Kipling rarity found in daughter's home

LIBRARIANS have discovered an inscribed first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book at the former home of one of his daughters.

The book, published in 1894, was found in the library at Wimpole Hall near Cambridge, which is owned by the National Trust. In it, Kipling wrote an inscription to daughter, Josephine, who died of pneumonia in 1899 aged six.