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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Murray J. Smith Collection of Thomas Wolfe Letters and Related Materials #70019, North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #CW8 to #70019 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Donated by Murray J. Smith in June 2016 (Acc. 102600).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: Gergana Abernathy, September 2016

Encoded by: Gergana Abernathy, September 2016

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW8 to 70019

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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• Authors, American -- 20th century.
• Authors, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century.
• Brett, Catherine, active 1934-1938.
• Smith, Murray J.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Correspondence.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

Thomas Wolfe was an American author, born in Asheville, N.C., in 1900. Catherine Brett was the director and superintendent of a private school for girls with special needs in Pennsylvania which Wolfe visited several times from 1934 to 1938.

The collection is a volume compiled by Murray J. Smith containing ten letters, five postcards, and one Christmas card, 1934-1938, from Thomas Wolfe to Catherine Brett. 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.

• Oversize volume (SV-70019/1)