Kipling to a School Girl.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1910, Page 4

Kipling to a School Girl.

Nannie Pock, a little girl who lives 111 Washington, wrote a letter addressed, "Hudynrd Kipling, England and got an answer from the well-known litterateur. Nannie is twelve years old, and a. great admirer of Kipling. She noticed With alarm one day that his books ■tnflit she lincl. road were outnumbernig tnbse she h;vd riot wad. it Occurred to her that in a little while she would have read all of Mr Kipling's hooks, so .she wrote the ftuithor a letter expressing tin's fear and asking him not to stop wiritin7; Kipling's letter runs:— My :Dear ..lias Nannie Peek,lliank you vo.ry much for your lotter (undated) t from Washm.ojto-n, find for the nice things you write about my books. That is just the right way to write to an' author. Some people have a lot of what Jhey call reservations' and 'limitai I , ancl l, >oinls difference' and other uninteresting things, but J- lejoico to see you haven't. I .hope you will have a. happy time as you grow up, and find a great manv more books to interest you.—Very sincerely, Rudyard Kipling."