Nobel Prize–winning British author (1865–1936) best known for such colorful classics as Just So Stories, Captains Courageous, and The Jungle Book. ALS, two pages, Burwash, Etchingham letterhead, November 9, 1907. Kipling writes to Mr. Nicoll at the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. In part: “You said ... as we left at the Club, that you liked The Brushwood Boy—Here it is! All by itself and all my best wishes with it. We had a delightfully comfortable voyage home…. We didn’t get in till midnight of Friday … & were … on the docks after 6.30 breakfast—to be sent up to town at 8.45 on Saturday…. I don’t think the Imperial Government is much madder than usual but it is behaving at least with its usual insanity…. With kindest regards in which Mrs. Kipling joins me….” Kipling wrote about his Canadian trip in his Letters to the Family (1907) and Letters of Travel (1892–1913). A hint of very subtle soiling, otherwise fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
