"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. as “With the Night Mail 1905 A Story of 2000 A.D.” In A Kipling Pageant (New York: The Literary Guild, 1935), 728-750; and 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. It was first printed separately as a book illus. and ptd. on right hand pages onlyas 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. The only other separate publication as a book was published with an Introduction by Thomas Pinney (5-21) and thirty-eight illustrations by Vincent Perez (b. 1938) backing each page of text. San Francisco, CA: Arion Press, 1998. This edition came with a Prospectus describing the book, the author, and the illustrator, reprinting two pages of the text, and a copy of one illustration. 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, PPU, PSt

Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.