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Collection Number: 70009

Collection Title: Sallie Faxon Saunders Papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1923-1967

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items)
Abstract Sallie Faxon Saunders accompanied Thomas Wolfe in New Mexico as part of his western journey of 1938. She was later the editor of the Junior League Magazine. The collection contains letters from Elizabeth Nowell to Sallie Faxon Saunders relating to Nowell's biography of Thomas Wolfe published in 1960. It also includes letters from Andrew Turnbull relating to his biography of Thomas Wolfe published in 1967. There are also letters from Wolfe's brother Fred Wolfe and mother Julia E. Wolfe about Thomas Wolfe's illness; a photograph of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, 1 August 1937; and two photographs of Thomas Wolfe, 1938, with an annotation on the verso indicating that they were taken by Sallie Faxon Saunder's son in a New York City, N.Y., restaurant.
Creator Saunders, Sallie Faxon.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Sallie Faxon Saunders Papers on Thomas Wolfe (#70009), North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[Note: Collection number changed from #CW2.4 to #70009 in April 2020.]
Acquisitions Information
Donation.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Frances Weaver, A. Hope Shull, Nicholas Graham, 1998

Encoded by: Benjamin Bromley, September 2009

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW2.4 to 70009

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Sallie Faxon Saunders accompanied Thomas Wolfe in New Mexico as part of his western journey of 1938. She was later the editor of the Junior League Magazine.

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The collection contains letters from Elizabeth Nowell to Sallie Faxon Saunders relating to Nowell's biography of Thomas Wolfe called Thomas Wolfe: A Biography (1960). It also includes letters from Andrew Turnbull relating to his biography of Thomas Wolfe, also called Thomas Wolfe (1967). There are also letters from Wolfe's brother Fred Wolfe and mother Julia E. Wolfe about Thomas Wolfe's illness; a photograph of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, 1 August 1937; and two photographs of Thomas Wolfe, 1938, with an annotation on the verso indicating that they were taken by Sallie Faxon Saunder's son in a New York City, N.Y., restaurant.

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Preliminary Box list

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About 50 items.
Box 1

Letters from Elizabeth Nowell

Letters from Adam Turnbull

Letters from Fred Wolfe, Julia E. Wolfe, and other correspondents

Notes on Thomas Wolfe

Photographs

Contains a photograph of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, 1 August 1937, and two photographs of Thomas Wolfe, 1938, with an annotation on the verso indicating that they were taken by Sallie Faxon Saunder's son in a New York City, N.Y., restaurant.

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