Dear list members,
On Monday 26 July 2004 Tim Connell said:
CT> **Seems a bit rum to me, but I think I have seen
CT> a photo of Kipling and Mark Twain in a procession at
CT> Oxford (honorary doctorands?) so perhaps they went a
CT> bit too far over the sherry...
There are quite a few entries for Samuel Clemens (aka Mark
Twain) in the index to Pinney's 'Letters of Rudyard
Kipling' - including one "RK destroys his letters": volume
4, page 77. According to a note there, one letter from
Twain to RK, 23 May 1901, is in the Kipling papers at Sussex.
In a letter to Guy Paget dated 7 November 1934, RK says,
of a bawdy poem attributed to him:
'And that reminds me. "On the Barrack Gate" (whatever that
may be) isn't mine. I ain't particular, but I've never
written dirt -- even for fun. It doesn't amuse me to write
down the words. Send me a copy. There's a lot of loose
muckings "ascribed" to me in the course of years.'
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Yours sincerely,
Eric J Thompson, Reply to: [log in to unmask]
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