In 1899, Cloudesley Johns, the only employee of a small desert Post Office in Harold, CA, struck up a correspondence with London by sending him a fan letter.

“It’s money I want,” London wrote to Johns early the next year, “or rather the things money will buy; and I can never possibly have too much.… More money means more life to me. The habit of spending money, ah God! I shall always be its victim. If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, then come cash.”

January 17, 1905

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