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KIPLING RUDYARD (1865-1936).

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KIPLING RUDYARD (1865-1936).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Rudyard Kipling », The Elms, Rottingdean 20 September 1896, to Louis FABULET| 1 page in-8 format, his letterhead (personal address)| in English.
Thanks to the French translator of The Jungle Book.
Kipling praises the cleverness and spirit with which Fabulet and his collaborator [Robert d’HUMIÈRES] have translated Mowgli’s Brothers and Tiger, Tiger in the Revue de Paris. He has passed on the request to have translated the Second Jungle-book to his agent Watt who will anwer him. He is pleased that his accurate and admirable translations are so popular in France.