Lot 224
Kipling, Rudyard. Boldly signed with two letters edited in his hand within the text. Normal folds; vertical fold transverses last name; minor toning along one fold. (1865-1936) English writer and Nobel laureate whose novels, short stories and poems mostly set in British India and Burma where he was a proponent of British imperialism. Author of the popular story, "The Jungle Book" (1894).
Typed Letter Signed. One page, Quarto, Sussex, November 16, 1903. To M.Fabulet. In full:
"… Many thanks for yours of the 13th. I have replied to your friend M. de Querloy, or least I have told him that I am temperamentally unfitted to give him any answer to his circular. It is too big a question for a man in my business to discuss with judgement. I should be very much your debtor if you could get for me some French reviews of 'The Five Nations', if any have appeared…" .
Very Good.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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