Manuscripts
Ranch Notes
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People
Manuscripts
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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Jack London papers
Manuscripts
The 622-box Jack London Collection could properly be termed the author's personal archive, because of its size and completeness. With only a few exceptions, the collection contains autograph or typescript versions of almost everything Jack London wrote. Included in the archive are most of the London correspondence files; his literary notes, documents, and contracts; memos and letters regarding the operation of his Sonoma County Beauty Ranch; most of his personal and family papers; his financial records; and his library and photograph collection. The majority of the pieces range in date from 1903 to 1917. The collection includes addenda consisting of a variety of materials acquired from the estate after the initial cataloging of the collection, including publication files and Shepard family materials.
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Harvey Taylor File
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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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Jack London Ranch, eucalyptus trees
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Grove of eucalyptus trees on Jack London Ranch.
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Ranch and Barn Scrapbook
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A few receipts, drawings, and addresses of persons connected with the building of the Jack London Ranch.
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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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