Kenneth Rodgers collection on Thomas Wolfe, 1900-1937.

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Kenneth Rodgers collection on Thomas Wolfe, 1900-1937.

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The collection includes letters, photographs, notes, and other items relating to Thomas Wolfe that were collected by Kenneth Rodgers. Included is a 16 January 1937 letter from Maxwell Perkins to Thomas Wolfe responding to Wolfe's claims that Perkins over-edited his books. There is also a photograph of Thomas Wolfe taken in 1900 and photographs of a house, with annotations on the verso (possibly by Thomas Wolfe) indicating that the photographs were taken in 1934 and that the house was in Etowah, N.C., and belonged to a person named Florence. Also included are a legal complaint filed by Wolfe's landlord, Marjorie Dorman, that names Wolfe and his publisher as defendants; notes written by Thomas Wolfe; a letter from Julia E. Wolfe to Fred Wolfe; miscellaneous bills and photocopies of canceled checks; letters written to Thomas Wolfe from fans of his works; and other items.

About 200 items (0.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968124

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

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...

Wolfe family.

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Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945

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Rodgers, Kenneth G.

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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 ...