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Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1900-1906.
Call number: mssHM 80735-80748
Creator: London, Jack (1876-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased for the Huntington by the Library Collectors' Council from Eric Daily and Laurin Parker, January 1999.

Jack London letter to Cleve E. Long

Manuscripts

Jack London wrote this letter to "Comrade Long" in January 1915 from his home in Glen Ellen, California. In it he expresses regret that he "cannot join in the adventure" with Long and that he must travel to San Francisco to deal with a pressing matter. London also talks about his book The iron heel and complains about his "capitalist book buyers" and "capitalist publishers." He further states that he signed a new contract for several years but that it "stipulates that it must be acceptable fiction - - - of course, that means acceptable capitalistic fiction." The letter ends "Yours for the Revolution, Jack London."

mssHM 80608

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Thomas Starr King letter to Charles Warren Stoddard

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King sends his regrets that he will be unable to meet Stoddard, and hopes Stoddard will understand that King's hastily pencilled criticisms are a sign of King's high opinion of Stoddard's work: "It is because you have strong powers & good capacities that I speak of Blemishes for than excellences." With two bits of printed ephemera, one a clipping from an unknown source containing a short biography of Thomas Starr King.

mssHM 29246

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Jack London letter to Charmian London

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A handwritten love letter from Jack London to Charmian Kittredge London written aboard the S.S. Siberia while en route to Japan, where London had an assignment as a newspaper correspondent to cover the Russo-Japanese War. The letter was written following their goodbye upon his departure and begins "God knows I love you, my woman" and ends with reference to Kittredge as "my true wife." The letter is not signed. With a 4.5 x 2 cm fragment of a printed photograph of London pinned to the first page.

mssHM 83601

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Stoddard, Charles Warren. To Jack London

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9 letters. (Ref. only)

JLE 3312

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Charles Warren Stoddard poems and letters

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Volume of blank pages with two handwritten poems, "The Cocoa Tree" and "The parables of nature," by American writer Charles Warren Stoddard and three letters from Stoddard to American writer Edmund Clarence Stedman, his wife, Laura Woodworth Stedman, and their son Arthur Stedman tipped in (mssHM 24342-24345). The letter to Edmund Stedman is written around a small lithograph, "Bird's Eye View of the Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind.", published by Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co. of Chicago.

mssHM 2541-2542

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Jack London letter to Elinor Glyn

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Jack London letter to English novelist Elinor Glyn about exchanging books and visiting London's ranch in Glen Ellen. The letter is typed; signed by Jack London.

mssHM 82426

Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard

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