Autograph Letter Signed


Book Description

States that his favorite quotation consists of two lines: "Then it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, / When the band begins to play" by Rudyard Kipling [from "Tommy," 1892].
















Autograph Letter Signed


Book Description

Kipling comments on his poem, Mandalay and speaks of a manuscript of a play he has neglected to return, also mentions his recent trip to Washington to escape the weather in Vermont. John Charles Thomas, a later owner of this letter, was an eminent baritone whose setting of On the road to Mandalay became one of his signature songs.