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A first edition, dedicated to the daughter he lost, has been discovered in a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire

A first edition of The Jungle Book, complete with a handwritten inscription by author Rudyard Kipling to his youngest daughter, has been discovered in a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire. Inscribed "This book belongs to Josephine Kipling for whom it was written by her father, May 1894", the book was found in the library of Wimpole Hall in a collection belonging to Kipling's second daughter Elsie Bambridge, who lived in the property between 1938 and 1976. She brought many of her own books with her, as well as those of her husband, mother and father.