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

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. HE mother, who Is seriously
40, has not been fnformed Of his death.
London's death was unexpected, as
he had appeared TO be in no serious
physical condition. His properties
are said to be practically free OF debt.
Jack London, gifted author. traveller
and world-student, 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 it and hoped soon to
send II to his publishers.
This news reached Honolulu few
days ago in a 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, 1916.
Dear Taylor
In reply to your good letter OF
September 80, 1916, and thanking you
most heartily for same and for the
information contained therein.
Not only has 1iy Hawaiian Aloha
--been, fpublisAed in three satteseise
numbers of the Cosmopolitan Maga-
zine in the United States, but II 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 offMy 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 $1,000
words done and swinging along on an
Hawaiian novel-that, it Is my fond
belief. no one In Hawaii will take Of
Tense 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 quarter to eight
Yesterday morning. when his ser
want went to call him at o'clock,
which was I.ondons regular hour for
beginning his days work, he found
the author in his bed Unconscious.
Efforts to rouse himSfailed and med |
ical help was Immediately summoned. |
The two local doctors called in pro-
nounced the condition of the young
author serious and a 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, |
were with him when he died.
His 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 a longshoreman.
a bay fisherman, an oyster pirate"
and sealer. Then. putting aside ad- |
venture for 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