"Leather books and handwritten letters by Rudyard Kipling filled the glass cases at Yale's rare books library. Richards, 61, a real estate lawyer in New York, had spent the last quarter of his life hunting down all things Kipling. Now, for his 40th reunion, he was giving it all to Yale: first-edition copies of "The Just So Stories" plus tea sets, posters and cigar boxes decorated with the British writer's face."

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