Correspondence and greeting cards of James Branch Cabell, 1915-1959.

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Correspondence and greeting cards of James Branch Cabell, 1915-1959.

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Cabell writes William Kavanaugh Doty regarding From the Hidden Way; McBride, Nast and Company regarding the publication of The Certain Hour; A.L.S. Wood regarding Taboo and The High Place and solicits articles for The Reviewer, a publication co-edited by Cabell; Robert Benaway Brown regarding various writers, including Cabell's cousin Julia, and reviews of Let Me Lie and Ladies and Gentlemen. In addition, Cabell corresponds with the Atlas Book Shop, New York, regarding works by Andrew Lang. The collection also contains maps, printed and manuscript, of Cabell's imaginary countries, Storisende and Poictesme. Finally, the collection includes correspondence between Margaret Freeman Cabell and Harper & Brothers regarding a check issued by the company to Cabell and found by Mrs. Cabell among her husband's belongings. The Christmas cards are from James Branch and Priscilla Bradley Cabell.

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McBride, Nast and Company,

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Brown, Robert Benaway, 1916-1950

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Wood, A. L. S.

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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

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Scottish man of letters. From the description of Enchanted cigarettes : [n.p.] : autograph essay signed, [ca. 1891]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598917 Author and scholar Andrew Lang was born in Scotland, and educated at St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Oxford. He resolved to be a journalist, and wrote articles and columns for various publications, but eventually this versatile and prolific author produced poetry, fiction, essays on various topics, history, literary criticism...

Doty, William Kavanaugh, 1886- ,

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Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...

Cabell, Priscilla Bradley,

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Cabell, Margaret Freeman, 1893-1983

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Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell (1893-1983) was an interior decorator, founding editor of The Reviewer, and supporter of the arts. Born in Richmond, Virginia on August 29, 1893, Cabell graduated from Miss Jennie Ellett’s School (now St. Catherine’s School) and in the 1920s became one of the founding editors and the business manager of the Richmond-based literary magazine The Reviewer. During the 20s, Cabell also briefly studied interior design in Paris which would later lead to he...