Lettre dactylographiée et signée de Jack London

Typed letter signed by Jack London
Oakland (California) 27 October 1900, 20.2 x 26.5 cm, one leaf
Typed letter signed by the writer Jack London, written in Oakland (California) and dated 27 October 1900.
Some perforations from a binder, signs of a receipt stamp. Some transverse folds due to having been placed in the letter's envelope.
Jack London addresses this letter to his publisher in order to send a copy of Son of the Wolf to Juliette M. Babbitt, a Washington journalist and writer. This wife of a lawyer from Iowa was then vice-president of the American Pen Women league and correspondent for the Washington Post the Ladies Home Journal and the Boston Globe amongst others.
The start of the 20th century corresponds to a decisive moment in Jack London's literary career with the highly acclaimed publication of his short story An Odyssey of the North in the Atlantic. Less than two years after his last trip to the Yukon, which greatly weakened him and left him penniless, London finally gained fame and national recognition with these first short stories from his travels and his encounter with the Klondike trappers. Published by a major East Coast publishing house, the short stories that make up The Son of the Wolf are accompanied by a promotion campaign organised by Houghton Mifflin & Co. who asked him to write a biographical record: this is the beginning of the Jack London myth. Having received honours from the Californian literary and political societies, it is quite natural that he addresses this copy to a prominent member of the American Writers' Association, created three years earlier.