Letter, 1938 Sept. 15, Clemson, S.C., to "My dear Mrs. Wolfe," [Asheville, N.C.].

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Letter, 1938 Sept. 15, Clemson, S.C., to "My dear Mrs. Wolfe," [Asheville, N.C.].

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Sympathy letter addressed to Mrs. [Julia] Wolfe, mother of American novelist Thomas Wolfe upon the death of her son at age 38. Expresses admiration for Wolfe's "great, superlative American prose" and refers to him as "one of the great men of the ages, the greatest son North Carolina ever had in the whole of the state's history."

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