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Anna Strunsky Walling papers
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Anna Strunsky Walling letter to Priscilla Murdock
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In this typed letter by Walling to Murdock, Walling talks about her failing eyes and the work she's been doing for "the Huntington, Stanford, Bankcroft [sic]..." She also states that her trustees will be her son and daughter. HM 79052
mssHM 79052-79053
Anna Strunsky Walling
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Anna Strunksky Walling leans against the sail of a boat with eyes closed.
mssJL JLP 395
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Walling, Anna Strunsky, 1879-. Telegram to Jack London, 1876-1916
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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.
HM 82665
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Joan London letters, (bulk 1959-1969)
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Joan London and author Anna Strunsky Walling are the primary authors of these letters addressed to Vil' Bykov, a Jack London scholar and Russian translator. Also included is a copy of a poem by George Sterling titled "In Farewell" that was delivered to Walling on the eve of her departure to Russia in 1905.
mssHM 81000-81032
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Maine, 1905
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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.
JLP 417
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People and Places
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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 Bohemian Russian River Grove.
JLP 420