I’ve added some rather interesting links to the site lately. For example, an image of a check written by Thomas Wolfe to the Hotel Chelsea on May 7, 1938 in the amount of $10.00. I can’t read the notation on the check, but I don’t think it was for rent. I e-mailed the proprietor of the site that is selling the check to inquire how they came to own this “extremely scarce” item. So far, no comment.
Ten dollars didn’t go very far in NYC in 1938. Two days later Wolfe cashed another check for $10.00. “Check: The Chase National Bank, 48th St. Branch, N.Y.C., May 9, 1938, $10.00; to Hotel Chelsea” is listed as part of the Alexander D. Wainwright collection at the Princeton University library.
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