The King's jest
Contributors: Hill, Edmonia Taylor, -1952, former owner; Carpenter Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Macmillan's magazine; Macmillan's magazine.
Work titles: Ballad of the King's jest
Notes: Proof of Kipling's poem, first published in Macmillan's magazine in Feb.1890. Cf. Stewart.

Collected in "Barrack-room ballads and other verses" (1892) under better known title: Ballad of the King's jest.

Signed at end: Yussuf.

LC copy has publisher's stamp: Please return, when corrected, to  ... Macmillan & Co. With several editorial marks, in Kipling's hand?

Stewart, J.M.  Kipling, p. 111

Formerly owned by Mrs. E.T. Hill. Gift of Mrs. William Montelle Carpenter, 1941.