Manuscripts

Irving Stone File

Description

This file consists of over 100 letters to and from Irving Stone and Charmian London. Also included are a few contracts, a short manuscript, and a few letters from other persons, including Eliza Shepard. The file documents the relationship between Stone and London, and its eventual deterioration as publication of Sailor on Horseback became imminent.

The Irving Stone File (Box 434) was restricted until Irving Stone's death at the bequest of the Jack London estate and opened for research on March 30, 1993.

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Production date

1866-1977.

Call number

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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.

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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Manuscripts

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

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Kittredge File

Manuscripts

The Kittredge File consists of manuscripts, letters, documents, and genealogical material pertaining to Charmian Kittredge London's family. The six-box file is rich in material documenting Charmian Kittredge (and Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer's) heritage. Among the more interesting pieces in the file are: Dayelle Wiley Kittredge's "Diary of a Trip from Oshkosh, Wisconsin," her seven letters to her sister, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer and mother, Catherine Growall Wiley, and the letters from them. All the correspondence in the Kittredge File is filed in the Manuscripts Catalog and is designated by the call number "JLK."

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Jack London Subject File

Manuscripts

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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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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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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