The Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship

Helen Mackett Briggs was married to Wolff’s stepson, James Briggs (Sherifa was his mother). The Wolff family’s most faithful correspondent, Helen began sending letters to Franklin and Sherifa in the 1940s, while she and Jim lived in Alaska (unfortunately, these are not included here). The seventy-eight letters in the file here begin just after Wolff and his second wife (Gertrude) have settled in Lone Pine, Calif., and span a period from 1961 to 1981. Most simply relate events in her friend’s and family’s lives, but some include details about Wolff’s life as well as his students, publications, and audio recordings. (137 pages)