Rudyard Kipling Wants to Read a Book on the Adventures in China by a British Traveler Who Had Sought to Overthrow the Qing Dynasty in China
He also send the impecunious author some money, saying "I trust that the enclosed will be of some slight service to you."
A nice letter of Kipling connecting him with intrigue and adventure in the international arena
Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, novelist and short story writer, most notably known for his stories about British imperialism in India and for children’s tales such as “The Jungle Book,” one of his best remembered ones....
A nice letter of Kipling connecting him with intrigue and adventure in the international arena
Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, novelist and short story writer, most notably known for his stories about British imperialism in India and for children’s tales such as “The Jungle Book,” one of his best remembered ones. He is also known for his poems, including famous ones such as “White Man’s Burden” and “The Female of The Species.” He was born in Bombay, and although he was moved to England at the age of 5, he returned to India and spent several years there as a young man. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize and remains its youngest recipient. He died in 1936 at the age of 70 in London.
Kipling had a deep love for travel and adventure.
In 1924, Charles Welsh Mason wrote “Chinese Confessions” on his doomed attempt to overthrow the Qing dynasty. He had obtained a job with China’s British-run Imperial Maritime Customs Service at a river port. From the boredom, and his connections with a secret society, a fantasy emerged of setting himself up as the “King of China.” In 1891 he secured men and arms to launch his revolt. In late 1891, he was arrested, tried, and convicted of arms smuggling. After a year in prison, Mason returned to England in 1892 where he turned to literature. His fortunes waxed and waned, and in 1920, a reporter found the former author roadbuilding in the U.S. By 1923, he had returned to England and lived as a hermit in Kent. The following year his book on China was published.
Typed letter signed, Sussex, June 18, 1925, to C.W. Mason, asking to see his book on China, and apparently sending him some money. “I should be very glad indeed to see a copy of your ‘Chinese Confessions,’ and very much regret that force of circumstances has put you into your present uncomfortable position. I trust that the enclosed will be of some slight service to you.”
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