Thomas Wolfe Collection 1926-1935

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Thomas Wolfe Collection, Accession 6348-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Thomas Wolfe Collection, Accession 6348-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Writes for his birthday; says she has learned from newspapers that he delivered Of Time and the Riverto Scribner's; keeps copy of Look Homeward, Angelhe gave her; reflects on years of closeness; discusses her illness; hopes her assistant can finish the work on 2 coming plays; urges him to see Judgement Dayby Elmer Ricefor which she did sets; tries to rewrite stories he refused to return and hopes to publish them, but not without his consent; complains about his refusal to communicate; finds it easy to curse Jews; urges him to look inside himself; says she understands his agony and bitterness; wishes him well and knows they will not speak again.]

[Writes in installments; describes accommodations in Paris, places he has been; acknowledges her cables and letter; says theater news upsets him; talks about plays in Londonand shows in Paris; thinks of returning to New Yorkand having to hear about [Eugene] O'Neill, [Sidney] Howard, [Jules] Romain, and [Franz] Wertfel, as he envies their theater work and success; reminisces about their first meeting, their discussion of [James] Joyce's " Exiles"; remarks about Pygmalion, Gulliver's Travels; mentions her remarks about being a self-made success; feels contempt people like her have for him; describes graphic sexual fantasies; reproves her for not writing enough; makes antisemitic remarks; plans to go to Strasbourgand Germany; feels depressed about lack of progress on the book; responds to her hope to have him in New Yorkfor New Year's; asks if the quality of their relationship does not deserve more openness.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit 1963 Dec 19
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
3 items