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The lavish book "The Book of the British Library" by Michael Leapman, recently published, mentions at page 141 the manuscripts which Kipling, Carrie or Elsie donated ; page 143 reproduces the ink drawing "The Elephant's Child", this large reproduction shows the markings on the python's skin are more delicately shaded than in the published "Just So Stories" where they have become darker. Page 143 mentions the Library's draft of the poem "After" which became "Recessional" and a manuscript amendment of "Thy people" which was dropped. Bryan Diamond