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Inventory of the Jack London Collection
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Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
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San Marino, California 91108
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Inventory of the Jack London Collection
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California
Contact Information
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554
Processed by:
David Mike Hamilton; updated by Sara S. Hodson
Date Completed:
July 1980; updated May 1993
Encoded by:
Gabriela A. Montoya
© 1998 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jack London Collection
Creator: London, Jack, 1876-1916
Extent: 594 boxes
Repository: The Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Language: English.
Access
Collection is open to qualified researches by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more
information please go to following URL. Publication Rights
In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal
permission from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the
physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights In some
instances, the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the
appropriate curator for further information.
The collection is open to all Huntington readers qualified to use manuscript collections. Before copying copyrighted
materials, however, readers and correspondents must first secure the permission of the Jack London estate. A permissions
form, supplied by the estate, can be obtained in the Huntington Registrar's office. This form must be completed and signed
before readers may request photocopies or permission to publish material written by Jack or Charmian London, Eliza or
Irving Shepard, or Jack Byrne. There is usually no problem in obtaining permission from the estate for scholarly use of the
material in the collection. Readers are referred to the Registrar for answers to any questions they may have regarding the
permission procedure.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jack London Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Research in the Jack London Field
Jack London scholarship saw a great resurgence during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Today several fine books have
been published in the field, including Earle Labor's Jack London, Jack London Reports (edited by King Hendricks and Irving
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Shepard), Letters from Jack London (edited by King Hendricks and Irving Shepard), McClintock's book on London's short
stories, Woodbridge's bibliography of Jack London, etc. Several biographies have been written about London. Beginning
with the first : Sailor on Horseback, most have contained serious flaws. Andrew Sinclair's Jack was the first to be written
using the Huntington Collections and is scholarly in its approach. Several popular biographies, including Kingman's pictorial,
have also been written recently. Scholars active in the field (published or with works in progress) include Earle Labor,
Robert C. Leitz (who are together working on a three-volume edition of London's letters) [this has been issued: Labor, Earle,
Robert C. Leitz III, and I. Milo Shepard, eds., The Letters of Jack London (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988)],
Howard Lachtman (editing several books on Jack London), etc.
A catalog of the Jack London library is available for use in the rare book catalog area. Approximately 25% of the books in
the 5,000-volume library are annotated. A bibliography of the annotated books in the library is in the process of being
published . [This has been issued: Hamilton, David Mike, The Tools of My Trade: The Annotated Books in Jack London's
Library (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986).] Several other London organizations or journals are: What's New
About London Jack?, The Jack London Newsletter, The London Collector, Wolf House Books, The Jack London Educational
Foundation, and the World of Jack London Museum and Bookstore. In addition, London's home and ranch are now part of
the Jack London Historic State Park, Glen Ellen, California.
Jack London: An American Author
A sometime tramp, oyster pirate, seaman, socialist, laundryman, and miner, Jack London is as famous for the lives he lived
and the myths he wove around them as he is for the short stories and novels he wrote.
Largely self-educated, Jack London was the product of California ranches and the working class neighborhoods of Oakland.
Born January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, London's early life revolved around the rural areas of the San Francisco bay area.
His edu cation --what little he had --came from Oakland city schools; he earned a high school diploma from Oakland High
School after sporadic attendance.
London's rise to literary fame came as a result of the Klondike gold rush. Unsuccessful in his attempt to break into the
magazine market, Jack London joined the flood of men rushing toward instant riches in the Yukon. He found little gold, but
returned after the winter of 1897 with a wealth of memories and notes of the northland, the gold rush, and the hardships of
the trail. By 1900 Jack London had firmly established himself as a major American writer; his first book, The Son of the Wolf,
was published by Houghton Mifflin Company the same year.
London married Elizabeth May Maddern in 1900. The couple settled in Oakland, later moved to Piedmont, and soon
thereafter added two daughters to the family: Joan and Bess. The marriage was not successful, however, and London
divorced Bess in 1905, marrying Charmian Kittredge the same year. The marriage, which had come just after a sojourn to
Korea to cover the impending Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers, was covered quite liberally in the press, and
London used the exposure to launch a lectu re tour for the benefit of the Socialist Party.
Charmian was adventurous, and together the Londons planned a seven-year voyage around the world on a yacht they
named Snark. The trip, begun in 1906, was cut short in Australia two years later because of London's ill health. Undaunted,
London returned with his wife to Glen Ellen, which had become their home. There he expanded his land holding s and
began construction of a large ranch complex complete with palatial headquarters. Named "Wolf House," the headquarters
home London constructed burned down the day it was finished. London was crushed by the burning (which was rumored to
have been arso n) and never fully recovered.
To support his building program and extravagant life style, London wrote at a furious pace. By 1916 he had published
almost fifty books. His body could not withstand the brutal treatment it received, however, and on November 22, 1916, Jack
London died. His death has still not been satisfactorily explained.
David Mike Hamilton
Scope and Content
The 594-box Jack London Collection could properly be termed the author's personal archive, because of its size and
completeness. With only a few exceptions, the collection contains autograph or typescript versions of almost everything
Jack London wrote. Included in the archive are most of the London correspondence files; his literary notes, documents, and
contracts; memos and letters regarding the operation of his Sonoma County Beauty Ranch; most of his personal and family
papers; his financial records; and his library and photograph collection. The majority of the pieces range in date from 1903
to 1917, and with almost sixty thousand pieces, the collection is the largest literary archive at the Huntington.
History of the Collection
In June 1924, the Huntington staff first learned that Jack London's widow wished to dispose of her husband's papers.
Worried over the everpresent danger of fire on the Beauty Ranch, Charmian Kittredge London decided to find safer quarters
for her husband's manuscripts. She broached the plan to Willard Samuel Morse, a prominent Los Angeles book collector
who specialized in California authors. Morse promptly wrote to the Huntington. Although Charmian had considered
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disposing of the papers in England, Morse felt strongly that the California author's papers should stay in his native state.
The Huntington, he believed, would be the proper place to house them.
Librarian Leslie Edgar Bliss concurred with Morse's opinion, and with a copy of Charmian London's "Jack London Original
Handwritten Manuscripts for Sale" in hand, he wrote to her expressing his and the Library's interest in purchasing the
collection:
...I have your list of Jack London's manuscripts and have gone over it carefully. I hope that we may be able to come to
some satisfactory arrangement whereby the Huntington Library may become the home of this material. ...In any
case, before I could close any contract for their purchase, I should have to make a trip to Glen Ellen for a brief
examination of them, and that is at least a month off.
Not until February of 1925 was Leslie Bliss able to arrange a visit to the London ranch. Later he recalled the visit:
Mrs. London was most hospitable and the material for sale was fascinating indeed. Had it not been for the fact that
she had persuaded her husband to give her all his manuscripts early in her work with him they might all have been
destroyed as he was in the habit of destroying them after publication. This fact accounts for the nonpreservation of
the manuscripts of The Call of the Wild and The Cruise of the Dazzler.
While at the ranch I asked to see his correspondence files which were extensive indeed and had been carefully
preserved. It was easy to see that all of this material was highly important for future students of Jack's work and I
requested that all his letters and those written to him be also included in the negotiations. Mrs. London agreed,
asking only that any correspondence relating to current business, such as ranch affairs, be excluded at least until a
later date.
Bliss discussed his visit and the Jack London papers with Henry E. Huntington, and both agreed that the collection
--including the correspondence files --would make a suitable addition to the Library's literary collections. By early April of
1925, Jack London's manuscripts were safely housed in the rare book stacks of the Huntington Library. His correspondence
files, however, were another matter.
Charmian had accepted the terms offered by the Library and Mr. Huntington for the business correspondence on March 10,
but requested time to look over the material before sending it south. As she explained in a letter to Bliss:
I decided that if I looked through the correspondence I could judge the portions from which I should make notes for
possible future need in either compilation or reference otherwise. There is a large bulk of this publisher's
correspondence, more than you saw, for much of the older letters, remembered afterward, was taken from the
reference files and packed in other drawers, flat. I think it would be worth your while to plan to look through this
material.
It was not until late August of 1925 that Leslie Bliss was able to survey the additional material Charmian had, and to agree
on behalf of the Library to accept the publisher-correspondence for inclusion in the new Jack London Collection. His visit
with Mrs. London was of consequence, not only because of the additional material to be added to the collection, but also
because an important policy was discussed and agreed upon with regard to the papers: that the collection was available to
Charmian London, should she need to consult it, but to no other person without special arrangement and permission from
her. The Librarian and Mr. Huntington agree to Mrs. London's wishes that access be restricted. Indeed it was not unusual at
the time to restrict use of such collections if public access would constitute an invasion of the family's privacy. Thus
utilization of the collection was limited during the next twenty-five years.
From 1925 until 1951, the Jack London Collection remained relatively static. Charmian suggested that the Library purchase
Jack London's love letters to her and his letters to an early literary correspondent, Cloudesley Johns, but tightened budgets
forced Bliss to decline the offers. Curiously, very few original Jack London letters surfaced during this time. Only the Brick
Row Bookshop was able to offer the Library a significant item: the typed The Sea-Wolf manuscript which Jack London had
given to George Sterling. Unfortunately, the Library did not purchase the manuscript. Today it is part of the Jack London
Collection at the University of Virginia.
In March of 1951, another important purchase was made from Charmian London, consisting of extensive lots of letters,
some of London's personal correspondence, as well as many small manuscripts and other miscellaneous pieces.
Negotiations for this purchase were handled by Irving Shepard, Charmian's nephew and attorney-in-fact. With his help, the
eight-thousand piece addition, including the charred remains of The Sea-Wolfmanuscript, were integrated into the Library's
Jack London Collection.
By this time the Huntington had acquired a substantial part of the London archive, and it was time to loosen the restrictions
against scholarly use of the papers. And so, on 12 March 1951, Irving Shepard and Charmian London officially notified the
Library that the Huntington had "full right to grant access to any and all Jack and Charmian London manuscripts and
correspondence" with the understanding that the literary property rights and copyrights would continue to remain with the
family and that no publication of copyrighted material could be made without written approval from them.
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Charmian died three years after signing this agreement and Irving Shepard became literary executor of the London Estate.
In 1959 he negotiated another purchase of London material --this time London's personal library of over five thousand
books and pamphlets and his letters to Cloudesley Johns. Scholarly use of the collection gradually increased after the 1959
purchase, and the Library continued to add to the collection with smaller purchases from private parties or dealers. Most
prominent among the scholars interested in Jack London at this time was King Hendricks, Professor of English at Utah State
University, Logan. Hendricks was able to convince Irving Shepard to donate a large quantity of London archival material to
the University at Logan prior to 1972. The collection at Logan today consists of approximately thirty-five boxes of
manuscripts and correspondence, and Charmian London's library. A Register of the collection has been published and is
available from Utah State University Press.
The Huntington's London Collection was augmented considerably in 1974. With the urging of Professor Earle Labor, Irving
Shepard donated considerably more than five thousand pieces to the Huntington. Included in the gift were Jack London's
letters to Charmian and her diaries, which covered a span of almost fifty years.
These diaries and love letters were given to the Library with the understanding that they be treated differently from the
rest of the collection; the family wished to exercise control over access to these manuscripts in order to protect their
privacy and to discourage flagrant commercial use of the material. Thus separate permission is necessary from the estate
before readers may consult these materials. [Effective May 27, 1992, separate permission is no longer needed for access to
the Jack-Charmian letters. They are covered by the general permission form for the Collection.]
Irving Shepard's untimely death in 1975 left his son Milo and daughter Joy Shepard Shaffer in charge of his estate.
Following their father's wishes, they have donated the remainder of the Jack London archive to the Huntington in 1980;
allowed the Huntington to copy the London photograph albums, and also the Jack London negative file. The albums will
remain with the family. [The original albums have come to the Library but will not routinely be available for research. The
contact prints should be used.] The original Jack London negatives have been donated to the State of California.
Organization of the Collection
The Jack London Collection is organized into the following categories:
Title: Manuscripts
1. (which are arranged alphabetically by author's surname, and under a given author, arranged alphabetically by
title). The manuscripts category is filed in Boxes 1-115.
Title: Correspondence
2. (which is arranged alphabetically by author's surname, and under a given author, arranged alphabetically by the
surname of the addressee). The correspondence is filed in Boxes 116-428.
Title: Unidentified Manuscripts
3. (arranged alphabetically by title). These pieces are filed in Box 429.
Title: Unidentified Correspondence
4. (arranged alphabetically by addressee if known, or grouped together by date at the end of the file if no names are
known). These letters are filed in Boxes 430-431.
Title: Irving Stone File
5. (arranged alphabetically by author; manuscripts come at the beginning of the file, then correspondence). This file
(which [was] restricted until the death of Irving Stone) is in Box 434.
Title: Harvey Taylor File
6. (arranged alphabetically by author; manuscripts come at the beginning of the file, then correspondence). This file
(which [was] restricted until the death of Harvey Taylor) is in Boxes 435-436.
Title: Kittredge File
7. (arranged alphabetically by author; manuscripts come at the beginning of the file, then correspondence). The
Kittredge File is contained in Boxes 437-442.
Title: Documents
8. (filed alphabetically by author and subarranged by title or first words of document). Documents can be found in
Boxes 443-456.
Title: Photographic Prints
9. (filed alphabetically by subject) can be located in Boxes 457-463.
Title: Photographic Positives
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10. (grouped together according to subject --see the detailed description of this category following) can be located in
Boxes 464-485.
Title: Albums
11. (arranged by number --see the detailed description of this category which follows). The albums are filed in Boxes
486-505.
Title: Large Albums
12. (arranged by number --see the detailed description of this category which follows).
Title: Oversize Prints
13. (arranged alphabetically by subject) are located in Box 511.
Title: Oversize Negatives
14. (arranged by subject) are located in Box 512.
Title: Photo Album Negatives
15. (restricted to staff use only) can be found in Boxes 513-516.
Title: Positive Microfilm Scrapbooks
16. (arranged by scrapbook number) are located in Box 517.
Title: Ephemera
17. (arranged by subject --see the detailed listing which follows) is contained in Boxes 518-590.
Title: Information File
18. (for staff use only) is filed in Boxes 591-592.
Title: Summary and Register
19. can be found in Box 593.
Title: Jack London Life Mask
20. (staff-supervised use only) is in Box 594.
Title: Jack London Volumes
21. consist of the London scrapbooks (organized in loosely chronological fashion) and the manuscript of The Valley
of the Moon. See the detailed listing which follows.
Title: Jack London Broadsides
22. are arranged by size and content. See the detailed listing which follows.
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Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Scope and Content Note
There are nearly three thousand separate manuscripts and manuscript notes in the Jack
London Collection. As could be expected, the majority of the manuscripts are those written
by Jack London himself. However, a significant number of the manuscripts in the collection
were written by other persons: Charmian London, Sinclair Lewis, George Sterling, or others
who sent London their work for his commentary or were paid to dramatize Jack London
stories.
A complete listing of all the manuscripts in the collection is available in the Jack London
Register of Manuscripts --a separate, bound volume located in the reference stacks or by
request from the Manuscripts Department. However, in summary, the collection contains
written notes, typewritten or holograph versions of almost everything Jack London wrote.
The following books are represented in the manuscript collection: The Abysmal Brute, The
Acorn Planter, Adventure (including the notes), The Assassination Bureau Ltd., Before Adam,
Burning Daylight, Cherry(including a number of variant versions augmented by Charmian
London and Jack London's original holographic version), The Cruise of the Snark, Dutch
Courage ("Whose Business is to Live" only), Hearts of Three, The House of Pride (including
some original artwork for "Koolau the Leper"), The Human Drift ("Nothing That Ever Came to
Anything") and "A Classic of the Sea" are not included), The Iron Heel, Jerry of the Islands,
John Barleycorn, The Kempton-Wace Letters (incomplete), The Little Lady of the Big House,
Lost Face("Flush of Gold" is not included), Love of Life ("Love of Life" and "The Story of
Keesh" are not included), Martin Eden, Michael, Brother of Jerry, Moon Face (only "All Gold
Canyon" and "Planchette" are available), The Mutiny of the Elsinore, The Night-Born (except
"Winged Blackmail" and "Under the Deck Awnings"), On the Makaloa Mat (except "On the
Makaloa Mat"), The Red One ("The Hussy" only), Revolution and Other Essays ("The Dignity
of Dollars," "The Golden Poppy," "The Shrinkage of the Planet" and "Foma Gordyeeff" are not
included), The Road, The Sea-Wolf (this manuscript was burned in the San Francisco
earthquake and fire of 1906. The charred cinders cannot be used under any circumstances
and may be viewed only with staff approval and assistance), Scorn of Women, Smoke
Bellew, A Son of the Sun, South Sea Tales, The Star-Rover, The Strength of the Strong
(except "The Enemy of All the World" and "The Dream of Debs"), Theft, The Turtles of
Tasman (except "The First Poet"), The Valley of the Moon, War of the Classes (Table of
Contents and Preface only), White Fang, and A Wicked Woman. London's manuscripts are
arranged by title for each individual piece however. Thus a short story collection such as The
Son of the Sun is scattered throughout the manuscripts according to the title of each
individual story.
The Collection is also rich in manuscript material written by Charmian London. Included are a
number of manuscript versions of The Book of Jack London, Our Hawaii, The Log of the Snark
and Charmian's ending to Eyes of Asia (Cherry). Other notable manuscripts include
Charmian's diaries from 1900-1947 (these are restricted --special permission from the Jack
London estate is required before readers may use the diaries) and her notes for "Us" which
later became The Book of Jack London.
Among the manuscripts not written by the London family are those by:
ATHERTON, Frank.
"My Boyhood Days with Jack London."
Scope and Content Note
A somewhat unreliable, but nonetheless important reminiscence of Jack London's early
days in Oakland.
FOX, Barry.
"Nakata, Son of Jack London."
Scope and Content Note
An article about one of Jack London's later Japanese servants.
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Manuscripts
"Jack London at Stewart River."
Scope and Content Note
Recollections of London's months in the Klondike.
LEWIS, Sinclair.
"Plot Summaries."
Scope and Content Note
Some seventeen ideas for stories and novels which Sinclair Lewis sold to Jack London
between 1911 and 1913.
MORRELL, Edward.
"Statement....made to Jack London..."
Scope and Content Note
An account of Morrell's prison experiences which London used as the basis for The
Star-Rover.
OPPENHEIMER, Jacob.
"The Prison Tiger."
Scope and Content Note
Another prison story, which London incorporated into The Star-Rover.
STERLING, George.
Poems.
Scope and Content Note
Some 128 poems, some holograph, some typed, most signed, which George Sterling
sent to Jack London during the many years of their friendship.
THOMPSON, Fred.
"Diary of Yukon Experiences."
Scope and Content Note
A copy of the diary which Thompson made during his trek to Dawson City with Jack
London in 1897.
WALLING, Anna Strunsky.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters."
Scope and Content Note
Anna Walling's notes and writings about the book she and Jack London wrote in 1903.
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Correspondence
Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
Jack London's correspondents included tramps, thieves, housewives, would-be authors and
accomplished writers, businessmen and admirers. In short, he received letters from a wide
spectrum of humanity. Most of the time, he wrote back or scribbled a note to his secretary,
Jack Byrne, who replied for him. There are nearly thirty thousand letters in the collection,
including almost four thousand by Jack London, and a lesser number by Jack Byrne and
Charmian London. During London's Snark voyage (1907-1909), the job of answering all the
correspondence and conducting the business affairs was left to Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne
Springer, Charmian's aunt. Her letters are also in the collection.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author, and subarranged alphabetically by
addressee. Thus London's letters to people come under "L" in the middle of the
correspondence. Readers who would like to read not only the letters to Jack London but his
replies as well should make this desire known to the Manuscripts Department, who will make
arrangements to make the appropriate boxes available. All the correspondence has been
fully catalogued. Cards for each author can be found in the alphabetical section of the
manuscript catalog. A separate, chronological card file of the London Collection
correspondence is also available and can be located in the collection section of the
manuscripts catalog.
Although the correspondence in the collection is varied and thus may be appealing to many
different research foci, some of the correspondents are of especially noteworthy interest.
These significant persons are listed below, along with a notation of the number of letters
London wrote to them in reply. More detailed information about the number of letters, call
numbers, etc. may be found in the manuscripts catalog.
ABBOTT, James.
Scope and Content Note
Century Company editor who wrote to London about The Night Born.
AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Scope and Content Note
An interesting exchange of letters regarding London's power-of-attorney. 14 letters to an
9 letters from Jack London.
AIKEN, Charles Sedgwich.
Scope and Content Note
24 letters from Aiken, who was editor of Sunset Magazine and 26 replies from London.
The correspondence is business oriented and includes a number of discussions about
transportation on the Southern Pacific Railroad. (Londn was paid in transportation by
Sunset
ALDEN, Henry Mills.
Scope and Content Note
20 letters from Alden, who was an editor for Harper and Brothers -mostly requests for
stories. Also 3 letters from London.
APPLEGARTH, Edward M.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters about his family (London was at one time a suitor for Mabel Applegarth. The
Collection contains 9 letters from London to Mabel.)
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Scope and Content Note
10 early letters to London regarding his submissions to the magazine. Mostly rejections
for his poetry. Also 1 letter from London.
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Correspondence
AUSTIN, Mary Hunter.
Scope and Content Note
4 letters requesting London's assistance with The Man Jesus and inquiry regarding
London's Christ novel. Also 3 replies from London. (See the Mary Austin Collection
Summary Report for further information about Huntington holdings of Mary Austin.)
AYRES, Daniel Sydney.
Scope and Content Note
33 letters regarding the motion picture business and screen rights to London's books.
Also 16 letters from London.
BABCOCK, A.
Scope and Content Note
L. A humorous exchange of 8 letters about a man "doubling" as Jack London in Montana.
BAMFORD, Frederick Irons.
Scope and Content Note
The Librarian at Oakland Free Library, Bamford was an early teacher of Jack London. The
collection contains 7 letters from Bamford and nearly 50 letters from Charmian and Jack.
The exchange of correspondence deals with new books of interest to the Lond ons, the
Ruskin Club (a socialist club in Oakland founded by Bamford --London was a member),
and London's literature and life. The Franklin Walker Collection at the Huntington Library
also contains information about the Bamfords and Jack London.
BARBER, Jackson.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to Charmian about a biography of George Sterling.
BARKER, Donald.
Scope and Content Note
16 letters and telegrams to various persons (including London) regarding the Balboa
Amusement Company suit.
BARTON, Everett.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters about the Stewart River and the Klondike.
BENTEL, George R.
Scope and Content Note
Over 100 letters to Irving and Eliza Shepard regarding a suit filed in the late 1920's
against Columbia Pictures Corporation. Also an equal number of replies by the Shepards.
BERKMAN, Alexander.
Scope and Content Note
3 letters to London requesting him to write an introduction to Prison Memoirs of an
Anarchist.
BERRY, Frederick Forest.
Scope and Content Note
18 letters regarding socialist literary activities. 2 replies from the Londons.
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Correspondence
BISHOP, Del.
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to London from Bishop, who was an old Alaskan acquaintance from the Klondike
days.
BLAND, Henry Meade.
Scope and Content Note
San Jose poet Henry Meade Bland was a sometime member of London's "crowd" and
full-time faculty member at the college in San Jose. He wrote to London 13 times between
1905 and 1916 regarding bay area literary activities.
BOHLIN, K.
Scope and Content Note
J. 24 letters from Bohlin and 20 replies from London. Bohlin was London's Swedish
publisher.
BOND, Louis Whitford.
Scope and Content Note
3 1906 letters from the owner of "Jack" the dog, who London immortalized as "Buck" in
The Call of the Wild.
BOON, Charles.
Scope and Content Note
Over 50 letters to London and 2 from him regarding his literary contacts in England.
BOSWORTH, Hobart Van Zandt.
Scope and Content Note
Over 100 letters to Jack and Charmian London between 1913 and the 1940's. Bosworth
was a filmmaker who made a number of London's motion pictures, including the first The
Sea-Wolf. Also 31 letters from the Londons in reply.
BRANDT, Carl E.
Scope and Content Note
The editor for Curtis Brown & Massie, Brandt wrote 20 letters to London regarding his
books.
BRETT, George Platt.
Scope and Content Note
As president of The MacMillan Company, Brett was directly responsible for most of
London's published work. The 300 plus letters from Brett and the more than 175 letters
from London form the core of London's literary business activities.
BROWNE, John A.
Scope and Content Note
18 letters to London (7 replies) regarding London's boat, Roamer.
CARRUTH, Fred Hayden.
Scope and Content Note
Editor of Women's Home Companion, Carruth sent 33 letters to London between 1906
and 1913 (there are 11 replies) requesting short stories.
CENTURY COMPANY.
Scope and Content Note
16 letters from London's publishers in 1912 and 1913. (Also 16 replies.)
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CHAMPION, H.
Scope and Content Note
H. 28 letters regarding Australian literary matters. London also replied with 25 letters
between 1909 and 1915.
CHAUVET, Henry J.
Scope and Content Note
Chauvet was the former owner of a portion of the Jack London Ranch. His 4 letters regard
Kohler ranch matters.
CONNOR, J.
Scope and Content Note
Torrey. 23 letters from a member of the California Writer's Club, mostly requesting
permission to publish London's work. Also 3 letters from Jack London.
CONRAD, Joseph.
Scope and Content Note
Reply to London's letter of admiration after reading Victory.
CORLISS, Frank.
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to London about the conditions of the military prison at Alcatraz.
COSGRAVE, John O'Hara.
Scope and Content Note
17 letters from New York and Boston concerning literary matters. Also 6 letters from Jack
London.
DEBS, Eugene Victor.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regarding socialist party matters.
DE CASSERES, Benjamin.
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to London, and 2 from him about sexuality.
DIBBLE, Oliver.
Scope and Content Note
6 letters from San Francisco attorney Dibble about formation of the Jack London Grape
Juice Company. Also 3 letters from London in reply.
DUNN, Robert.
Scope and Content Note
3 letters. Dunn was a correspondent with London in Korea.
DUNN, Walter R.
Scope and Content Note
51 letters regarding the Oakland Socialist Party. Also 7 letters from Jack London.
DYER, F. E.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters regarding stories for The Black Cat.
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Correspondence
EMERSON, Edwin.
Scope and Content Note
Emerson was a newspaper correspondent who also journeyed to Korea with Jack London.
In 1905 he wrote London a letter regarding the case of John W. Finley, a Folsom Prison
convict.
FERGUSON & GOODNOW (firm).
Scope and Content Note
15 letters to London regarding his suit against Slayton Lyceum Bureau. 8 letters from Jack
London.
FISKE, Minnie Maddern.
Scope and Content Note
9 letters from the actress regarding The Scorn of Women. 1 letter from Jack London.
FORD, Alexander Hume.
Scope and Content Note
15 letters about Hawaii. London replied twice.
FRENCH, Pauline.
Scope and Content Note
6 letters from Pauline French, who was an old family friend.
FROLICH, Finn Haakon.
Scope and Content Note
12 letters from sculptor Frolich regarding domestic news, thank you's for hospitality, and
information regarding his bust of London.
FROST, Jens.
Scope and Content Note
27 letters regarding translation rights in German and the Scandinavian languages. Also
21 replies by Jack London.
GALVIN, George W.
Scope and Content Note
13 letters from Dr. Galvin (M.D.) who was a prominent Boston socialist. London replied in
1915.
GARBUTT, Frank A.
Scope and Content Note
137 letters from Garbutt, mostly regarding Bosworth Inc. matters, copyrights (Garbutt
was a lawyer), and the Horkheimer-Noel suit over motion picture rights to The Sea-Wolf.
Also 51 letters from Jack London.
GARLAND, Hamlin.
Scope and Content Note
Telegram supporting Roosevelt for President.
GOLDMAN, Emma.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters regarding anarchy and Alexander Berkman's new book.
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Correspondence
GORHAM, L.H.
Scope and Content Note
6 letters asking for translation rights to London's works into Esperanto.
GRAF, Peter.
Scope and Content Note
2 early letters requesting information and assistance with the Intercollegiate Socialist
Society.
GROWALL, Willard Lawrence.
Scope and Content Note
Along with Eliza Shepard, Growall was coexecutor of the Jack London estate. The 100 plus
letters (mostly to Eliza Shepard) concern settlement of the estate and other family
matters.
HAMILTON, Frank Strawn.
Scope and Content Note
Hamilton was one of London's philosophical teachers and mentors. The Collection
contains only two short letters from him, however.
HAMILTON, Fannie K.
Scope and Content Note
13 letters regarding dramatic versions of London's works. Fannie K. Hamilton was a
prominent actress in San Francisco.
HARGRAVE, W.B.
Scope and Content Note
4 letters recalling Dawson City days in 1897. Also 1 reply by Jack London.
HARRIMAN, Karl Edwin.
Scope and Content Note
24 letters regarding Red Book magazine literary business, and 11 letters to Harriman
from Jack London.
HARRISON, Ralph D.
Scope and Content Note
11 letters about curios, literary matters, and general news. Harrison's nickname was
"Indian." Also 1 letter from Jack London.
HEINEMANN, William.
Scope and Content Note
39 letters regarding translation rights and English distribution. The collection also
contains 20 letters from Jack London to Heinemann.
HOFFMAN, Elwyn Irving.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters to Jack London regarding literary friends and acquaintances and literary
activities in the San Francisco area. The Huntington's Elwyn Hoffman Collection contains
a number of Jack London's replies.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY.
Scope and Content Note
Almost 60 letters, mostly regarding the Son of the Wolf account (London's first book).
Also 3 letters from Jack London.
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Correspondence
HUGHES MASSIE & COMPANY.
Scope and Content Note
Almost 400 letters (and 14 replies) to the Londons regarding English rights to Jack
London's works.
IRVINE, Alexander.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters from Irvine (a minister, author, and Secretary of the Socialist Party of
Connecticut), most regarding arrangements for London's "Revolution" speech at Yale
University.
JAMES, George Wharton.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters regarding literary matters from Southern California writer George Wharton
James. Also one letter from London in reply.
JOHNS, Cloudesley Tremenhare.
Scope and Content Note
33 letters from writer Johns who was one of the first writers to admire Jack London's work.
The 130 letters London wrote to Johns are rich in details of London's early literary
development. The Huntington also has John's autobiography, "Who the Hell is Cloudesley
Johns." It contains several chapters about Jack London.
JOHNSON, Martin Elmer.
Scope and Content Note
Approximately 76 letters from the "Cook of the Snark" who later achieved fame as an
explorer. The letters in the Collection concern the voyage of the Snark. There are also 7
letters from London to Johnson.
KASPER, Ralph H.
Scope and Content Note
43 letters about socialism, cigarettes, tramps, and writing projects. 5 letters in reply from
Jack London.
KIRSCHNER, Richard H.
Scope and Content Note
46 letters from the Cosmopolitan, mostly on literary or business matters. Also 31 letters
from London to Kirschner.
KNOWLES, Ed.
Scope and Content Note
15 letters from Stockton-based Knowles about Delta fishing, fishing, the Roamer,and
Charmian's dog "Possum."
LATHAM, Harold Strong.
Scope and Content Note
100 letters to and 10 from the Londons. Latham was a vice-president of the Macmillan
Company.
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Correspondence
LEWIS, Sinclair.
Scope and Content Note
14 letters to Jack London, mostly regarding the business arrangements they made. Lewis
supplied London with a number of story plots and summaries. One of the plots was
developed by London into The Abysmal Brute. Also 9 letters to Lewis from London.
LIVINGSTON, Leon Ray.
Scope and Content Note
Also known as "A No. 1" Livingston was a tramp friend of Jack London's and a writer.
Livingston wrote 12 letters to the Londons about tramping, general hobo news, his new
books, and a report of a Jack London "double." Also 1 letter from Jack London.
LOCKLY, Frederick E.
Scope and Content Note
19 letters, mostly literary in nature. Lockly was one-time editor of Sunsetand later joined
The Pacific Monthly. The collection also contains 4 letters from London to Lockly.
LONDON, Elizabeth May Maddern.
Scope and Content Note
15 letters. Bess was London's first wife. With two exceptions, the letters were written
after their 1905 divorce and are concerned with the couple's two children, Becky and
Joan.
LONDON, Flora Wellman.
Scope and Content Note
1 letter to Mr. Colpus (Harry Holden) making arrangements to meet with Jack London.
Flora London was Jack London's mother.
LYDSTON, G. Frank.
Scope and Content Note
22 letters, mostly sociological subjects such as crime, People of the Abyss,crime and
heredity, and implantation of sex organs. 6 letters from London.
MADDERN, Merle.
Scope and Content Note
Interesting letter about Cornelia Otis Skinner and the death of Minnie Maddern Fiske.
MARBURY, Elizabeth.
Scope and Content Note
28 letters to London regarding dramatic rights to his books. 9 letters from Jack London.
MARTINEZ, Xavier.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters to London inviting him to join his friends for social occasions. Martinez was an
artist and good friend.
MASSIE, Hughes.
Scope and Content Note
More than 200 letters from the president of Hughes Massie and Company, London's
English agents. All the letters are business-oriented.
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Correspondence
MATTHEWS, Ernest C.
Scope and Content Note
Matthews was one of London's close neighbors and friends. The 40-odd letters from
Matthews and the 7 from London deal with horses, ranch details, general news, Oakland
real estate, and London's children. An intimate, warm correspondence.
METSON, DREW & MACKENZIE (firm).
Scope and Content Note
Approximately 20 letters regarding the legal matters and claims against the Jack London
estate.
MILLARD, Bailey.
Scope and Content Note
Editor of Cosmopolitan, Millard wrote to London on 15 different occasions regarding
stories for the magazine.
MILLER, Joan London.
Scope and Content Note
Jack London's daughter Joan wrote to him (or Charmian or Eliza) on several occasions.
The collection contains 49 letters from her to her father, stepmother, or aunt, most
involving a request for clothing or money. There are also 14 letters from Miller to Alfred
Shivers, a professor of English, in which Joan talks about her father and mother.
MORRELL, Edward H.
Scope and Content Note
An interesting series of 10 letters discussing prison life, money matters, mining property,
and The Star-Rover. Also 3 letters from London.
NETHERSOLE, Olga.
Scope and Content Note
7 letters suggesting a dramatic partnership with Jack London, theme for a play, and The
Scorn of Women. Also 9 letters from Jack London.
NICHOLS, Walter H.
Scope and Content Note
40 letters to London (18 replies) all regarding a dramatic version of "South of the Slot."
NOEL, Joseph J.
Scope and Content Note
Over 100 letters on a variety of subjects. Noel (who was author of Footloose in Arcadia, a
reminiscence, in part, of Jack London) involved London in a number of schemes including
the Millergraph Corporation. He and London quarrelled over the motion picture rights to
The Sea-Wolf. The important exchange includes 59 letters from London to Noel.
O'HARA, John Myers.
Scope and Content Note
Poet O'Hara wrote a poem entitled "Atavism." London borrowed it for The Call of the Wild.
The 8 letters (1 from London) discuss this and other literary matters.
ORFANS, Spiro.
Scope and Content Note
33 letters from Orfans, 7 from London on ethnological and racial heritage. An interesting
if controversial exchange.
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Correspondence
PEASE, Lute.
Scope and Content Note
20 letters from Pacific Monthly editor Lute Pease. The subject is generally Martin Eden.
Also 8 letters from Jack London.
PHILLIPS, John Sanburn.
Scope and Content Note
An early exchange (36 from Phillips) of letters regarding London's first work. Phillips was
editor for McClure's.
PHILLIPS, Roland.
Scope and Content Note
65 letters. Also 56 letters from Jack London. The correspondence is literary in the
beginning, more friendly toward the end. Phillips was an editor for the Cosmopolitan.
PINKER, James Brand.
Scope and Content Note
116 letters, mostly dry, business letters from London's first English agent. London's
replies are part of Stanford University's Jack London Collection.
REYNOLDS, Paul Revere.
Scope and Content Note
Over 100 letters. Reynolds was a literary agent.
RICHTER, Conrad Michael.
Scope and Content Note
2 letters from Richter before he became famous as a writer. The first asks for a job, the
second proposes that he become London's secretary.
SCHARFF, Justus.
Scope and Content Note
3 letters concerning the yacht Snark.
SHIPMAN, Ernest.
Scope and Content Note
16 letters about "A Piece of Steak," Bosworth Inc., and the motion picture industry. Also 5
letters from London to Shipman.
SHURTLEFF, Clarence E.
Scope and Content Note
19 letters regarding the Hollywood scene, motion picture contracts, and the suit with
Columbia Pictures.
SINCLAIR, Upton Beall.
Scope and Content Note
44 letters to London requesting literary advice, an introduction to The
Jungle,contributions for The Cry for Justice, general socialist information, and literary
matters. London's replies are at the Lilly Library in Indiana.
SLAYTON LYCEUM BUREAU.
Scope and Content Note
35 letters to London regarding bookings for his speaking tour. Also 5 letters from London.
Jack London later sued Slayton Lyceum Bureau.
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Correspondence
STERLING, George.
Scope and Content Note
The 32 letters from London's friend "Greek" and 33 letters from "Wolf" (Jack London) form
one of the most important, intimate exchanges of correspondence in the collection. The
letters are filled with literary advice, gossip, news, and information. The Huntington
Library's George Sterling Collection also contains material of interest to Jack London
scholars.
TRAIN, Arthur Cheney.
Scope and Content Note
An important series of more than 100 letters dealing with London's copyright fights, the
Authors' League, the motion picture industry, and the suit against Columbia Pictures.
TUCK, H.C.
Scope and Content Note
An Oakland socialist, Tuck's 15 letters to London are filled with information regarding the
Bay Area labor movement and the socialist party.
UMBSTAETTER, Herman Daniel.
Scope and Content Note
5 letters to Jack London requesting stories for The Black Cat. Also 2 letters from London
to Umbstaetter.
UNTERMANN, Ernest.
Scope and Content Note
44 letters, some regarding German translation rights, others filled with family news or
literary gossip. London wrote 16 letters to Untermann.
WALLING, Anna Strunsky.
Scope and Content Note
6 letters to Jack and Charmian. Anna Walling was one of London's closest friends in 1903.
The Huntington Library's Walling Collection contains more than 100 letters from Jack
London, most of them written very early in his career.
WELCH, Galbraith.
Scope and Content Note
Nearly 150 letters from Galbraith Welch, who was American Manager of Curtis, Brown
and Massie. All the letters are of business matters. Also 27 letters from London.
WHARTON, Joe.
Scope and Content Note
3 amusing letters trying to sell Jack London deer heads.
WILSHIRE, Gaylord.
Scope and Content Note
21 letters. Subjects include socialism, literature, Anna Strunsky Walling, the Haywood
affair, the Snark, and Upton Sinclair.
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Irving Stone File
Irving Stone File
Scope and Content Note
This file consists of over 100 letters to and from Irving Stone and Charmian London. Also
included are a few contracts, a short manuscript, and a few letters from other persons,
including Eliza Shepard. The file documents the relationship between Stone and London, and
its eventual deterioration as publication of Sailor on Horsebackbecame imminent. This file
has been restricted until Irving Stone's death at the request of the Jack London estate. [The
Irving Stone File (Box 434) was opened for research on March 30, 1993.]
Harvey Taylor File
Scope and Content Note
The Harvey Taylor File documents the relationship between Harvey Taylor (who for a time
was bibliographer, then supposed agent for the London estate) and Charmian London. The
two-box file consists entirely of letters, mostly between Charmian Kittredge London and
Harvey Taylor. A few letters from Eliza Shepard are also included. At the request of the Jack
London estate, this file has been restricted until the death of Harvey Taylor. [The Harvey
Taylor File (Boxes 435 and 436) was opened for research on March 30, 1993.]
Kittredge File
Scope and Content Note
The Kittredge File consists of manuscripts, letters, documents, and genealogical material
pertaining to Charmian Kittredge London's family. The six-box file is rich in material
documenting Charmian Kittredge (and Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer's) heritage.
Among the more interesting pieces in the file are: Dayelle Wiley Kittredge's "Diary of a Trip
from Oshkosh, Wisconsin," her seven letters to her sister, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne
Springer and mother, Catherine Growall Wiley, and the letters from them. All the
correspondence in the Kittredge File is filed in the Manuscripts Catalog and is designated by
the call number "JLK."
Documents
Scope and Content Note
The vast majority of documents in the London Collection (Boxes 443-456) are literary
contracts either for Jack London to write a story, a publisher to publish a book, or a dramatist
to dramatize one of London's stories. Also included in this section of the collection are the
legal papers regarding Charmian's 1928 suit against Columbia Pictures, London's 1905
divorce from Bessie Maddern London, his suit against Joseph J. Noel and the Millergraph and
Biograph Companies, and his suit against Slayton Lyceum Bureau. There are also some land
documents pertaining to the Jack London Ranch. All the documents have been individually
catalogued. Cards are filed in the alphabetical section of the manuscripts catalog and the
Jack London Collection file in the chronological manuscripts catalog.
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Photographic Prints
Photographic Prints
Scope and Content Note
Prints can be found in Boxes 457-463. The photographs are all original (either contemporary
prints made prior to 1917 or later prints made from the original negative). Each print is filed
in its own envelope. The photographs are arranged by subject. In cluded in this section are a
number of photographs of Elizabeth Wiley Baxter; Marshall and Louis Bond; Romaine
Fielding; Hawaiian scenes (such as Diamond Head); Jack London Ranch scenes (including the
cottage where the Londons lived, the dam and lake, euc alyptus fields, Jack London's
gravesite, and the vineyards); George Wharton James; Martin Johnson; Dayelle and Willard
Kittredge; Charmian London (over 31 photographs from 1879-1940); Elizabeth May Maddern
London; Flora Wellman London; Jack London (over 54 photographs from 1896-1916); John
London; Joan London Miller; New York, New York; Edward Biron Payne; Virginia Prentiss;
Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer; Louis Edwin Stevens; Vallejo, California; Venice, Italy;
Vera Cruz, Mexico; Wake Robin Lodge (in Glen Ellen, California); Anna Strunsky Walling; and
Jack London's Wolf House, as well as an array of South Sea Island photographs, some
featuring Jack London's yacht Snark.Each photograph is individually numbered with a "JLP"
prefix and can be copied by the Huntington Photographic Department with permission from
the Jack London Estate.
Photographic Positives
Scope and Content Note
The photographic positives (ektapan "inner positives") have been copied from original
negatives in Jack London's negative collection. The original negatives are now deposited with
the State of California. Since these positives were made directly from the negative, without
going through a print process, the quality is generally good. However, readers should discuss
their duplication needs with the Photographic Department of the Curator of Photographs
before ordering prints from these positives. Permission from the Jack London estate is also
required.
The photographic positives have been divided into twenty-two subject categories. Following
is a brief list of each category, along with a resume of the contents.
Note
Ordering Information : Each of the proceding categories has been assigned one JLP number.
To order a print, please include this number and also the number found beside the
photograph, e.g. JLP 437 # 7, Jack and Charmian London.
"Yosemite, 1890" (JLP 416).
Scope and Content Note
27 photographs of a trip Charmian made to Yosemite in 1890. Featured are scenic
snapshots and a few photographs of Charmian London, Ninetta Springer, and Roscoe
Eames.
"Maine, 1905" (JLP 417).
Scope and Content Note
46 photographs, mostly of Jack London or scenic shots of Maine, New York City, and a few
of Jamaica. The snapshots were taken on London's honeymoon. There are also a few
photographs of Anna Strunsky Walling.
"Jack's Houses" (JLP 418).
Scope and Content Note
70 photographs of the houses London lived in as a young boy and man. Also included are
photographs of Cole School, Franklin School, Jack and Bess at Santa Cruz, and a number
of portraits of Jack London.
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Photographic Positives
"Piedmont - Venice, 1901-1902" (JLP 419).
Scope and Content Note
36 photographs of Venice, New York, Kent, England, Ireland, and a number of
photographs of Elizabeth Wiley and Harley Wiley.
"People and Places" (JLP 420).
Scope and Content Note
67 photographs, including some of George Sterling, Charmian London, Anna Strunsky
Walling, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer, and Edward Biron Payne. Also a number of
views of the Jack London Ranch, some Mexican scenes, and a few photographs of the Bo
hemian Russian River Grove.
"Korea I, II, III, 1904" (JLP 421-423).
Scope and Content Note
315 photographs taken by Jack London of the Russo-Japanese War in Korea. Also included
are a few photographs of Japan. The photographs feature Japanese and Russian soldiers
and artillery, Korean scenes and religious buildings, villages, some fishing scenes, and a
few photographs of Jack London.
" Spray Trip, 1904" (JLP 424).
Scope and Content Note
39 photographs, including a number of Katie Peterson, a few of Cloudesley Johns, and
others aboard the Spray.
"People, 1905-1906" (JLP 425).
Scope and Content Note
95 photographs of George Sterling, Carolyn Rand Sterling, Joan London Miller, Becky
London Fleming, Xavier Martinez, Charmian Kittredge London, Manyoungi, Constance
Skinner, Luther Burbank, Edgar Lucien Larkin, and Jack London. Most of the photographs
were taken in Glen Ellen. A few were taken in Oakland, Santa Rosa, or Los Angeles,
California.
"Monterey - Jamaica, 1905-1906" (JLP 426).
Scope and Content Note
69 photographs. The Jamaica scenes were taken by Jack London while on his honeymoon
in 1905. Included are photographs of Kingston Harbor and country scenes. The Monterey
photographs include a number of coastal scenes and the Carmel Mission. Only Jack and
Charmian London are featured in the photographs, although a few unidentified people
appear in some of the Jamaican scenes.
"Building of the Snark, 1906" (JLP 427).
Scope and Content Note
43 photographs of the Snark in Oakland, at sea, and its crew: Jack London, Charmian
London, Roscoe Eames, Herman Whitaker, and Manyoungi.
"Hawaii Including Molokai, Maui, and Oahu, 1907" (JLP 428).
Scope and Content Note
More than 125 photographs. Scenes include the Fourth of July parade on Molokai, coastal
scenes on Molokai, a rodeo on Maui, Pearl Harbor, and the Haleakala crater. Jack and
Charmian London are featured in many of the photographs.
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Photographic Positives
"French Polynesia, Fiji, Samoa, 1908" (JLP 429).
Scope and Content Note
134 photographs, many of native huts and villages. Also featured are Charmian London,
Ernest "Nature Man" Darling, Martin Johnson, and Jack London. Places include Tahiti, the
Marquesas, Savii, Papeete Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Samoa, Suva, Manua, and the Snark
at sea. Also shown is the ship S.S. Mariposa.
"Solomon Islands, 1908" (JLP 430).
Scope and Content Note
Over 128 photographs, many of Solomon Island natives. Included are the photographs of
London's Nianota trip, scenes of Tasman, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Malaita,
Guadalcanal, a Penduffryn masquerade, and a few scattered photographs of Hawaii. Jack
and Charmian London are featured in many of the photographs. There are a few pictures
of Martin Johnson.
" S. S. Tymeric Voyage, 1908- 1909" (JLP 431).
Scope and Content Note
42 photographs, including many of the Tymeric crew and scenes of Ecuador (including
Quito).
" Roamer Trips, 1910-1914" (JLP 432).
Scope and Content Note
115 photographs. Most of the photographs were taken in Oakland or along the
Sacramento River delta and feature Jack London, Charmian London, Ernest Matthews,
Nakata, French Frank, Edward Payne, and Ninetta Springer.
"Ranch, 1910-1913" (JLP 433).
Scope and Content Note
104 photographs. Early scenes of the Jack London Ranch, most featuring livestock. A
number of pictures of Charmian or Jack London on horseback. Neuadd Hillside is
prominent in a number of the photographs as well. Other horses include Belle, Don
Sonoma, and Fleet.
"Ranch, 1912-1916" (JLP 434).
Scope and Content Note
Many of the 110 photographs are of scenes of the Valley of the Moon. There are some
pictures of London's Truckee trip, a few pictures of Sonoma Creek, the ranch buildings,
and Wolf House. A number of stunning photographs of the building of the twin silos. Very
few photographs with people, although those included are Charmian and Jack London,
Edgar Larkin, Nakata, and Maude McNerviary, the ranch cook.
"Vera Cruz, 1914" (JLP 436).
Scope and Content Note
53 photographs of the Mexican Revolution. Most of the pictures are of artillery, ships, or
Panuco oil fields in Tampico. People featured include Jack and Charmian London, General
F.D. Evans, Major General B.C. Lockwood, Lieutenant Hayes, General Funston, Captain
J.B. Allison, Colonel Van Vlict, and Captain Davidson. Also included are photographs of the
Seventh Infantry and Fort Crockett.
Oahu, 1915" (JLP 437).
Scope and Content Note
40 photographs, most of Jack London and Charmian London in Pahoa. A few of Elizabeth
Wiley at Beach Walk, and some island scenes.
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Photographic Positives
"Ranch, After 1917" (JLP 435).
Scope and Content Note
A number of photographs of the ranch, some featuring Charmian London. A few of the 22
pictures are of Laurie Smith.
Photograph Albums and Large Albums
Scope and Content Note
Most of the photographs Jack and Charmian London took on their travels and at home were
pasted into ninety-three small and thirty large photo albums. The Huntington Library's Jack
London Collection contains only one of these albums: The DirigoVoyage, 1912. Almost all the
other albums are still owned by the Shepard family. In 1976, these albums were loaned to
the Library for the purpose of copying. [The original albums were donated to the Library in
1983 but will not be made generally available for research.] Each photograph was copied
(and each page of the album was also copied in its entirety) on thirty-five millimeter roll film.
Contact prints of these photographs have been assembled and are available for reference in
B oxes 486-510. Each box contains five albums.
Ordering Information : Each photograph has a number printed directly on the negative. To
order a photograph, please give the number beside the picture, the JLP number of the
album, the title and number of the album, and desc ribe the photograph. Readers are
cautioned that the quality of reproduction from these albums may not be suitable for
publication and are requested to consult with the Photographic Department or Curator of
Photographs before ordering copies.
London titled each album as it was finished. These titles (which serve as rough subject
guides) are:
album 1- 13:
album 14:
album 15:
album 16:
album 17:
album 18:
album 19:
album 20:
album 21:
album 22:
album 23:
album 24:
album 25:
album 26:
album 27:
Korea, Japan, Etc.
Very Earliest Photographs
Friends, Old Friends
The Crowd, Miscellaneous (including George Sterling)
In This Our World
Me, I Myself (portraits of Jack London)
Jack, Himself
Joan and Bess
The Little Woman (Charmian London)
The Kid Woman (Charmian London)
Family and Friends
The Spray, Bohemian Grove
Southern California, 1905 Voyage of the Spray, Glen Ellen
Some Friends and Bohemian Grove
Belle and Her Kind (album of horses)
album 28:
album 29:
album 30:
album 31:
album 32:
album 33:
album 34:
album 35:
People of the Abyss (London photographs)
My People and Some Others (Charmian London's family)
Schoolmates and Others (Charmian London's friends)
From West to East, 1900-1901 (Charmian London's trip)
In the County of Sonoma
The Valley of the Moon
The Beauty Ranch
The Ranch
album 36:
album 37:
album 38:
album 39:
album 40:
album 41:
album 42:
album 43:
About the Ranch
Cruise of the Spray 1904, Glen Ellen 1905, Joan and Bess 1905-1906
Persons and Places
Jack and His Dwelling Places
Here and There (California scenes)
Earthquake (1906), California Scenes
San Francisco, Week of April 18, 1906
The Pacific Coast, California
album 44:
Maine to Jamaica 1905-1906
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Photograph Albums and Large Albums
album 45:
album 46:
album 47:
album 48:
album 49:
album 50:
album 51:
album 52:
album 53:
album 54:
album 55:
album 56:
album 57:
album 58:
album 59:
album 60:
album 61:
album 62:
album 63:
album 64:
album 65:
album 66:
album 67:
album 68:
album 69:
album 70:
album 71:
album 72:
album 73:
album 74:
album 75:
album 76:
album 77:
album 78:
album 79:
album 80:
album 81:
album 82:
album 83:
album 84:
album 85:
Cuba and Florida 1906
Nevada and Arizona
The Snark
Concerning the Snark
Hawaii
Hawaii, 1915
Oahu
Maui, Oahu, Hawaii
Molokai Number One
Molokai Number Two
Molokai Number Three
Under the Southern Cross
Tahiti and the Marquesas
The Dangerous Archipelago
Fair Tahiti
The Society Islands
Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides
Bora Bora and Samoa
The Terrible Solomons Number One
The Terrible Solomons Number Two
Australia (1908)
The Mariposa and Tahiti
Tymeric Voyage 1909
South America 1909
Roamer 1910 (California scenes)
Roamer 1911, 1912, 1913
Navigating Four Horses Number One (London's trip to Oregon)
Navigating Four Horses Number Two
Dirigo Voyage 1912
Boats
Animals
Things of Beauty
Pictures
Live Wires
A Dream of Fair Women (Charmian London)
Small Folk
Over the World
California (and the Bohemian Club High Jinks)
Vera Cruz Number One
Verz Cruz Number Two
The World We Live In
album 86:
album 87:
album 88:
album 89:
album 90:
album 91:
album 92:
album 93:
Roamer 1914-1915 and Truckee
France and Belgium
Hawaii 1916
Little Children
The Wonder of the World
Correspondents
Yoshimatsu Nakata
Lunn's Summer Photographs (of Glen Ellen)
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
Russo- Japanese War 1904
Men and Women
Folk and Folks (including the 1914-1915 Bohemian Club High Jinks)
Just People
Celebrities
Us
We Two
The World Over
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2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
album LA 9:
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Photograph Albums and Large Albums
album LA
album LA
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album LA
album LA
10:
11:
12:
13:
14:
15:
16:
17:
Europe
Hawaii
The Solomon Islands
In Cannibal Isles
The Beauty of the World
Samoa and Fiji
Some Living Rainbows
New England, Jamaica, and Other Places
album LA 18:
album LA 19:
album LA 20:
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures
The Galleries
The Galleries
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
album LA
Pictures
Europe
Hawaii Nei
Dogs
French Provinces
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24:
25:
album LA 26-29:
Missing from the Jack London Ranch and were not filmed.
Ephemera
Scope and Content Note
The Ephemera section of the Jack London Collection consists of printed materials such as
receipts and articles, business papers and notes, copies of poems, prose and essays, ranch
notes, and Jack London's subject file. The section is contained in Boxes 518-590 of the
Collection, and each folder has been assigned its own JLE number for ready reference.
Following is a brief summary of each category in the Ephemera section.
Box (Boxes 518521).
"Articles and Fiction"
Scope and Content Note
These boxes contain newspaper and magazine articles written by or about Jack London.
Boxes 519-521 consist entirely of articles and stories written by Jack London. (See end of
this report for list of contents of Boxes 519-521.) Many of the articles in the first box were
written by Charmian London. Other authors include Frederick Irons Bamford, Frederick
O'Brien, May Sinclair, Ninetta Springer, and George Sterling.
Box (Box 522).
"Autograph Requests"
Scope and Content Note
A small collection of miscellaneous letters written to Jack London in solicitation of an
autograph. The letters are arranged alphabetically by author, A-Z.
Box (Boxes
533-534).
"Bank Account"
Scope and Content Note
Includes London's checkbook registers for 1905-1916, a few Merchant's National Bank
statements, and checks written by Jack London.
Box (Box 535).
"Catalogs"
Scope and Content Note
A collection of catalogs solicited or otherwise received by Jack London. Quite a few
farming implement catalogs are included, as are publisher's book catalogs.
Box (Boxes
536-538).
"Financial Receipts, Statements and Accounts"
Scope and Content Note
Receipts from merchant accounts London had. Arranged alphabetically by company.
Included are London's royalty accounts with Curtis Brown and Massie, Doubleday Page
and Company, Houghton Mifflin Company, Hughes Massie and Company, and the
Macmillan Comp any. Also a few farming accounts.
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Ephemera
Box (Box 539).
"Income Tax Returns and Financial Statements"
Scope and Content Note
Returns and statements from Jack and Charmian London for 1913-1927. Also one 1908
return for the United Kingdom.
Box (Boxes
540-562).
"Jack London Subject File"
Scope and Content Note
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 American, 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, Tatooing, Tipping, Transportation, Travel, Woman, Woodruff,
Writing.
Box (Box 563).
(Box 557): Trade Unionism.
(Boxes 558-560): War.
(Box 561): World.
(Box 562): Yachts.
"Magazine Notebooks"
Scope and Content Note
Clippings from magazines which London had bound together.
Box (Box 564).
"Motion Pictures"
Scope and Content Note
Reviews of motion pictures based upon Jack London's works. Also a few advertisements
and miscellaneous articles.
Box (Boxes
565-575).
"Pamphlets"
Scope and Content Note
Pamphlets from London's library, arranged alphabetically by author. A number of the
pamphlets are annotated by London.
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Ephemera
Box (Box 576).
"People"
Scope and Content Note
Articles about celebrities or people Jack London knew. Included are Gertrude Atherton,
Rex Beach, Hobart Bosworth, William Chaney, Samuel Clemens, Ina Coolbrith, William
Ellsworth, Anatole France, Henry Frick, Finn Frolich, Hilda Gilbert, Emma Goldman, Wilfred
Gribble, George Heinold, Johnny Jeinold, James Hopper, Martin Johnson, Charmian Jeanne
London, Elizabeth Maddern London, Sybil London, Joan London Miller, Joseph Noel, Jake
Oppenheimer, Herbert Heron Peet, Charles Piper, Eliza Shepard, James Shep ard, Upton
Sinclair, Ninetta Springer, George Sterling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ernest
Untermann.
Box (Box 577).
"People: Charmian London"
Scope and Content Note
Articles about Charmian, from 1911-1955, including obituaries.
Box (Boxes
578-580).
"People: Jack London"
Scope and Content Note
Articles written in newspapers and magazines mentioning or concerning Jack London. Box
580 contains London's obituaries, filed chronologically.
Box (Box 581).
"Ranch and Barn Scrapbook"
Scope and Content Note
A few receipts, drawings, and addresses of persons connected with the building of the
Jack London Ranch.
Box (Boxes
582-583).
"Ranch Notes"
Scope and Content Note
An extremely rich source of material about the construction of the Jack London Ranch,
including many notes written by Jack London or Eliza Shepard about the farm, clippings
London culled about farming and ranching, a few notes about the Wolf House, and
material about London's ill-fated investment in eucalyptus trees.
Box (Box 584).
"Rejection Slips"
Scope and Content Note
Notes (mostly printed) sent to London by publishers. Filed alphabetically by publisher.
Box (Boxes
585-586).
"Reviews"
Scope and Content Note
Magazine and newspaper reviews of Jack London's works. Filed alphabetically by title of
London's book or story.
Box (Boxes
587-588).
" Snark Receipts"
Scope and Content Note
Collection of receipts and bills incurred during construction of the yacht Snark,including
Hawaiian repairs. Filed alphabetically by company name.
Box (Boxes
589-590).
"Subjects"
Scope and Content Note
Articles not part of London's subject file, filed according to topic. Included are materials
about the Jack London Club, the Jack London Memorial Library, Jack London Grape Juice
Company, and London's copyright certificates.
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Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks
Scope and Content Note
The Jack London scrapbooks were assembled first by Jack and then by Charmian London.
Included are most of London's clippings, reviews of his books, and newspaper accounts of his
activities. The scrapbooks form the single most important printed source of London's life and
literary work, and give an excellent overview of how London was seen in his own time. The
scrapbooks have been microfilmed, and copies of articles in the scrapbooks may be made
only from this microfilm. The microfilm is in Box 517.
The scrapbooks are arranged roughly in chronological order.
scrapbook 1:
scrapbook 2:
scrapbook 3:
scrapbook 4:
scrapbook 5:
scrapbook 6:
scrapbook 7:
scrapbook 8:
scrapbook 9:
scrapbook 10:
scrapbook 11:
scrapbook 12:
scrapbook 13:
scrapbook 14:
scrapbook 15:
scrapbook 16:
scrapbook 17:
scrapbook 18:
1899-1901
1902-1903
1903-1904
1903-1904
1904-1905
1905
1905-1906
1906-1908
1907-1910
1910 to July 1911
July 1911 to March 1913
April 1913-May 1914
1914
1913-1915 (motion pictures)
Miscellaneous articles
1911 articles by or about Jack London
Pamphlets and brochures
Reviews of The Book of Jack London
scrapbook 19:
scrapbook 20:
scrapbook 21:
scrapbook 22:
scrapbook 23:
scrapbook 24:
scrapbook 25:
scrapbook 26:
Magazine articles about Jack London
Magazine articles about Charmian London
Log of the Snark articles
1913-1915
1913-1919
1922-1939
1939-1942
Socialism
scrapbook 27:
Socialism
Broadsides
Scope and Content Note
The London Collection contains sixty-four broadsides (JLB 1-64). Included in this category are
the newspaper articles London wrote from Korea, a few posters advertising his books, and a
motion picture poster advertising The Sea-Wolf:
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JLB 1 Poster for "The Sea Wolf" (movie), Lyceum Theatre, Scranton, PA, 1915.
JLB 2 Poster for Jack London Centennial, 1976.
JLB 3 London, Jack. "From Dawson to the Sea." Buffalo Express, June 4, 1899.
JLB 4 "Here Are the First Pictures Direct From the Seat of War in Korea" (taken by JL).
San Francisco Examiner, April 4, 1904.
JLB 5 Martinez, Xavier. "Silhouette Portraits of Jack London and George Sterling."
Circa 1910.
JLB 6 Allan, Keith. "Jack London Manuscript for Sale in Santa Rosa." Press Democrat,
July 10, 1966.
JLB 7 Newspaper account of Jack London's death and funeral. Sonoma Valley
Expositor, November 29, 1916.
JLB 8 Newspaper advertisement for unpublished story called "Poppy Cargo." Evening
Graphic, July 9, 1931.
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JLB 9 Black, Ernestine. Charmian London comments on British sex scandal. San
Francisco Call, March 9, 1925.
JLB 10 Bland, Henry Meade. "A Chat With Charmian London." Oakland Tribune, August
13, 1922.
JLB 11 Burlesque of celebrities (including JL) by Dutch Treat Club. Newspaper article
dated February 28, 1915.
JLB 12 Charmian ABC." Venstrebladet, July 4, 1922.
JLB 13 Christiansen, Einar. Article about Jack London from Iste Mai, November 1921.
JLB 14 Did Sherman Entertain Famous Jack London?" Newspaper article dated
February 1, 1915.
JLB 15 Issues of The Dyea Trail (June 25, 1898) and The Klondike News (April 1, 1898).
JLB 16 Hopkins, Ernest J. "Jack London Drives Two Horses." San Francisco Bulletin,
November 18, 1916.
JLB 17 Review of "The Jacket." The Outlook, August 7, 1915.
JLB 18 "Jack London's Land." Swedish newspaper, 1922.
JLB 19 "Jack London's Love of the Strenuous." Rockford Morning Star, July 31, 1910.
JLB 20 "Widow Mourns Loss of Jack London's Last Yacht." Oakland Tribune, August 6,
1930.
JLB 21 Lewis, Lena Morris. "A Sketch of Jack London." Alaska Labor News, December
2, 1916.
JLB 22 "Life and Literary Work of Jack London, by Charmian London, Subject of
Berkeley Pen Women Lecture." The Wasp, September 13, 1924.
JLB 23 "Literary Critics Nominate for Pulitzer Prize." Richmond Times-Dispatch, April
30, 1939.
JLB 24 "The Trail of the Serpent" (Chapter 12). Oakland Tribune, June 11, 1922.
JLB 25 London, Jack. "How Jack London Got In and Out of Jail in Japan." San Francisco
Examiner, February 27, 1904.
JLB 26 "Story of a Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan" (Jack London's first story). San
Francisco Call, October 9, 1920.
JLB 27 London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." Sunday Chronicle, December 25, 1938.
JLB 28 London, Jack. "What Life Means to Me." San Francisco Bulletin, December 2,
1916.
JLB 29 Marshall, Marguerite Moors. "John Barleycorn's Sister Jane of New York Only a
Sporadic Type, Says Jack London." San Francisco, January 22, 1914.
JLB 30 "Michael and the Jack London Club." Boston Sunday Post, March 31, 1918.
JLB 31 Millard, Bailey. "Jack London's Promise Comes True." Los Angeles Times
Sunday Magazine, May 20, 1934.
JLB 32 London, Joan. "Soviet Women Have No Time for Household." San Francisco
Chronicle, July 3, 1932.
JLB 33 Announcement of Joan London's marriage. Oakland Tribune, February 11,
1921.
JLB 34 "Mme. Jack London a Garde un Inoubliable Souvenir." Paris-Midi, July 29, 1929.
JLB 35 Moriarty, Bud. "Jack London, Famous California Writer, Started Career in
Eastbay Cities." Oakland Tribune, March 22, 1936.
JLB 36 Lyman, Frank. "Sonoma County in Spring Garb for Motorist's Delight"
(mentions JL's Wolf House). San Francisco Examiner, March 31, 1940.
JLB 37 "Mrs. Jack London is Guest of Club." Hilo Daily Tribune, February 18, 1920.
JLB 38 Cigarette ad using JL's "The Call of the Wild" in text and illustration. San
Francisco Examiner, September 15, 1932.
JLB 39 Stone, Irving. "Jack London." Hemmets Journal, November 3, 1938.
JLB 40 Thomas, Homer. "Jack London Life Novel Stirs Row." Oakland Post-Enquirer,
March 28, 1925.
JLB 41 "The Trail of the Serpent - Twenty Famous Authors Wrote World's Greatest
Collaborative Fiction Serial." Oakland Tribune, March 13, 1922.
JLB 42 "Wit vs. Work" (cites JL's life as an example). Boston Daily Globe, August 22,
1915.
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JLB 43 Yorick. "On the Margin." States that "The Sea Wolf" and "Jack Barleycorn"
should be required reading in schools. San Diego Union, March 14, 1915.
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Broadsides
JLB 44 Four issues of "Youth's Companion" featuring: "Chased By the Trail"
(September 26, 1907); "The Fuzziness of Hoockla-Heen" (July 3, 1902); "To Build a
Fire" (May 29, 1902); "Up the Slide" (October 25, 1906).
JLB 45 London, Jack. "Japanese Officers Consider Everything a Military Secret." San
Francisco Examiner, June 26, 1904.
JLB 46 London, Jack. "Troubles of War Correspondent in Starting for the Front." San
Francisco Examiner, April 4, 1904.
JLB 47 London, Jack. "Interpreters and How They Cause Trouble." San Francisco
Examiner, April 26, 1904.
JLB 48 London, Jack. "Japanese Supplies Rushed to the Front By Man and Beast." San
Francisco Examiner, June 19, 1904.
JLB 49 London, Jack. "Advancing Russians Nearing Japan's Army." San Francisco
Examiner, March 3, 1904.
JLB 50 London, Jack. "Examiner Writer Sent Back to Seoul." San Francisco Examiner,
April 25, 1904.
JLB 51 London, Jack. "Jack London's Graphic Story of Japs Driving Russians Across
Yalu River." San Francisco Examiner, June 4, 1904.
JLB 52 London, Jack. "Cossacks Fight Then Retreat." San Francisco Examiner, April 19,
1904.
JLB 53 London, Jack. "Great Socialist Vote Explained." San Francisco Examiner,
November 10, 1904.
JLB 54 London, Jack. "How Jack London Got In and Out of Jail in Japan." San Francisco
Examiner, February 27, 1904.
JLB 55 London, Jack. "How the Hermit Kingdom Behaves in Time of War." San
Francisco Examiner, April 17, 1904.
LB 56 London, Jack. "Russian Warships Patrol Pe-Chili Gulf. San Francisco Examiner,
April 7, 1904.
JLB 57 London, Jack. "Japan's Invasion of Korea As Seen By Jack London." San
Francisco Examiner, March 4, 1904.
JLB 58 London, Jack. "Japanese Army's Equipment Excites Great Admiration." San
Francisco Examiner, April 3, 1904.
JLB 59 London, Jack. "Japanese Swim Cold River Under Fire." San Francisco Examiner,
June 9, 1904.
JLB 60 London, Jack. "Footsore, Dazed and Frozen, the Japanese Trudge Through
Korea." San Francisco Examiner, April 18, 1904.
JLB 61 "The Savage Victory: As Told by Jack London" (series of fighting stories by
famous authors). Empire News, March 30, 1930.
Box 519
JLB 62 London, Jack. "The Red Plague." St. Louis Post- Dispatch, May 23, 1915.
JLB 63 London, Jack. "Fighting at Long Range Described." San Francisco Examiner,
June 5, 1904.
JLB 64 Poster for Jack London Days, October 13, 1985.
Writings of Jack London
JLE 49 The Abysmal Brute (Sport and Play, Feb & May 1931)
JLE 50 Advancing Russians Nearing Japan's Army (San Francisco Examiner, 3 March
1904)
JLE 51 [Advertisement for] General Types of Superior Men
JLE 52 Again the Literary Aspirant (The Critic)
JLE 53 The Amateur M.D.
JLE 54 The Amateur Navigator
JLE 55 An Old Lie Finally Nailed (pamphlet with letter from JL dated 5 August 1916 to
Navy Recruiting Station)
JLE 56 Are There Any Thrills Left in Life (New Haven Times Leader, 9 December 1916)
JLE 57 San Francisco will be Western Art Center-- Movement for Great Museum
Reaches Climax (San Francisco Examiner, 7 November 1915)
JLE 58 Bald Face (The Aegis)
JLE 59 [Bibliography]
JLE 60 [Bibliography]
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JLE 61 [Business Cards]
JLE 62 By the Turtles of Tasman
JLE 63 The Call of the Wild (Classics Illustrated, January 1952)
JLE 64 The Chinago (Harper's Monthly)
JLE 65 Chris Farrington: Able Seaman (Pall Mall Magazine, March 1906)
JLE 66 The Cruise of the Dazzler (July 1902)
JLE 67 Cruising in the Solomons (The Pacific Monthly, June 1910)
JLE 68 Directions to Ranch (pamphlet)
JLE 69 The Dream of Debs (International Socialist Review, January 1917)
JLE 70 [Dustjackets]
JLE 71 The Economics of the Klondike (American Monthly Review of Reviews)
JLE 72 Examiner Writer Sent Back to Seoul (San Francisco Examiner, 25 April 1904)
JLE 73 Fagots of Cedar (comments by JL)
JLE 74 Fighting at Long Range (San Francisco Examiner, 5 June 1904)
JLE 75 First Aid to Rising Authors (The Junior Munsey, December 1900)
JLE 76 Footsore, Dazed and Frozen, the Japanese Trudge Through Korea (San
Francisco Examiner, 18 April 1904)
JLE 77 "Frisco Kid's" Story (The Aegis)
JLE 78 The Future of California as an Agricultural State (University Farm Agricola, 13
October 1916)
JLE 79 The Golden Poppy (The Delineator, January 1904)
JLE 80 Great Socialist Vote Explained (San Francisco Examiner, 10 November 1904)
JLE 81 The High Seat of Abundance (Woman's Home Companion, January 1908)
JLE 3311 Hoboes that Pass in the Night
JLE 82 The House of Mapuhi (The Windsor Magazine, January 1909)
JLE 83 Housekeeping in the Klondike (Harper's Bazaar, September 1900)
JLE 84 How I Broke Into Print (The Strand Magazine, January 1915)
JLE 85 How Jack London Got In and Out of Jail in Japan (San Francisco Examiner, 27
February 1904)
JLE 86 How the Hermit Kingdom Behaves in Time of War (San Francisco Examiner, 17
April 1904)
JLE 87 How the Japanese Army is Advancing into Korea (San Francisco Examiner, 7
April 1904)
JLE 88 Husky - The Wolf Dog of the North (Harper's Weekly, 30 June 1900)
JLE 89 Interpreter and Canned Goods (San Francisco Examiner, 4 April 1904)
JLE 90 Interpreters and How They Cause Trouble (San Francisco Examiner, 26 April
1904)
JLE 91 Jack London and the Docking of Horses (pamphlet for National Equine Defence
League, 10 June 1913)
JLE 92 Jack London's Last Letter (Every Week, 21 November 1916)
JLE 93 Jack London Says: (The Silhouette)
JLE 94 Japanese Officers Consider Everything a Military Secret (San Francisco
Examiner, 26 June 1904)
JLE 95 Japanese Supplies Rushed to the Front by Man and Beast (San Francisco
Examiner, 19 June 1904)
JLE 96 Japanese Swim Cold River Under Fire (San Francisco Examiner, 9 June 1904)
JLE 97 Japan's Army's Equipment Excites Great Admiration (San Francisco Examiner, 3
April 1904)
JLE 98 Japan's Invasion of Korea (San Francisco Examiner, 4 March 1904)
JLE 99 Japs Driving Russians Across the Yalu River (San Francisco Examiner, 4 June
1904)
Box 520
JLE 100
JLE 101
JLE 102
JLE 103
JLE 104
JLE 105
JLE 106 Love of Life (The Golden Book Magazine, February 1925)
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John Barleycorn (Saturday Evening Post, March-May 1913)
"Just Meat" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1965)
The King of Mazy May (Youth's Companion, 30 November 1899)
Diary of Jack London's Trip to the Klondike (Yukon News, Nov-Dec 1966)
Lawgivers (Collier's, 20 June 1914)
A Lesson in Heraldry (The National Magazine, March 1900)
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JLE 107 The Lover's Liturgy (The Raven, February 1901)
JLE 108 The Madness of John Harned (Everybody's Magazine, 1909)
JLE 109 Make Westing (Encore, December 1944)
JLE 110 To the Valley of Death (article from Oakland Enquirer, 24 November 1916,
with chapter of Martin Eden reprinted)
JLE 111 Mexico's Army and Ours (Collier's, 30 May 1914)
JLE 112 [Miscellaneous Notes]
JLE 113 Molokai Ideal for Mainland Lepers (The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 3 June
1915)
JLE 114 The Sea Gangsters (Hearst's Magazine, Nov 1913-Aug 1914)
JLE 115 My Faith (The Workingman's Paper, 8 June 1910)
JLE 116 My Hawaiian Aloha (Cosmopolitan, Sept 1916)
JLE 117 My Hawaiian Aloha
JLE 118 Nar Villdyret Vakner (Illustrerte Klassikere)
JLE 119 The Nature Man (Woman's Home Companion, Sept 1908)
JLE 120 Navigating Four Horses North of the Bay (Sunset, Sept 1911)
JLE 121 The Octopus, The Material Side, On the Writer's Philosophy of Life (The
Occident, Dec 1916)
JLE 122 Our Guiltless Scapegoats, The Stricken of Molokai (newspaper article, 2 June
1916)
JLE 123 Pessimism, Optimism and Patriotism (The Aegis)
JLE 124 [Photographic Negatives]
JLE 125 Pluck and Pertinacity (The Youth's Companion, 4 January 1900)
JLE 126 Politics and Leprosy (Springfield Union, 6 August 1916)
JLE 127 Poppy Cargo (The Argosy, October 1931)
JLE 128 The Proper "Girlie" (The Smart Set, 1900)
JLE 129 Jack London Tells of the Rebel Army as He Saw it at Tampico (Los Angeles
Tribune, 2 July 1914)
JLE 130 The Red Game of War (Collier's, 16 May 1914)
JLE 131 The Red Plague
JLE 132 London's Reply is Warm -- Author Answers Brown (The Call, 17 January
[1909?]
JLE 133 Revolution (The International Socialist Review, August 1909)
JLE 134 Russians Drive Back Japanese Outposts (San Francisco Examiner, 19 April
1904)
Box 521
JLE 135
JLE 136
JLE 137
JLE 138
JLE 139
JLE 140
Sakaicho, Hono Asi and Hakadaki (The Aegis, 19 April 1895)
[Sample Signature]
The Savage Victory (Empire News, 30 March 1930)
The Scarlet Plague (The Red Seal Magazine, Sept-Oct 1922)
The Scarlet Plague (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Feb 1949)
The Sea Wolf (Classics Illustrated, July 1951)
JLE 141
JLE 142
JLE 143
JLE 144
JLE 145
Boon)
The Seed of McCoy (The Century Magazine, April 1909)
The Sickness of Lone Chief (The Evening News, 23 August 1933)
Small-Boat Sailing (The Yachting Monthly, August 1912)
Smoke a Shorty
A Son of the Sun (pamphlet containing souvenir chapter, courtesy of Mills &
JLE 146 Stalking the Pestilence (Collier's, 6 June 1914)
JLE 147 The Star Rover (American Sunday Monthly Magazine, 1914-15)
JLE 148
JLE 149
JLE 150
JLE 151
JLE 152
JLE 153
JLE 154
JLE 155
JLE 156 To the Man on the Trail--A Klondike Christmas (Overland Monthly, Jan 1917)
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The Stone-Fishing of Bora Bora (Pacific Monthly, April 1910)
Story of a Big Fight (The Australian Star, 28 December 1908)
The Strength of the Strong (The International Socialist Review, 1911)
Sufferings of the Japanese (San Francisco Examiner, 20 April 1904)
Tales of the Far North (illustration only)
Thanksgiving on Slav Creek (Harper's Bazaar, 24 November 1900)
Their Alcove (Sept 1900)
A Thousand Deaths
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JLE 157
JLE 158
JLE 159
JLE 160
JLE 161
JLE 162 The Way of War (1917)
JLE 163 [JL's endorsement in advertisements for WESTROBAC, 22 July 1915]
JLE 164 What Life Means to Me (two pamphlets)
JLE 165
JLE 166
JLE 167
JLE 168
JLE 169
JLE 170 The Yellow Peril (San Francisco Examiner, 25 September 1904)
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The Trouble Makers of Mexico (Collier's, 13 June 1914)
Typee
Ulf Larsen (Illustrerte Klassikere)
The Valley of the Moon (Cosmopolitan, April-Dec 1913)
War (Scholastic, 5 November 1938)
White Fang (Classics Illustrated, Feb 1951)
Who Believes in Ghosts! (The Aegis, 21 October 1895)
With Funston's Men (Collier's, 23 May 1914)
Wonders of the South Seas (program for The Victoria Palace)
The Writer's Philosophy of Life
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