KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling") with small ink sketch to Colonel Henry W. Feilden, Cannes, 9 April 1921. Six pages, bifolium, 132 x 177mm; with transmittal envelope. "What fools collectors are!!" A exceptionally fine, lengthy letter ("an unconscionable long screed," he calls it) to his "Honoured & Revered" friend Colonel Feilden, remarking on a range of topics from his holiday in the South of France to the sale in England of some of his manuscripts (the "Kipling folly," he terms it). "Golly! What fools collectors are!!" he exclaims. The novelists's eye is turned to good effect on the sites at Cannes. Of the casino he says "It must take very fine staff-work to run such a vast hell without occasional 'regrettable incidents.'" He visits the convalescing Bonar Law and ponders how "twenty years of political life leaves a man with fewer resources in himself than I should have conceived possible." Even a "straight & good politician like B. L. inevitably gets to concern himself more in the means than in the ends of things." A rich and vibrant letter, showing Kipling emerging from the pall of grief that claimed him on the death of his son in the Great War.
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling") with small ink sketch to Colonel Henry W. Feilden, Cannes, 9 April 1921. Six pages, bifolium, 132 x 177mm; with transmittal envelope. "What fools collectors are!!" A exceptionally fine, lengthy letter ("an unconscionable long screed," he calls it) to his "Honoured & Revered" friend Colonel Feilden, remarking on a range of topics from his holiday in the South of France to the sale in England of some of his manuscripts (the "Kipling folly," he terms it). "Golly! What fools collectors are!!" he exclaims. The novelists's eye is turned to good effect on the sites at Cannes. Of the casino he says "It must take very fine staff-work to run such a vast hell without occasional 'regrettable incidents.'" He visits the convalescing Bonar Law and ponders how "twenty years of political life leaves a man with fewer resources in himself than I should have conceived possible." Even a "straight & good politician like B. L. inevitably gets to concern himself more in the means than in the ends of things." A rich and vibrant letter, showing Kipling emerging from the pall of grief that claimed him on the death of his son in the Great War.
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