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KIPLING RUDYARD (1865-1936).
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KIPLING RUDYARD (1865-1936).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Rudyard Kipling », with autograph NOTES signed « RK » on written longhand survey, Paris 21 November 1921, to Jean LEFRANC from the newspaper Le Temps| 1 page in-8 format, with vignette and letterhead stationery Hôtel Meurice, and 7 pages and a half in-8 format on letterhead stationery Le Temps, envelope with autograph inscription| in French.
Answers provided for a biographical questionnaire. Kipling would need at least a few weeks to answer Lefranc’s questions and provides a few answers. He came from India when he was six years old to study in England| he gives the name of the daily paper he worked for at 16 years old, Civil and Military Gazette | he corrects the date of his first book : 1885, and adds the title of his first success : The Light That Failed. He answers some queries with a laconic “don’t know”| when asked what cultivated Hindi readers think of his works, he answers: “Don’t know. I think they don’t read me at all.” He adds that he is preparing a “history book. The History of the Irish Guards”.
Signed autograph letter, signed « Rudyard Kipling », with autograph NOTES signed « RK » on written longhand survey, Paris 21 November 1921, to Jean LEFRANC from the newspaper Le Temps| 1 page in-8 format, with vignette and letterhead stationery Hôtel Meurice, and 7 pages and a half in-8 format on letterhead stationery Le Temps, envelope with autograph inscription| in French.
Answers provided for a biographical questionnaire. Kipling would need at least a few weeks to answer Lefranc’s questions and provides a few answers. He came from India when he was six years old to study in England| he gives the name of the daily paper he worked for at 16 years old, Civil and Military Gazette | he corrects the date of his first book : 1885, and adds the title of his first success : The Light That Failed. He answers some queries with a laconic “don’t know”| when asked what cultivated Hindi readers think of his works, he answers: “Don’t know. I think they don’t read me at all.” He adds that he is preparing a “history book. The History of the Irish Guards”.