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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Papers of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1917-1930.

Title: Papers of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1917-1930.

The collection includes manuscripts, letters, correspondence concerning publication of Cabell's books; revisions and publication of "Beyond Life," and "Jurgen"; stories, essays, legal papers relating to the suppression of Jurgen and subsequent obscenity trial; photos; newspaper clippings; miscellany; biographical sketch; scrapbook; notes; publication agreements; and autographs. There are typescripts and/or proofs for "Suggestions," "The Jewel Merchants," "The Lineage of Lichfield," "Cream of the Jest," "The Music From Behind the Moon," and "Jurgen" as sell as a review of "Jurgen" by Joseph Hergesheimer. Correspondence betwen Cabell and Guy Holt, of Robert M. McBride & Co. concerns revisions and publication of Cabell's books, stories,and books. Correspondents include: Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét, Edward Hale Bierstadt, Kate Langley Bosher, Ernest A. Boyd, Gilbert Cannan, Barrett H. Clark, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson Follett, Crosby Gaige, Garrard Glenn, Joseph Hergesheimer, James Hopper, Sidney Howard, Sinclair Lewis, Robert M. McBride, H. L. Mencken, George Moore, Christopher Morley, Ellis P. Oberholtzer, Albert Bigelow Paine, Josephine Preston Peabody, Burton Rascoe, Paul Jordan Smith, T. R. Smith, George Sterling, Will Orton Tewson, Amélie Rives and Pierre Troubetzkoy, Louis Untermeyer, Hugh Walpole, and James R. Wells.

ArchivalResource: 361 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898714 View

Jordan-Smith, Paul, 1885-1971. Correspondence with Helen Dreiser, 1946.

Title: Correspondence with Helen Dreiser, 1946.

Correspondence from Helen Dreiser to Paul Jordan Smith, of The Los Angeles Times.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891862 View

Govan, Christine Noble, 1898-1985. Gilbert and Christine Govan letters, circa 1932-1973.

Title: Gilbert and Christine Govan letters, circa 1932-1973.

This collection contains 45 handwritten and typescript letters written to the Govans by various prominent Southern American writers. The letters were written roughly from the 1930's to the 1970's.The letters contain correspondence relating to the various writers' projects, personal matters, and relations with Gilbert and Christine Govan. Some of these writers are: Wilma Dykeman Stokely, Julia Peterkin, Andrew Lytle, Caroline Gordon, George Scarbrough, Jesse Stuart, Richard Chase, Donald Davidson, Stanley Horn, Paul Jordan Smith, Anworth Rutherford, John Bennett, Robert Burch, and several others. The collection provides an interesting insight into the thoughts and ideals of Southern writers during the middle 20th century.

ArchivalResource: ca. 0.3 linear ft. 1 box

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761958150 View

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

Title: Scrapbooks of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1886-1958 (bulk 1904-1926).

The scrapbooks contain clippings supplied by a clippings service regarding Cabell and his works, chiefly reviews of his early books. The scrapbooks also contain letters to Cabell from publishers, fellow authors, readers, and reviewers; as well as programs and announcements. The "Jurgen" obscenity controversy is a frequent topic. In addition there are fragments of manuscripts by Cabell, manuscripts of poetry, essays and book reviews by other authors including "The unknown poetry of James Branch Cabell" by Louis Untermeyer, "The hashish-eater" by Clark Ashton Smith, and "Literary sore toes" by Edward Hale Bierstadt. Correspondents include Henry Mills Alden, Charles Dexter Allen, David W. Amram, Charlton Andrews, Edmund M. Ashe, Charles C. Baldwin, Samuel Barlow, Charles Bayly, Jr., Carleton Beals, Arthur E. Becher, William Rose Benét, William John Bernhard, Edward Hale Bierstadt, John Peale Bishop, edwin Björkman, Emily N. Blair, Ralph Block, Glen Walton Blodgett, Walter Russell Bowie, Ernest A. Boyd, Thomas A. Boyd, Henry Walcott Boynton, Anna Hempstead Branch, Don Marshall Bregenzer, Harold Chapman Brown, I. R. Brussel, Mitchell S. Buck, Abraham Cahan, George Chambers Calvert, Henry Seidel Canby, Lewis Chase, Donald Barr Chidsey, Thomas Caldecot Chubb, Barrett H. Clark, Wilson Ober Clough, Wilbur L. Cross, Frank Crowninshield, Aleister Crowley, Richard Harding Davis, R. De Roussy De Sales, William Arthur Deacon, Benjamin De Casseres, Leonard Cline, Frank Daniel, A. Grove Day, Floyd Dell, William Kavanaugh Doty, Philip C. Duschnes, Horace H. Edwards, Milton I. D. Einstein, Thomas Hornsly Ferril, Charles J. Finger, Samuel Fischer, Morris Fishbein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sydney B. Flower, Wilson Follett, Justus Miles Forman, Henry B. Fuller, Lewis Galantière, Glenn Garrard, Ellen Glasgow, Benjamin Glazer, Isaac Goldberg, Alfred F. Goldsmith, E. S. Goodhue, W. Cabell Greet, Elizabeth Grinnell, Frederick S. Hammett, T. Swann Harding, Lester Hargrett, Arthur Hartmann, William R. A. Hays, Joseph Hergesheimer, B. Russell Herts, H. R. R. Hertzberg, Harry Hervey, John M. Hill, Grover Cleveland Hite, Robert C. Holliday, Guy Holt, Fannie Hurst, Merle Johnson, George T. Keating, Ethel May Kelly, Alfred Kreymborg, Joseph Wood Krutch, Elinor Macartney Lane, Kenneth Westmacott Lane (Keith West), Henry W. Lanier, Clarence John Laughlin, Grace Hegger Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, H. Baxter Liebler, J. B. Lippincott Co., Horace B. Liveright, William Loeb, Jr., F. B. Luquiens, George Macy, John Macy, Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Edwin J. Mayer, Helen F. McAfee, Roy L. McCardell, Warren Albert McNeill, H. L. Mencken, George Moore, Willard S. Morse, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, George Jean Nathan, Robert Nathan, Frances Newman, Charles Edmund Noyes, Edward J. O'Brien, Hamilton Owens, Walter Hines Page, Albert Bigelow Paine, Stuart Palmer, Isabel Paterson, Thomas Rossman Palfrey, Mary Plum, Mary Brecht Pulver, Burton Rascoe, Ben Ray Redman, John R. Reinhard, Laban Lacy Rice, Thomas Geale Rice, Walter Adolphe Roberts, James Harvey Robinson, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, Viscountess Lilian Rothermere of Harmsworth, Harold Goddard Rugg, B. K. Sandwell, Whitelaw Saunders, Eugene Francis Saxton, Dorothy Scarborough, Laurence Schwab, George Steele Seymour, Frank Shay, Lewis Worthington Smith, Lloyd E. Smith, Paul Jordan Smith, Maurice J. Speiser, Laurence Stallings, Vincent Starrett, Donald Ogden Stewart, Gideon Timberlake, Pierre Troubetzkoy, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, Nathan Van Patten, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Frank H. Vizetelly, Bernhardt Wall, Hugh Walpole, Harold Ward, Anne Rutherfoord Wayland, Franklin Wentworth, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Blanche Colton Williams, Marshall Wingfield, A. L. S. Wood, and Jack Woodford.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647901738 View

Jordan-Smith, Paul, 1885-1971. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1955.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1955.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/186369489 View

Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950.

Title: Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950.

Include correspondence of Cook and his wife Sadie, essays, articles, a letter from Tom Bell's daughter, Maisie Bell, to Max Schuster, and a notice To the wage workers of Canada by Robert Gosden. Concern business dealings; the [Rudolf] Rocker Publications Committee, particularly publication of T. Bell's Oscar Wilde without whitewash; Cook's participation in libertarian, rationalist, labor union, and co-operative organizations; family matters, including 15 letters from Clyde Cook while living in St. Petersburg, Russia (May 1914-Sept. 1915); and various friends and acquaintances, including T. Bell, Henry Olerich, and Rudolf Rocker.

ArchivalResource: 228 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990008031320106381 View

Jordan-Smith, Paul, 1885-1971. Autograph letter signed Paul Jordan Smith to [Wellesley College Librarian] January 7, 1933.

Title: Autograph letter signed Paul Jordan Smith to [Wellesley College Librarian] January 7, 1933.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817328 View