urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00764 Jack London: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Katherine Noble Harry Ransom Center, 2013 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 29 July 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin London, Jack, 1876-1916 Jack London Collection 1900-1951 1 box (.21 linear feet) Includes manuscripts and letters by the American author and journalist Jack London. London's letters are directed to Edward Martin Moore, H. Ray Peck, and Vincent Starrett. There are also three letters by his wife Charmian Kittredge London to poet John Myers O'Hara, as well as materials documenting William Manning Morgan's collection of Jack London materials. English Manuscript Collection MS-2536 Access:

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This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: 1.1 Getting into print, printed version with handwritten deletions, 5 pages, 1903. Pages from The Editor, March 1903. 1.1 The material side, signed printed version with handwritten deletions and emendations, 5 pages, undated. Pages from The Junior Munsey. Original title deleted: First aid to rising authors. 1.1 The question of a name, printed version with handwritten emendations and deletions, 4 pages, 1900. Pages from The Writer, December 1900. 1.2 Under the deck awnings, signed handwritten manuscript with emendations, 35 pages, 18 September 1910. 1.1 What communities lose by the competitive system, printed version with handwritten emendations and insertions, 7 pages, 1900. Cosmopolitan prize essay detached from that magazine. Letters: 1.3 TLS to Moore, Edward Martin re Spoon River Anthology, 4 February 1915. 1.3 ALS to Peck, H. Ray, 8 January 1904. Removed from AC-L L846fa 1904 copy 3. 1.3 ANS to Starrett, Vincent, 25 March 1911. From the De Golyer Collection. Miscellaneous: London, Charmian Kittredge: 1.4 TLS to O'Hara, John Myers, 29 September 1909. Removed from PS 3523 046 V3 1913 copy 2. 1.4 TPCI to O'Hara, John Myers, 9 June 1917. Removed from AC-L L846ni 1913 copy 2. 1.4 ALS to O'Hara, John Myers, 5 January 1921. Removed from AC-L L846ho 1912. 1.4 TLS to Moore, Edward Martin, 14 March 1931. 1.4 Morgan, William Manning. Correspondence, bills, receipts, book-dealers' catalogs re collection of London materials, 1943-1951.