Rudyard Kipling about the Red Lamp
This letter was written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), journalist and writer, to Arthur Conan Doyle on 11 november 1894. The watermark "Naulakha, Brattleboro, Vermont" was Kipling's house in USA.
Letter
- Naulakha
- Brattleboro
- Vermont
- Brattleboro
- Nov. 11. 94
Dear Doyle———
I've been reading "The Red Lamp" at one fascinated sitting. You may be pleased to hear that I have now between three and five several & separate diseases any one of which is fatal, and, many that hasn't happened for years. The Mummy tale gave me a bad dream for all I had read it before in the magazines.
Wonder if the way you could do rugbying with a notion that's beyond my tackling. A man sets whacked on the head, in an engine room or a meeting or what you will with the result that his mind is a cheerful bleak hit open to impressions de novo. Which means he has and he taught reading and writing &c. This the doctor was attended him joyfully undertakes and finally conceives he ... .... (the blank die as it were been to the hand) to make a man. In this way is Fergus Denkin let us say, created even as though he had been made by the almighty. You can make him a Frankenstein of course or a sucking angel but—— what would happen? I've tried and lined my results in the w.p.b. [1] I am very sorry to hear about Mrs. Doyle will it be Hot springs or Salida way that you'll take her. There's a deserted city (Gunnison I think) that I once fished for trout in at the head of the canyon of the Gunnison — a city not ten years old & deserted by its folk that's guessed than an ancient desolation. You might see it. It's somewhere near Salida.
Don't slow your programme by which I know is liked to be full hat if you can head that way with your brother. Let us know before you come. Put your leather coat a gappher. My well needs a heap of enginering and engineers are scarce around here.
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Rudyard Kipling
- ↑ W.P.B. = War Propaganda Bureau.
