KIPLING RUDYARD Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed each a fair

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KIPLING, RUDYARD. Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed, each a fair copy of one of his poems: "The Destroyers" * "To Capt. Robley Evans." The first, signed twice, 9 stanzas. After last stanza at bottom of terminal page is written a holograph 2-verse fragment from "God of Our Fathers, Known of Old" followed by additional full signature. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on two separate sheets; staining from cello tape touching few letters of text at left edge of first page. The second, "R.K.," three stanzas. 1 page, 8vo; staining along left edge (not affecting text), 1898 newspaper clipping pasted to verso. Np, nd

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"The Destroyers" was first published in McClure's Magazine in May of 1898, beginning: "The strength of twice three thousand horse / That seeks the single goal; / The line that holds the rending course, / The hate that swings the whole."
"To Capt. Robley Evans" was first published in the New York Tribune, January 10, 1899, and it begins by mentioning the American illustrator Rufus Zogbaum (1849-1925): "Zogbaum draws with a pencil, / And I do things with a pen; / And you sit up in a conning tower / Bossing eight hundred men." This 1899 version lacks the fourth stanza, added later.