Author Rudyard Kipling visited New Zealand at the age of 24 in 1891. This image shows him (right) in conversation, probably with William A. Ewing in his garden in Elm Row, Dunedin. Kipling was in New Zealand for only a month but he wrote a short story about it, described Auckland as 'last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart', decided that the Fiordland sounds were one of the wonders of the world, and considered that New Zealanders told so many tall tales that they were way up there with respect to 'yarn power'.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, M. S. Stephenson Collection
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Photograph by R. A Ewing
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