NMLP P-028506 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Departmental Ditties and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling · Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore · 1886

The 1886 Lahore envelope-format issue is the true first. Later enlarged editions (the second edition printed at Calcutta later in 1886, then the London editions) are secondary and were reset and expanded.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028506 for "Departmental Ditties and Other Verses" by Rudyard Kipling (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028506, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).