![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A letter that casts new light on an author's celebrated work tends to capture the imagination of the collector," said Andrusier. "In fact, it is extremely possible that I have helped myself promiscuously but at present cannot remember from whose stories I have stolen."Īndrusier is selling the letter for £2,500, and says that "letters by Kipling that mention his most enduring work are extremely rare". "I am afraid that all that code in its outlines has been manufactured to meet 'the necessities of the case': though a little of it is bodily taken from (Southern) Esquimaux rules for the division of spoils," Kipling wrote in the letter. The letter, acquired by Adam Andrusier, director of Adam Andrusier Autographs, at the New York Antiquarian book fair last month from a fellow UK manuscript dealer, sees Kipling acknowledging that parts of the hierarchical jungle code may have been borrowed from other sources. Ye must eat where it lies / And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies." "The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. ![]() "Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky / And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die," writes Kipling in his poem. ![]()
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