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Title: Typed transcripts (carbons) of 4 letters from Jack London to George Sterling, plus 2 manuscript items by Sterling and a typed poem by him Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: The letters were likely typed by Charmian, transcribing the earlier letters, which date from 1905 to 1909, the first two are from Glen Ellen, the others from Papeete, Tahiti, and Sidney, Australia. Also included are the front wrapper of a package containing a "Book from George Sterling, Bohemian Club, San Francisco" sent to the poet Samuel Loveman in Ohio, with stamps; a sheet of paper with note at bottom "Dear Ed: Behold the pensive pate, George Sterling"; and the typed poem "To Twilight" (likely a carbon). From Tahiti, London writes to Sterling, "I can't get a line on why you wish I hadn't written 'The Road.' It is all true. It is what I am, what I have done, and it is part of the process by which I have become. Is it a lingering taint of the bourgeois in you that makes you object?..." From Australia: "Dear (dearest) Greek: - Find here a sample of Australian soil. Snark has just arrived from Solomons. Shall sell her for any sum, no matter how small, get away to New Zealand, and then head for California... For heaven's sake don't you quarrel with Ambrose about me. He's too splendid a man to be diminished because he has lacked access to a later generation of science..." Lot Amendments Condition: The addressed cover has some chipping; the Sterling poem with creasing; all about very good. Item number: 266803