Papers regarding John Skally Terry, friend and biographer of Thomas Wolfe [manuscript] 1970, Mar. 15.

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Papers regarding John Skally Terry, friend and biographer of Thomas Wolfe [manuscript] 1970, Mar. 15.

The collection consists of a letter from Hoagland to Edmund Berkeley, Jr., regarding the ransacking of Terry's apartment after his death. Two photographs (and two photographic negatives), 1953 of Terry's apartment following police search are included.

6 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7930723

University of Virginia. Library

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Hoagland, Clayton

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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...

Berkeley, Edmund, 1937-

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Edmund Berkeley Jr., associate professor, served the University of Virginia and its library from 1960 through 1999 in numeorus capacities including: director of special collections, university archivist, curator of manuscripts, and the University's records manager. From the description of Papers of Edmund Berkeley Jr. [manuscript], 1967-1999. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647919552 From the description of Papers of Edmund Berkeley Jr. [manuscript], 1975-1998....

Terry, John Skally, 1894-1953

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John Skally Terry, born in Rockingham, N.C., in 1894, entered the University of North Carolina in 1914. As an undergraduate, he was active in student publications and became a friend of Thomas Wolfe. While living in New York in the early 1920s, Terry renewed his friendship with Wolfe, joining Wolfe as a member of the English faculty at New York University in 1925. After Wolfe's death in 1938, Terry became a close friend of Wolfe's mother, Julia E. Wolfe, and worked with her on Thomas Wolfe's Let...