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Jack London Subject File

Description

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.
Type
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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.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
NOT AVAILABLE: Albums 1-92 and Large albums 1-30: Do not circulate. Use digital reproductions in the Huntington Digital Library.
RESTRICTED: Boxes 283, 284, 287, 433, 591, 592, 594, 624 and Volumes 1-30: Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
RESTRICTED: Boxes 595, 596, 623: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Associated people
London, Charmian.
Shepard, Eliza London.
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