A Guide to the Jack London Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 6240-o
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Jack London Collection, Accession 6240-o, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1996 November 11
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Jack London
- L.M. Kauffman
- Max E. Feckler
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- California
- Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California
- Los Angeles, California
- Los Angeles, California
Item Listing
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Jack London , Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California , to Max E. Feckler1914 Oct 26TLS, 2 p.
[London writes a letter full of literary advice and criticism to a beginning writer who has sent him a manuscript entitled A Journal of One Who is to Die to review, "as a psychologist and as one who has been through the mill, I enjoyed your story for its psychology and point of view. Honestly and frankly, I did not enjoy it for its literary charm or value. In the first place, it has little literary value and practically no literary charm. Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form. Medium and form you have utterly neglected." London goes on to encourage Feckler to put in the proper amount of years into his apprenticeship as a writer, research the magazines to discover what stories are really marketable goods, and invites him to visit at his ranch in California ]