A magnificent addition to the library’s holdings in literature is the Thomas C. Wolfe Collection of James Henry Hall, Jr. This collection was presented to the library in 1988 by Hall’s daughter, Mrs. Richard Huddleston, and her husband. Hall graduated from Davidson College in 1927 and was a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. A longtime admirer of Thomas Wolfe, Hall spent the majority of his life collecting books, manuscripts, letters, and articles by the famous writer. His collection contains more than one hundred books related to Thomas Wolfe, many of which are autographed.
The collection also contains Wolfe’s Pi Kappa Phi Membership Certificate, several photographs by Carl Van Vechten and Douglas Gorsline, a bound volume of the 1919-20 The Tarheel, which Wolfe edited, and a variety of items including newspaper clippings, playbills, and letters to Hall from authors of books about Thomas Wolfe.
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