Letters to Desmond Tarrant [manuscript] 1953-1958.

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Letters to Desmond Tarrant [manuscript] 1953-1958.

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Cabell discusses Tarrant's progress on his critical biography of Cabell, "Towards Jerusalem" [later published as "James Branch Cabell, the dream and the reality"], suggests publication possibilities, regrets an incapacitating illness, and thanks him for some chocolates.

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Tarrant, Desmond, 1924-

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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...