Departmental ditties and other verses / by Rudyard Kipling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Poetry.

India.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonial forces--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

29 unnumbered leaves ; 28 x 11 cm

Place of Publication:

Lahore : The Civil and Military Press, 1886.

Contents:

Departmental ditties: General summary

Army head-quarters

Study of an elevation, in Indian ink

A legend of the F.O.

The story of Uriah

The post that fitted

Public waste

Pink dominoes

The man who could write

A code of morals

The last department

Other verses: To the unknown Goddess

The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin

My rival

The lovers' litany

Divided destinies

The mare's nest

Possibilities

Pagett, M.P.

The plea of the Simla dancers

Certain maxims of Hafiz

The moon of other days

The undertaker's horse

Arithmetic on the frontier

Giffen's debt

In spring time.

Notes:

Cover title.

Issued in facsimile of flapped docket envelope addressed to "All Heads of Departments" signed "Rudyard Kipling, Assistant, Department of Public Journalism, Lahore District". "No. 1 of 1886."

Printed in an edition of ca. 350 copies by the Civil and Military Gazette Press in Lahore under the supervision of Kipling.--Cf. Stewart.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is in slipcase 28 x 12 cm.

Culture Class Collection copy has 2 pages from a catalog which has a photograph of the cover and a history of the book laid in.

Cited in:

Stewart, J. McG. Kipling, 8

Martindell, E.W. Kipling (1923 ed.), 7

OCLC:

10395707