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RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
Typed letter and autograph letter signed ("Most sincerely Rudyard Kipling"), to an unnamed gentleman "Dear Admiral", together 2 pages, 8°, on Bateman's Burwash Sussex headed paper, 30 October 1935 and
1 November 1935, the first expressing his amazement at "the tale of the Typhoon". He comments "[a]nd when one thinks that she was only a 'River' class craft, the wonder is greater than ever. The thing that gives the absolute 'impossibility' of the whole mad affair is the drinking, prone, out of the soda-water bottle. That -- and the slacking and tautening of the ridge-rope, seem to me the two pivots of the thing." The second thanks the Admiral for an invitation and comments again on the "Typhoon yarn".
Small hole to top left hand corner of first letter (2)
Typed letter and autograph letter signed ("Most sincerely Rudyard Kipling"), to an unnamed gentleman "Dear Admiral", together 2 pages, 8°, on Bateman's Burwash Sussex headed paper, 30 October 1935 and
1 November 1935, the first expressing his amazement at "the tale of the Typhoon". He comments "[a]nd when one thinks that she was only a 'River' class craft, the wonder is greater than ever. The thing that gives the absolute 'impossibility' of the whole mad affair is the drinking, prone, out of the soda-water bottle. That -- and the slacking and tautening of the ridge-rope, seem to me the two pivots of the thing." The second thanks the Admiral for an invitation and comments again on the "Typhoon yarn".
Small hole to top left hand corner of first letter (2)