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Size: About 19,000 items (97 linear feet).
Date Span: 1860-1987
The original group of papers and manuscripts in the Wolfe Collection was given to UNC in 1950 by the brothers and sisters of Thomas Wolfe. Subsequent gifts have been made by the family of John Skally Terry, Edward Aswell, and by friends of Thomas Wolfe and other persons interested in the Thomas Wolfe Collection. See series descriptions for more provenance information.
Restricted. All users must first obtain permission from the curator of the North Carolina Collection. Researchers using series CW (Wolfe Family Series) and CW1 (John Skally Terry Series) must also obtain prior written consent from the administrator of the Estate of Thomas Wolfe.
Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Literary rights to Thomas Wolfe's writings are retained by the Estate of Thomas Wolfe. Requests for permission to publish must be directed to the Administrator of the Estate, whose address may be obtained from the Curator or the Reference Historian.
The Thomas Wolfe Collection of the North Carolina Collection in the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill contains the papers of Thomas Wolfe and his family and other papers relating to the author's life and work. These include correspondence, manuscripts, legal documents, Wolfe family memorabilia, volumes and scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material. The papers also include the correspondence of the librarian of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the curator of the North Carolina Collection relating to the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series CW. Wolfe Family Series
Series CW1. John Skally Terry Series
Series CW2. Papers from other sources
Series CW3. Edward C. Aswell Series
Series CW4. Librarian's Papers
Series CW5. Fred Wolfe Series
Series CW6. St. Mary's Collection
The Wolfe Family Papers (Series CW) were presented to UNC by the brothers and sisters of Thomas Wolfe in memory of their parents, William Oliver Wolfe and Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe. The first gift was made in 1950. The family has made several additions to the papers since then. For information pertinent to the Wolfe family gift, see the agreement between the Wolfe family and UNC in Series CW4. There is also considerable correspondence about the gift in that series.
The Wolfe Family Papers, 1890-1958, contain family correspondence, including correspondence of Thomas Wolfe, manuscripts, legal documents, clippings, scrapbooks, and volumes (including school notebooks and composition books), printed material, notes and reminiscences of family members, and personal items which belonged to Wolfe or members of his family. In addition to family correspondence there are letters from Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Wolfe's editor at Charles Scribner's Sons; Edward C. Aswell, Wolfe's editor at Harper & Brothers; and Elizabeth Nowell, Wolfe's literary agent and later his first biographer, to members of Wolfe's family -- most frequently Julia E. Wolfe, Fred Wolfe, and Mabel Wolfe Wheaton. There is also miscellaneous correspondence with friends, relatives, and admirers of Thomas Wolfe. In addition to correspondence by and about Thomas Wolfe, there is correspondence between family members and to other relatives, friends, and acquaintances illuminating the life of the Wolfe family of Asheville, North Carolina, from 1890 to 1958.
Maxwell Perkins, in addition to being Wolfe's first editor, was the first administrator of Wolfe's estate. Upon Perkins's death in 1947, he was succeeded by Edward C. Aswell. Consequently there is considerable correspondence documenting the work of Wolfe's literary executors and the administrators of the Wolfe Estate.
In addition to the correspondence in this series there are some typed and autograph manuscripts of Thomas Wolfe and school and college notebooks, themes, and quiz books. There are also some personal items which belonged to Wolfe including his passports, diplomas, copies of transcripts of his college record, and other memorabilia. There is some printed material in this series.
The Wolfe manuscripts include the original typed manuscript (notated by Wolfe) of his 1938 speech at Purdue University (pages 18-24 of the speech are missing and believed to be among the Wolfe papers at Harvard University). Other manuscripts include unsorted typed and autograph drafts of several of Wolfe's plays.
Printed material in the Wolfe Family Series includes items by Wolfe which had belonged to either the author or members of his family. Among these are several copies of his prize-winning college paper The Crisis in Industry and a copy of the limited edition of "To Rupert Brooke." Other printed material in this series is from the Wolfe family collection of articles, essays and reminiscences. Most of the family's printed material, however, is shelved and cataloged with the printed material in the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
There is also some unpublished material about Thomas Wolfe and his family in this series, including notes and reminiscences by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton and Julia E. Wolfe. There are transcriptions of recorded interviews with Mabel Wolfe Wheaton made by the Library of Congress and several notebooks of family reminiscences.
Mabel Wolfe Wheaton's collection of clippings about Wolfe and the Wolfe and Westall families has been retained with the family papers (see also the North Carolina Collection's special clipping file about Thomas Wolfe and his family). There are thirty nine volumes included in the Wolfe Family Series. There are also three large scrapbooks compiled by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton which contain clippings, pictures, letters, and telegrams. Because of their fragility the scrapbooks are restricted from use, but they have been filmed and are available on microfilm and may by viewed by users who have already received permission to use the collection. Copies of the letters and telegrams which had been pasted into the scrapbooks have been filed chronologically with the correspondence in the series.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence 1895-1916 |
| 2 | Correspondence 1917-1918 | |
| 3 | Correspondence 1919-July 1921 | |
| 4 | Correspondence August 1921-1922 | |
| 5 | Correspondence 1923 | |
| 6 | Correspondence 1924 | |
| 7 | Correspondence 1925-June 1927 | |
| 8 | Correspondence July 1927-1928 | |
| 9 | Correspondence 1929-June 1930 | |
| 10 | Correspondence July 1930-1931 | |
| 11 | Correspondence 1932-July 1923 | |
| 12 | Correspondence August 1923-July 1934 | |
| 13 | Correspondence August 1934-May 1935 | |
| 14 | Correspondence June-December 1935 | |
| 15 | Correspondence 1936-July 1937 | |
| 16 | Correspondence August-December 1937 | |
| 17 | Correspondence January-June 1938 | |
| 18 | Correspondence July 1-July 15, 1938 | |
| 19 | Correspondence July 16-July 31, 1938 | |
| 20 | Correspondence August 1-August 15, 1938 | |
| 21 | Correspondence August 16-August 31, 1938 | |
| 22 | Correspondence September 1-September 16, 1938 | |
| 23 | Correspondence September 17-December 31, 1938 | |
| 24 | Correspondence January-April 1939 | |
| 25 | Correspondence May-August 1939 | |
| 26 | Correspondence September-December 1939 | |
| 27 | Correspondence January-May 1940 | |
| 28 | Correspondence June-September 15, 1940 | |
| 29 | Correspondence September 16-December 31, 1940 | |
| 30 | Correspondence January-October 1941 | |
| 31 | Correspondence November 1941-1942 | |
| 32 | Correspondence 1943 | |
| 33 | Correspondence 1944 | |
| 34 | Correspondence January-March 1945 | |
| 35 | Correspondence April-December 1945 | |
| 36 | Correspondence 1946 | |
| 37 | Correspondence 1947 | |
| 38 | Correspondence January-June 1948 | |
| 39 | Correspondence July-December 1948 | |
| 40 | Correspondence 1949 | |
| 41 | Correspondence January-April 1950 | |
| 42 | Correspondence May-December 1950 | |
| 43 | Correspondence 1951 | |
| 44 | Correspondence 1952 | |
| 45 | Correspondence February-October 1953 | |
| 46 | Correspondence November 1953-May 1954 | |
| 47 | Correspondence June-December 1954 | |
| 48 | Correspondence 1955 | |
| 49 | Correspondence 1956 | |
| 50 | Correspondence 1957-1958 | |
| 51 | Correspondence Undated, arranged alphabetically (A - Wheaton, Carrie) | |
| 52 | Correspondence Undated, arranged alphabetically (Wheaton, Mabel - Anonymous) | |
| 53 | Personal items, Thomas Wolfe, 1917-1930 | |
| Volume 1: Harvard Cooperative Society pocket calendar and engagement book,1920-1921. | ||
| 54 | Personal items, Thomas Wolfe, 1935-1949 | |
| 55 | Volume 2: Composition book, Thomas Wolfe, 1907 | |
| Volume 3: Composition book, Thomas Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 4: Composition book, Thomas Wolfe, 1912-1913 | ||
| Volume 5: Composition book, Thomas Wolfe, 1914 | ||
| Volume 6: Notebook, Thomas Wolfe, [1915] | ||
| Volume 7: Psychology 1-2, notebook, Thomas Wolfe, 1917 | ||
| Volume 8: University quiz book, Greek structures, Dr. Bernard's class, Thomas Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 9: Physics quiz book, Thomas Wolfe, 1918 | ||
| Volume 10: Harvard Cooperative Society Quiz Book, French A, Thomas Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 11: Harvard Cooperative Society Quiz Books, English, Thomas Wolfe, December 17, 1921 | ||
| Volume 12: Riverside Literature Series, Self-Cultivation in English and the Glory of the Imperfect, annotated by Thomas Wolfe. | ||
| 56 | Personal items, Wolfe family, 1890-1957 | |
| 57 | Volumes 13-16: Diaries and notebooks in Yiddish and English. Association with Thomas Wolfe unknown. | |
| Volume 17: Composition book, Grover Wolfe, 1901-1903. | ||
| Volume 18: Writing book, Grover Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 19: Arithmetic textbook, Grover Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 20: Composition book, Ben Wolfe, 1906 | ||
| Volume 21: Dictation book, Ben Wolfe, 1906-1907 | ||
| Volume 22: Composition book, Ben Wolfe, 1905 | ||
| Volume 23: Composition book, Ben Wolfe, 1906 | ||
| Volume 24: Writing book, Ben Wolfe, undated | ||
| Volume 25: Ledger, J.M. Roberts, 1920-1928 | ||
| Volume 26: Address book, [Mabel Wolfe Wheaton], undated | ||
| Volume 27: Saturday Music Club Yearbook, 1922-1923 | ||
| Volume 28: Saturday Music Club Yearbook, 1924-1925 | ||
| Volume 29: Saturday Music Club Yearbook, 1926-1927 (two copies) | ||
| Volume 30: Saturday Music Club Yearbook, 1928-1929 (two copies) | ||
| Volume 32: The Woman's Club Yearbook, 1926-1927 | ||
| Volume 33: The Woman's Club Yearbook, 1928-1929 | ||
| Volume 34: The Research Club, 1928-1929 | ||
| Volume 35: The Thursday Literary Club, 1928-1929 | ||
| 58 | Unsorted greeting cards, tickets, calling cards, canceled checks and other | |
| 59 | Legal documents | |
| 60 | Wolfe manuscripts. Includes the 1938 Purdue University speech. | |
| 61 | Wolfe manuscripts, fragmentary. | |
| 62 | Wolfe manuscripts. Draft of Welcome to Our City. | |
| 63 | Wolfe manuscripts | |
| 64 | Book jacket from The Hills Beyond | |
| 65 | Galley proofs | |
| 66 | Miscellaneous printed material concerning Thomas Wolfe (four items) | |
| 67 | Unprinted material about Thomas Wolfe | |
| 68 | Unprinted material about Thomas Wolfe, includes several critiques of Wolfe's plays produced at Harvard | |
| Volume 36: Stenographer's notebook with notes about Thomas Wolfe by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, undated | ||
| Volume 37: Stenographer's notebook with notes about Thomas Wolfe by Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, undated | ||
| Volume 38: Record book, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, contains notes about Wolfe family and Thomas Wolfe. | ||
| Volume 39: Composition book, February 16, 1940. Notes about Thomas Wolfe and Wolfe and Westall families by Julia E. Wolfe. (See also folder containing loose autograph notes about Thomas Wolfe and Wolfe and Westall families by Julia E. Wolfe. | ||
| 69 | Clippings | |
| 70 | Clippings | |
| 71 | Envelopes |
The John Skally Terry Series was given to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by John Terry's family in 1954. The deed of gift and correspondence relating to the transfer of papers are located in Series CW4.
John Skally Terry was born in Rockingham, N.C. on November 19, 1894, the son of E. Burton and Jennie Skally Terry. He attended Rockingham schools and entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1914. As an undergraduate he was active in student publications and became a friend of Thomas Wolfe. He was graduated from the University in 1918 and entered its two-year medical program. In 1920 he transferred back to the study of humanities and in 1921 he entered Columbia University. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia in 1922. While living in New York in the early 1920s Terry renewed his friendship with Thomas Wolfe.
In 1925 Terry joined Wolfe as a member of the English faculty at New York University at Washington Square, a position Terry would hold for the rest of his life. Terry lived on Brooklyn Heights and when Wolfe moved there in 1931, the two apparently became even closer friends. After Wolfe's death in 1938 Terry became a close friend of Wolfe's mother, Julia E. Wolfe, and worked with her on the book Thomas Wolfe's Letters to his Mother (Scribner's, 1943) Terry was selected by Maxwell Perkins and the Wolfe family to write a biography of Thomas Wolfe. Terry compiled a great deal of material about Wolfe, primarily typed and photocopy copies of his letters. There was, however, no manuscript of the biography found among Terry's papers after he died on June 30, 1953.
The John Skally Terry Series (CW1) of the Thomas Wolfe Collection contains material compiled by Terry during the years he was working on a biography of Thomas Wolfe. It contains letters to and from Terry about Wolfe; typed and photocopy copies of Wolfe's correspondence; copies of correspondence of members of the Wolfe family; notes about Wolfe by Terry; a transcript of Terry's interviews with Wolfe's mother; 15 letters from Maxwell Perkins containing reminiscences about Wolfe; a microfilm copy of letters from Aline Bernstein to Thomas Wolfe; minutes of the meetings of the Thomas Wolfe Biography Club of New York University; interviews with former students of Wolfe's; legal documents; essays, articles, reminiscences and scholarly works about Thomas Wolfe; copies of Wolfe manuscripts; copies of Aline Bernstein manuscripts; unsorted note cards about Thomas Wolfe; newspaper clippings; and letters and miscellaneous material not related to Thomas Wolfe.
The original correspondence in the Terry series is primarily between Terry and friends, relatives, and acquaintances of Thomas Wolfe from whom Terry solicited anecdotes and reminiscences in preparation for writing his biography of Wolfe. There are a few postcards from Wolfe to Terry and one autograph letter to Terry from Wolfe, written from London in 1935. There are letters to and from members of the Wolfe family and some letters from Terry to his sister, Josephine Terry, written when he was traveling the Western United States in the summer of 1940. On that trip Terry interviewed the doctors who had cared for Wolfe in 1938 and reported on those interviews in the letter to his sister.
The copies of correspondence in the Terry series contain typed and photocopy copies of letters to and from Thomas Wolfe. There are also typed and photocopy copies of correspondence of other members of the Wolfe family.
Other material compiled by Terry includes reminiscences and anecdotes written by other people. At Terry's request Maxwell Perkins wrote fifteen typed responses to questions about Wolfe and his work. Perkins also supplied Terry with typed copies of excerpts from Wolfe's letters to his former teacher, Margaret Roberts, and 67 pages of typed copies of reviews, excerpts from letters, and other references to Thomas Wolfe. There are a few notes by Julia E. Wolfe and some autograph notes about her. The Terry series also contains transcripts of John Terry's interviews with Mrs. Wolfe, which were recorded on a Dictaphone machine. The original cylinders are in the Terry series, but they are no longer intelligible.
Terry founded the Thomas Wolfe Biography Club of New York University, and minutes of the meetings of the club are among the papers in the Terry series. Friends and acquaintances of Thomas Wolfe whose appearances are recorded in the minutes include Kathleen and Clayton Hoagland, Belinda Jelliffe, Melville Cane, John Hall Wheelock, Murdoch Dooher, and Madeleine Boyd. Terry also used the students in his classes at New York University to search out and interview former students of Wolfe's. The correspondence and interviews of these students are included in this series. There is also some material relating to Wolfe's students days at the University of North Carolina.
Terry also collected other reminiscences, personal anecdotes, and scholarly works about Wolfe. In addition, there are many unsorted note cards on which Terry kept notes for the Wolfe biography. There are also clippings in the Terry series and one box of unsorted and unprocessed material which does not relate to Thomas Wolfe.
The Terry family gift included John Terry's personal library of about 4,000 volumes. There were accessioned into the general collection of the library of the University of North Carolina. There is an identifying bookplate in each book.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence 1917 - 1931 |
| 2 | Correspondence 1932 - 1935 | |
| 3 | Correspondence 1936 - April 1937 | |
| 4 | Correspondence May 1937 - March 1938 | |
| 5 | Correspondence April 1938 - 1940 | |
| 6 | Correspondence 1941 - 1946 | |
| 7 | Correspondence 1947 - 1953 | |
| 8 | Correspondence Undated, arranged alphabetically | |
| 9 | Terry's notes about Wolfe, notes by Julia E. Wolfe and John Skally Terry about Thomas Wolfe for Terry's edition of Thomas Wolfe's Letters to his Mother. Copies of Wolfe's checkbooks and financial records. | |
| 10 | Transcriptions of Terry's recorded interviews with Julia E. Wolfe | |
| 11 | Maxwell Perkins's reminiscences of Wolfe, excerpts of Wolfe's letters to Margaret Roberts, copies of reviews, letters, and other references to Thomas Wolfe compiled by Perkins | |
| 12 | Thomas Wolfe Biography Club minutes, interviews with former students of Wolfe's, notes about Thomas Wolfe's undergraduate days at UNC | |
| 13 | Essays, articles, scholarly works, and reminiscences about Thomas Wolfe | |
| 14 | Legal documents, copies of Wolfe manuscripts, copies of Bernstein manuscripts | |
| 15 | Unsorted note cards | |
| 16 | Newspaper clippings | |
| 17 | Letters and miscellany not related to Thomas Wolfe |
The items in the CW2 series were obtained by gift or purchase from sources other than the Wolfe family, the Terry family, or Edward Aswell. Among the donors to this series are Albert Coates, Benjamin Cone, Mrs. Archibald Henderson, Richard Walser, Beverly Moore, Corydon P. Spruill, Edward M. Miller, Aldo Magi, James Holly Hanford, Don Bishop, and others. Six original Thomas Wolfe letters were purchased from the family of Julian Meade. Other items which derive from the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, the Thomas Wolfe Society, the Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College, and the 75th Anniversary of Wolfe's birth, have been added to this series.
There are original Thomas Wolfe letters and copies of some of Wolfe's correspondence in this series. These include letters from Wolfe to Albert Coates, Benjamin Cone, Julian Meade, Corydon Spruill, James Holly Hanford, Archibald Henderson, J. Maryon Sanders, and others. Edward M. Miller of Portland, Oregon, Wolfe's companion on a journey through the national parts of the western United States in 1938, gave the Wolfe Collection his correspondence relating to Wolfe, including letters from Ray Conway, who accompanied them on the trip, Edward Aswell, Elizabeth Nowell, and Mabel Wolfe Wheaton. There are two letters from William Faulkner to Richard Walser and one from Sinclair Lewis to Julian Meade.
In addition to the correspondence, Series CW2 contains printed material, reminiscences, material gathered by Don Bishop when he was writing about Thomas Wolfe, a bibliography of Wolfe material in the scrapbooks of the Carolina Playmakers (these scrapbooks are available in the North Carolina Collection under the call number FC812 C29s1), one photocopy of a Wolfe manuscript, scripts, essays, and articles about Wolfe. There is also material from the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, the Thomas Wolfe Society, the Thomas Wolfe 75th Anniversary Celebration, and the annual Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C. (See also CW4 for the curator of the North Carolina Collection's correspondence about these activities and organizations). Cassette tapes which were made at the 75th Anniversary Celebration in Asheville in 1975 were transferred to the Wolfe collection of records and tapes.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence 1917-1918 |
| 2 | Notes, scripts, reminiscences, reviews | |
| 3 | Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, Thomas Wolfe Society, Wolfe Fest, Thomas Wolfe 75th Anniversary Celebration | |
| 4 | Thomas Wolfe Society Annual Meeting and materials relating to Thomas Wolfe of North Carolina |
Given by Edward C. Aswell in three separate gifts between 1948 and 1958.
Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn. on October 9, 1900. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1926. While at Harvard he edited The Crimson, the student newspaper. After graduation he joined the staff of the Forum and in 1930 he became assistant editor of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1935 Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books. He later became editor-in-chief of Harper's.
While he was an assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe, who was looking for a new publisher, to sign with Harper's. But Wolfe died before he could complete another book. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States -- during which he acquired the illness that ultimately led to his death -- he turned over to Aswell a large amount of manuscript material. After Wolfe's death in September 1938 Aswell was assigned the task of editing the material Wolfe had left behind. The result of this work was two posthumous novels -- The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again and one volume of short stories -- The Hills Beyond.
Aswell moved from Harper's to the trade-book department of McGraw-Hill and then to Doubleday & Co., where he was senior editor. He succeeded Maxwell Perkins as administrator of the Thomas Wolfe Estate in 1947. Aswell died on November 5, 1958.
The papers in the Edward C. Aswell Series (CW3) document Aswell's responsibilities as administrator of the Estate of Thomas Wolfe. The papers contain correspondence and several typed copies of articles by Aswell about Wolfe.
Most of the correspondence in this series consists of letters to and from members of the Wolfe family. The most frequent correspondents were Thomas Wolfe's brother Fred Wolfe and his sister Mabel Wolfe Wheaton. Aswell kept carbon copies of his letters regarding the Wolfe Estate. The correspondence relates mostly to estate matters, but there are some personal letters. In addition to the family correspondence there are letters to and from persons requesting permission to publish Wolfe materials, letters to and from persons requesting access to the Wolfe manuscripts at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, letters to and from persons requesting tickets to the New York performance of Look Homeward, Angel, and letters pertaining to the publication of Aswell's article in the Saturday Review of Literature (October 6, 1951), entitled "Thomas Wolfe Did Not Kill Maxwell Perkins."
There are two copies of the Saturday Review article and one typed carbon copy of "An Introduction to Thomas Wolfe," written by Aswell for the abridged edition of Look Homeward, Angel, published by Signet Books of the New American Library.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence 1947-1948 |
| 2 | Correspondence 1949-June 1950 | |
| 3 | Correspondence July 1950-September 1951 | |
| 4 | Correspondence October 1951-February 1953 | |
| 5 | Correspondence March 1953-December 1953 | |
| 6 | Correspondence 1954-April 1955 | |
| 7 | Correspondence May 1955-March 1956 | |
| 8 | Correspondence April 1956-June 1958 | |
| Manuscripts |
The papers in this series were transferred from the archives of the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
This series contains correspondence, legal documents, copies of acquisition forms, and memoranda which document the establishment, growth, and development of the Thomas Wolfe Collection. The correspondence contains letters to and from Charles E. Rush, Olan V. Cook, Mary Lindsay Thornton, Andrew Horn, Jerrold Orne, William S. Powell, H.G. Jones, Agatha Boyd Adams, and other members of the staff of the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are many letters to and from the members of the Wolfe family relating to the Wolfe family gift. There is also correspondence with Edward C. Aswell pertaining to the death of John Skally Terry and the Terry family gift. There is some information and correspondence regarding the establishment of the Thomas Wolfe Fund, which was started in 1939 to raise money to buy the Wolfe papers which were later purchased by William B. Wisdom and donated to Harvard University. (See also Mary Lindsay Thornton's bound volume of memorabilia for additional material about the establishment of the Thomas Wolfe Collection. This volume is located in the North Carolina Collection under the call number VC027.7 N87un2.)
The correspondence after 1958 deals primarily with additions to the Wolfe Collection, requests for access to the Wolfe papers, questions about the contents of the papers, and other materials relating to the collection. There is also correspondence about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, The Thomas Wolfe Newsletter, the Thomas Wolfe Society, and the Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College. (See also series CW2 for material from these organizations and activities.)
Printed material, especially articles by Agatha Boyd Adams, which was formerly located in these files, was transferred to the Wolfe collection of printed material.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence 1938-1954 |
| 2 | Correspondence 1955-1977 | |
| 3 | Correspondence 1979- | |
| Legal Documents | ||
| Agatha Adams notes and manuscripts |
The materials in this series were given by Edward C. Gambrell, nephew of Fred Wolfe and executor of his estate, on April 22, 1981.
Frederick William Wolfe was born in Asheville, N.C. on July 15, 1894, the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Elizabeth Westall and William Oliver Wolfe. He was educated in Asheville schools and was working as a salesman in Dayton, Ohio when the United States entered World War I. He returned to Asheville and joined the Navy, serving for about a year. After his naval service he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, graduating in 1922. Fred Wolfe worked in Atlanta for Fairbanks, Morse and Company for about seven years, and then held several sales jobs in High Point, N.C. and Harrisonburg, Pa. In 1934 he joined the Blue Bird Ice Cream Company of Spartanburg, S.C. as a salesman, a position he held until the early 1960s. He married Mary Burris on July 24, 1943. In his later years Fred Wolfe devoted himself to perpetuating the memory of his brother, Thomas Wolfe, through the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and in speeches at colleges and universities. Fred Wolfe died on April 8, 1980 and is buried in the family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
The Fred Wolfe Series (Series CW5) of the Thomas Wolfe Collection contains Wolfe family correspondence, correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell in their roles as executors of the Thomas Wolfe Estate, personal correspondence of Fred Wolfe, manuscripts about Thomas Wolfe, legal documents including executors' reports of the estate of Thomas Wolfe, correspondence about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the restoration of the Kentucky Home, family memorabilia, and volumes. There were some letters from Thomas Wolfe to members of his family among Fred Wolfe's papers. In accordance with the gift agreement of April 1981 these letters have been placed in Series CW, the Wolfe Family Papers. The clipping file and the loose clippings which were with Fred Wolfe's papers have been transferred to the clipping file of the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
The family correspondence covers the years 1882 to 1977 and includes letters to and from Fred Wolfe, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Julia E. Wolfe, Frank Wolfe, W.O. Wolfe, Effie Wolfe Gambrell, and other members of the Wolfe and Gambrell families. Some of this material relates to Thomas Wolfe, but much of it concerns family matters. There is considerable correspondence between family members about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association which illuminates the part the family played in the restoration and preservation of the Old Kentucky Home.
The correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell relates to the Thomas Wolfe Estate. There is also correspondence with members of the New York law firm of Ernst, Cane, and Berner, and especially with Paul Gitlin of that firm who succeeded Aswell as the Executor of the Thomas Wolfe Estate. Other correspondence consists of Fred Wolfe's personal correspondence, some of which demonstrates his efforts in preserving the memory of Thomas Wolfe's life and work. There are letters to and from individuals who wrote about Thomas Wolfe, especially Andrew Turnbull, LeGette Blythe, and Elizabeth Nowell. See the box list for an alphabetical list of correspondents.
In addition to the alphabetiacal correspondence file there is a subject file containing material relating to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, documents from the Thomas Wolfe Estate, other legal and financial documents, letters and documents about real estate in Asheville and in Florida, correspondence about grave markers in Asheville, a few manuscripts of published and unpublished articles about Thomas Wolfe, and a few copies of Fred Wolfe's speeches about Thomas Wolfe.
The printed material includes playbills from productions related to Thomas Wolfe or his work, tourist guides of Asheville, and publicity about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the Old Kentucky Home.
The Wolfe family memorabilia, which contains only printed material, includes commencement invitations, some business cards for the Old Kentucky Home, and a small printed advertisement for the North Carolina, Julia E. Wolfe's 1904 boarding house in St. Louis.
Volumes include Mabel Wheaton's autograph album and guest book, a small account book that belonged to Julia Wolfe before her marriage, a small notebook of W.O. Wolfe, and several other items.
| Box | 1 | Correspondence Files |
| A General | ||
| Alspaugh, William and Patricia, 1965 | ||
| Anderson, Margaret, 1959-1962 | ||
| Ariail, Warren G., 1948-1950 | ||
| Aswell, Edward C., 1938-1948 | ||
| 2 | Aswell, Edward C., 1950-1955 | |
| 3 | Aswell, Edward C., 1956-1958 | |
| B General | ||
| Bach, Julian, 1947 | ||
| Baker, George Pierce, 1923 | ||
| Barber Brothers Orchards, 1966 | ||
| Barnett, Augusta, 1964-1966 (see also Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association) | ||
| Bayley, Virginia, 1961 | ||
| Beresford, Patricia, 1968 | ||
| Berner, Anne, 1960-1962 | ||
| Bernstein, Aline, 1928 | ||
| Blomberg, Harry, 1942 | ||
| Bloomgarden, Kermit, 1957-1959 | ||
| Blythe, LeGette, 1958-1966, undated | ||
| "Book World," 1968 | ||
| Brown, Roscoe Fisher, 1965 | ||
| Burton, W.C., 1960 | ||
| C General | ||
| Carter, Frank, 1936-1941 | ||
| 4 | Champion, Myra, 1950-1963, undated | |
| Chapman, George, 1966 | ||
| Childress, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard, 1947-1951 | ||
| Conway, Ray, 1938-1939 | ||
| Coughlan, Robert, 1956-1960 | ||
| Crawford, Annie Laurie, 1938 (see also printed material Box 29) | ||
| D General | ||
| Dandy, Walter, 1938 | ||
| Dashiell, Alfred S., 1953-1959 | ||
| Davidson College, 1961 | ||
| Dickson, Frank A., 1948-1953 | ||
| di Boe, Mizpah, 1956-1962 | ||
| E General | ||
| Ernst, Cane and Berner, 1938-1968 | ||
| 5 | Ernst, Cane and Berner, 1959-1968 | |
| Ernst, Cane and Berner (Paul Gitlin), 1958-1972 | ||
| F General | ||
| Florida Presbyterian College, 1962-1963 | ||
| Foremost Dairies, 1934-1965, undated | ||
| Foster, Ruel, 1958 | ||
| Fulenwider, John and Catherine, 1966-1977 | ||
| Furman University, 1953 | ||
| G General | ||
| Gambrell, David, 1936-1948 | ||
| 6 | Gambrell, David, 1949-1960 | |
| Gambrell, Edward C., 1944-1973 | ||
| Gambrell, Effie Wolfe, 1934-1948 | ||
| Gambrell, Fred W., 1948-1952 | ||
| Gambrell, George, 1942-1952 | ||
| Garrison, V.O., 1934-1938 | ||
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology, 1956-1962 | |
| Gitlin Paul, see Ernst, Cane and Berner | ||
| Graham, Frank Porter, 1950 | ||
| Greer, Paul, 1938 | ||
| Greenville High School, 1969 | ||
| H General | ||
| Hall, Jay, 1961 | ||
| Hamner, Earl, 1955-1956 | ||
| Hardwick, J. Gordon, 1949-1955 | ||
| Harper & Brothers, 1939 (see also Aswell, Edward C.) | ||
| Harris, Lon and Elizabeth, 1938-1944 | ||
| Hart, Henry and Mary, 1938 | ||
| Harvard University Library, 1960-1961 | ||
| Hatchett, William R. and Carmen, 1951-1966 | ||
| Hempstead, Dorothy, 1946-1947 | ||
| Helmke, Hans, 1963-1966 | ||
| Holmes, Estelle Barton, 1957-1961 | ||
| Hutchings, Amy, 1937-1961 | ||
| J General | ||
| Jack, Peter Munro, 1948-1949 | ||
| K General | ||
| Kennedy, Richard, 1951; 1964 | ||
| Kleinberg, Norman, 1938 | ||
| 8 | L General | |
| Lee, Russell and Dorothy, 1938 | ||
| Life Magazine, 1941-1956 | ||
| Lindsey, Robert H., 1966 | ||
| Liptrott, Mildred, 1938-1961 | ||
| Mc General | ||
| McGill, Ralph, 1946 | ||
| McNeill, Annie Gibson, 1938-1946 | ||
| M General | ||
| Magi, Aldo, 1962 | ||
| Malone, Ted, 1940-1941, undated | ||
| Miller, Daniel Carlos, 1962-1965 | ||
| Miller, Edward, 1938-1976 | ||
| Moore, C.B., 1885 | ||
| Mossman, Joe | ||
| N General | ||
| Napolitano, Ralph, 1973 | ||
| New York Times Book Review, 1960-1968 | ||
| New York University, 1958 | ||
| New Yorker Magazine, 1958 | ||
| Norton, Geraldine, 1935-1961, undated | ||
| Nowell, Elizabeth, 1937-1958, undated | ||
| 9 | O General | |
| P General | ||
| Patton, Wendell, 1964-1965 | ||
| Pease, A.E., 1945-1951 | ||
| Perkins, Louise, 1945-1951 | ||
| Perkins, Maxwell, 1931-1945 | ||
| 10 | Perkins, Maxwell, 1946-1947, undated | |
| R General | ||
| Rapport, Leonard, 1959-1962 | ||
| Raynolds, Robert, 1965 | ||
| Reeves, Paschal, 1966-1968 | ||
| Ricker, Kenneth, 1951-1952 | ||
| Rifkin, Joyce, 1958-1963 | ||
| Rau, Robert B. | ||
| Rollins, Henry, 1962-1966 | ||
| Rothman, David, 1965 | ||
| Ruge, Dr. E.C., 1938 | ||
| S General | ||
| Sandburg, Carl, 1951-1953 | ||
| Saturday Review of Literature, 1951-1965 | ||
| Scribner's, Charles and Sons, 1947-1973 (see also Maxwell Perkins) | ||
| Shoemaker, Don and Lyal, 1951-1952 | ||
| Shubert, John, 1968 | ||
| Simmons, John and Essie, 1945-1955 | ||
| Spartan High School, 1962 | ||
| Stevens, James and Theresa, 1938-1939 | ||
| Still, James, 1966 | ||
| 11 | Stokeley, James, 1938-1951 | |
| T General | ||
| Tate, D.W., 1938-1952, undated | ||
| Terry, John Skally, 1940-1952, undated | ||
| Theatrical Interests Plan, 1959 | ||
| Turnbull, Andrew, 1960-1968 | ||
| University of North Carolina, 1949-1963 | ||
| UNC, Gift Receipts, 1950-1963 | ||
| V General | ||
| Vaugh, Alexander H., 1965 | ||
| Volkening, Henry, 1939-1955 | ||
| 12 | W General | |
| Wallace, Robert M. | ||
| Walser, Richard, 1950-1978 | ||
| Walther, John D., 1967 (includes transcripts of an interview with Fred Wolfe) | ||
| Watkins, Floyd, 1964 | ||
| Westall, Annie, 1950-1977 | ||
| Westall, Henrietta, 1945-1948 | ||
| Westall, Henry, 1945-1947 | ||
| Westall, N.B., 1921 | ||
| Westall, Thomas Casey, 1882-1883 | ||
| Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, 1931-1936 | ||
| 13 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, 1936-1941 | |
| 14 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, 1942-June 1946 | |
| 15 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, July 1946-April 1948 | |
| 16 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, May 1948-April 1950 | |
| 17 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, May 1950-1952 | |
| 18 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, 1953-1955 | |
| 19 | Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe, 1956-1958, undated | |
| Wheaton, Ralph Harris, 1931-1966 | ||
| Wheelock, John Hall, 1948-1957 | ||
| 20 | Wilder, Virginia Gambrell, 1936-1966 | |
| Wisdom, William, 1945-1950 | ||
| Wolf, Edgar, 1943 | ||
| Wolf, Howard A., 1979 | ||
| Wolfe, Ben, 1915-1918 | ||
| Wolfe, Frank, 1934-1935 | ||
| 21 | Wolfe, Frank, 1946-March 1948 | |
| 22 | Wolfe, Frank, April 1948-1955, undated | |
| Wolfe, Fred, 1909, 1920-1938 | ||
| Wolfe, Julia E., 1920-1936 | ||
| 23 | Wolfe, Julia E., 1937-1946, undated | |
| Wolfe, Louis, 1941, 1951 | ||
| Wolfe, Rheinhardt Dietz, 1940-1977 | ||
| 24 | Wolfe, William Oliver, 1884, 1913-1921 | |
| Wood, Jesse L., 1942-1945 | ||
| Woodbridge, William W., 1938-1939 | ||
| Wyckoff, Irma, 1947 | ||
| Wylie, Nancy, 1962-1965 | ||
| Young, Don C., 1942-1973 | ||
| Unknown | ||
| 25 | Subject Files | |
| Berlin Exhibit, 1960 | ||
| Blue Bird Ice Cream Co., undated | ||
| Eastes Film [1976] | ||
| Employment Securities Comission, 1961 | ||
| Grave Markers, 1938-1962 | ||
| Manuscripts -- Blythe, LeGette | ||
| Manuscripts -- de Boe, Mizpah | ||
| Manuscripts -- Green, Charmian | ||
| Manuscripts -- Ingalls, Marjorie | ||
| Manuscripts -- Williams, Betty Lynch | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||
| Property -- Asheville, 1937 | ||
| 26 | Property -- Asheville, 1942-1950 | |
| Property -- Dade County, 1927-1963, undated | ||
| Property -- Miami Beach Lot, 1928, 1940-1949 | ||
| Property -- Spartanburg, 1927, 1947-1948 | ||
| Reviews, 1960 | ||
| Simmons and Wolfe Ice Cream Co., undated | ||
| SS Thomas Wolfe, 1944 | ||
| Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, 1948-1951(see also Barnett, Augusta) | ||
| 27 | Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, 1952-1975 | |
| Thomas Wolfe Playhouse, 1965 | ||
| Wills and legal documents | ||
| Wolfe, Fred -- Speeches | ||
| Wolfe, Julia -- Correspondence concerning death | ||
| Wolfe, Julia -- Estate | ||
| Wolfe, Thomas -- Estate, 1944-1969 (see also, Perkins, Maxwell; Aswell, Edward; Ernst, Cane & Berner) | ||
| 28 | Wolfe, Thomas -- Estate | |
| Wolfe, Thomas -- Estate, Executors' Reports, 1940-1960 | ||
| Wolfe, Thomas -- Funeral Selections | ||
| Wolfe, W.O. -- Estate, 1922 | ||
| 29 | Printed Materials | |
| Family Related Items | ||
| Asheville Guides | ||
| Playbills | ||
| Thomas Wolfe Memorial | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||
| 30 | Volume 1: W.O. Wolfe notebook, undated | |
| Volume 2: Julia Westall notebook, 1883, undated | ||
| Volume 3: Salesman's notebook, 1908 | ||
| Volume 4: Mabel Wolfe Wheaton autograph book, 1955, undated | ||
| Volume 5: Mabel Wolfe Wheaton Guest Book, 1952-1958 | ||
| Volume 6: Fred Wolfe Lettercopy Book, 1977-1978 |
Transferred from St. Mary's College to the North Carolina Collection in 1990.
The St. Mary's Collection of Thomas Wolfe at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C. was founded by Dr. and Mrs. John O. Fulenwider. The collection includes manuscript and published materials relating to Thomas Wolfe, the Wolfe family, and the study and appreciation of Thomas Wolfe. The collection contains materials from many different sources. Items such as programs, publications, and clippings related to Thomas Wolfe were actively sought by St. Mary's archivists and librarians and added to the collection. The largest individual collections in this series are the papers of George McCoy, editor of the Asheville Citizen Times and one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, and those of Richard Walser, Professor of English at North Carolina State University and noted Wolfe scholar. There is also a small number of Thomas Wolfe letters, donated to the collection by Catherine and John O. Fulenwider. The photographs in this collection have been transferred to the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.
Included among the Thomas Wolfe correspondence is a 7-page typed letter to Aline Bernstein with corrections and an addendum handwritten by Wolfe. An uncorrected draft of this letter was published in the edition of Thomas Wolfe letters edited by Elizabeth Nowell and in My Other Loneliness, edited by Suzanne Stutman. Stutman identifies this letter as the only typed letter from Wolfe to Bernstein.
The materials donated to the collection are arranged alphabetically by the name of the donor. Items that were gathered by St. Mary's are arranged alphabetically by subject. The subject folder and the donor folders are interfiled. The correspondence in this collection has been indexed.
The George McCoy materials include correspondence, publications, and official papers. McCoy was a friend and early supporter of Thomas Wolfe. He published several short pieces on Wolfe in the Asheville newspapers and continued to collect information on the author after Wolfe's death. McCoy was one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, formed in Asheville in 1947. He served as secretary of the Memorial Association until 1957 and maintained the organization's official papers which are preserved in this series. There is an article about the McCoy papers by Richard Walser in the Thomas Wolfe Review vol. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1981).
The Richard Walser papers in this series include notes, drafts, and source materials for his books Thomas Wolfe: An Introduction and Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate. Included in the source materials for these books are photocopies of correspondence by and about Thomas Wolfe, clippings, and photocopies of yearbooks, catalogs, magazines, and newspapers related to Wolfe's time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The original correspondence in this series includes letters between Walser and Fred Wolfe, Maxwell Perkins, and Edward Aswell, related primarily to Walser's publications about Wolfe. Additional Richard Walser materials are located in CW8, the Aldo P. Magi series, and in the Southern Historical Collection, located in the Manuscripts Department at UNC - Chapel Hill.
Also included in this series are papers of Edgar E. ("Jim") Wolf, Thomas Wolfe's cousin. Jim Wolf lived in Gettysburg, Penn. and corresponded occasionally with the Wolfe family in Asheville. Letters to Wolf from Thomas Wolfe, W.O. Wolfe, and Mabel Wolfe Wheaton are included here. In addition to family materials, the Jim Wolf papers include Wolf's business papers, the papers of his mother, Eleanor Jane Wolf, and correspondence with Thomas Wolfe biographer Elizabeth Nowell.
The materials gathered by St. Mary's include manuscripts about Thomas Wolfe, programs from Thomas Wolfe festivals, lectures, and exhibits, and playbills from Look Homeward, Angel and other Wolfe-related plays and performances.
| BOX 1 | ||
| Folder | 1 | Angel Statue, Asheville. Dedicated October 3, 1983 |
| 2 | An Escape Into Life: Videoscripts / produced and directed by Kay Reibold | |
| 3 | Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wolfe (75th, Asheville, 1975) | |
| 4 | Anniversary Celebration of the publication of Look Homeward, Angel (50th, October 17, 1979, Asheville) | |
| 5 | Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, 1883: On the Move | |
| 6 | Bernstein, Aline. "December Twenty-fourth," short story, Mademoiselle, December, 1942 | |
| 7 | Bernstein, Aline. Correspondence: Letters to Jean Pique, 1942-1945 | |
| 8 | Braden. Invitation to the wedding of Mabel Wolfe and Ralph Wheaton, June 28,1916 | |
| 9-10 | Braden-Hatchett. Thomas Wolfe Collection. | |
| 11 | Braden. Correspondence: Mabel Wolfe Wheaton to Ralph Wheaton, March 1916-December 1917 (photocopies) | |
| 12 | Braden. Which of Us Has Known His Brother? Letters of Frank Wolfe 1904-1948. | |
| BOX 2 | ||
| Folder | 13-14 | Calapai, Letterio |
| 15 | Clark, James W. "Thomas Wolfe in October" | |
| 16 | Coates, Albert and Gladys Hall | |
| 17 | Courses and Symposiums on Thomas Wolfe | |
| 18 | Cremin-Fleming. Correspondence: Sherwood Anderson to Thomas Wolfe, ca. 1937. | |
| 19 | Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies | |
| 20 | Dunn, Joseph R. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Alvin Sizer (photocopy), Robert Raynolds to Alvin Sizer (photocopy) | |
| 21 | Eastes, Frank. Luke: A tribute to Fred. | |
| BOX 3 | ||
| Folder | 22 | Field, Leslie A. "The Web at the Rock: The City, Esther, and Beyond" |
| 23 | Fulenwider, John O. Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas Wolfe, A Biography, unrevised galley proofs | |
| 24 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Aline Bernstein, December 11, 1933. | |
| 25 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Arthur Mann, April 5, 1938 | |
| 26 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Dean H. Tatnell Brown, Jr., April 27, 1938. | |
| 27 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Arthur Mann, April 28, 1938 (photocopy) | |
| 28 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Arthur Mann, May 3, 1938 | |
| 29 | Fulenwider, John O. Correspondence: Thomas Wolfe to Effie Wolfe, May 16, 1909 (photocopy) | |
| 30 | Fulenwider, John O. Dustjacket, Look Homeward, Angel | |
| 31 | Fulenwider, John O. The Web and the Rock, galley proofs (incomplete) | |
| 32 | Fulenwider, John O. Publications | |
| BOX 4 | ||
| Folder | 33 | Fulenwider, John O. Wilson, Michael, first draft of screenplay for Look Homeward, Angel |
| 34 | Halberstadt, John | |
| 35 | Holman, C. Hugh. "Wolfe's Challenge to His Critics" | |
| 36 | Hunt, James B. | |
| 37 | Hutchison, Stuart | |
| BOX 5 | ||
| Folder | 34 | Idol, John Lane |
| 35-36 | Jones, Dan Burne | |
| 37 | Klein, Carole | |
| 38-39 | Magi, Aldo P. Bibliography of the Aldo P. Magi Collection of Thomas Wolfe | |
| BOX 6 | ||
| Folder | 40 | Magi, Aldo P. |
| 41 | McCoy, George. Clippings. | |
| 42 | McCoy, George. Dramatic script for The Web and the Rock by Lester Cohen. | |
| 43-44 | McCoy, George. Articles by Wolfe. | |
| BOX 7 | ||
| 45 | McCoy, George. Papers, 1907-1948. | |
| 46 | McCoy, George. Papers, 1949-1950. | |
| 47 | McCoy, George. Papers, 1951-1968. | |
| 48 | McCoy, George. Papers, undated. | |
| BOX 8 | ||
| 49 | McCoy, George. North Carolina Historical Review, July, 1938. | |
| 50 | McCoy, George. UNC Catalogue, 1920-21. | |
| 51 | McCoy, George. Publications, UNC materials. | |
| BOX 9 | ||
| 52 | McCoy, George. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association (1947-1948). | |
| 53 | McCoy, George. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association (1949). | |
| 54 | McCoy, George. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association (1950-1952). | |
| 55 | McCoy, George. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association (1953-1957). | |
| BOX 10 | ||
| 56 | McCoy, George. Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, memorabilia. | |
| 57 | Mobley, Nathan | |
| 58 | Perkins, Maxwell | |
| 59 | Miscellaneous | |
| 60-61 | Phillipson, John S. Thomas Wolfe Newsletter. | |
| 62 | Phillipson, John S. | |
| BOX 11 | ||
| 63 | Playbills | |
| 64 | Schrieber, Virginia | |
| 65 | Schneider, Duane | |
| 66 | Smithers, Virgil | |
| 67 | Teicher, Morton | |
| 68 | Stutman, Suzanne | |
| 69 | Terry, John Skally | |
| 70-71 | Theobald, Theodore V. | |
| BOX 12 | ||
| 72 | The Thomas Wolfe Collection of George R. Preston | |
| 73 | "Thomas Wolfe," reading script for filmstrip produced by Thomas S. Klise Co. | |
| 74 | Thomas Wolfe memorabilia | |
| 75 | Tise, Larry E. | |
| 76-77 | Thomas Wolfe Memorial | |
| BOX 13 | ||
| 78-79 | Walser, Richard. The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe. Permissions. | |
| 80-81 | Walser, Richard. The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe. Prepublication. | |
| BOX 14 | ||
| 82 | Walser, Richard. The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe. Publication. | |
| 83-84 | Walser, Richard. Thomas Wolfe: An Introduction and Interpretation. Preliminaries | |
| 85 | Walser, Richard. UNC Directories of faculty and students 1916-1920. | |
| BOX 15 | ||
| 86 | Walser, Richard. Robert Coleman Gibbs, Thomas Wolfe's Four Years at Chapel Hill: A Study of Biographical Source Material (UNC thesis, 1958. Photocopy) | |
| 87 | Walser, Richard. UNC Materials, 1917-1920. | |
| 88 | Walser, Richard. George A. Wolf materials. | |
| 89 | Walser, Richard. Miscellaneous clippings and drafts. | |
| 90 | Walser, Richard. Clippings. | |
| BOX 16 | ||
| 91-92 | Walser, Richard. Thomas Wolfe: An Introduction and Interpretation. Publication | |
| 93 | Walser, Richard. W.O. Wolfe, legal papers (photocopy) | |
| 94 | Walser, Richard. Look Homeward, Angel playbills. | |
| BOX 17 | ||
| 95 | Walser, Richard. Look Homeward, Angel play. | |
| 96-98 | Walser, Richard. Drafts of Thomas Wolfe Unidergraduate. | |
| BOX 18 | ||
| 99-100 | Walser, Richard. Galley and page proofs for Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate. | |
| 101 | Walser, Richard. Photocopies of Thomas Wolfe Contributions to UNC Magazines 1916-1920. | |
| 102 | Walser, Richard. Tar Heel (UNC) 1916-1918. | |
| BOX 19 | ||
| 103 | Walser, Richard. Tar Heel (UNC) 1919-1920. | |
| 104 | Walser, Richard. Thomas Wolfe's academic record at UNC. | |
| 105 | Walser, Richard. Letters -- Aswell, Perkins, Terry, Turnbull | |
| 106 | Walser, Richard. Wolfe letters to family (photocopies) | |
| 107 | Walser, Richard. Wolfe letters to college friends and professors (photocopies). | |
| BOX 20 | ||
| 108 | Walser, Richard. Wolfe family letters (photocopies). | |
| 109 | Walser, Richard. Wolfe letters to Lora French (photocopies). | |
| 110 | Walser, Richard. Wolfe papers, plays, etc. written as an undergraduate at Chapel Hill (photocopies). | |
| 111 | Walser, Richard. Reminiscences by classmates of Thomas Wolfe at Chapel Hill (photocopies). | |
| 112 | Walser, Richard. Reminiscences of classmates -- Collected by Don Bishop (photocopies). | |
| 113 | Walser, Richard. Letters to Thomas Wolfe (photocopies). | |
| BOX 21 | ||
| 114 | Walser, Richard. Letters from Fred Wolfe (1950-1978). | |
| 115 | Washburn, Delores, 1984. | |
| 116 | Willis, Robert J., 1983. | |
| 117 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Eleanor Jane Wolf Papers, 1860-1911. | |
| 118 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Letter, Thomas Wolfe to Jim Wolf, April 15, 1938. | |
| 119 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Business Papers. | |
| 120 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Family letters. | |
| 121 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Papers. | |
| 122 | Wolf, Edgar E. (Jim). Letters from Elizabeth Nowell, 1950-1958. | |
| BOX 22 | ||
| 123-124 | Wolfe, Fred. Fred Wolfe's Photograph Album (photocopy) | |
| 125 | Wolfe, Fred. Papers | |
| 126 | Wolfe, Fred. Letter, Julia E. Wolfe to Thomas Wolfe, August 18, 1938 (photocopy) | |
| 127 | Wolfe, Fred. Letter, Julia E. Wolfe to Fred Wolfe, [August 18], 1938 (photocopy) | |
| 128 | Wolfe, Fred. Will of W.O. Wolfe, incomplete (photocopy). | |
| 129 | Wolfe, Fred. Miscellania. | |
| 130 | Wolfe, R. Dietz. Papers | |
| 131 | Wolfe Family Miscellany | |
| 132 | Price, Reynolds. Typescript and tape of speech before Duke University Friends of the Library, March 26, 1987. |
Purchased from Eve Braden Hatchett, 1990.
The Braden-Hatchett Thomas Wolfe Collection was founded and maintained by Eve Braden Hatchett and William Hatchett of Memphis University School, Memphis, Tenn. The collection contains correspondence, publications, and audio-visual materials related to Thomas Wolfe and his works. There are many original letters from Thomas Wolfe and other members of the Wolfe family. A descriptive catalogue prepared by the Hatchetts is available in the North Carolina Collection. This series is indexed.
The Braden-Hatchett series is currently being processed by the North Carolina Collection. A more detailed description and box list will be available soon.
The Thomas Wolfe Photograph Collection consists of more than 1,500 items dealing with Wolfe, his family, and friends. Most of these were acquired as a gift from the Wolfe family, but some have been obtained by the North Carolina Collection. The photographs are housed in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. The World Wide Web site for the Wolfe Photographic Collection is at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/48wolfe/index.html
The Thomas Wolfe Collection has a number of recordings which relate to Thomas Wolfe's life and work. There are records and tapes which contain selected readings from his works, and others which contain biographical material. Among the biographical recordings are the NBC Biography in Sound produced in 1956, several interviews with Mabel Wolfe Wheaton and Fred W. Wolfe, and interviews with some of the people Wolfe met on his final trip to the West Coast in 1938.Films:
The Thomas Wolfe Collection has a small number of films which relate to Thomas Wolfe. There are videocassettes, motion pictures, microfilms, and film strips.Memorabilia:
There are three boxes of memorabilia in the Thomas Wolfe Collection. The contents of these boxes were almost all gifts of the Wolfe family, and were transferred from the Wolfe family papers. All of these items are now housed in the North Carolina Collection Gallery.
Miscellaneous Wolfe family personal items are included in this series, with some items believed to have belonged to Thomas Wolfe and others whose previous ownership is not known. The costume worn by Leila Nance Moffatt and the belt worn by Thomas Wolfe in the original production of The Return of Buck Gavin are held in this series. Also included is a vase that was presented by Thomas Wolfe to Mabel and Ralph Wheaton upon the occasion of their wedding.