BIB_ID
104860
Accession number
MA 979.4
Creator
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Display Date
ca. 1886.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916.
Description
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Kipling was living and writing in India from 1882 until March 1889; this poem and 4 others in this collection (MA 979.1-5) were first published in the 2nd edition of 'Departmental Ditties and Other Verses' in September, 1886.
Part of a collection of autograph manuscripts of poems by Rudyard Kipling. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 979.1-7 for more detail.
There are slight variations in the text between this manuscript and the published poem.
Part of a collection of autograph manuscripts of poems by Rudyard Kipling. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 979.1-7 for more detail.
There are slight variations in the text between this manuscript and the published poem.
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript of the poem with several revisions and variations with the published poem; including the last stanza which is separately titled "L'Envoi." .
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