Letter to Mrs. Woolf [manuscript], 1920 September 25.

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Letter to Mrs. Woolf [manuscript], 1920 September 25.

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Cabell, Dumbarton, Va., writes declining Woolf's request that he speak at The Book and Play Club, saying that he has never spoken formally.

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Woolf, Mrs.,

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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...

Book and Play Club.

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