Richard Gaither Walser Papers 1937-1982

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Richard Gaither Walser Papers 1937-1982

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Personal papers, manuscripts, correspondence, publications, Watauga Club minutes, news clippings of Richard Gaither Walser. The collection chiefly reflects Walser's work as an authority on North Carolina literature and a scholar of Thomas Wolfe. Included are personal items, such as passports, articles on and some writing by Zeb Vance Walser (his father), alumni-related items from Davidson College and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and items relating to Walser's retirement from North Carolina State University. There are also publications and reviews by and about Richard Walser. The Thomas Wolfe material contains reviews of Walser's books on Wolfe, correspondence pertaining to the writing of these books, and an issue of The Thomas Wolfe Review honoring Richard Walser (Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1982). Correspondence and speeches span the years from 1970 to 1981. Brief biographies of significant North Carolina authors, including Lodwick Hartley and Guy Owen are also included. The Watauga Club material includes a manuscript for the history of the club and some sources for this history, as well as minutes, reports, financial records, a constitution and membership lists. Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was an authority on North Carolina literature, Thomas Wolfe scholar, English professor at North Carolina State University, writer, editor, and anthologist, veteran of the Naval Reserve (1942-1945), Guggenheim fellow, and recipient of the North Carolina Award. He earned his B.A. (1929) and M.A. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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Walser, Richard, 1908-1988

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Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Walser, Zeb Vance, 1863-1940

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Lawyer, public official, and historian, of Lexington, N.C. From the description of Zeb Vance Walser papers, 1825-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24439041 Zeb Vance Walser (1863-1940) was a lawyer, public official, and historian, of Lexington, N.C. Walser was born in Yadkin College, N.C., to Burgess Gaither Walser and Francis Estelle Byerly Walser. He was educated at Yadkin College; the University of North Carolina, 1880-1884; and the University of Michiga...