William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959.

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William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80284498

The Wisdom collection consists of manuscripts, letters, and other papers of Thomas Wolfe purchased by William B. Wisdom from the Wolfe estate. The collection includes manuscripts, drafts, and notes for Wolfe's novels, as well as his plays, poems, and other writings; correspondence, chiefly from the 1930s, including long runs of letters to and from Aline Bernstein, Elizabeth Nowell, Maxwell E. Perkins, and family members; pocket notebooks; academic notebooks, exercises, essays, and examinations; legal and business papers, including royalty reports; and manuscripts and correspondence concerning Wolfe. Proofs of Thomas Wolfe's books have been catalogued and shelved with the books in the Wisdom collection.

156 boxes (78 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Wisdom, William B., 1900-1977

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Wolfe was an American novelist. From the description of William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80284498 From the guide to the William B. Wisdom collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1909-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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. ...

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...

Nowell, Elizabeth.

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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...