Title: Collection of six Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, one Autograph Postcard Signed, and one Typed Postcard, from Charmian London to Janet Winship [Pitts] Author: London, Charmian Place: Various places Publisher: Date: 1915-1939 Description: From a half-page to six pages, the letters all with their original envelopes. Interesting little archive of correspondence from Charmian London to Jane Winship, the daughter of old friends Ed and Ida Winship (Jack met Ed while covering the Russo-Japanese War). The first letter, handwritten, dated Dec. 12, 1915, is about the relatively new wonder drug aspirin, “I ordered a lot of your capsules, instead of your mother’s tablets, because I like capsules, and the one I took when you were here seemed to do the work. But when I took one of the new ones the other day, it made me terribly ill, and for two days I had the most fearful heartburn…” The most significant letter, though, was on November 28, 1816, days after Jack’s death, “…Only one thing you are wrong in, little girl --- the days are NOT without happiness. Somehow, Jack seems to be in my brain --- just to GO ON, to WORK, to BE BIG. And I am not unhappy. Desolate --- indeed… but not unhappy…” The longest letter is the last one, November 1, 1931 (followed by the 1939 typed postcard), which offers insight in Charmian’s life after Jack: “…I haven’t been over to see your mother, either. Life is so terribly full especially to a poor widow with an immense estate. But I won’t go into it! Keeps on busy, and, if not worried, at least a trifle more than alert!... Your friend sounds most awfully interesting. I should like very much to meet him. I wish he wanted a full set of Jack’s fifty first-editions! (looks like 51st editions!) I started collecting such sets some years ago, and have put a lot of time into them. Now, when some of the items have run into the $40.00 apiece “rare” and “high spot” and the like, of course a set is worth thousands. I have had nibbles of course, a number of times… When I sold the original MSS to the Huntington Library, I paid off Jack’s last big mortgage. And I certainly could make use of funds at this time. However. The only original MSS I have left are small things – notes that are valuable as being his first jottings of ideas for certain novels. But there is the Cloudesley Johns correspondence, sitting in safe deposit in a S.F. Bank, waiting for a good price…” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better condition. Item number: 227786
Title: Collection of six Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, one Autograph Postcard Signed, and one Typed Postcard, from Charmian London to Janet Winship [Pitts] Author: London, Charmian Place: Various places Publisher: Date: 1915-1939 Description: From a half-page to six pages, the letters all with their original envelopes. Interesting little archive of correspondence from Charmian London to Jane Winship, the daughter of old friends Ed and Ida Winship (Jack met Ed while covering the Russo-Japanese War). The first letter, handwritten, dated Dec. 12, 1915, is about the relatively new wonder drug aspirin, “I ordered a lot of your capsules, instead of your mother’s tablets, because I like capsules, and the one I took when you were here seemed to do the work. But when I took one of the new ones the other day, it made me terribly ill, and for two days I had the most fearful heartburn…” The most significant letter, though, was on November 28, 1816, days after Jack’s death, “…Only one thing you are wrong in, little girl --- the days are NOT without happiness. Somehow, Jack seems to be in my brain --- just to GO ON, to WORK, to BE BIG. And I am not unhappy. Desolate --- indeed… but not unhappy…” The longest letter is the last one, November 1, 1931 (followed by the 1939 typed postcard), which offers insight in Charmian’s life after Jack: “…I haven’t been over to see your mother, either. Life is so terribly full especially to a poor widow with an immense estate. But I won’t go into it! Keeps on busy, and, if not worried, at least a trifle more than alert!... Your friend sounds most awfully interesting. I should like very much to meet him. I wish he wanted a full set of Jack’s fifty first-editions! (looks like 51st editions!) I started collecting such sets some years ago, and have put a lot of time into them. Now, when some of the items have run into the $40.00 apiece “rare” and “high spot” and the like, of course a set is worth thousands. I have had nibbles of course, a number of times… When I sold the original MSS to the Huntington Library, I paid off Jack’s last big mortgage. And I certainly could make use of funds at this time. However. The only original MSS I have left are small things – notes that are valuable as being his first jottings of ideas for certain novels. But there is the Cloudesley Johns correspondence, sitting in safe deposit in a S.F. Bank, waiting for a good price…” Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better condition. Item number: 227786
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