Letters to James Branch Cabell, 1916-1946 (bulk 1916-1943).

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Letters to James Branch Cabell, 1916-1946 (bulk 1916-1943).

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The letters, 1916-1943, reveal Glasgow's close personal friendship with Cabell and his wife and also reveal much of Glasgow's concern about her writing. Accompanying the letters is a list, marked confidential, of possible titles for Beyond Defeat; autograph notes on Barren Ground; various newspaper clippings and editorials, 1945 November 22, regarding Glasgow's death. Also included are a posthumously printed article in the Atlanta Journal, 1946 April 28, discussing Glasgow and reprinting a correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1941 July 19, St Augustine, Florida, and Glasgow 1941 July 24, Castine, Maine. In the reprinted letters, Rawlings describes a dream she had of Glasgow and James Branch Cabell and invites Glasgow to Florida. Glasgow admits her health is too poor to travel.

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