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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Kenneth Rodgers Collection on Thomas Wolfe (#70013), North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #CW2.8 to #70013 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Kenneth Rodgers of Kenoza Lake, N.Y., in November 2008.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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 CW2.8 to 70013

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.
• Book editors -- United States.
• Collectors and collecting.
• Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947.
• Rodgers, Kenneth.
• Wolfe family.
• Wolfe, Fred.
• Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth, 1860-1945.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Appreciation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Correspondence.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Family.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Homes and haunts.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Photographs.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

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.