In a message dated 24/04/01 9:30:33 AM GMT Daylight Time,
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Does anyone know the date for this poem, and perhaps where it first appeared?
Thanks, as always!
Judith Flanders

Dear Judith,

It first appeared as 'Sons of the Widow' in The Scots Observer, No7, 26 April
1890.

Its firrst appearance in book form under this title was in Departmental
Ditties, Barrack-room Ballads and Other Verses, U.S.Book Co., New York 1890.

As 'The Widow at Windsor' it first appeared in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other
Verses, Methuen, London, March, 1892.

References: A Bibliography of RK, Livingston, 1927, p 75
and RK, a Bibliographical Catalogue, Stewart/Yeats, 1957, pp 80 and 111.

Yours Sincerely,
Roger Ayers
Honorary Membership Secretary,
The Kipling Society, 295 Castle Road, Salisbury, SP3 3SB, England