KIPLING (Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)

Fine Autograph letter signed in full marked ‘Private’ to ‘Dear Sir Charles’ sending “Very many thanks for the Mason Monks[?] & the Power Alcohol[?] - which latter I will read and hold at your service for recall. I’m very glad that the... begins to move. My... there gives me the idea that he will hasten with an immense slowness - Express trains at 18 m.p.h. do not promise expedition. I’m horribly afraid I shan’t be able to be in Oxford on the 17th June but, even if I miss that, I expect we’ll be able to meet a little later on...”, 2 sides 8vo., Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex headed paper, 2nd June

In 1902, Kipling bought Bateman's, a house built in 1634 and located in rural Burwash. Bateman's was Kipling's home from 1902 until his death in 1936. The house and its surrounding buildings, the mill and 33 acres, were bought for £9,300. It had no bathroom, no running water upstairs and no electricity, but Kipling loved it: "Behold us, lawful owners of a grey stone lichened house – A.D. 1634 over the door – beamed, panelled, with old oak staircase, and all untouched and unfaked. It is a good and peaceable place. We have loved it ever since our first sight of it"

Item Date:  1922

Stock No:  41834      £875

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