"With the Night Mail"

1905 Kipling, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936). “With the Night Mail.” McClure’s Magazine 26.1 (November 1905): 23-35. Rpt. as “With the Night Mail. From ‘The Windsor Magazine,’ October, A.D. 2147.” Windsor Magazine 23.1 (December 1905): 52-66; with the subtitle “A Story of 2,000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared).” In his Actions and Reactions (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 117-81. Rpt. in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 19-89 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).U.K. ed. (London: Macmillan, 1909), 111-169, which was rpt. as Vol. 4144 of Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz ed. (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909), 117-65. An ed. illus. and ptd. on right hand pages only, was published as With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared). London: Macmillan, 1909. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Also rpt. as “With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared (1905).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 103-59 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. L, MoU-St, PSt

Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.