Rudyard Kipling's Signature on the Menu of the First Annual Dinner at Hotel Victoria

Associated Franco-British Societies (Rudyard Kipling)

Published by London, 1922

4p. Signed by Rudyard Kipling in pencil, below the words of "La Marseillaise". Kipling (English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1907) was invited to give a speech during the First Annual Dinner of the Associated Franco-British Societies held at the Hotel Victoria, London, on May 22nd 1922, with the Earl of Derby presiding. Toast List (where Kipling is mentioned as the proposer of the toast of the Associated Franco-British Societies) and Menu, with the coloured flag of both countries. According to Mrs. Kipling's diary, "Rud's speech was a great success" and "Rud feels most useful as between France and England and the Empire". The speech to the Associated Franco-British Societies was a continuation of Kipling's work for the entente between the two countries after World War I. At the conclusion of his speech, Kipling states that "never in all time has there been union so strict and entire as that which now binds England and France" and then gives the toast of "Prosperity to the Associated Anglo-French Societies for the Development of the Entente -- one and indivisible". Kipling's signature on ephemera is scarce. Seller Inventory # 002162

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Title: Rudyard Kipling's Signature on the Menu of ...
Publisher: London
Publication Date: 1922
Condition: Very good
Signed: Signed