Manuscripts

Bank Account

Description: Includes London's checkbook registers for 1905-1916, a few Merchant's National Bank statements, and checks written by Jack London.
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.

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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Subjects

Manuscripts

Articles not part of London's subject file, filed according to topic. Included are materials about the Jack London Club, the Jack London Memorial Library, Jack London Grape Juice Company, and London's copyright certificates.

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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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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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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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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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Bank Account

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Photographic Prints

Subjects

Contact prints of photograph albums 91-93; Jack London at Yale; and Album covers and list of albums

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People: Jack London

Ranch Notes