One of the world'sall-time favorite authors, Jack London, is represented in the Peters ResearchCenter by a substantial collection of rare documents and artifacts donatedby I. Milo Shepard, Jack London's great-nephew and executor of the London estate. These include the film contractsigned by London and William Randolf Hearst, the badge worn while Londonreported the great San Francisco fire, and three silkrobes acquired by London in Tokyo whilecovering the Russo-Japanese War.

Also featured is a complete set of London first editions purchased byMr. and Mrs. Peters, as well as a representative display of various editionsof London's most famous classic, The Call of the Wild, from the privatecolection of Professor Earle Labor, Centenary's eminent London scholar.

In addition to these memorabilia, the Collection includes severalthousand London letters and publications about London's works. The goalof the Peters Research Center is to become the nation's largest repositoryof materials related to Jack London and his world.

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