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Kipling began collecting material for another of his children's classics, ''[[Just So Stories|Just So Stories for Little Children]].'' That work was published in 1902, and another of his enduring works, ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'', first saw the light of day the previous year. | Kipling began collecting material for another of his children's classics, ''[[Just So Stories|Just So Stories for Little Children]].'' That work was published in 1902, and another of his enduring works, ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'', first saw the light of day the previous year. | ||
On a visit to the United States in 1899, Kipling and his eldest daughter Josephine developed | On a visit to the United States in 1899, Kipling and his eldest daughter Josephine developed pneumonia, from which she eventually died. During World War I, he wrote a booklet ''[[The Fringes of the Fleet]]''<ref>''The Fringes of the Fleet'', Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1916</ref> containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of the poems were set to music by the English composer [[Edward Elgar]]. | ||
Kipling wrote two science fiction short stories, ''With the Night Mail'' (1905) and ''As Easy As A. B. C'' (1912), both set in the 21st century in Kipling's [[Aerial Board of Control]] universe. These read like modern [[hard science fiction]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Bennett, Arnold | title = Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 | location = London | publisher = Chatto & Windus | year = 1917 }}</ref> | Kipling wrote two science fiction short stories, ''With the Night Mail'' (1905) and ''As Easy As A. B. C'' (1912), both set in the 21st century in Kipling's [[Aerial Board of Control]] universe. These read like modern [[hard science fiction]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Bennett, Arnold | title = Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 | location = London | publisher = Chatto & Windus | year = 1917 }}</ref> | ||
