Novelist who based his stories on the adventures he encountered as a prospector, hobo, pirate, gentleman farmer, reformer, and war correspondent. A troubled, but gifted writer he was addicted to alcohol and drugs but, in his day, he was the highest-paid writer in America. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, February 15, 1908. Letter to a friend, written from Papeete, Tahiti, during his trip around the world. In full, “In reply to yours of January 26. That isn’t a gasoline launch that I’m sailing around the world in, but a ketch-rig sailing boat, that happens to have on it a 70 h.p. gasoline auxiliary. Don’t worry about us. We are safer than on most of the big ocean steamers. And if I thought I was going to be lost, I wouldn’t be sailing around the world this way. As it is, I am perfectly safe, and seeing something of the world, and am having a jolly good time.” In fine condition, with expected folds and a light shade of toning. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
