Departmental ditties and other verses.
Contributors: McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928, former owner.; Kebler, Leonard, donor.; Johnson, Charles Plumptre, 1853-1938, former owner.; Kipling Collection (Library of Congress); Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Civil and Military Gazette Press
Published: 1886
Place of publication: [Lahore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Notes: Cover title.

Issued in facsimile of flapped docket envelope addressed to "All Heads of Departments" signed "Rudyard Kipling, Assistant Department of Public Journalism, Lahore District". "No. 1 of 1886".

Printed in an edition of ca. 350 copies by the Civil and Military Gazette Press in Lahore under the supervision of Kipling. Cf. Stewart.

LC copy in slipcase 28 x 12 cm.

Stewart, J.M.  Kipling, 8

Livingston, F.V.M.  Kipling, 10

LC copy has bookplate of George Barr McCutcheon. Gift: Leonard Kebler, December 20, 1949.
Table of contents: title: Departmental ditties: General summary; title: Army head-quarters; title: Study of an elevation, in Indian ink; title: A legend of the F.O.; title: The story of Uriah; title: The post that fitted; title: Public waste; title: Pink dominoes; title: The man who could write; title: A code of morals; title: The last department; title: Other verses: To the unknown Goddess; title: The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin; title: My rival; title: The lovers' litany; title: Divided destinies; title: The mare's nest; title: Possibilities; title: Pagett, M.P.; title: The plea of the Simla dancers; title: Certain maxims of Hafiz; title: The moon of other days; title: The undertaker's horse; title: Arithmetic on the frontier; title: Giffen's debt; title: In spring time.