Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Thomas Wolfe, New York, to Ruth Metcalf, 1936 October 26 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
206169
Accession number
MA 5761
Creator
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1936 October 26.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.5 x 13.7 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "Thomas Wolfe / 865 First Avenue / New York, N.Y."
Originally laid into PML 187911, a copy of Look Homeward, Angel inscribed by Wolfe to June Rossbach.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Wishing he could answer her letter with the effort it deserves, but that he is busy on a draft so he hopes she will accept the following lines to show his appreciation to her as a reader; (8 lines of text in postscript in Wolfe's hand).