It was a ship of the P & O.
Contributors: Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1891
Place of publication: [1891]
Language: eng
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard, -- 1865-1936 -- Journeys -- Poetry; Valetta (Steamship) -- Poetry; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company -- Poetry; Ocean travel -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Holograph poem, written by Rudyard Kipling, with the title taken from the first line of text.

"The poem was written on board the S.S. Valetta of the P & O on which RK sailed from Adelaide to Colombo via Galle, Sri Lanka, 25 November-10 December 1891"--Thomas Pinney (email, forwarded from John Walker, May 2008).

Accompanying envelope has inscription: "R. Kipling's unpublished poem on trip of P & O. Valetta."

Part of the gift of Mrs. H. Duncombe Colt, 1984-1987.