Record ID:
104860
Accession number:
MA 979.4
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916.
Description:
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 32.3 cm
Notes:
There are slight variations in the text between this manuscript and the published poem.
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.
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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