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KIPLING IN AMERICA
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KIPLING, RUDYARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to W. Hallett Phillips (“Dear
Sitting Fox”), expressing his delight with the Echo Club, complaining of his cold symp-
toms, and encouraging him to write. 1 page, 8vo, “Naulakha” stationery with holograph
“Waite / Windham Co” written beside letterhead; faint marginal discoloration from prior
matting, remnants of prior mounting at right edge verso, horizontal fold.With the original
envelope.
Waite,VT, 9 November 1895
[350/500]
“
If I hadn’t been dead and buried and very putrid, I should have told you long ere this how
delighted I am at the sumptuous binderies of the Echo Club.You have dressed my pet papoose
nobly but me and the wife and baby have been down fathoms deep with vile colds . . . .They
say its an epidemic but I call it disease and corruption.Write soon . . . but please don’t write on
the Japanese paper because I can’t make out more than one word in twenty . . . .Write cheer-
fully.We are every miserable and our noses run.”
EXPLAINING LINE IN HIS “EVANGELINE”
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LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Miss Olmsted,”
expanding upon a literary allusion [made in first part of 1847 edition of his
Evangeline
:
“Flashed like the plane-tree the Persian adorned with mantles and jewels”]. 2
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2
pages, 8vo,
written on a single folded sheet; minor soiling along center vertical fold, horizontal fold.
Cambridge, 8 February 1879
[400/600]
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The Persian spoken of in the poem is Xerxes. Evelyn speaking of the Plane tree says: ‘This
beautiful and precious tree, anciently sacred to Helena, . . . was so doted on by Xerxes, that . . .
[he] stopped his prodigious army of 1,700,000 soldiers . . . to admire the pulchritude and pro-
cerity of one of them; and . . . he covered it with gold, gems, necklaces, scarfs, bracelets, and
infinite riches.’
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. . . [T]his is enough to explain the meaning of the passage.”
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