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Charmian London letters
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Charmian London letters and manuscripts
Manuscripts
This material includes letters and manuscripts by Charmian London. Nine of the letters (1910-1926) are written to Margaret Smith Cobb, a California author, poet, and artist, and friend of both Charmian and Jack London. The letters concern family matters, lace making, their mutual writing projects, and health issues; the letters also mention Jack London, George Sterling, and Harry Houdini. There is one letter (Oct. 7, 1911) from Charmian to Elizabeth Maddern London ("Bessie"), Jack London's first wife. Also included are two typewritten carbon copies of a newspaper article ([approx. 1916]) Charmian wrote about British women during World War I; galley proofs ([approx. 1916]) of an article by Jack London, corrected by Charmian; and one empty envelope (June 26, 1917). All the material is in good condition, with some slight damage from normal use.
mssHM 83700-83712
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Charmian London letters to Harvey Taylor
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters from Charmian London to Harvey Taylor, discussing both personal and business subjects. Taylor was acting as an agent for Charmian and the works of her late husband, Jack London, at this time. The letters also seem to indicate a romantic relationship. Also included are a few letters or fragments from others to Charmian London that she appears to have forwarded to Taylor.
mssHM 82281-82345
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Charmian London letters to Harvey Taylor
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters from Charmian London to literary agent Harvey Taylor, discussing both personal and business subjects. Taylor was acting as an agent for Charmian and the works of her late husband, Jack London, at this time. The letters also seem to indicate a romantic relationship. Also included are a few letters or fragments from others, including Eliza London Shepard and Anna Strunsky Walling, chiefly to Charmian London that she appears to have forwarded to Taylor.
mssHM 82281-82345
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Charmian London letters to Jack Harries
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Charmian London letter to Jack Harries (1929, July 26) from Paris. Charmian thanks Harries for his letter (Harries was a great admirer of Jack London) and states "I am happy you revere him." She also complains about the amount of mail she has to answer and offers to buy Harries a book in London for his collection. HM 80755
mssHM 80755-80758
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Charmian London letters
Manuscripts
Two Charmian London typewritten letters, with envelopes. HM 83749 was written to Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Samuel T. Noyes (1918 March 17, New York, New York), and discusses the first World War and speculates about Jack London's possible reaction to the war. HM 83750 was written to Mr. M.L. Herman (1928 September 20, Glen Ellen, Sonoma, California), this letter discusses the bibliographic identification of the first printing of Jack London's "Son of the Wolf" (1900); also, Charmian's intense concerns regarding her own library, the possibility of fire, and the safety of Jack London's books housed at the ranch.
mssHM 83749-83750
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Sketchbooks of Charmian London
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Three sketchbooks by Charmian London, begun when London was sixteen and including images, chiefly in pencil or pen and ink, of people, animals, and places. The volumes date from 1889-1895 (HM 82462), 1893-1895 (HM 82463), and ca. 1894-1924 (HM 82464). Scenes in Devon and Surrey, England, are featured in the second sketchbook (HM 82463). The third sketchbook (HM 82464) is a portfolio whose pages have been removed and interleaved.
mssHM 82462-82464