A Guide to the Thomas Wolfe Collection Wolfe, Thomas. 6348-b

A Guide to the Thomas Wolfe Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 6348-b

University of Virginia Library

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

Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection Number

6348-b

Title

Thomas Wolfe Collection 1935-1937

Extent

6 items

Creator

Location

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

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

Acquisition Information

Deposit 1961 Oct 28

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

Benjamin Harrison Wolfe
Ester Owens
Esther Owens
Maxwell Perkins
Thomas Wolfe
Thoms Wolfe

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Asheville, North Carolina
New Orleans
New York City
North Carolina
San Francisco
Sante Fe
Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Item Listing

Manuscript

Dedication to his brother for From Death to Morning
1935 Aug 25
AMs, 2 p.

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

Letters

Thomas Wolfe , San Francisco , to Esther Owens , Sante Fe
1935 Sep 4
ALS, 1 p. w/env

[Declines her invitation to Sante Fe since he is due back in New York City ; says he has a book coming out in October and that his holiday has come to an end; looks forward to seeing her again; sends love and friendship.]
Thoms Wolfe , New York City , to Esther Owens , Tulsa, Oklahoma
1936 Apr 17
TLS, 2 p. w/env

[Declines invitation to Tulsa , saying that he and Maxwell Perkins have decided to stay out of the lecture circuit, though he may lose money; thanks her for sending pair of rabbit's feet for luck; mentions being troubled and tormented since October with demands put on him; explains that he does need, and has little chance to win, the Pulitzer Prize, and that he had Perkins pull the book from consideration; expresses disappointment at not being able to see her soon.]
Thomas Wolfe , New York City , to Esther Owens , Tulsa, Oklahoma
1936 Dec 23
TLS, 2 p. w/env

[Thanks her for Christmas present; sends season's greetings; looks forward to going home to North Carolina and to seeing New Orleans ; remembers a visit to New Orleans during Mardi Gras when he was a child.]
Thomas Wolfe , New York City , to Esther Owens , Tulsa, Oklahoma
1937 Feb 17
TLS, 2 p. w/env

[Talks about his "flu" or "grippe" after returning from the South; says he subsisted largely on her gifts of preserves and cheese; discusses his legal problems; maintain that the past 2 years have not made him bitter or cynical; finds comfort in her friendship.]
Thomas Wolfe , New York City , to Esther Owens , Tulsa, Oklahoma
1937 May 25
TLS, 2 p. w/env

[Thanks her for preserves and remembers her previous practical gifts; hopes her examinations went well; relates his summer plans to work in a rented cabin near Asheville, North Carolina to cut, rewrite, and shape a gigantic manuscript; expects short stories to come out in Scribner's Magazine and The New Yorker ; says he has sold stories to Redbook and Saturday Evening Post and is pleased about the profit.]