it is interesting to note that the first variant of this line was:
"But there's bullion in verses if you only write the stuff"
(The Academy, A Weekly Review Of Literature And Life, 15 Oct. 1898)
www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Academy_and_Literature.../85
or the complete volume:
https://archive.org/stream/academyliteratur55londuoft/academyliteratur55londuoft_djvu.txt
Yan
G> Tattersalls (the horse auctioneering firm) was at Albert Gate in Hyde
G> Park. So is theis a horse-racing reference?
G> George
G> On 20/07/2015 10:10, Yan wrote:
>> B> At p 64, at the end of the poem "Minor", what does "there's Albert Gate in verses if you only write the stuff" refer to? the only Albert gate I know of is in Hyde Park, what connection to Kipling?
>> Maybe he meant Devonport Dockyard?
>> Yan
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