Sallie Faxon Saunders papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1923-1967.

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Sallie Faxon Saunders papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1923-1967.

The collection contains letters from Elizabeth Nowell to Sallie Faxon Saunders relating to Nowell's biography of Thomas Wolfe published in 1960. It also includes letters from Andrew Turnbull relating to his biography of Thomas Wolfe published in 1967. There are also letters from Wolfe's brother Fred Wolfe and mother Julia E. Wolfe about Thomas Wolfe's illness; a photograph of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, 1 August 1937; and two photographs of Thomas Wolfe, 1938, with an annotation on the verso indicating that they were taken by Sallie Faxon Saunder's son in a New York City, N.Y., restaurant.

About 50 items (0.5 linear feet).

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Wolfe family.

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Nowell, Elizabeth.

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Saunders, Sallie

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Sallie Faxon Saunders accompanied Thomas Wolfe in New Mexico as part of his western journey of 1938. She was later the editor of the "Junior League Magazine." From the description of Sallie Faxon Saunders papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1923-1967. WorldCat record id: 676809656 ...

Turnbull, Andrew, 1921-1970

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Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945

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Wolfe, Frederick, 1936-

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Frederick William Wolfe was born in Asheville, N.C., in 1894, the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Elizabeth Westall and William Oliver Wolfe. He was educated in Asheville schools and worked as a salesman in Dayton, Ohio, before serving in the Navy during World War I. 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 ...

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...