Kipling (Rudyard, writer and poet, 1865-1936) Autograph Letter signed to J.H. Grieve, in Kassala, Sudan, 3pp. & envelope, sm. 8vo, The Woolsack, Cape Town, [South Africa], 3rd April 1906, answering questions on his short story They, and starting humorously, "I could not read the name of the White Man that sent me the letter from Kassala... May Allah teach him to write perspicuously for at present he is a calamity to the stranger", and continuing gives a response to three questions, "The man would not see the women again because there were spirits in her presence and he would have no traffic with spirits. For it is manifest that the dead are dead and the living are the living and They cannot meet yet the woman being a virgin and blind was permitted to entertain those innocent spirits. To him a man it was forbidden", small tears along folds. ⁂ "This strange haunting story of the limbo of lost children not yet ready to feel at home in Heaven ." - Roger Lancelyn Green. There are strong echoes of Kipling's own life in this ethereal story of children who have died. In 1899 his daughter Josephine caught pneumonia in New York and died, a loss from which he never really came to terms with.
Kipling (Rudyard, writer and poet, 1865-1936) Autograph Letter signed to J.H. Grieve, in Kassala, Sudan, 3pp. & envelope, sm. 8vo, The Woolsack, Cape Town, [South Africa], 3rd April 1906, answering questions on his short story They, and starting humorously, "I could not read the name of the White Man that sent me the letter from Kassala... May Allah teach him to write perspicuously for at present he is a calamity to the stranger", and continuing gives a response to three questions, "The man would not see the women again because there were spirits in her presence and he would have no traffic with spirits. For it is manifest that the dead are dead and the living are the living and They cannot meet yet the woman being a virgin and blind was permitted to entertain those innocent spirits. To him a man it was forbidden", small tears along folds. ⁂ "This strange haunting story of the limbo of lost children not yet ready to feel at home in Heaven ." - Roger Lancelyn Green. There are strong echoes of Kipling's own life in this ethereal story of children who have died. In 1899 his daughter Josephine caught pneumonia in New York and died, a loss from which he never really came to terms with.
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