A Guide to the Letter and Miscellany of James Branch Cabell, 1924, n.d. #5298-ab

A Guide to the Letter and Miscellany of James Branch Cabell, 1924, n.d.

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Letter and Miscellany of James Branch Cabell, Accession #5298-ab, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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This collection was purchased on 1998 February 5.

Scope and Content Information

In a letter to Louise Collier Willcox, Cabell writes that he has inscribed a copy of The High Place for her, will read her translation of My Friend from Limousin, and comments that the use of the word "loan" as a verb dates back to Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

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Letter from James Branch Cabell, Dumbarton, Virginia, to Louise Collier Willcox 1924 Jan 18

ALS, 1p.

Sends her an appropriately inscribed copy of The High Place , has put aside My Friend from Limousin by Jean Giraudoux (translated by Willcox) to be read next week, and discusses the etymology of loan as a verb.