KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907.

T.L.S., Rudyard Kipling, with a holograph postscript signed with his initials RK, two pages, 4to, Batemans, 20th November 1927, to Mrs. Sanders (in Brazil). Kipling has annotated the head of the first page 'Own typing, with apologies' and writes to inform his correspondent that 'We are back from a visit to Vichy --- the dullest spot on earth --- where we helped our daughter to get through a fortnights after-cure, with all the hotels shutting up every day all round us, till when we left, we seemed to be the last persons in town.' Kipling continues to comment on the return journey, 'The roads are as perfect as the sunshine, and a most wonderful run into Paris. As with you, it is all luck in France whether you hit a decent road or one that has been “forgotten” for a couple of years' and further reports on the rain, gale and floods of the season ('I marvel that there are such people as water-drinkers in the world') and remarks 'luckily, we have not had any foot and mouth disease in our beasts and all the herds are doing well and selling at not too bad prices'. He also refers to his dogs and their ailments, 'they do not quite understand the connection between medicaments and healing, and they will eat the Boracic acid. But, otherwise, they are very dear and, in their reserved Scottish style, most companionable. I have given one of their breed to a friend of mine in the village' and also explains 'My articles on Brazil --- the very very little that I saw of it --- are to be published in the Morning Post next week, and, I hear, that they are to be translated into Portuguese for one of the Rio papers. Never having read myself in that language, I am naturally much interested. Hope the Brazilians will be, too.' In concluding Kipling again returns to the subject of foot and mouth disease, which 'is raging down in the New Forest…easily brought along by motors' and in a holograph postscript lists several books with very brief comments on each ('Above all, Ludwig's “Napoleon”'). An interesting and unusually lengthy letter. A couple of small areas of paper loss at the foot of the page, professionally repaired and only slightly affecting a few words of text and a few letters of the signature, otherwise VGRudyard Kipling travelled through Brazil accompanied by his wife in March & April 1927, writing seven travel letters for the Morning Post in London which were published between 29th November (shortly after the present letter was written) and 20th December 1927. They were also published in Liberty in America from December 1927 - March 1928. Each article was accompanied by a poem and were later published as the Brazilian Sketches.One of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894) and Kim (1901). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story and his children's books are classics of children's literature. Henry James said 'Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known.' In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date.