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Manuscripts
Jack London letter to Charmian London
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- Description
- 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.
- Production date
- 1904 January 8.
- Call number
- mssHM 83601
- Provenance
