Manuscripts

My life with Jack London's grandson : memoir

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Description: Memoir by M. Lee Miller entitled "My Life with Jack London's Grandon." Accompanied by approximately 30 newspaper clippings regarding Joan London and Jack London.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1954-1980.
Call number: mssMillerm
Creator: Miller, M. Lee(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of M. Lee Miller, March 1995.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Helen Abbott correspondence with M. Lee Miller ; manuscripts and printed material

Manuscripts

The material in this collection includes: letters and cards from Helen Abbott to M. Lee Miller (HM 83539-83555); a copy of a 1942 letter from M. Lee Miller to Bart Abbott (HM 83556); a manuscript entitled "Addenda" written by M. Lee Miller (HM 83557) and a printed "In Memoriam: Joan London Miller (HM 83558). The letters are personal and detail health struggles and family issues; there is some discussion of socialist issues, Jack London, Joan London and Helen Abbott's on-going battle with the "male dominated groupies" involved with Jack London's legacy. The letters and cards are autograph and computer generated, some with envelopes.

mssHM 83539-83558

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Jack London

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of Joan London. Since much of London's work focused on her father, many items in the collection specifically relate to the life and writings of Jack London. The collection contains correspondence between Joan and individuals who knew, or were interested in, her father, the notes and drafts used by London in writing her father's biography, and several copies of letters written by Jack London himself. Joan was also interested in the life of her paternal grandfather, William Henry Chaney, and the collection contains both manuscripts and notes relating to him. Joan London's unpublished work, Visiting rights only, is one of several manuscripts in the collection, and it specifically addresses Joan's feelings towards her father and her thoughts on her childhood within a single-parent family.

mssMI 1-1474

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Jack London

Manuscripts

mssMI 1-1474

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Jack London

Manuscripts

mssMI 1-1474

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Jack London

Manuscripts

mssMI 1-1474

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Jack London

Manuscripts

mssMI 1-1474

My life with Jack London's grandson : memoir

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