The Letters of Rudyard Kipling - Four Volumes

Macmillan, London, 1990 - 1999. Hardbacks with DW's in very tidy condition.
Kipling's letters, never before collected and edited and largely unpublished, are now presented in an annotated edition based on the more than 6,000 letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world. Published in four volumes, the Letters reveal Kipling with a fullness and immediacy of detail unmatched by any other source. They show the remarkable transformation of the young schoolboy into the seasoned Indian journalist, and the even more remarkable transformation of the Indian journalist into the famous writer, the most dazzling literary success of the 1890s. Kipling's hard years of apprenticeship, his restless travels and eager encounters with cities and men, his triumphant struggles in the literary wars, are all vividly set forth. The Letters also take Kipling through his marriage and the births of his children, through the mingled happiness and distress of his American years, to the tragedy of his daughter's death at the very highest moment of his literary fame....

Volume 1 - 1872-1889
Volume 2 - 1890-1899
Volume 3 - 1900-1910
Volume 4 - 1911-1919
There are also Volumes 5 - 1920-1930 and 6 - 1931-1936 which are not present here...