Auction Date:2010 Jan 13 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
Popular American novelist (1876–1916), best known for such adventure classics as The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, and White Fang, who drew his writings from his experiences as a prospector, hobo, pirate, gentleman farmer, reformer, and war correspondent. Though plagued by addiction to drugs and alcohol, London wrote prolifically and was the highest-paid American writer of his day. ALS, two pages, 9.25 x 6, November 10, 1904. Letter to Sidney Armer in Berkeley, California. In part: “Since my return from the Far East I have written only two short stories, & both are off and away. Just now I am writing a play, & do not know when I shall tackle any more short stories. Also, I have been so disgusted with illustrations that I have never bothered with them, leaving the whole thing to the magazine & book publishers.” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Professional repairs to folds on reverse of second page, light uniform toning, bisecting vertical mailing folds, and a few wrinkles, otherwise fine condition. Five months earlier, London had returned from a trip to Asia where he had served as a correspondent, visiting China and Korea, and held for court-martial by the Japanese. The day this letter was written, he published a story in the San Francisco Examiner entitled, “Big Socialist Vote is Fraught with Meaning, Great Socialist Vote Explained” which offered a greeting to Russian Socialists from Japanese Socialists, using his new international fame to speak for his Japanese comrades. The day after this letter was written, London was granted a divorce from his first wife, Bessie.
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