Benjamin Cone papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1982.

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Benjamin Cone papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/676822592

The collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and other items chiefly relating to Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe. Included is correspondence between Cone and others about Wolfe. Among the correspondents are Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell and Wolfe biographer Andrew Turnbull. Also included are photocopies of Wolfe's letters to Benjamin Cone, recollections of Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, an article about Cone and Wolfe, clippings related to Wolfe, and other materials.

About 100 items (0.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7968128

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Turnbull, Andrew, 1921-1970

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Cone, Benjamin, 1899-1982

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Benjamin Cone was born in 1899, a member of the prominent Cone family of Greensboro, N.C. He was a friend of Thomas Wolfe while both were students at the University of North Carolina. Cone graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1920; he was mayor of Greensboro, 1949-1951. From the description of Benjamin Cone papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1982. WorldCat record id: 676822592 ...

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...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Nowell, Elizabeth.

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Coates, Albert, 1896-1989

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Albert Coates, founder and long-time director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, was born in Johnston County, N.C., in 1896 and died in 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1918 and an LLB from Harvard University in 1923. Upon graduation, Coates joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law and taught there until 1969. In 1931, Coates founded the Institute of Government at the University ...

Boyd, Madeleine Elise Reynier

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Literary agent and author. From the description of Letter to Montgomery Evans [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816345 ...