Memorandum, signed twice by Rudyard Kipling, of a deposit made by him at the London City and Midland Bank Limited's Newgate branch, with corresponding receipt signed for the branch manager by J. H. Coulson.

The two documents were originally attached along a perforated line, and both bear the serial number 115476. Having been detached, they have been reattached by a strip of light brown paper. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Both are forms, printed in red and black, and both are filled in by Coulson, regarding a deposit by Kipling of '£500 (Five hundred pounds) Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Co. First Mortgage Sterling Bonds' and '$2500 (Two thousand five hundred dollars) Northern New Brunswick & Seaboard Rly Co. 4% Gold Bonds'. The Memorandum, on the left, is roughly 15 cm square, and carries Kipling's neat, bold signature twice, once as 'Signature of Customer' and the second time as 'Signature of the Party Depositing'. The receipt, 15 x 18 cm, is signed by Coulson, and also carries what purports to be Kipling's signature, dated 17 July 1911, under the words: 'Received from THE LONDON CITY AND MIDLAND BANK LIMITED, the afore-mentioned Securities.'