Braden-Hatchett collection of Thomas Wolfe materials, 1860-1994.

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Braden-Hatchett collection of Thomas Wolfe materials, 1860-1994.

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The collection includes original and photocopied letters written by Thomas Wolfe; correspondence of Wolfe and Westall family members, especially Fred Wolfe, Julia E. Wolfe, and Mabel Wolfe Wheaton; correspondence between Fred Wolfe and William Hatchett; correspondence with Maxwell Perkins, Wolfe's first editor and first executor of his estate, and Elizabeth Nowell, Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer; and correspondence with collectors and scholars interested in Wolfe, including Aldo Magi, Richard Walser, Duane Schneider, John Phillipson, and David Herbert Donald. Also included are legal papers and financial documents belonging to Thomas Wolfe and members of the Wolfe family and papers relating to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association. There are also subject files on Thomas Wolfe and his family, and on persons, places, and events related to Thomas Wolfe. Clipping and photocopy files make up the largest part of the collection, reflecting the Hatchetts' goal of obtaining copies of every article written about Thomas Wolfe. They include articles written by Thomas Wolfe, articles written about Thomas Wolfe and his family, and bibliographic materials related to Thomas Wolfe. There are also audio and visual materials relating to Thomas Wolfe, including audiotapes of Thomas Wolfe's family discussing him, audiotapes of Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College, videotapes featuring Fred Wolfe, and videotapes based on the works of Thomas Wolfe. There are also photographs of Thomas Wolfe, Wolfe family members, and the Hatchetts; slides belonging to Fred Wolfe; materials related to the Braden-Hatchett Collection itself, including publicity materials, photocopies of articles about the collection, financial materials, research booklets about Thomas Wolfe, and copies of the Thomas Wolfe Review; and books both by and about Thomas Wolfe.

About 19000 items (35.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968102

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 15 Entities related to this resource.

Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association

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Magi, Aldo P.

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Aldo P. Magi's interest in Thomas Wolfe began in 1957 when he read "The Letters of Thomas Wolfe." From this he read through Wolfe's fiction and the existing biographical works and began to develop the collection that would become a lifelong interest. Magi pursued his collection largely through a correspondence he maintained with librarians, scholars, and Thomas Wolfe's own friends and family. By the 1970s, Magi was an active participant in Thomas Wolfe scholarship. He was one of the founding mem...

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...

Hatchett, William

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Hatchett, Eve Braden

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Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of David Herbert Donald : oral history, [197-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681083 ...

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...

Wolfe family.

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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...

Nowell, Elizabeth.

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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 ...

Phillipson, John S.

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Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945

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Schneider, Duane

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Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe

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