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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1926-1950

[Departs for Parissoon; longs for light, sounds, food, pretty legs, and faces without hostility of Paris; comments on Cocke's life in Oxford; mentions Cocke's intelligence and adaptability; thanks him for the good time he had in Oxford; hopes Cocke will write him in Paris; hopes the Oxfordsun will eventually get out.]

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[Picturing Thomas Wolfein front of his mother's house [Old KentuckyHome] in Asheville, North Carolina. ]

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Elizabeth Nowell, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to Helen Trafford Moore, Asheville, North Carolina(redirected from Portland, Maine), 1950 1 p.

[Identifies herself as Thomas Wolfe's agent from 1933 to his death; says she is under contract with Wolfe's estate and Scribner'sto collect and edit his letters; gives several sources to prove her statements, including John Hall Wheelock, editor, Charles Scribner's Sons; asks permission to copy any letters Wolfe wrote her for possible inclusion in a book; mentions 10 letters from Moore to Wolfe; explains legal matters; asks for information about Moore, to be used in the acknowledgment.]

  1. Letters
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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Aline [Bernstein], Armonk, New York, to Thomas Wolfe, New York City, 1935 4 p.

[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.]

  1. Letters
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1935-1937

[Includes ANS, Thomas Wolfe, Sante Fe, to Ester Owens, [ Tulsa, Oklahoma] regarding the dedication to Benjamin Harrison Wolfe, who died of influenza,]

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Thomas Wolfe Collection 1880-1957

[Includes newspaper clippings, postcards, and photos regarding Asheville, North Carolinaand Thomas Wolfe; includes wallpaper from Wolfe's birthplace and postcards to Moore from Mabel Wolfe Wheatonand Fred Wolfeand Mary Wolfe. ] (Bound in red imitation leather with gilt decoration)

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Helen Trafford Moore, Portland, Maine, to Thomas Wolfe, 1935 2 p.

[Praises Of Time and the River; says she was the first person in Portlandto buy the book, a first edition; talks about spring in Maineand Mackworth Island, the most perfect place she ever saw.]

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Scrapbook, composed by Helen Trafford Moore, 1880/1955 90 l.

[Includes maps of Western North Carolina, newspaper clippings and postcards regarding Asheville, North Carolina, clippings, postcards, from Moore's travels, clippings regarding Thomas Wolfefrom The New York Timesand Asheville Citizen Times, clipping of a poem about Wolfe by Dr. Willis A. Parker, clippings announcing deaths of Aline Bernsteinand Sinclair Lewis, letters from Maxwell Perkins, and copies of Wolfe's letters.] (Bound in brown imitation leather with gilt decoration)

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

James Southall Wilson Letters 1931

This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

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James Southall Wilson Letters 1931

James Southall Wilson

This collection consists chiefly of 75 letters and telegrams, 1931, to Mr. James Southall Wilson, who invited several Southern authors to attend the Southern Writers Convention, sponsored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, at the University of Virginiaon October 23-24, 1931. The authors include the following: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, Emily Clark Balch, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H. L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Peterkin, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Maddox Roberts, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Helen Purefoy Poteat Stallings, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection

[Tells her that he has been promoted to the 4th grade, as has his brother Fred Wolfe; speaks about school picnic at Overlook Park; advises her to come home soon as the summer crowd has begun to come in.]

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1935

[In slipcase with partial TMs.]

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Thomas Wolfe, New York City, to Mrs. Peter Pentland, Weehauken, New Jersey, 1935 2 p.

[Answers inquiry regarding Pentland family; states that his grandmother's name Penland was formerly Pentland, the t being dropped after the family came to North Carolina; says the name is probably of Scotch origin; advises her to get in touch with his mother, Julia E. Wolfe. ]

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1938

[Says The Four Lost Men, which appeared in Scribner's and has been sent to publishers, has been taken from The Hills Beyond Pentland. ]

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Thomas Wolfe Collection 1938

[Says The Four Lost Men, which appeared in Scribner's and has been sent to publishers, has been taken from The Hills Beyond Pentland. ]

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