Thomas Wolfe Papers

Collection Summary

Title: Thomas Wolfe Papers
Call Number: MS 75-14
Size: 1.5 linear feet
Acquisition: Unknown source
Processed by: Staff, circa 1975; SMC, 4-7-1998
Restrictions: None

Literary Rights

Literary rights were not granted to Wichita State University. When permission is granted to examine the manuscripts, it is not an authorization to publish them. Manuscripts cannot be used for publication without regard for common law literary rights, copyright laws and the laws of libel. It is the responsibility of the researcher and his/her publisher to obtain permission to publish. Scholars and students who eventually plan to have their work published are urged to make inquiry regarding overall restrictions on publication before initial research.

Content Note

The collection of the papers of Thomas Wolfe contains two reels of microfilm and photocopies of correspondence to and from Thomas Wolfe taken from the microfilm reels concerning personal and business related items, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, poetry, a speech on Shakespeare, manuscripts, photographs, receipts, and an address given at Purdue University in 1938.

Detailed Description: Box and Folder Listing

Box 1 FF 1 Thomas Wolfe to Cornelia, September 27, 1933 (original letter, remainder of collection is photocopied).
Box 1 FF 2 Thomas Wolfe to his mother, Julia Wolfe.
Box 1 FF 3 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to his mother, Julia Wolfe.
Box 1 FF 4 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to his mother, Julia Wolfe.
Box 1 FF 5 Julia Wolfe to Thomas Wolfe.
Box 1 FF 6 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from his father, W. O. Wolfe.
Box 1 FF 7 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to his sister, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton.
Box 1 FF 8 Mabel Wolfe Wheaton to Thomas Wolfe.
Box 2 FF 1 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to his brother, Fred Wolfe.
Box 2 FF 2 Fred Wolfe to Thomas Wolfe.
Box 2 FF 3 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from his sister, Effie Wolfe Gambrell.
Box 2 FF 4 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to family.
Box 2 FF 5 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from Aline Bernstein.
Box 2 FF 6 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from Elizabeth Nowell.
Box 2 FF 7 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to Maxwell E. Perkins.
Box 2 FF 8 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from Margaret Roberts (North State School).
Box 2 FF 9 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from Belinda Jelliffe.
Box 2 FF 10 Thomas Wolfe. Letters from George Wallace.
Box 2 FF 11 Letters to Thomas Wolfe, 1920-1938.
Box 2 FF 12 Letters to Thomas Wolfe (undated).
Box 2 FF 13 Thomas Wolfe. Miscellaneous (receipts, pictures).
Box 2 FF 14 Thomas Wolfe. Miscellaneous (unfinished manuscripts, letters).
Box 3 FF 1 Thomas Wolfe. Letters to Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishing Company.
Box 3 FF 2 Thomas Wolfe. Correspondence concerning bills with G. M. Babbitt, Dentist.
Box 3 FF 3 Thomas Wolfe. Correspondence with lawyers, Mitchell and Van Winkle.
Box 3 FF 4 Thomas Wolfe. Newspaper and magazine articles.
Box 3 FF 5 Thomas Wolfe. Poetry.
Box 3 FF 6 Thomas Wolfe. Graduation address on Shakespeare.
Box 3 FF 7 Thomas Wolfe. Address at Purdue University, 1938.
Box 3 FF 8 Thomas Wolfe. Manuscript "Welcome to Our City."
Box 3 FF 9 Thomas Wolfe. Manuscript "Mannerhouse."
Microfilm Cabinet Microfilm