MR KIPLING’S END.
BURIAL IN THE ABBEY. LONDON, Jan. 19. Mr Rudyard Kipling’s remains will rest, as he himself phrased it, “111 the hush of the dread High Altar Where the Abbey makes us we.”
Dean Foxley Norris announces that arrangements have been completed for an Abbey funeral and burial in the Poets’ Corner at noon on January 23. The last author buried in the Abbey was Thomas Hardy.
A BIG ESTATE.
EARNED BY WRITINGS
LONDON, Jan. 20. The newspapers prophesy that Mr Rudyard Kipling’s estate will exceed three-quarters of a million, a record for an author.
Other literary fortunes have been : —- Hall Caine, a quarter of a million; W. S. Gilbert, £111,000; Stanley Weyman, £100,000; Charles Dickens, £93,000; Thomas Hardy t £91,000; John Galsworthy, £BB,OOO. Mr Kipling’s wealth is attributed to half a century’s steady sale of his works, none ot which was published in a cheap edition.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 2
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