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[Identification of item], in the Maxwell Perkins Letters to Belinda Jelliffe, #4515, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• American fiction--20th century.
• Autobiographical fiction, American.
• Autobiographies--United States.
• Autobiography--Women authors.
• Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Editors--United States--Correspondence.
• Jelliffe, Belinda Dobson, 1892-
• Novelists, American--20th century.
• Nurses.
• Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.
• Scribner, Charles, 1921-1995.

• See also Belinda Jelliffe folder from Charles Scribner's Sons Archive (microfilm), North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• See also Charles Scribner's Sons Archive, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled "For Dear Life."

Letters from Maxwell Perkins, editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, to Belinda Jelliffe (1892-1979), critiquing and discussing the production of Jelliffe's "For Dear Life" (1936), and discussing other literary topics and personal matters. There are also several letters written by others, including one, 1949, from Charles Scribner.