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Thread #24426 Message #3305639
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
10-Feb-12 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)

Found this- Departmental Ditties..... John Lovel, New York: ".....the first book edition (english of American) of the Ballads (including 'Gunga Din,' "Danny Deever," and 'Mandalay')...

http://www.kipling.org.uk/facts_collecting.htm

The poem written in 1890(?) and does not appear before that date.