Manuscripts & Typescripts written by Kipling

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1. "At the pit's mouth" Holograph written in parallel columns, the right column headed "Personal narrative" with entries - July & Aug. 1884 in diary form, the left column headed "Digressions" containing comments and instructions. Bound
2. Autograph material, miscellaneous: 1 envelope addressed to R. B. Sherman
3. Ballad of dak [sic] bungalows. Holograph with original sketch. Composed and inscribed for Sir Charles Ross Alson by the author.
4. Black Jack. Holograph with original pen-and-ink illustration
5. Choice of songs. Typescript of poem
6. City of dreadful night. Holograph
7. Dirge of dead sisters. Copy. Stanzas 8 and 10, given by the author to be sold for the memorial in the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital to nurses who lost their lives in the war (1914-18). Holograph poem
8. "Et dona ferentes." Holograph
9. French hotel registration paper, with queries answered in Kipling's hand
10. Half a dozen pictures. Holograph
11. Hill of illusion. Holograph
12. How the alphabet was made. Incomplete holograph of the text
13. How the first letter was written. Typescript with the author's ms. corrections
14. "In every nations's life there comes a breathing-space." Holograph. Written for the Quebec tercentenary
15. [Kipling pageant, A]. Foreword to the publisher [Nelson Doubleday]. Typescript
16. Lesson, The. Holograph poem, marked at end "In memory - Naval manoeuvres. 1901"
17. [Letters of travel (1892-1913)] Typescript (incomplete). Comprises preliminary matter, 3 p.; From tideway to tideway, 117 p.; Egypt and the magicians, section 7, 12 p. With the author's ms. corrections. Title page, blank leaf at end and wrappers wanting
18. Letters on leave. I. Aug. 18, 1890. Incomplete holograph draft
19. Merrow down. Holograph with pen-and-ink illustrations, of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th stanzas of the poem
20. [Mutiny of the Mavericks: four verses of an Irish rebellion song, two of which Kipling used in his The mutiny of the Mavericks]. Holograph (?) copy
21. My own true ghost story. Holograph with original pen-and-ink illustrations
22. Notes on two trips with the Channel squadron. Holograph
23. Our lady of the sackcloth. Typescript (carbon) of poem
24. Parting. Holograph poem. Written for Miss Florence Garrard
25. Peter the Wise. Holograph fragments; 7 lines entitled "Peter the Wise"; 14 lines of an unfinished poem beginning "To help the dogs -- the starving dogs, The dogs of London town"; 2 lines of prose; and 3 pen-and-ink sketches
26. Prayer of the black Aberdeen. Typescript (carbon) of poem
27. Sullivan, Sir Arthur. The absent-minded beggar. Ms., the music in the hand of Sir Arthur Sullivan; the words in the hand of Rudyard Kipling
28. Superfluous caller, The. Incomplete holograph
29. That lady who recited. (By the sufferer). Holograph
30. "Then home, get her home where the drunken rollers comb." Holograph poem for "M. F. W."
31. Turkey and the algebra, The. Holograph poem
32. Upstairs. Typescript of play, with the author's ms. corrections. Imperfect: p. 1 and 17 mutilated
33. With Scindia to Delhi. Holograph poem
34. "When the cabin portholes are dark and green." Holograph poem, with 3 original pen-and-ink illustrations
35. "Whereat the withered flower well content." Holograph poem (4 lines)