An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938
Title:
Thomas Wolfe Collection
Dates:
1917-1961, undated
Extent:
3 boxes (1.05 linear feet), 5 galley folders (gf)
Abstract:
Includes several manuscripts and letters by the American novelist Thomas Wolfe, but
largely consists of correspondence and research materials gathered together by George
Riley Preston during compilation of his Thomas Wolfe: A Bibliography (1943). Preston’s correspondents include Wolfe associates, writers on Wolfe, other
bibliographers, and publishers, including Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, William J. McElwee,
Maxwell Perkins, Raymond Thompson, Richard Gaither Walser, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, William
B. Wisdom, and Julia Elizabeth Wolfe.
Joan Sibley and Michael Ramsey, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations
commonly used in descriptions.
