Kipling, Rudyard to Miss Nesbit [Edith Nesbit], 1896-11-15

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4

Identifier: 2005.002.1.2.4.023

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Transcribed copy of the same letter.

Both pages are the SAME LETTER, but with slightly different penciled notations from the researcher.

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"Dear Miss Nesbit, Many thanks for your note of the 10th. Honestly, if I could be sure of making something that would suit your magazine I would do it but, I haven't a thing by me. Won't you send me your prospectus and give me some sort of a lead ? Is it a baby's magazine, a child's or for young boys ? There is a very wide difference in each of these directions. I have had some little sad experience in magazining and forgive me warning you that a list of "star" names is a snare unless and until you have 12 months good matter up your sleeve to carry on with..."