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Photographic Prints
Manuscripts
The photographs are all original (either contemporary prints made prior to 1917 or later prints made from the original negative). Each print is individually numbered with a "JLP" prefix and filed in its own envelope. Included in this section are a number of photographs of Elizabeth Wiley Baxter; Marshall and Louis Bond; Romaine Fielding; Hawaiian scenes (such as Diamond Head); Jack London Ranch scenes (including the cottage where the Londons lived, the dam and lake, eucalyptus fields, Jack London's gravesite, and the vineyards); George Wharton James; Martin Johnson; Dayelle and Willard Kittredge; Charmian London (over 31 photographs from 1879-1940); Elizabeth May Maddern London; Flora Wellman London; Jack London (over 54 photographs from 1896-1916); John London; Joan London Miller; New York, New York; Edward Biron Payne; Virginia Prentiss; Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer; Louis Edwin Stevens; Vallejo, California; Venice, Italy; Vera Cruz, Mexico; Wake Robin Lodge (in Glen Ellen, California); Anna Strunsky Walling; and Jack London's Wolf House, as well as an array of South Sea Island photographs, some featuring Jack London's yacht Snark.
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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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People and Places
Manuscripts
67 photographs, including some of George Sterling, Charmian London, Anna Strunsky Walling, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer, and Edward Biron Payne. Also a number of views of the Jack London Ranch, some Mexican scenes, and a few photographs of the Bohemian Russian River Grove.
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Ranch Notes
Manuscripts
An extremely rich source of material about the construction of the Jack London Ranch, including many notes written by Jack London or Eliza Shepard about the farm, clippings London culled about farming and ranching, a few notes about the Wolf House, and material about London's ill-fated investment in eucalyptus trees.
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Harvey Taylor File
Manuscripts
The Harvey Taylor File documents the relationship between Harvey Taylor (who for a time was bibliographer, then supposed agent for the London estate) and Charmian London. The two-box file consists entirely of letters, mostly between Charmian Kittredge London and Harvey Taylor. A few letters from Eliza Shepard are also included. At the request of the Jack London estate, the Harvey Taylor files (Boxes 435-436) were restricted until the death of Harvey Taylor; they were opened for research on March 30, 1993.
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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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