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The Overland Mail : autograph manuscript, ca. 1886.

BIB_ID
104991
Accession number
MA 979.3
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Display Date
ca. 1886.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916.
Description
1 item (3 p.), unbound ; 32.3 cm
Notes
In the title, Kipling has crossed through "Her Majesty's" and replaced it with "The Overland" before Mail.
Kipling was living and writing in India from 1882 until March 1889; this poem and 4 others in this collection (MA 979.1-5) 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.
The published poem is subtitled "Foot-Service to the Hills."
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript of the six stanzas of the poem with slight variations in text from this manuscript to the published poem.