William M. Adler, a white author and journalist, co-founded and published the community newspaper The People's Voice: The Newspaper for All the People of Halifax and Northampton Counties, 1982-1986. The People's Voice focused on worker rights, environmental issues, and small town politician malfeasance. The collection consists chiefly of organizational records and other miscellaneous materials relating to the business operations of the newspaper; documents relating to the North Carolina Community Owned Newspaper Network; and newspaper clippings about the newspaper. There are also materials relating to Adler's work in support of the Carolina Brown Lung Association.

Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the Forum, and, in 1930, became assistant editor of The Atlantic Monthly. In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acquired the illness that led to his death, he turned over to Aswell a large amount of manuscript material. After Wolfe's death in September 1938, Aswell began editing the material Wolfe left behind. The result of this work was two posthumous novels, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1941), and one volume of short stories, The Hills Beyond (1941). Aswell moved from Harper & Brothers to the trade-book department of McGraw-Hill and then to Doubleday & Company, where he was senior editor. He succeeded Maxwell Perkins as administrator of the Thomas Wolfe Estate in 1947. Aswell died in 1958.

John R. Bittner was a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests included Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway. Bittner died in 2002.

The Braden-Hatchett Collection of Thomas Wolfe Materials was compiled over the years by William Hatchett and Eve Braden Hatchett at the Memphis University School in Memphis, Tenn. They developed a close relationship with Thomas Wolfe's brother Fred and corresponded with him frequently. One of the main goals of the Braden-Hatchett Collection was to collect a copy of every article written about Thomas Wolfe, an endeavor that was undertaken with the help of students at Memphis University School. In the early 1990s, the collection was donated to the University of North Carolina.

Printed material including flyers, pamphlets, brochures, posters, and other ephemera primarily from local and statewide elections with a limited amount from national elections. There are also materials relating political and social movements such as amendments to the state constitution, affirmative action, and civil rights. Topics include the Iraq War, Eddie Hatcher, Jesse Helms, the Occupy movement, Amendment 1, and the Tea Party movement.

Contains materials documenting the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Invisible Empire, Inc., a white supremacist organization formed in North Carolina in 1985 that later organized chapters in Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina. This collection includes a small amount of correspondence to and from Ku Klux Klan members, minutes of the Lincolnton, N.C. (Bull Dog Unit 213) chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from February 1990 to April 1993, a small amount of correspondence related to requests for parade permits from N.C. town governments, photocopied newsletters from Imperial Wizard Virgil L. Griffin and Grand Dragon Charles Beasley from 1989 through 1993, a few white supremacist newspapers, fliers promoting the Klan and marches, constitution and laws of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a business card for Imperial Wizard Virgil L. Griffin. The minutes record the routine activities of a Klan meeting (opening prayer, acceptance or recruitment of new members, upcoming marches, fundraising, and occasional related to racial incidents at schools or other venues. The newsletters offer further discussions on current events and white supremacy. These items materials offer a look at the day-to-day (or week-to-week) operations of a white supremacist organization and provide numerous examples of racist newsletters.

Drafts of works published primarily by the University of North Carolina Press including orginal manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. Most titles relate to the state of North Carolina or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or are written by authors from North Carolina. Many drafts have notations or corrections throughout. Authors represented include Paul Green, Jessie Clifford Redher, Richard Gaither Walser, and Bayard Wooten.

Benjamin Cone was born in 1899, a member of the prominent Cone family of Greensboro, N.C. He was a friend of Thomas Wolfe while both were students at the University of North Carolina. Cone graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1920; he was mayor of Greensboro, 1949-1951.

Scrapbook of Clyde Linwood Cox (1914-1969), one of the first two Black police officers in Durham, N.C., and the first Black detective in the state of North Carolina. Cox used a program for the October 1946 Police Ball held at the City Armory to hold newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items related to his early law enforcement career and to the hiring of Black officers elsewhere in the South. The program includes information about the Police Ball, Durham history, and a letter from the white Durham Chief of Police H. E. King, in which he mentions that Cox and fellow Black policeman James B. Samuel have "proved to be very valuable." The program also includes two-page spread with individual portraits of Durham officers, including six Black patrolmen: O. C. Johnson, J. S. Frongerbur, Frank McCrea, Joe Barnes, Samuel, and Cox. There are approximately 30 newspaper clippings and a letter of commendation to Cox from the police chief of Wilson, N.C., for Cox’s help in breaking up a lottery racket. There are a number of photographs of Cox and other Black officers in uniform, as well as a photograph of Cox in civilian clothes when he was promoted to detective. Also included is a signed confession from an individual charged in a stabbing, which may have resulted in a death.

Leslie A. Field (1926-2012), a white author, wrote five books and numerous articles and reviews about Thomas Wolfe and his writings. The Leslie A. Field Collection consists of manuscript drafts, editorials, research files, correspondence, clippings, speeches, and other materials related to his study of Thomas Wolfe and to the Thomas Wolfe Society.

Elizabeth Nowell was the literary agent and the first biographer of Thomas Wolfe. She also collected and published The Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956). Vardis Fisher was an American author born in Idaho in 1895. He was the director of the Idaho Guide Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, during the Great Depression. His writings include the twelve-volume series The Testament of Man.

Notebook that belonged to Pearl McLean containing the minutes of both the Mount Zion Lodge 4662 Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, an African American fraternal lodge, and the Mount Zion African Methodist Church Pulpit Aid Society, which were located in Belmont, N.C. The handwritten minutes in this volume were taken over the period of 1901 to 1919. The first half of the book, documenting the Pulpit Aid Society, includes topics like fundraising and plans to purchase items the church needed. The second half of the book, documenting the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, includes notes about the collection of dues reserved for providing aid to members, the by-laws that governed that practice, and minutes recording member attendance and information about the lodge’s finances.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, and newsclippings relating to Thomas Wolfe and the Thomas Wolfe Society. Materials chiefly relate John L. Idol, Jr.'s work on Thomas Wolfe Society matters, including correspondence with Aldo P. Magi and Terry Roberts, past editors of The Thomas Wolfe Review. Idol was a white scholar of American literature and professor emeritus at Clemson University, a past president of the Thomas Wolfe Society, and editor of many Thomas Wolfe Society publications. Materials range in date from 1967-2010.

Richard S. Kennedy was born in 1920. Kennedy's dissertation (Harvard University, 1953) on novelist Thomas Wolfe, the first to make use of Wolfe manuscripts in Harvard's Houghton Library and to examine Wolfe's literary career in depth, was published by UNC Press in 1962. Kennedy was on the faculty of the University of Rochester, 1950-1957; the University of Witchita, 1957-1964; and Temple University, 1964-1988, emeritus 1988-2002. He continued to work on Wolfe throughout his career, but also wrote extensively on e.e. cummings and Robert Browning. Kennedy died in 2002.

Consists of four letters (three typed, and one handwritten) from Thomas Wolfe, a white author, to Elizabeth Lemmon, a white Virginia socialite. The letters, all written in 1934, relate to Lemmon’s invitation to visit her, as well as the status of his work. Also contains one typed draft, inscribed to Lemmon from white book editor Maxwell Perkins, of the Irish literary critic Mary Colum's 1935 review of Wolfe’s Of Time and the River, published in the magazine The Forum and Century.

The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, copies of acquisition forms, and memoranda that document the establishment, growth, and development of the Thomas Wolfe Collection at the North Carolina Collection in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Library. Correspondence is with Charles E. Rush, Olan V. Cook, Mary Lindsay Thornton, Andrew Horn, Jerrold Orne, William S. Powell, H.G. Jones, Agatha Boyd Adams, and other Library staff members. Also included are many letters to and from the members of the Wolfe family relating to the Wolfe family gift; correspondence with Edward C. Aswell pertaining to the death of John Skally Terry and the Terry family gift; and some materials relating to the establishment of the Thomas Wolfe Fund, which was started in 1939 to raise money to buy the Wolfe papers that were later purchased by William B. Wisdom and donated to Harvard University. Correspondence after 1958 deals primarily with additions to the Wolfe Collection, requests for access to the Wolfe papers, questions about the contents of the papers, and other materials relating to the collection. There are also letters and related materials about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter, the Thomas Wolfe Society, and the Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College.

Aldo P. Magi is a white collector of all things Thomas Wolfe. His interest in Wolfe began in 1957 when he read The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. From this he read through Wolfe's fiction and the existing biographical works and began to develop the collection that would become a lifelong interest. Magi pursued his collection largely through a correspondence he maintained with librarians, scholars, and Thomas Wolfe's own friends and family. By the 1970s, Magi was an active participant in Thomas Wolfe scholarship. He was one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Society and was an editor of the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter, which later became the Thomas Wolfe Review. Magi began publishing on Wolfe in 1978, producing a number of limited-edition volumes of previously unpublished Wolfe writings. He often collaborated with his close friends and fellow Wolfe scholars John S. Phillipson and Richard Walser. Magi maintained his growing collection in his house in Sandusky, Ohio, devoting even more time to it after his retirement from the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in 1983. The collection was transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. The Aldo P. Magi Collection on Thomas Wolfe includes a small number of original letters written by Wolfe, original photographs of Wolfe, a small number of letters written by Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins and letters written to Louise Perkins King after Maxwell Perkins's death. Also included is Magi's correspondence with people who were either associated with or interested in Wolfe. Nearly every author who wrote on Wolfe in the last decades of the 20th century is represented, as are surviving members of Wolfe's family, including the author's brother, Fred Wolfe, and nephew, R. Dietz Wolfe. Subject files contain material about Wolfe, his works, Wolfe scholars, and other topics related to Wolfe. There are also letters, drafts, and research material mostly related to articles and other publications by Magi, including Portraits of a Novelist: Douglas Gorsline and Thomas Wolfe, Nine Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1938, and A Real and Lasting Affection: The Wolfe-Reynolds Correspondence; notes, drafts, and other material related to Magi and John Phillipson's Thomas Wolfe: A Secondary Bibliography; and correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and other material related to Magi and Richard Walser's Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929-1938. There are also promotional materials, programs, brochures, photographs, audiocassettes, and other material related to the annual Thomas Wolfe Festival; correspondence, scrapbooks, brochures, photographs, articles, clippings, and other information related to the Thomas Wolfe Home and Memorial in Asheville, N.C., much of which concerns the dedication and rededication of the memorial and a 1998 fire at the home and the subsequent restoration; materials relating to the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter and the Thomas Wolfe Review, both initially published by the University of Akron; promotional materials, brochures, audiocassettes, and correspondence related to annual meetings of the Thomas Wolfe Society; annual reports of the North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; rare book and manuscript dealer catalogs and other catalogs collected by Magi that feature items related to Wolfe; journals and other serials that relate to Wolfe; and miscellaneous materials documenting the persistent use of the phrases look homeward, angel and you can't go home again, either in reference to Wolfe, or in the context of unrelated topics, such as newspapers or advertisements. There are also commercially produced and privately recorded audiocassettes, videotapes, compact dics, audiodiscs, a DVD, reel-to-reel audiotape, and film strips that include presentations and proceedings of the Thomas Wolfe Society and the Thomas Wolfe Festival, interviews, radio broadcasts, performances and readings of Wolfe's works, and books on tape. Also included are recordings of music inspired by, or otherwise related to, Wolfe or his works. Photographs chiefly relate to Thomas Wolfe Society meetings, the Thomas Wolfe Festival, and other Wolfe-related events and places, but there are also some photographs of Wolfe that were taken in 1938. Also included are index cards with descriptive and provenance information that Magi created for items in the collection.

Collection contains 146 political pen and ink cartoons by white political cartoonist Henry McCarn, ranging in date from approximately 1972 to 1980. The cartoons depict state and national national leaders, including Jim Hunt, Jesse Helms, Bob Scott, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Topics include Watergate, the 1974 energy crisis, the 1976 and 1980 presidential elections, social welfare programs, and highway safety. McCarn's works tended to be relatively neutral, an approach that small town newspapers took to steer clear of controversy and offending readers.

Ephemera from North Carolina counties, cities, and regions including brochures, pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, newsletters, menus, travel guides, and scattered issues of periodicals. Materials document arts and entertainment; businesses and nonprofit organizations; county/city departments; housing and accommodations; parks and historic sites; political, religious, and social organizations; restaurants and bars; schools and institutes; sports and recreation; and tourism. Some ephemera was created prior to 1980 and some items may date to the late 19th century. The collection began in the 1980s as a ready reference file maintained by the North Carolina Collection. Materials are collected by library staff and friends of the North Carolina Collection during their travels throughout the state. Donations vary from year to year. Some cities, counties, and regions may not be represented in every series.

The collection contains original letters from Thomas Wolfe to Albert Coates, Benjamin Cone, Julian Meade, Corydon Spruill, James Holly Hanford, Archibald Henderson, J. Maryon Saunders, and others. There are photocopies of letters from Thomas Wolfe to various recipients, including Lora French and Horace Williams. There are also two original letters from William Faulkner to Richard Walser and one from Sinclair Lewis to Julian Meade. The collection also contains printed material, reminiscences, material gathered by Don Bishop when he was writing about Thomas Wolfe, a bibliography of Wolfe material in the scrapbooks of the Carolina Playmakers, a photocopied galley proof of Of Time and the River, scripts, essays, and articles about Wolfe. There is also material from the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association of Asheville, N.C.; the Thomas Wolfe Society; the Thomas Wolfe 75th Anniversary Celebration; the annual Wolfe Fest at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C.; the North Caroliniana Society; and the University of North Carolina.

The collection includes letters, photographs, notes, and other items relating to Thomas Wolfe that were collected by Kenneth Rodgers. Included is a 16 January 1937 letter from Maxwell Perkins to Thomas Wolfe responding to Wolfe's claims that Perkins over-edited his books. There is also a photograph of Thomas Wolfe taken in 1900 and photographs of a house, with annotations on the verso (possibly by Thomas Wolfe) indicating that the photographs were taken in 1934 and that the house was in Etowah, N.C., and belonged to a person named Florence. Also included are a legal complaint filed by Wolfe's landlord, Marjorie Dorman, that names Wolfe and his publisher as defendants; notes written by Thomas Wolfe; a letter from Julia E. Wolfe to Fred Wolfe; miscellaneous bills and photocopies of canceled checks; letters written to Thomas Wolfe from fans of his works; and other items.

Sallie Faxon Saunders accompanied Thomas Wolfe in New Mexico as part of his western journey of 1938. She was later the editor of the Junior League Magazine.

Volume compiled by Murray J. Smith containing ten letters, five postcards, and one Christmas card, 1934-1938, from Thomas Wolfe to his friend Catherine Brett, director and superintendent of a private school for girls in Pennsylvania. Wolfe visited the school several times from 1934 to 1938; the letters are substantive and discuss Wolfe's writing and common friends, among other topics. There are also two letters from Wolfe to Ellen Field, one of Catherine Brett's students. The scrapbook volume also contains supplemental material including biographical information about Wolfe, photographs of Wolfe, summaries and transcriptions of the letters to Catherine Brett, and other items.

The St. Mary's College Thomas Wolfe Collection was founded at St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C., in 1975 by Catherine and John O. Fulenwider. The collection contains materials from many different sources. Items such as programs, publications, and clippings related to Thomas Wolfe were actively sought by St. Mary's College archivists and librarians and added to the collection. The largest individual collections are the papers of George McCoy, editor of the Asheville Citizen Times and one of the founding members of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, and those of Richard Walser, professor of English at North Carolina State University and noted Wolfe scholar. There are also papers of Edgar E. (Jim) Wolf, Thomas Wolfe's cousin who lived in Gettysburg, Penn., and corresponded occasionally with the Wolfe family in Asheville, N.C., and some papers of Thomas Wolfe's brother, Fred Wolfe. The collection was transferred to the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990.

Morton I. Teicher was a white social work educator. He was also one of the founders and a president of the Thomas Wolfe Society. The collection consists of scrapbooks with clippings and pamphlets about Thomas Wolfe, the Wolfe home, the Wolfe family, and books by or about Wolfe. There are also correspondence with several active and longtime members of the Thomas Wolfe Society, scholarly articles about Thomas Wolfe, and color photographic slides of Thomas Wolfe's home and countryside.

John Skally Terry, a white professor and friend of Thomas Wolfe, entered the University of North Carolina in 1914. As an undergraduate, he was active in student publications and became a friend of Thomas Wolfe. While living in New York in the early 1920s, Terry renewed his friendship with Wolfe, joining Wolfe as a member of the English faculty at New York University in 1925. After Wolfe's death in 1938, Terry became a close friend of Wolfe's mother, Julia E. Wolfe, and worked with her on Thomas Wolfe's Letters to His Mother (Scribner's, 1943). Selected by Maxwell Perkins and the Wolfe family to write a biography of Thomas Wolfe, Terry compiled a great deal of material about Wolfe. There was, however, no manuscript of the biography found among Terry's papers after his death in 1953.

Henry T. Volkening was a literary agent and co-founder of Russell and Volkening, Inc., a literary agency of New York City, N.Y.

Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of several North Carolina writers, producing major works on Thomas Wolfe, George Moses Horton, and William Hill Brown. He retired from teaching in 1970 and died in 1988.

Mangum Weeks (1895-1977), a white government lawyer, lived in Alexandria, Va., and worked at the State Department, U.S. Tax Court, Farm Loan Board, War Department, and at the Department of Justice. Weeks also was active in several historic preservation groups and in birding organizations. The Mangum Weeks Collection consists chiefly of professional and personal correspondence, journals, writings, and related research materials. Topics include the Weeks family; student life at the University of North Carolina in the 1910s; ornithological research; collecting prints and rare books relating to North Carolina and other topics; adjudication for the U.S. Department of Justice in response to claims filed against Spain and Cuba regarding the Strobel-Figuera agreement and by Japanese-Americans following forced removal and incarceration during World War II; the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Education; the Thornton Club; the Philosophers Club; historic preservation and architectural history; and the study of law. Also included is the correspondence of Sallie Preston Weeks Leach, the sister of Mangum Weeks, and courtship correspondence between Mangum Weeks and his wife Josephine Schaefer Weeks.

The Wolfe family of Asheville, N.C., included author Thomas Wolfe, his mother Julia E. Wolfe, brother Fred Wolfe, and sister Mabel Wolfe Wheaton.

Frederick William Wolfe was born the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Elizabeth Westall and William Oliver Wolfe, a white family in Asheville, N.C., in 1894. He was educated in Asheville schools and worked as a salesman in Dayton, Ohio, before serving in the Navy during World War I. After his naval service, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, graduating in 1922. Fred Wolfe worked in Atlanta for Fairbanks, Morse and Company for about seven years, and then held several sales jobs in High Point, N.C., and Harrisonburg, Pa. In 1934, he joined the Blue Bird Ice Cream Company of Spartanburg, S.C., as a salesman, a position he held until the early 1960s. He married Mary Burris in 1943. In his later years, Fred Wolfe devoted himself to perpetuating the memory of his brother, Thomas Wolfe, through the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and in speeches at colleges and universities. Fred Wolfe died in 1980 and is buried in the family plot in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C. The papers contain Wolfe family correspondence, correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell in their roles as executors of the Thomas Wolfe Estate, personal correspondence of Fred Wolfe, manuscripts about Thomas Wolfe, legal documents including executors' reports of the estate of Thomas Wolfe, correspondence about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the restoration of the Old Kentucky Home, family memorabilia, and volumes that chiefly relate to the Wolfe family. Family correspondence covers the years 1882 to 1977 and includes letters to and from Fred Wolfe, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Julia E. Wolfe, Frank Wolfe, W.O. Wolfe, Effie Wolfe Gambrell, and other members of the Wolfe and Gambrell families. Some of this material relates to Thomas Wolfe, but much of it concerns family matters. There is considerable correspondence between family members about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, which shows the part the family played in the restoration and preservation of the Old Kentucky Home. Correspondence with Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell relates to the Thomas Wolfe Estate. There is also correspondence with members of the New York law firm of Ernst, Cane, and Berner, and especially with Paul Gitlin of that firm who succeeded Aswell as executor of the Thomas Wolfe Estate. Other correspondence consists of Fred Wolfe's personal correspondence, some of which demonstrates his efforts in preserving the memory of Thomas Wolfe's life and work. There are letters to and from individuals who wrote about or knew Thomas Wolfe, especially LeGette Blythe, Aldo P. Magi, John Skally Terry, Andrew Turnbull, Henry T. Volkening, Richard Walser, and Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell. There are also subject files containing material relating to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association, documents from the Thomas Wolfe Estate, other legal and financial documents, materials relating to real estate in Asheville and in Florida, correspondence about grave markers in Asheville, a few manuscripts of published and unpublished articles about Thomas Wolfe, and a few copies of Fred Wolfe's speeches about Thomas Wolfe. There are playbills from productions related to Thomas Wolfe or his work, tourist guides for Asheville, and publicity materials about the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association and the Old Kentucky Home. Wolfe family memorabilia includes commencement invitations; some business cards for the Old Kentucky Home; and a small printed advertisement for the North Carolina, Julia E. Wolfe's 1904 boarding house in Saint Louis, Mo. Also included are Mabel Wolfe Wheaton's autograph album and guest book, a small account book that belonged to Julia E. Wolfe before her marriage, a small notebook of W.O. Wolfe, and other items.