KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling") to Col. H. W. Feilden, Hotel Bellvue, Cannes, 9 April 1921. 6 pages, 8vo, decorative stationery, with a drawing by Kipling in text . "WHAT FOOLS COLLECTORS ARE!!" KIPLING ON "THE KIPLING SALE FOLLY," A TOUR IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, AND OTHER MATTERS A exceptionally fine, lengthy letter ("an unconscionable long screed," he calls it) to his "Honoured & Revered" friend Colonel Feilden. The subjects range from the calving on his farm to retired politicans, a holiday in Cannes, and 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") to Col. H. W. Feilden, Hotel Bellvue, Cannes, 9 April 1921. 6 pages, 8vo, decorative stationery, with a drawing by Kipling in text . "WHAT FOOLS COLLECTORS ARE!!" KIPLING ON "THE KIPLING SALE FOLLY," A TOUR IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, AND OTHER MATTERS A exceptionally fine, lengthy letter ("an unconscionable long screed," he calls it) to his "Honoured & Revered" friend Colonel Feilden. The subjects range from the calving on his farm to retired politicans, a holiday in Cannes, and 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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