Biographical Sketch

The collection was created by two families the Wolf and Boeer Families who imigrated during the mid to late 19th Century from Germany to Texas. Karl Wolf’s parents had moved to Texas during the 1890’s. Karl Wolf became involved with the “Free Thinkers” Club a social organization that supported freedom, democracy, and nationalism. He eventually married Louisa Boeer, daughter of Maria Wolf Boeer. After moving from the Houston area, Karl’s family settled in Old Glory, Texas where they raised two daughters, Mina and Ilse Wolf. Mina and Ilse both graduated from Texas Technological College in 1932. They each have master’s and doctoral degrees from other universities. Indirectly, Mina and Ilse Wolf are related to Thomas A. Hickey, the Texas socialist and publisher of the The Rebel. Their aunt, Clara, the daughter of Maria Wolf Boeer and sister of Louisa, married Hickey in the very early 1900s. Maria Boeer’s correspondence describes her association with the socialist movement as well as association with German writers from abroad. The family heritage of the Boeer and Wolf Families are detailed from their writing to and from their relatives and friends abroad and in the United States.

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Scope and Content

The collection consists of mostly correspondence to and from family members, relatives, friends of relatives of the Boeer and Wolf Families. The correspondence is mostly in the German language. The bulk of the correspondence concentrate on letters sent to Maria Boeer, the grandmother of Mina Wolf Lamb and Ilse Wolf. Includes Maria Boeer’s correspondence with German editors as she was an avid writer herself. Also contains a few of Ilse Wolf’s files on the Home Economics Department at Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University, as well as files on literary productions, printed materials, and scrapbook material.

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Organization

The collection is organized by types of materials such as correspondence, printed materials, and scrapbook materials.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research.

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Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons)

Duncan, David James.

Subjects (Places)

Washington (State)--Fiction.

Subjects

American literature--21st century.

Novelists, American--20th century--Correspondence.

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Related Material

Arch Green and Mina Wolf Lamb Papers, 1832-2002 and undated

Thomas A. Hickey Photo Collection, SWCPC 633

Boeer/Wolf Families collection of publications (1878-1976), R1.2

Boeer/Wolf Families collection of newspapers (1904-1973)

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Boeer/Wolf Families, 1837-1972 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Acquisition

Collection accession #(s): R1.1

Gifts, 1989-1991

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2000.

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Correspondence

Box 2

Folder 1, Hanschke, Robert, 1902-1907

Folder 8, Hielscher, Theodor, 1894-1906

Folder 13, Hoffmeister, Willy and Huhn, Mr., 1908-1910

Folder 15, John, Margarete, 1907-1921

Folder 16, Kaepp, J. F., 1917

Folder 17, Klostermayer, C. W., 1860

Folder 19, Knipscher, John and Louise, 1881-1889

Folder 22, Lange-Broderick, Frieda, 1905-1926

Folder 24, Michel, Frederick, 1902-1908

Folder 25, Most, Helene, 1918

Folder 28, Nies, Konrad, 1902-1916

Folder 29, Panek, Zikes and Clotilde, 1913-1919

Folder 44, Steinhauser, Albert, 1917-1928

Folder 48, Walter, Richard, 1916-1921

Folder 54, Zetkin, Clara and Ziesing, George, 1916-1920

Folder 57, Professional: Arbeiter-Zeitung, 1906-1925

Folder 64, Professional: New Yorker Volkszeitung, Volks-Zeitung and Vorwarts der Pacific Kuste, 1909-1936

Unknown Folder, World War I Opinion - German Socialism - Kaiser, 1916