Record ID
67514
Accession number
GSC
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Object title
The absent-minded beggar / by Rudyard Kipling.
Published
London : Daily Mail, c1899.
Notes
Facsimile of author's signed holograph.
Sheet folded twice, forming a triptych.
Facsimile of poem laid out on p. [2] and [4] (inside the fold), surrounding (on p. [3]) a sepia reproduction of illustration entitled "A gentleman in Kharki," signed by R. Caton Woodville, 1899.
Sepia reproduction of portrait of the author, signed "John Collins, 1891"--p. [1].
"The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the Daily Mail in the name of Rudyard Kipling to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists"--p. [5].
Poem served as text for Sir Arthur Sullivan's song, The absent-minded beggar.
Two copies.
Sheet folded twice, forming a triptych.
Facsimile of poem laid out on p. [2] and [4] (inside the fold), surrounding (on p. [3]) a sepia reproduction of illustration entitled "A gentleman in Kharki," signed by R. Caton Woodville, 1899.
Sepia reproduction of portrait of the author, signed "John Collins, 1891"--p. [1].
"The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the Daily Mail in the name of Rudyard Kipling to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists"--p. [5].
Poem served as text for Sir Arthur Sullivan's song, The absent-minded beggar.
Two copies.
Associated names
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Absent-minded beggar.
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