Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-23
LONDON DIED AS
HE WAS CREATING
HAWAIIAN NOVEL
Gifted Author Expressed Fond
Belief All Hawaii Would
Like Book"
NEWS OF HIS DEATH is
SHOCK TO FRIENDS HERE
Was Engaged on Several Ser
les of Articles About
Islands
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GLEN ELLEN, CAL, Nov. 23.-The
body Of Jack London will be cremated
tomorrow and the funeral will be pri-
vate, according to London's own re-
quest, made before he fell III. His
present and his former wife and the
two children by the first union will
attend. HIs mother, who 10 seriously
iIl, has not been informed OF his death.
Londou's death was unexpected, az
he had appeared 70 be In no serious
physical condition. His properties
are said to be practically free OF debt.
Jack London, gifted author, traveller
and worldstudent, who died at Glen
Ellen. California, last night, was soon
TO have finished an important Hawaii
an novel. He had done more than
$4,000 words OF IL and hoped soon to
send It to his publishers.
This news reached Honolulu few
days ago In letter from London to
A. p. Taylor OF the Hawaii Promo
tion Committee-one of the last let
ters the author wrote discussing his
literary work.
The letter Is as follows:
Glen Ellen, CAL, Oct. "a, 1915. 4
Dear Taylor
In reply to your good letter OF
September 30, 1916, and thanking you
most heartily for same and for the
information contained therein.
"Not only has Ny Hawaiian Aloha
been published in three successive
numbers Of the Cosmopolitan Maya
zine in the United States, but 1t has
been similarly published in Nash's
Magazine in England. Also, it has
been published In the Sunday supple
ments Of the Hearst newspapers all
over the United States. OF course,
you know that means. circulation
that goes into the Millions. Incidental
ly, though the publication at the pres
ent time is delayed. on account of
the war price on paper, book under
the title Of My Hawaiian Aloha will
be, published in the United States by
The Macmillan Company, will be pub
lished in England by Mills & Boon,
Ltd, and, of course, will be translated
and published. into the various for
eign languages.
In passing, may say that | have
now, entirely completed, volume OF
Hawaiian short stories, that will fol-
low the foregoing serial and book |
publications and translations.
And just now | am over $4,000 |
words done and swinging along on an
Hawaiian novel-that, 1t is my fond |
belief, no one In Hawaii will take Of
fense at, while all Hawaii, | fondly |
believe, will like the book.
Please keep me posted on all i'm |
portant matters, and see that am on |
the mailing list for literature, |
pamphlets. reports, etc., etc.
Sincerely yours.
JACK LONDON"
News Of London's death came late |
last evening In an Associated Press |
despatch which said
GLEN ELLEN, Cal, Nov. 23.-Jack |
London, author, traveller and lecturer,
died suddenly at his ranch home near |
here last night at a quarter to eight.
Yesterday morning. when his ser |
want went to call him at o'clock, |
which was London's regular hour for |
beginning his days work, he found |
the author In his bed unconscious.
Efforts to rouse him failed and med.
VI.
The two local doctors called in pro-
nounced the condition of the young
author serious and specialist was
telegraphed for from San Francisco.
During the day, with the three
physicians working over him. Lon.
don's condition improved. but at no
time did he regain consciousness nor
recognize those about him. In the
evening he had relapse and death
came shortly before eight. The direct +
cause of death was diagnosed as
uremia.
Mrs. London, his sister, Mrs. Eliza
Shepard. who is the manager of the
ranch. and his eldest daughter, Joan,
we're with him when he died"
ais Life
Jack London was forty years old last
January, a native of San Francisco.
His life was an adventurous one, from
the days of his early boyhood. BY the !
time he was eighteen he had known
life as a newsboy, as longshoreman.
a bay fisherman. an oyster pirate"
and a sealer. Then, putting aside ad.
venture for a while, he became a stu
dent of sociology and economics, put
ting himself through the Oakland high
school and entering the University of
California.
The lure of the North drew him
from his university course, however,
and he left his desk to join in the
rush to the Klondike. There, mush-
ing over the Chilkoot, joining in the
stampedes to the creeks and living
with the rough miners of the placer
towns he gathered the material which
he woye into his earliest best-known
hooks. the short stories and books of