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Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell, Accession # 5947-e, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was deposited on June 20, 1959 for microfilming. The originals were returned to Cornell University Library.
In this collection of letters, James Branch Cabell discusses The American Spectator, a publication which he co-edited along with George Jean Nathan and others. Cabell gives his opinion and makes recommendations and corrections on articles to be published in the Spectator. Discussing American authors, Cabell gives his views on William Faulkner, Upton Sinclair, and Ambrose Bierce. Cabell also compliments Nathan on his Autobiography of an Attitude and mentions his own Ladies and Gentlemen.
This collection is on microfilm (M-1530), from originals in Cornell University Library.
The collection is arranged in the order in which they appear on the microfilm.