Manuscripts

People: Charmian London

Description: Articles about Charmian, from 1911-1955, including obituaries.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1866-1977.
Call number: mssJL
Creator: London, Jack (1876-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The nucleus of the collection was purchased by Henry Huntington from Charmian London in 1925. Additional groups of material were acquired by both gift and purchase from Mrs. London and later from literary executors Irving Shepard and I. Milo Shepard over many years. Further material has been acquired from other sources; the provenance of these items is noted on the individual folders.

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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Articles about celebrities or people Jack London knew. Included are Gertrude Atherton, Rex Beach, Hobart Bosworth, William Chaney, Samuel Clemens, Ina Coolbrith, William Ellsworth, Anatole France, Henry Frick, Finn Frolich, Hilda Gilbert, Emma Goldman, Wilfred Gribble, George Heinold, Johnny Heinold, James Hopper, Martin Johnson, Charmian Jeanne London, Elizabeth Maddern London, Sybil London, Joan London Miller, Joseph Noel, Jake Oppenheimer, Herbert Heron Peet, Charles Piper, Eliza Shepard, James Shepard, Upton Sinclair, Ninetta Springer, George Sterling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ernest Untermann.

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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.

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LONDON, Charmian (Kittredge). The Book of Jack London: [biography]

Manuscripts

Ms. 673 pp. 4to. (typewritten). Corrections in pencil by Charmian (Kittredge) London and George Sterling. Glen Ellen, California.

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Ephemera: People: Charmian London. JLE 2319-2348

Manuscripts

The collection includes literary manuscripts of most of London's works, extensive correspondence files, documents, photographs, ephemera, and scrapbooks.

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Articles and Fiction

Manuscripts

These boxes contain newspaper and magazine articles written by or about Jack London. Boxes 519-521 consist entirely of articles and stories written by Jack London. Many of the articles in the first box were written by Charmian London. Other authors include Frederick Irons Bamford, Frederick O'Brien, May Sinclair, Ninetta Springer, and George Sterling.

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Charmian London letters and manuscripts

LONDON, Charmian (Kittredge). The Book of Jack London: [biography]

Ephemera: People: Charmian London. JLE 2319-2348

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