The Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship

This file contains three letters from Franklin Wolff to his wife Sherifa from Michigan Bluff, a small gold-mining town in northern California. There should be many more letters here from and about this period of time in Wolff’s life. Wolff was trying to make ends meet during the Great Depression by prospecting for gold, which he did for a period of three years while living in a small, rented cabin. A number of his and Sherifa’s students also spent time there, including Murray Gregg, Lillian and Clyde Reid, Kathryn Turner, and Jim and Helen Briggs. At the time of the letters here, Sherifa was in San Fernando, convalescing from a serious illness. (4 pages)