This is the rating and price for Kipling (Rudyard) Three Autograph Letters Signed, Relating To The Boer War, To Alfred Cooper, Warmly Expressing Gratitude (With Humorous

Description : discussion of how best to do this) for the gift (to his volunteer company at Rottingdean) of ''a 2. b[arre]l[led] Gardner plus a galopping...carriage'' (''...Machine-guns are not dealt out like Xmas-tree presents every day of the year...'') and offering to send any of his own books as a token of gratitude, apologising for the ''disgraceful'' paper, he writes later with news of his busy activities in South Africa (''...we have an ugly little rebellion in the Western provinces, where I wish we could plant a dozen of your two-bls. pets...''), and then, back in England, reports on the use made of the gun during the Mafeking relief celebrations (''firing 21 rounds into the sea''), commenting on what a beautiful weapon it is, 6 pages, 8vo, one address panel with South African stamps and post marks, Rottingdean and ''Cape Colony (up the line)'', 6 January to 22 May 1900, mounted in a large album devoted to letters (by soldiers and others), photographs, presscuttings and other material relating to the Gables private military hospital in Surbiton set up by Sir Alfred and Lady Cooper at the time of the Boer War, also including letters by Sir Arthur Sullivan (a fine three-page letter of gratitude for Cooper's payment to the Daily Mail War Relief Fund of 500 guineas for the manuscript of his musical setting of Kipling's Absent Minded Beggar, 19 December 1899), Lord Salisbury, Princess Alexandra, and a series by Charlotte Knollys (lady in waiting to Alexandra), large quarto, red straight grain morocco, rubbed.
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