This is Thomas Wolfe a age fifteen, the year he went away to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Eugene was not quite sixteen years old when he was sent away to the university. He was, at the time, over six feet and three inches tall, and weighted perhaps 130 pounds....
He was a child when he went away..."

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Forward to Thomas Wolfe with his crates of manuscript