A Guide to the Manuscripts of James Branch
Cabell,
1911-1951, n.d. Cabell, James Branch, Manuscripts of
5618-c
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Accession number 5618-c
Title Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell,
1911-1951,
n.d.
Physical Characteristics This collection
consists of 113 items.
Language
English
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Preferred Citation
Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell, Accession #5618-c,
Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was a gift on 1958 June 12.
This collection of James Branch Cabell material contains
typed manuscripts, many with holograph corrections, of short
stories, articles, reviews, novels, and a bibliography by
Cabell; one manuscript draft of a novel; galley and page
proofs of several novels; illustrations from novels and the
wills of Cabell and Margaret Waller Freeman Cabell.
Box 5
Parts for first versions of
Ladies and Gentleman .
[1934]
TMs. 49 p.
Box 5
Second version of
Ladies and Gentleman [1934]
TMs. 103 p.
W/auto. corrections, and TMs(carbon).
Box 5
"Last Cry of Romance," review of
Barren Ground by Ellen
Glasgow
1925 Apr
TMsS. 4 p.
Box 5
Data for
Let Me Lie [1946]
TMs; 12 clippings. 27 p.
Box 5
First drafts of
Let Me Lie [1946]
TMs, AMs. 20O p.
Box 5
Let Me Lie
[1946]
TMs. 300 p.
W/ covering 4 pp. typed memo from Marjorie May,
editor at Farrar's, to James Branch Cabell, w/auto.
corrections.
Box 6
First draft of "The Lineage of Lichfield"
1921 Aug
TMs, AMs. 15 p.
Box 6
"The Lineage of Lichfield," "Epistle
Dedicatory," later version
[1921]
TMs
W/3 printer's sheets, w/auto. corrections. 13 p.
Box 6
"A Little More About Eve." preface to
Something About Eve [1928]
TMs. 5 p.
W/auto. corrections and additions.
Box 6
Later version of "A Little More About Eve"
[1928]
TMs. [carbon]. 6 p.
Box 6
Printer's copy of "A Little More About Eve"
1928 Oct
TMs. 9 p.
Box 6
"Maid of Honor"
n.d.
TMs. 10 p.
Box 6
Later version of "Maid of Honor"
n.d.
TMs. 17 p.
Box 6
"The Marriage of Bel-Imperia"
n.d.
TMs. 12 p.
Box 6
"The Mathematics of Gonfal"
n.d.
TMs. 16 p.
Box 6
"Minus One-Third"
n.d.
TMs. 3 p.
Box 6
First draft of "The Music From Behind the
Moon"
[1926]
TMs. 21 p.
Box 6
First Version of The Nightmare Has Triplets
n.d.
TMs. 62 p.
Box 6
"A Note as to Ettarre," preface to
The Witch-Woman [1948]
TMs. 11 p.
Box 6
"A Note for the Intending Reader." preface to
The House of Lost
Identity by Donald Corley
1927 Feb 22
TMss. Carbons. 2 p.
Box 6
"A Note on Frances Newman"
1929 Aug 11
TMs. 7 p.
Box 6
"A Note on Lichfield" preface to illustrated
edition of
The Cream of the Jest 1927 Jan
TMs. 3 p.
Box 6
"A Note Upon Branch Cabell"
n.d.
TMs. 3 p.
W/auto. corrections and additions.
Box 6
Printer's copy of "A Note Upon Cabellian
Harmonics"
1924 Jan
TMs. 8 p.
Box 6
"Of Horses"
1951 May 24
TMs. 23 p.
Box 6
"Of Messer Marco Polo, Sixteen years Old"
n.d.
TMs. 4 p.
Box 6
"On Second Thought," from Brussel's
Bibliography of Cabell
[1932]
AMs. 2 p.
Box 6
First typed version of "On Second Thought"
[1932]
TMs. 3 p.
Box 6
Second typed version of "On [upon] Second
Thought"
[1932]
TMs. 4 p.
Box 6
"Once More, the Immortals," review of
Fantastica by Robert
Nichols
1923 Sep
TMs. 4 p.
Box 6
"One Face and Another," review of
The Face of the World by
Johan Bojer
1919 Sep
TMsS. 5 p.
Box 6
First version of "Porcelain Cups"
n.d.
TMsS. 19 p.
Box 6
"Portrait of the Artist: Full Lenth," review
of works of George Moore
1923 Oct
TMs. 6 p.
Box 6
"Preface to the Past"
[1936]
TMs. 10 p.
Box 6
First draft of
Quiet, Please [1952]
TMs. 37 p.
Box 6
Quiet, Please and
associated data
[1952]
TMs, TMs(carbon). 185 p.
Box 6
"Realism"
[1935]
TMs. 2 p.
W/ clipping of printed version and clipping of H.L.
Mencken's reply; w/auto. corrections.
Box 6
"The Revival of a Classic," review of
Mother Goose 1897
TMsS
W/auto. corrections. 4 p.
Box 7
First draft of Part I of
The St. Johns [1943]
TMs, TMs(carbon). 260 p.
W/auto. corrections & additions.
Box 7
First draft of Part II of
The St. Johns [1943]
TMs, TMs(carbon) 240 p.
Box 7
Second draft of
The St. Johns [1943]
TMs TMs(carbon). 260 p.
Box 7
Printer's copy of
The St. Johns [1943]
TMsS. 300 p.
Box 8
Miscellaneous data for
The St. Johns [1943 ]
TMs,AMs. ca. 100 p.
Box 8
First draft by A.J. Hanna for
The St. Johns [1943]
TMs. ca. 160 p.
Box 8
"The Scope of the Novel"
n.d.
TMs. 5 p.
Box 8
First version of
The Silver Stallion [1925]
TMs. TMs(carbon). ca. 200 p.
Box 8
Early drafts of
Smire [1937]
TMs,AMs. ca. 200 p.
Box 8
First version of
Smire [1937]
TMs
W/auto. corrections and additions. 215 p.
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