Letters of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1922-1958.

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Letters of James Branch Cabell [manuscript], 1922-1958.

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Cabell discusses his work, its publication and editions, especially "The King Was in His Counting House"; "Hamlet Had an Uncle"; and "The First Gentlemen of America." Cabell also mentions Ellen Glasgow's literary interests and her health. Recipients include Cabell's editors John Chipman Farrar, Stanley Rinehart, Adelaide Sherer, and Philip Wylie. Also included is a letter, ca. 1942, from Stephen Vincent Benét to Farrar complimenting and analysing Cabell's "First Gentlemen of America."

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Philip Gordon Wylie was born in Beverly, Mass. In 1902. He attended Princeton University during 1920-1923. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, his output included hundreds of short stories, articles, serials, syndicated newspaper columns, novels and works of social criticism. He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County (Fla.) Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was a special advisor ...