BIB_ID
286194
Accession number
MA 979.1-7
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Display Date
1886-1892.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916.
Description
1 box (7 items), unbound ; various sizes
Notes
Kipling was living and writing in India from 1882 until March 1889 when he left India to return to England; 5 of the poems in the 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.
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.
Summary
Being a collection of seven autograph manuscripts of Kipling poems, five of which were published in September 1886 in the 2nd edition "Departmental Ditties and Other Verses"; and two poems which were published in 1892 in the 2nd edition of "The Naulahka, a Story of West and East." The five poems published in 1886 were "Lucifer", "A Ballade of Burial", "Overland Mail", "A Ballade of Jakko Hill" and "Envoi (To Whom it May Concern)". The two poems published with "The Naulahka" are "The Sack of the Gods" and "The Nursing Sister (Maternity Hospital)."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (40.1 cm)
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