20 MAY 1960, Page 15

KIPLING AND RIDER HAGGARD

SIR, --I have begn commissioned to write a book to be entitled Rudyard Kipling and Rider Haggard : The Story of a Friendship. I should appreciate hear- ing from persons who have any material or recollec- tions bearing upon the friendship. I should also be grateful for information -leading to periodical reports of public meetings at which both men appeared.— Yours faithfully,

c/o Chase Manhattan Bank, 46 Berkeley Square, WI •

MORTON N. COHEN