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The unpublished poem, a relatively unknown work, is entitled "Sons of the Suburbs," and was written by Kipling in 1916. The verses, describing the reactions of the average English suburbanite under front line fire, were rejected during war time by the English magazine "Blighty.'
Kipling's handwritten copy of "Recessional" composed in 1897, reveals that the author had originally intended entitling the poem "After." This copy was retrieved from Kipling's wastebasket by the late Sara Norton, of Cambridge, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton '46, and friend of the Kiplings. Miss Norton was visiting...
The author's proof sheets of "Kim" with corrections and insertions in Kipling's own handwriting are also on exhibit.
Other manuscripts in the author's own handwriting include the complete original copy of the short story "Without Benefit of Clergy," and the poem "Recall." A bound volume of seven poems in Kipling's handwriting, among them "McAndrew's Hymn," "Song of the English," "Judgment of the Sea," "The Flowers...
One of the most valuable volumes on display is a copy of Kipling's first printed book, "School Boy Lyrics," privately printed in Lahore, India, in 1881, when Kipling was still in school.