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The Gravesite
Who will reap what I have sown here in this almighty sweet land? You and I will be forgotten. Others will come and go; these, too, shall pass, as you and I shall pass, and others take their places, each telling his love, as I tell you, that life is sweet.
- Jack London
London once remarked to his wife
Charmian and his sister Eliza
that,"I wouldn't mind if you laid my
ashes on the knoll where the
Greenlaw children are buried.And
roll over me a red boulder from the
ruins of the Big House."
On November 26th, 1916, in a silent
ceremony, Charmian london placed
her husband's ashes on the chosen
knoll under this stone. After she
passed away in 1955, Charmian's
ashes were also laid to rest here.
"No writer, unless it were Mark Twain, ever had a more romantic life than Jack London. The untimely death of this most popular of American fictionists has profoundly shocked a world that expected him to live and work for many years longer,"
(Ernest J. Hopkins in the San Francisco Bulletin, December 2, 1916).
"His greatness will surge triumphantly above race and time," said his old friend George Sterling. His genius was "so flaming, so passionate, and so sincere" that it would overwhelm the limits of "prejudice and nationality."
"He will be missed around here, all right," said one of the workmen on the ranch,"for he was mighty good to us, and there never was a man who came here who went away hungry."
"No matter what he said or did, his ever present kindness held you. He could say the rashest and brashest things, hurt your feelings and make you like it . . . because there was no personal sting. He was one of the most lovable characters of his age."
(Ed Morrell, ex-convict and personal friend).
"In the very last talk we ever had together, the evening of November 21, 1916, he was all afire with enthusiasm over his social creation" ... and was giving orders for the selection of a site for a school house on the ranch, a store, a post-office... . Have any of you thought what is to become of the great thing he has started up here? Have any of you wondered what it would mean to me, who understood, to let his long dream of the land here, lapse, for want of the means to carry it on?...But I am begging you now, with all of my heart, not to let the world forget that he laid his hand upon the hills of California with the biggest writing of all his writing and imagination and wisdom... . Just don't let it all who listen and read and run, forget Jack London's biggest dream."
-Charmian London
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