Thomas Wolfe Collection 1935-1937

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
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
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-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

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

[Declines her invitation to Sante Fesince 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.]

[Declines invitation to Tulsa, saying that he and Maxwell Perkinshave 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.]

[Thanks her for Christmas present; sends season's greetings; looks forward to going home to North Carolinaand to seeing New Orleans; remembers a visit to New Orleansduring Mardi Gras when he was a child.]

[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.]

[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 Carolinato cut, rewrite, and shape a gigantic manuscript; expects short stories to come out in Scribner's Magazineand The New Yorker; says he has sold stories to Redbookand Saturday Evening Postand is pleased about the profit.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit 1961 Oct 28
Processing information:

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

Physical location:
Physical description:
6 items