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Pen drawings and limerick by Rudvatd Kipling contained in a letter
written to Dr. M. S. Ta\lor on December 2, 1910. (Engel Fund)

Friends Endowed Fund. On the occasion of the opening of the
exhibition of the Jack Flarris Samuels Librar\- in February, the
Friends of the Libraries acquired, for inclusion in the Samuels Li¬
brary, the twelve-page autograph manuscript by iMax Beerbohm
of his "The Story of the Small Boy and the Barley Sugar." ^^'rit-
ten in 1897 when tlie author was twent\'-five, the story is among
his two or three earliest attempts at fiction. It was published the
same year in The Pageant, and collected in A Variety of Things,
1928. This fairy tale for adults, similar to Beerbohm's "The Happy
Hypocrite," is the story of Tommy Tune whose family is so poor
that he cannot afford a piece of barley sugar, and when he is able
ro buy a piece it is seized from him by a greedy schoolmate.
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