St. Mary's College Thomas Wolfe Collection, 1920-1990.

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St. Mary's College Thomas Wolfe Collection, 1920-1990.

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The collection includes manuscript and published materials relating to Thomas Wolfe, the Wolfe family, and the study and appreciation of Thomas Wolfe. Note that some materials are photocopies. Materials given by Catherine and John O. Fulenwider consist of Thomas Wolfe letters, including one from Thomas Wolfe to Aline Bernstein, galley proofs of "The Web and the Rock" and Elizabeth Nowell's "Thomas Wolfe, A Biography," and other items. Papers of George McCoy include correspondence between Thomas Wolfe and McCoy; letters to McCoy from Elizabeth Nowell, Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer, and others about Wolfe; scrapbooks, possibly compiled by McCoy relating to Wolfe; materials relating to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association; and other items. Papers of Richard Walser include notes, drafts, and source materials for his books "Thomas Wolfe: An Introduction" and "Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate" and letters between Walser and Fred Wolfe, Maxwell Perkins, and Edward Aswell that relate primarily to Walser's publications about Wolfe. The papers of Edgar E. (Jim) Wolf include letters to him from Thomas Wolfe, W.O. Wolfe, and Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, as well as Wolf's business papers; the papers of his mother, Eleanor Jane Wolf; and correspondence with Elizabeth Nowell. Papers of Fred Wolfe include letters from him and Julia E. Wolfe and other materials relating to the Wolfe family. Materials collected by St. Mary's College include a letter from Sherwood Anderson to Thomas Wolfe; letters from Aline Bernstein; materials related to Thomas Wolfe's nephew, R. Dietz Wolfe; audio and visual materials related to Thomas Wolfe; Thomas Wolfe-related subject files, possibly compiled by the staff at St. Mary's College; card catalogs describing materials in the collection; clippings of articles about Thomas Wolfe from various newspapers, magazines, and journals; and materials relating to Wolfe Fest, a festival dedicated to Thomas Wolfe and held at St. Mary's College.

About 2000 items (10.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968101

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association

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Bernstein, Aline, 1881-1955

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Costume and set designer for the American theater, Aline Bernstein worked with the Lewisohn sisters at the Henry Street Settlement, designed productions for the Grand Street Follies, five Lillian Hellman plays, and two RKO spectaculars, and received a Tony award for her costumes for the opera Regina (1950), among other highlights. She was also an author and helped establish the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art serving as its president for the last nine years of her life. ...

Nowell, Elizabeth.

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St. Mary's College (Raleigh, N.C.)

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The St. Mary's College Thomas Wolfe Collection was founded at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C., in 1975 by Catherine and John O. Fulenwider. 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 College archivists and librarians and added to the collection. The largest individual collections are the papers of George McCoy, editor of the "Asheville Citizen Times" and one of t...

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

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...

Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958

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Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the "Forum," and, in 1930, became assistant editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acq...

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 ...

Walser, Richard, 1908-1988

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Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of s...

Wolfe family.

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Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Wolf, Edgar Elsworth.

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Wolf family.

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