Letters from Virginians [manuscript], 1917-1960.

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Letters from Virginians [manuscript], 1917-1960.

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Collection contains a form letter from Westmoreland Davis thanking L. A. Futh for his support in the Democratic Primary in 1917, and enclosing a postal card asking for names of other Democrats in his neighborhood. Collection also contains an undated receipt from James Branch Cabell to the purchaser of two of his genealogies of the Branch family. Collection also contains a letter from Eudora Ramsay Richardson to Nellie Shackleford Smith regarding the Federal Writers' Project and referring her to the county worker Lucille Jayne. Collection also contains a letter from Fred G. Pollard to James B. Walthall, 1959 July 6, seeking his support in the Democratic Primary for the House of Delegates and announcing his opposition to public school integration. Collection also contains a letter from Margaret Freeman Cabell to James B. Walthall, 1960 May 15 soliciting funds for the Confederate Memorial Chapel restoration and enclosing a leaflet of "Questions and answers concerning the Restoration of the Confederate Memorial Chapel."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Futh, L. A.,

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Pollard, Fred G., 1918-

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Virginia Writers' Project

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Confederate Memorial Chapel.

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Jayne, Lucille.

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Richardson, Eudora Ramsay, 1892-1973

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Cabell, Margaret Freeman, 1893-1983

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Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell (1893-1983) was an interior decorator, founding editor of The Reviewer, and supporter of the arts. Born in Richmond, Virginia on August 29, 1893, Cabell graduated from Miss Jennie Ellett’s School (now St. Catherine’s School) and in the 1920s became one of the founding editors and the business manager of the Richmond-based literary magazine The Reviewer. During the 20s, Cabell also briefly studied interior design in Paris which would later lead to he...

Walthall, James B.,

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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...

Davis, Westmoreland, 1859-1942

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Virginia governor. From the description of Papers of Westmoreland Davis, 1877-1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959797 Governor of Virginia and president and publisher of the Southern Planter. From the description of Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1905-1920. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647936101 From the description of Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1889-1942. (University of Virginia). WorldCat ...

Smith, Nellie Shackleford,

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