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Manuscripts
A collection of 952 items from 1877 to 1958, which consists of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Anna Strunsky Walling and her husband, William English Walling. The majority of the collection is correspondence between Anna Strunsky Walling and her family, friends and colleagues. The collection also contains portions of Walling's personal diary, manuscript poems and prose pieces authored by Walling and others, and several photographs and newspaper clippings relating to familial concerns and political matters. Some of the material in the collection originally belonged to William English Walling, including some of his personal and professional correspondence and writing. Most of the collection relates to the Wallings' personal and professional concerns, including their interest in politics (especially socialism) and political activism. Correspondents include: Leonard Dalton Abbott, Melville Best Anderson, Leslie Edgar Bliss, Eugene Victor Debs, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, Katherina Evseroff-Maryson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bernhard Groethuysen, Henry Edwards Huntington, Helen Keller, Cameron Haight King, Charmian London, Jack London, Joan London, Ray Nash, Thomas Reveille, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Rose Pastor Stokes, Irving Stone, William Howard Taft, Rosamond English Walling Tirana, Georgia Walling, Rosalind English Walling, William English Walling, Willoughby Walling, Gaylord Wilshire and Woodrow Wilson.
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Manuscripts
A collection of 952 items from 1877 to 1958, which consists of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Anna Strunsky Walling and her husband, William English Walling. The majority of the collection is correspondence between Anna Strunsky Walling and her family, friends and colleagues. The collection also contains portions of Walling's personal diary, manuscript poems and prose pieces authored by Walling and others, and several photographs and newspaper clippings relating to familial concerns and political matters. Some of the material in the collection originally belonged to William English Walling, including some of his personal and professional correspondence and writing. Most of the collection relates to the Wallings' personal and professional concerns, including their interest in politics (especially socialism) and political activism. Correspondents include: Leonard Dalton Abbott, Melville Best Anderson, Leslie Edgar Bliss, Eugene Victor Debs, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, Katherina Evseroff-Maryson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bernhard Groethuysen, Henry Edwards Huntington, Helen Keller, Cameron Haight King, Charmian London, Jack London, Joan London, Ray Nash, Thomas Reveille, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Rose Pastor Stokes, Irving Stone, William Howard Taft, Rosamond English Walling Tirana, Georgia Walling, Rosalind English Walling, William English Walling, Willoughby Walling, Gaylord Wilshire and Woodrow Wilson.
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In this typed letter by Walling to Murdock, Walling talks about her failing eyes and the work she's been doing for "the Huntington, Stanford, Bankcroft [sic]..." She also states that her trustees will be her son and daughter. HM 79052
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A man in a hat leans against railing of boat with bottom of sail above him.
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This collection consists of 45 letters, primarily from Jack London and his wife, Charmian London, and 15 pieces of ephemera. There are five letters from Jack London to a literary agent named, Daniel Murphy. These letters were written in 1902. There are six letters to James M. Chandler written in 1905 and 1906. Chandler was to act as quarter-master and steward during a proposed round-the-world cruise that was scheduled to last seven years with Jack London, Charmian London, an uncle, and a Japanese servant. There is also a related newspaper clipping entitled: Jamaica Plain Man To Go On 7-Year Tour With Jack London at the end of the collection. There are 16 letters to Benjamin De Cassares, an American journalist, critic, essayist, and poet. In one letter dated November 3, 1912, Charmian tells of her "great disappointment-our second disappointment, and mainly due to a poor physician in the first place" [her miscarriage]. She discusses Nietzsche's Zarathustra and what it has done for her "...at a time of mental and physical collapse. Quite pulled me together-quite played the Bible, in fact." There are three letters to Paul Eldridge, who seems to be a young fan of Jack London's. In answer to Eldridge's letters, Charmian has given a wide range of comment pertaining to Jack's health and some of his writings. There is one letter to Perriton Maxwell, where Jack states "I believe intensely in the pro-ally side of the war...As regards a few million terrible deaths, there is not so much of the terrible about such a quantity of deaths as there is about the quantity of deaths that occur in peace times in all countries in the world, and that has occurred in war times down the past" (August 28, 1916). There are 9 letters to Hunter Kimbrough, Uptrain Sinclair's brother-in-law. Charmian's writing is somewhat flirtatious, as evident in a letter dated March 15, 1928 "Theredearest Hunter!" By the time this is in your hands, I'll be in my own queer little house. I hope to embrace you there this summer, some time. DO come. I send you a kiss---falling downstairs meanwhile if you prefer!" There are also letters to a "Mr. Hage", Vida Goldstein, S.T. Hughes, Bunster Creely and one telegram from Anna Walling Strunsky to Jack London.
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Four fishermen stand on shore with water behind them. One stands leans against a wooden barrel.
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