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Collection Number: 70011

Collection Title: Henry T. Volkening Papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1940

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items)
Abstract Henry T. Volkening was a literary agent and co-founder of Russell and Volkening, Inc., a literary agency of New York City, N.Y. The collection contains material related to Henry Volkening's article "Thomas Wolfe: Penance No More," published in 1939 in The Virginia Quarterly Review. Included is an early draft of the article, annotated typescript transcriptions of letters from Thomas Wolfe to Henry Volkening that apparently served as research materials for the article, and letters from Maxwell Perkins to Henry Volkening about the article. Also included are three photographs: one of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, dated 1 August 1937; one of Thomas Wolfe's gravestone; and one of Julia E. Wolfe and three unidentified women around W.O. Wolfe's grave, undated.
Creator Volkening, Henry T.
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 Henry T. Volkening Papers on Thomas Wolfe (#70011), North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[Note: Collection number changed from #CW2.6 to #70011 in April 2020.]
Acquisitions Information
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, September 2008.
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: Benjamin Bromley, November 2009

Encoded by: Benjamin Bromley, November 2009

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW2.6 to 70011

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Henry T. Volkening was a literary agent and co-founder of Russell and Volkening, Inc., a literary agency of New York City, N. Y.

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The collection contains material related to Henry Volkening's article "Thomas Wolfe: Penance No More," published in 1939 in The Virginia Quarterly Review. Included is an early draft of the article, annotated typescript transcriptions of letters from Thomas Wolfe to Henry Volkening that apparently served as research materials for the article, and letters from Maxwell Perkins to Henry Volkening about the article. Also included are three photographs: one of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, dated 1 August 1937; one of Thomas Wolfe's gravestone; and one of Julia E. Wolfe and three unidentified women around W.O. Wolfe's grave, undated.

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Preliminary Box list

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About 100 items.
Box 1

Draft of "Thomas Wolfe: Penance No More" by Henry Volkening

Typescripts of letters from Thomas Wolfe to Henry Volkening

Letters are annotated by Henry Volkening and an unknown assistant, seemingly in preparation for Volkening's article "Thomas Wolfe: Penance No More."

Letters from Maxwell Perkins to Henry Volkening, 1938-1940

Photographs

A photograph of Thomas Wolfe and Fred Wolfe, dated 1 August 1937; a photograph of Thomas Wolfe's gravestone; and a photograph of Julia E. Wolfe and three unidentified women at W.O. Wolfe's grave, undated.

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