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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henry T. Volkening Papers on Thomas Wolfe (#70011), North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #CW2.6 to #70011 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, September 2008.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: Benjamin Bromley, November 2009

Encoded by: Benjamin Bromley, November 2009

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW2.6 to 70011

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
• Authors, American -- 20th century.
• Authors, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century.
• Literary agents -- United States.
• Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.
• Volkening, Henry T.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Appreciation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Family.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Photographs.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

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

The collection contains material related to Henry Volkening's article "Thomas Wolfe: Penance No More," published in 1939 in The Virginia Quarterly Review. Included is an early draft of the article, annotated typescript transcriptions of letters from Thomas Wolfe to Henry Volkening that apparently served as research materials for the article, and letters from Maxwell Perkins to Henry Volkening about the article. Also included are three photographs: one of Thomas and Fred Wolfe, dated 1 August 1937; one of Thomas Wolfe's gravestone; and one of Julia E. Wolfe and three unidentified women around W.O. Wolfe's grave, undated.