Dear list members,
On Sunday 11 September 2011 Alastair Wilson said:
AW> I would hazard a guess that RK was jumped on by
AW> many readers, almost as soon as the 1st edition
AW> appeared - I wouldn't be surprised if we find it was
AW> corrected by the second printing.
But was the error in the earlier magazine printings - McClure's August 1898 and Pearson's that December (according to Chandler)?
I see that the Bibliography by Richards also records (on page 134) an earlier manuscript version of 'In Ambush', then called 'In the Wuzzy'.
AW> Alastair W
AW> On 11/09/2011 16:09, Eric Thompson wrote:
AW>
AW> Dear list members,
AW> On Sunday 11 September 2011 Alastair Wilson said:
AW>> Thank you, David. That's the first half of my query
AW>> answered - Kipling misquoted in the first edition of
AW>> S & Co - it also answers why the telelib site
AW>> misquotes. So when was it changed? Sometime
AW>> between 1899 and 1929 (both my copies, Complete
AW>> Stalky and pocket ed. were printed in 1929). As an
AW>> aside, this is a first class example of RK not verifying his references.
AW> It's "Mr Easy" on the second line of page 20 in the
AW> 1914 Bombay Edition, if that helps narrow the period.
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Yours sincerely,
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