Rudyard Kipling letter found in town archives (UK)

"A letter signed by Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling has been discovered among the archives in a South Yorkshire library. The typed letter dates from 1912, five years after Kipling had won the Nobel Prize for Literature and three years before he lost his only son, John, at the Battle of Loos. A spokesman for Barnsley Council said: "The letter was sent to the then-Barnsley librarian Frank J Taylor, who was writing a book about Yorkshire dialect, to which the celebrated author was making a contribution"