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Image credits:
1: Kipling Wimpole Archive, Special Collections, University of Sussex.
2: The Minuteman, Daniel Chester French. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-D416-72901.
3: MS Am 1094 (2245) f. 61, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
4: Bateman’s © National Trust / Charles Thomas.
5: Felice Beato, via Wikimedia Commons.
6: Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1912), via Wikimedia Commons.
7: Photograph by Neal Rantoul.
8: Image courtesy of Rice-Aron Library, Marlboro College, Rudyard Kipling Collection, and The Landmark Trust, USA.
9: Image courtesy of Rice-Aron Library, Marlboro College, Rudyard Kipling Collection, and The Landmark Trust, USA.
10: Clifford K. Berryman, via Wikimedia Commons.
11: The Fog Warning, by Winslow Homer, 1885 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
12: John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911), via Wikimedia Commons.
13: Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954– author.
Title: If : the untold story of Kipling’s American years / Christopher Benfey.
Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018058060 (print) | LCCN 2018060255 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735221444 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735221437 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936–Travel–United States. | Authors, English–19th century–Biography. | Authors, English–20th century–Biography. | Literature and society–United States–History–19th century. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. | HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Classification: LCC PR4856 (ebook) | LCC PR4856 .B39 2019 (print) | DDC 828/.809 [B]–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058060
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