To the best of my knowledge, Kipling's notes for his stories were all
destroyed, except for one example which seems to have survived by accident.
It is for his last-ever written story, 'Teem', a Treasure-Hunter
(uncollected except in the Sussex and Burwash edns and Macmillan's Thy
Servant a Dog and other Stories. It was reprinted in OUP World Classics
Mrs Bathurst and other Stories.) The full text of the notes is given in
Kemp and Lewis (eds.), Rudyard Kipling: Writings on Writing, Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
A lot of work has been done on his sources. Evidence can be found
in notes, in reminiscences by people who knew him, and from the books in
the study at Bateman's. The Reader's Guide and Roger Lancelyn-Green's
book Kipling and the Children summarise most of it. All these are in the
Society's library. LAFL
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