Manuscripts
Jack London papers
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People: Jack London
Manuscripts
Articles written in newspapers and magazines mentioning or concerning Jack London. Box 580 contains London's obituaries, filed chronologically.
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Contact prints of photograph albums 91-93; Jack London at Yale; and Album covers and list of albums
Manuscripts
This box includes contact prints for albums 91-92, as well as: JLP 531 Album 93, Lunn's Summer Photographs (of Glen Ellen). 1915-1916 JLP 605, Jack London at Yale. 1905 JLP 606 Album Covers and List of Albums. Before 1950
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Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard
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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.
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Jack London Subject File
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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 America, 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, Tattooing, Tipping, Transportation, Travel, Woman, Woodruff, Writing. (Box 557): Trade Unionism. (Boxes 558-560): War. (Box 561): World. (Box 562): Yachts.
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2 negatives of portraits of Jack London
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With annotated envelope. Portrait of Jack London wearing knit cap. 1 negative: b&w; 13x18cm. JLP 777a. Portrait of Jack London wearing knit cap, arms crossed. 1 negative: b&w; 13x18cm. JLP 777b.
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Documents
Manuscripts
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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