KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Johnson', Bateman's, Burwash, n.d. ('Wednesday night'), 1½ pages, 8vo (punctures from gathering pins at upper right, touching one word on verso); framed and glazed. Kipling on the delights of motoring: 'I do hope ... you tried, or got an enemy to try, the Vomitorium that went back. As to my own car she did go well, as I wrote, till she went bad and then she went very bad'; Kipling confesses to being 'vexed', not least at being 'laughed at by my neighbours'. He writes of other cars, including the 'Grey Spectre' [presumably Silver Ghost], with its memories of 'illegal speeds through France', promising 'she shall not be over-driven ... we shall wait anxiously for the return of the Green Goblin'. He has already told fibs as to the reason for his own car's absence -- 'So low does pride and a motor car bring an honest man!'.
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Johnson', Bateman's, Burwash, n.d. ('Wednesday night'), 1½ pages, 8vo (punctures from gathering pins at upper right, touching one word on verso); framed and glazed. Kipling on the delights of motoring: 'I do hope ... you tried, or got an enemy to try, the Vomitorium that went back. As to my own car she did go well, as I wrote, till she went bad and then she went very bad'; Kipling confesses to being 'vexed', not least at being 'laughed at by my neighbours'. He writes of other cars, including the 'Grey Spectre' [presumably Silver Ghost], with its memories of 'illegal speeds through France', promising 'she shall not be over-driven ... we shall wait anxiously for the return of the Green Goblin'. He has already told fibs as to the reason for his own car's absence -- 'So low does pride and a motor car bring an honest man!'.
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