London, Sept. 1. An excellent and valuable collection of original manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling, has just been offered to the University of Edinburgh by the wife of the writer. Included in the collection is an unpublished group of stories entitled "A Diversity of Creatures." There is also the greater part of an extremely important series of letters of Rudyard Kipling, which have been collected and arranged under the title of "Byes of Asia." These two groups of writings are bound together in a single volume, comprising 180 pages in all.
This veritable treasure is entirely written in the handwriting of the author, penned in a fine and clear hand. The majority of the pages are almost entirely free from corrections, though, in some places, there are many modifications, here of a word, there of a phrase, and sometimes a complete recasting of a sentence, in-Gieating at once the ease with which. Kipling wrote, and the care he exereised to ensure that his exact mean-
Ing was conveyed to his readers—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.