the final verse "short epithet" becomes "black epithet."
With blue pencil notation on verso "Departmental Ditties / Original."
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript, with a notation to the printer in the margin of the first stanza, as to the size of type.
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