Letters and a Christmas card from James Branch Cabell [manuscript] 1926-50.

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Letters and a Christmas card from James Branch Cabell [manuscript] 1926-50.

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Cabell writes to Leon Underwood regarding: illustrations for "The music from behind the moon," to James R. Wells concerning a translation of Paul Morand, to Mr. Carroll, an autograph seeker, and to Robert Benaway Brown on Cabell's appearance in the Index liborum prohibitorum, the identity of a forger, and Brown's book "The bibliographer learns Spanish." With these is a Christmas card [1950] from the Cabells.

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Underwood, Leon, 1890-1975

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Morand, Paul, 1888-1976

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Wells, James Ralston

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Carroll, Mr.

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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...

Brown, Robert Benaway, 1916-1950

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