Today there are in "The Times" (which also on Wed had the news of
the letter offered for sale) four letters headed "Kipling,Orwell
and the charge of plagiarism", from Messrs McCart, Anderson, Lazarus
& Knox, , two refer to his Inuit sources. A photo of RK in 1923
accompanies the letters.
Also today p17 an item re a paleontological discovery of how turtles
got their shell starts "it sounds like one of the Just So
Stories". This seems an opportunity for someone to write this up in
Kipling's style.
Bryan Diamond
London
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