Rudyard Kipling letter admits plagiarising parts of the Law of the Jungle The letter has been listed for auction by Andrusier Autographs, with a £2,500 price tag. Autograph expert Adam Andrusier said: "Letters by Kipling that mention his most enduring work are extremely rare." Mr Andrusier bought the letter from another dealer, Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, in May. The store said the letter was found amongst a collection of uncategorised books and letters they had, and was discovered and listed in April for the New York Book fair, before being bought by Mr Andrusier. The Jungle Book, one of Kipling's most famous short stories, was written in 1894. A first edition of the book, found by the National Trust in 2010, revealed that he dedicated the short story to his daughter Josephine Kipling who died of pneumonia five years later. In February a collection of the writer's poems, thought to be lost, were published for the first time after being discovered by scholar and emeritus professor of English Thomas Pinney. The 50 poems were found in family papers and during renovations at a Manhattan house.