Letters of Frances Newman, Atlanta, Ga., & Richmond, Va. to Scott Cunningham [manuscript] 1926-27.

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Letters of Frances Newman, Atlanta, Ga., & Richmond, Va. to Scott Cunningham [manuscript] 1926-27.

Miss Newman agrees to autograph a book for Cunningham, mentions a trip to France, comments on her feelings about Carl Van Vechten's [racially] mixed parties, and writes about her work including a piece on James Branch Cabell.

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

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