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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1926-1935

[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.]

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Thomas Wolfe Collection 1926-1935

[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.]

Thomas Wolfe, Paris, to Aline Bernstein, New York, 1926 24 p.

[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.]

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