Scope and Contents
The complete autograph MS of 'Rewards and Fairies', including the poems 'The Road through the Woods' and 'If', 118 folios. On the flyleaf: 'Presented to Cambridge University Library by The Author 1926 Rudyard Kipling'. With letters from Kipling to A. F. Scholfield (University Librarian), Burwash, 30 June 1926, and Kipling's secretary D. Gardner-Smith to Scholfield, Burwash, 21 July 1926; and with an envelope mis-addressed by Kipling to Scholfield as 'Bodley's Librarian' at 'The Bodleian Oxford'.
Dates
- Creation: 1910 (circa)
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume (in a box))
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by the author, 1926
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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