LONDON, JACK. Autograph letter signed ("Jack London") to his good friend Charles Warren Stoddard (poet, travel writer, and English professor), London, 29 August 1902. 2 pages, 4to, in brown ink on two sheets of onion skin paper, a few wrinkles and edge nicks. WORKING ON "THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS" "Your letter just arrived, having traveled all the way out to California & around to me here in London...Why do you not come out to California to live? It's God's country, I think...I am down here in the East End of London, studying the rottenness of civilization at the heart of the greatest empire in the world. Well, it is rotten . I am half way done with a book upon the subject, which I began two weeks & a half ago [ The People of the Abyss , London's 'expos of the underside of imperialism,' published the following year]. I am rushing it along, for I am anxious to be out of this hell-hole. Then I shall take a long-deferred vacation over on the continent...If not, shall as soon as I return home, which will be I do not know when; for if I should get hold of a roving commission I know I shall exploit it for a while...I am glad to hear you are taking up your novel, &, I think, glad that you are out of the University [Catholic University in Washington, D.C.]." Not in Letters , ed. K. Hendricks and I. Shepard, and presumably unpublished.
LONDON, JACK. Autograph letter signed ("Jack London") to his good friend Charles Warren Stoddard (poet, travel writer, and English professor), London, 29 August 1902. 2 pages, 4to, in brown ink on two sheets of onion skin paper, a few wrinkles and edge nicks. WORKING ON "THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS" "Your letter just arrived, having traveled all the way out to California & around to me here in London...Why do you not come out to California to live? It's God's country, I think...I am down here in the East End of London, studying the rottenness of civilization at the heart of the greatest empire in the world. Well, it is rotten . I am half way done with a book upon the subject, which I began two weeks & a half ago [ The People of the Abyss , London's 'expos of the underside of imperialism,' published the following year]. I am rushing it along, for I am anxious to be out of this hell-hole. Then I shall take a long-deferred vacation over on the continent...If not, shall as soon as I return home, which will be I do not know when; for if I should get hold of a roving commission I know I shall exploit it for a while...I am glad to hear you are taking up your novel, &, I think, glad that you are out of the University [Catholic University in Washington, D.C.]." Not in Letters , ed. K. Hendricks and I. Shepard, and presumably unpublished.
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