Bidspirit auction | KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936)

KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) - KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907. A.L.S., Rudyard Kipling , ome page, 8vo, The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex, 28th August 1901, to Dr. Champneys. Kipling writes, in full, ´I send you herewith to read a type-written copy of ”The Battle of Rupert Square” of which I have spoken to you. May I ask you to return it when read´ . With blank integral leaf (two very slight traces of former mounting to the upper edge of the verso). A couple of very light, extremely minor smudges to the text, VG Kipling´s humorous short story The Battle of Rupert Square was first published in the St, James´s Gazette in December 1889. A synopsis of the work provided by The Kipling Society states ´The narrator witnesses a curious incident in London, a fight between a cabman and his fare as the horse trots round a square. The driver makes heroic efforts to get rid of the man inside his cab. These culminate in his getting a hose pipe from the water hydrant, putting the nozzle through the trap door at the top, and literally washing the unwanted man out of the wrecked cab. The reason for their enmity is not disclosed, but they turn out to be brothers´.