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KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936.
Typed Letter Signed ("Rudyard Kipling") and initialled, 1p, 12mo, to dear

6 – 13 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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KIPLING, RUDYARD. 1865-1936.

Typed Letter Signed ("Rudyard Kipling") and initialled, 1p, 12mo, to dear to [J.C.] Squire, editor of the London Mercury, with an initialed post-script, framed with a photograph of Kipling, framers label "Krause of Fulton St New York".

Thanking him for his note. "Apart from a few 'indignant,' 'shocked,' and 'pained' letters which I fancy I shall get, on the subject I think it is really very funny," with an initialed RK postscript, "No one would have enjoyed it more than Henry James himself." Henry James was a good friend of Kipling and gave the bride away when Kipling married Caroline Starr Balestier in London on January 18, 1892.

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