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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items) |
Abstract | 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. The collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and other items chiefly relating to Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe. Included is correspondence between Cone and others about Wolfe. Among the correspondents are Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell and Wolfe biographer Andrew Turnbull. Also included are photocopies of Wolfe's letters to Benjamin Cone, recollections of Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, an article about Cone and Wolfe, clippings related to Wolfe, and other materials. |
Creator | Cone, Benjamin, 1899-1982. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Collection. |
Language | English |
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 CW2.7 to 70012
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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. He died in 1982.
Back to TopThe collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and other items chiefly relating to Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe. Included is correspondence between Cone and others about Wolfe. Among the correspondents are Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell and Wolfe biographer Andrew Turnbull. Also included are photocopies of Wolfe's letters to Benjamin Cone, recollections of Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, an article about Cone and Wolfe, clippings related to Wolfe, a photograph of unidentified people taken by H. G. Jones, and a copy of Richard Walser's Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate (1977).
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Benjamin Cone correspondence, 1949-1982Contains correspondence between Benjamin Cone and others about topics related to Thomas Wolfe. Correspondents include Elizabeth Nowell; Andrew Turnbull; staff at the Pack Memorial Public Library in Asheville, N.C., and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries; and others interested in Thomas Wolfe. |
Photocopies of Thomas Wolfe letters to Benjamin Cone |
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Printed materialIncludes recollections of Thomas Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, as well as a copy of the Spring 1981 issue of the Thomas Wolfe Review. |
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Article about Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe |
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Clippings related to Thomas Wolfe |
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Photograph of unidentified people, taken by H.G. Jones |
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Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate by Richard Walser |