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Rudyard Kipling (1894 and 1895) The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , UK first editions, first printings, published by Macmillan. Together with a fascinating three-page long handwritten letter to a fellow writer penned in 1892 on the eve of Jungle Book duology publication. Provenance: the two books are from the library of Oliver Brett, the third Viscount of Esher with his coat of arms bookplates to each front pastedown. From 1905-1910 Brett was the private secretary to Lord John Morley, the Secretary of State for India, making this a nice India association first edition set. Condition: near fine boards with the gilding on the spine intact and NOT rubbed out. Gilding of the elephants and the cobra are NOT rubbed out and beautiful. Light stains to front boards as shown and a little shelf wear. Since both volumes have been housed in their respective solander case for a century the books have little shelf wear to them. No owner s inscriptions in the First Jungle book, gift inscription in black ink to the ffep of Vol 2 as shown. Internally, both books are clean, however the typical foxing spots as usual within the text commensurate with age. More foxing to the Second Jungle Book than to the first. Gilding to the page block on all three sides. Books are square and tight. The letter: 3pp of a bifolium, measuring 4.5″ x 7″, Brattleboro, Vermont, dated September 10, 1892. A neatly written letter signed Rudyard Kipling , addressed to Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote. Kipling apologizes for the delay in writing before remarking on Mrs. Foote s sick daughter, his own niece s health, and the role of mothers. He also goes on to playfully chastise Foot for ending The Chosen Valley and acknowledges his hypocrisy over hating inquiries about his publications while wanting to ask Foote a myriad of questions about hers. With flattened mail folds. Bold, clear signature. Very fine. In part: …That news about your daughter is not good. When a man or a woman goes down with something it s bad enough but with a child well…my brother in law s baby, a three toothed little maiden of fourteen months and much dignity. She is not quite well a cold or something and you can distinctly hear all our hearts beating all down the road when she sneezes. God certainly made the little ones but Eblis made their diseases. At the best of times one small child is full employment for all the grown-ups within hail. It is glorious to have gifts two of them So that you can express in both the ways the shadows of those things which you imagine but I can well see how there must be a big tug now and again between those gifts your own to you, and those other gifts that come to all mothers. I ve a notion however that sometimes giving up is accounted as more than giving out. All the same Fate is queer and she lacks tact…Sometimes I wonder but more often I wish I had been born befo de war. Then I would have taken my dollars down South and bought me a man and a woman and perhaps, got some work of them. How do you manage in Idaho? Chinamen at $60 a month or kidnapped aliens from railway gangs? The subject interests me more deeply than anything else on the top of Earth at present…We ve had another indignation meeting and the vote is that this community views with alarm and disgust, the expressed intention of Mrs. Hallock Foote to end The Chosen Valley next month. This community expected a solid year of the said story and refuses to be pacified even by the picture of the girl looking through the window…People drive me wild by asking me a whole lot of questions that I used to call Dee Impertinent but now if you only know the amount of questions, all personal, all unauthorized, that I want to ask you!… Mary Hallock Foote (1847 1938) was an American author and illustrator. Upon moving out west, Foote keep a record of her travels and wrote stories for Eastern readers as a correspondent to The Century Magazine and other periodicals. She wrote several novels. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1680870009063
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