KIPLING, RUDYARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to author William H. Rideing, thanking him for a copy of The Captured Cunarder and commenting ". . . it stayed with me. But wherefore put evil ideas intothe heads of men already sufficiently evil . . .".5

KIPLING, RUDYARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to author William H. Rideing, thanking him for a copy of The Captured Cunarder and commenting ". . . it stayed with me. But wherefore put evil ideas intothe heads of men already sufficiently evil . . .".5 page, 6 lines on 8vo sheet, imprinted Laurel House sta-tionery; folds and stains not affecting signature; tipped into a worn first edition of Kipling's book Life's Handicap (London, 1891). Lakewood, 2 April 1896 E400/600 Rideing's book, The Captured Cunarder: an Episode of the Atlantic, wasfirst pub-lished in Boston in 1896.