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                  <text>Jack London, legendary author of adventure classics such as Call of the Wild and White Fang, came from blue-collar beginnings and was largely self-taught. He based many of his exciting literary yarns on his hard-scrabble life experiences which included poaching oysters, laboring at a cannery, jute mill, and coal power plant, and panning for gold in the Alaskan Klondike. Broken by personal despair, two unsuccessful attempts to have children with second wife Charmian, the destruction of his California dream home, and slow kidney failure from years of alcohol abuse, London died on November 22, 1916, at age forty. This selective small digital collection highlights his will, letters, and book inscriptions that offer insights into his complex relationships with the important women in his life: first wife Bessie, second wife Charmian, daughters Joan and Bess, mother Flora, &amp;ldquo;mammy&amp;rdquo; Jennie, and friend/collaborator Anna Strunsky. Other items in the digital collection include photographs and book covers. For more details about London&amp;rsquo;s life as well as a full inventory of USU&amp;rsquo;s larger print collection of Jack and Charmian London materials, see &lt;a href="http://uda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv27206"&gt;http://uda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv27206&lt;/a&gt;. Merrill-Cazier Library's Special Collections and Archives houses one of the largest Jack London manuscript collections in the world, second only to the prestigious Huntington Library in San Marino, California. This acquisition was a result of the close personal and professional relationship between Irving Shepard, Jack London's nephew and executor of his literary estate, and King Hendricks, a prominent London scholar and English professor at USU. Thanks to a series of purchases and donations from the London estate made between 1964 and 1971, USU is now proud to provide online access to selected material from the collection.</text>
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                <text>Wylie, Lottie Belle;</text>
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                <text>Letter from Lottie Belle Wylie to Jack London, December 28, 1915.</text>
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                <text>Atlanta Ga. Dec. 28, 1915.  249 Peachtree Circle.  Dear Mr. London.  I am so sorry the LIttle Lady of the Big House is dead.  It was art the way you ??? her, but ???! And life is so full of tragedy and sorrow!  Where she fell asleep - I ??? ??? ??? been the case.  The story is new in everyway and I ??? credit to you who have sensed wonderfullly in all the things you have done but I wish Paula ???.  I am publishing a book of verses in a few weeks and I am going to send you a copy - for you were so kind to send me, for the ???  ??? Memorial Colletion.</text>
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                <text>&lt;a href="http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jacklondon/id/303"&gt;http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jacklondon/id/303&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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                <text>Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library</text>
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                <text>Jack and Charmian London Correspondence and Papers, 1894-1953</text>
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                <text>Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Manuscript Curator, phone (435) 797-0891.</text>
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                <text>The original of this item is located at Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL MSS 10 Box 9 Folder 15.</text>
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                <text>Letter from Lottie Belle Wylie to Jack London, December 28, 1915</text>
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