Richard Kennedy (English, Temple U.), a biographer of Thomas Wolfe, discovered these unpublished sections of Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River, at Harvard University's Houghton Library. The episodes, deleted by Wolfe's editor at Scribner's, flesh out the relationship between the main character, Eugene Gant, and his college friend, Francis Starwick, and include a scene in which Gant and Starwick visit a Parisian brothel. Also included are details of the life of Kenneth Raisbeck, the man Wolfe based the character of Starwick upon.