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Jack London papers
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People: Jack London
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Articles written in newspapers and magazines mentioning or concerning Jack London. Box 580 contains London's obituaries, filed chronologically.
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Contact prints of photograph albums 91-93; Jack London at Yale; and Album covers and list of albums
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This box includes contact prints for albums 91-92, as well as: JLP 531 Album 93, Lunn's Summer Photographs (of Glen Ellen). 1915-1916 JLP 605, Jack London at Yale. 1905 JLP 606 Album Covers and List of Albums. Before 1950
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Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard
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Jack London wrote these 14 letters to his good friend and fellow writer Charles Warren Stoddard from 1900 to 1906 (six are typed and eight are handwritten). London talks a lot about his writing projects and sends copies of his books to Stoddard (specifically The call of the wild, Sea wolf, and White fang) and often asks for his opinion. London also discusses the birth of his daughter Joan, his failing marriage, religion, traveling, and his ill health. The photograph of London is hand inscribed "To C. W. S. Affectionately yours, Jack London." There is also a copy of signed photograph of Jack London.
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Jack London Subject File
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London arranged clippings, pamphlets, and other notes according to subject. This subject file recreates his filing system and arranges London's clippings in accordance with it. The subjects include: (Box 540): Alaska, Anarchy, Anglo Saxon, Anthropology, Atheism, Authors' League of America, Books. (Box 541): Canal, Cement, Characters, Copyright, Crime, Dancing, DeCasseres, Dogs, Drama, Ethnology. (Box 542): Fiction. (Box 543): Free Will, Freedom of Speech, Freud, Future Fiction, Gonorrhea, Great Britain, Hawaii, Hoboes, Horses, I.W.W., Irrational Management. (Box 544): Japan, John Barleycorn, Journalism, Jung, Klondike, Labor, Law, League to Enforce Peace, Leprosy, London. (Box 545): Man, Management, Medical, Mexico, Miscellaneous, Molokai, Moses, Motion Pictures, Occult, Orchard, Philosophy. (Boxes 546-548): Poetry. Mostly copies of poems London found appealing. (Box 549): Poetry--Gay. (Box 550): Poetry--Grave. (Box 551): Prose Excerpts. (Box 552): Plays, Plots, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Psychology, Publishing, Pyorrhea, Religion, Russo-Japanese War. (Box 553): Quotations and Excerpts. (Box 554): Science. (Box 555): Socialism. (Box 556): The Sea, Sea Fiction, Selling, Shakespeare, Short Stories, Signa, Sociology, Solomons, South Seas, Spiritualism, Stories to Read, Story Motif, Syndicalism, Tattooing, Tipping, Transportation, Travel, Woman, Woodruff, Writing. (Box 557): Trade Unionism. (Boxes 558-560): War. (Box 561): World. (Box 562): Yachts.
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2 negatives of portraits of Jack London
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With annotated envelope. Portrait of Jack London wearing knit cap. 1 negative: b&w; 13x18cm. JLP 777a. Portrait of Jack London wearing knit cap, arms crossed. 1 negative: b&w; 13x18cm. JLP 777b.
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Jack London correspondence
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This collection consists of 45 letters, primarily from Jack London and his wife, Charmian London, and 15 pieces of ephemera. There are five letters from Jack London to a literary agent named, Daniel Murphy. These letters were written in 1902. There are six letters to James M. Chandler written in 1905 and 1906. Chandler was to act as quarter-master and steward during a proposed round-the-world cruise that was scheduled to last seven years with Jack London, Charmian London, an uncle, and a Japanese servant. There is also a related newspaper clipping entitled: Jamaica Plain Man To Go On 7-Year Tour With Jack London at the end of the collection. There are 16 letters to Benjamin De Cassares, an American journalist, critic, essayist, and poet. In one letter dated November 3, 1912, Charmian tells of her "great disappointment-our second disappointment, and mainly due to a poor physician in the first place" [her miscarriage]. She discusses Nietzsche's Zarathustra and what it has done for her "...at a time of mental and physical collapse. Quite pulled me together-quite played the Bible, in fact." There are three letters to Paul Eldridge, who seems to be a young fan of Jack London's. In answer to Eldridge's letters, Charmian has given a wide range of comment pertaining to Jack's health and some of his writings. There is one letter to Perriton Maxwell, where Jack states "I believe intensely in the pro-ally side of the war...As regards a few million terrible deaths, there is not so much of the terrible about such a quantity of deaths as there is about the quantity of deaths that occur in peace times in all countries in the world, and that has occurred in war times down the past" (August 28, 1916). There are 9 letters to Hunter Kimbrough, Uptrain Sinclair's brother-in-law. Charmian's writing is somewhat flirtatious, as evident in a letter dated March 15, 1928 "Theredearest Hunter!" By the time this is in your hands, I'll be in my own queer little house. I hope to embrace you there this summer, some time. DO come. I send you a kiss---falling downstairs meanwhile if you prefer!" There are also letters to a "Mr. Hage", Vida Goldstein, S.T. Hughes, Bunster Creely and one telegram from Anna Walling Strunsky to Jack London.
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