Manuscript fragment of George Washington Cable, n.d.

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Manuscript fragment of George Washington Cable, n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49221924

Parchment leaf on which George Washington Cable has written an excerpt of one of his works and signed it. Joined to the leaf is one bearing the seal of the "Modern Historic Records Association."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925

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George Washington Cable, an American author and critic, was born in New Orleans and fought for the South in the Civil War. His first collection of tales of life in the south was Old creole days (1879). In 1884 he went on a reading tour with Mark Twain. He moved to Northampton, Mass., in 1885. He is chiefly known for his early works describing picturesque Louisiana Creole life and courageous essays on civil rights. From the description of George Washington Cable papers, 1865-1918. (Pe...