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[Identification of item], in the Sallie Faxon Saunders Papers on Thomas Wolfe (#CW2.4), North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Literary agents--United States.
• Nowell, Elizabeth.
• Saunders, Sallie Faxon.
• Turnbull, Andrew, 1921-
• Wolfe family.
• Wolfe, Fred.
• Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Appreciation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Biography.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Family.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Homes and haunts.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Photographs.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Travel.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

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 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.