James Branch Cabell letter to Albert Bigelow Paine [manuscript], 1911 November 1.

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James Branch Cabell letter to Albert Bigelow Paine [manuscript], 1911 November 1.

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Cabell proclaims himself an admirer of Mark Twain who "was only incidentally a maker of jokes" and praises advance chapters from the forthcoming first volume of Paine's biography.

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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...

Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937

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American author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed : Redding, Conn., to F.A. Duneka, 1908 Jul. 9-1911 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611536 Author & editor. From the description of Letters of Albert Bigelow Paine [manuscript] 1910, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934359 Albert Bigelow Paine was born in New Bedford, Mass., but grew up in the Midwest. For ten y...