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- Creator
- Wolfe, Tom
- Call number
- MssCol 23191
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
Tom Wolfe letters to Carol LeVarn McCabe, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
This collection consists of sixteen letters written by Tom Wolfe to Carol LeVarn McCabe. McCabe was a Sweet Briar student who later worked in publicity and as a writer. Thirteen of the letters were written between 1952 and 1954, while Wolfe was attending graduate school at Yale. The letters discuss Wolfe's social life and ambitions, his writing and his efforts to be published, and his relationship with McCabe. Three letters date to 1969. The collection includes McCabe's notes from 2015 on the context of each letter.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Donated by Carol LeVarn McCabe, 2015.
Processing information
Compiled by Kit Fluker, 2015.
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328