National Bands: A Speech by Rudyard Kipling.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
National Bands: A Speech by Rudyard Kipling.
First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's National Bands Speech
London:, 1915.
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Item Number: 149769
First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto, unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27, 1915. In very good condition.
Rudyard Kipling’s National Bands (1915) is a wartime pamphlet preserving a speech he delivered at London’s Mansion House to support the Daily Telegraph’s National Bands Fund, an initiative aimed at sustaining military music as a vital component of morale and public ritual during World War I. Issued as a small, separately circulated tract—and often later encountered as an insert to fundraising editions of A Song of the English—the pamphlet exemplifies Kipling’s broader mobilization of literary authority in service of patriotic and civic causes.
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