WOMAN’S PERSONAL SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE CLIPPINGS AND VARIOUS OTHER EPHEMERA RELATED TO THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF RUDYARD KIPLING INCLUDING A NUMBER OF KIPLING APPEARANCES AS WELL AS A FEW SMALL PAMPHLETS.
Circa 1897 - 1901. Scrapbook of one Isabel Morison with small printed portrait of Kipling on pastedown portion of front endpaper. The scrapbook itself has apparently been cobbled together as the pages are approximately half lined paper, half unlined. Bound in tattered red leather over flexible boards which have large portions exposed; measuring approximately 7 x 8.5”; with 2 handwritten labels on front -- “Clippings about Kipling” and “My article ‘Word for Hooligan’ on Page 85”; 110 hand-numbered pages. Begins with a not particularly complimentary unsigned typewritten poem about Kipling paper-clipped to front endpaper. First page is dedicatory handwritten poem, “To Rudyard Kipling,” by Morison and there are multiple clippings, small and large, pasted to pages throughout, some with Morison’s handwritten commentary. Small booklet -- “Letters of Marque/ Selections from a Suppressed Book/ By Rudyard Kipling” in The Bibelot, May 1897 -- pasted to p. 11; Kipling poem transcribed by Morison, pp. 17-8 (“City of Sleep”: untitled but with “From ‘The Brushwood Boy’” at head). In addition to clippings of material by and about Kipling (including of his own poetry), there are a number of clippings of poems written in ode to or in jest of Kipling by others. Pages 50-70 covered with newspaper accounts of Kipling’s visit to the U.S., his bout of pneumonia and his young daughter’s death. Not long after which, the tides of public opinion can be seen to be turning against him. Morison’s own published “article,” p. 85, would appear to be a letter to the editor written in response to Robert Buchanan’s “The voice of the Hooligan,” Contemporary Review, Dec. 1899. One of the last articles (pp. 108-9), dated August 15, 1901, is headlined “Mr. Kipling’s Descent.” ALSO INCLUDES pp. 123-140 from George Orwell’s collection of essays originally published in 1936 (pages appear to have been removed from a paperback edition); A YALE FOOTNOTE TO KIPLING by Julian S. Mason (Yale University Press, 1937) with news clipping pasted to front cover and compliments-of note signed by George Parmly Day clipped at top; and COLLECTANEA RUDYARD KIPLING Caxton Brochure, Series A, No. 5. Altogether good. Unique.
Item #71893
Price: $450.00