I have a copy of the Railway Library paperback, entitled City of Dreadful
Night (and other places)(no XIV) which was published by Sampson Low Marston
in London, in 1891, and includes The City of Dreadful Night (Calcutta),
Among the Railway Folk, The Giridh Coal Fields, and In an Opium Factory. As
you will see, I have used the cover of this paperback on the website to help
illustrate George Engle's piece on Kipling the young Journalist, which is
one of the recently added articles in the Kipling File.
It includes the addendum, referred to by Michael Jefferson, pasted inside
the front cover. It is interesting that this was evidently a last minute
addition to the publication.
Livingston (p. 91) says that the previous (Allahabad) edition of this work
was initially printed in 1890 without RK's authority, and was then
suppressed. Since the contents of the 1891 edition are reportedly the same
as for the suppressed edition it would be interesting to know what
considerations led RK to authorise publication in London ?
John Radcliffe
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