UK: Cambridge University Library is Allocated Kipling’s The Jungle Book Page Proofs

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Page proofs of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling have been allocated to Cambridge University Library, where they join his manuscript of the poem If, which was donated by the author himself.

The proofs from The Jungle Book are part of a collection that came to the library from the estate of the late Rosemary Watt, with its contents originally associated with Victorian literary agent AP Watt (1838-1914) and his son AS Watt (1870-1948).

They were allocated to Cambridge University Library as part of HM Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

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John Wells, senior archivist at Cambridge University Library, said: “Taken together, the treasures found in the AP Watt collection are an exceptional accumulation of manuscripts and proofs of commercial prose from an era widely regarded as the heyday of the popular novel in this country.

“While Kipling’s legacy has been scrutinised more closely over recent years, there is little argument about his presence and place in the UK’s literary history or the enduring popularity of many of his works.”

As part of the collection, the university’s Pembroke College was also allocated a travelling writing desk which belonged to Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

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