While waiting to be drafted in 1918, (1) Ben Wolfe wrote to his brother Tom, (2) inviting him to Winston-Salem to witness the Moravians' Easter morning services. (3) Thomas Wolfe, then a student at the University of North Carolina, accepted Ben's invitation and later used the sojourn as the basis for a brief evocative episode in Look Homeward, Angel: Following Tom's departure Ben wrote Julia Wolfe apprising her of his brother's visit. Written during the final eight months of Ben's life, (5) this letter includes a brief mention of "the flowers on the graves," foreshadowing his own grave, as described by Wolfe in Look Homeward, Angel:
