Saved for the nation: Rudyard Kipling's pleading letters sent amid search for his missing son in WWI that were set to fall into hands of a private collector ○
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Dubai-based businessman Julian Bartlett bought the letters for just over £1,200 after seeing the Daily Mail's coverage of the impending sale earlier this month.
Have you news of My Boy Jack? Rudyard Kipling's heartrending search for his only son after he went missing fighting in WWI is revealed in The Jungle Book author's pleading letters ⊖
In one of the two letters being sold at auction, Kipling pleads with the matron of a military hospital to ask injured soldiers about the whereabouts of his son John.
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