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A Guide to the Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell, 1911-1951, n.d. Cabell, James Branch, Manuscripts of 5618-c

A Guide to the Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell, 1911-1951, n.d.

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Accession Number 5618-c


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
5618-c
Title
Manuscripts of James Branch Cabell, 1911-1951, n.d.
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of 113 items.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

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Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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.

Scope and Content Information

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.

Contents List

Box 5
Parts for first versions of Ladies and Gentleman . [1934]
TMs. 49 p.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"The Mathematics of Gonfal" n.d.
TMs. 16 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Minus One-Third" n.d.
TMs. 3 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
First draft of "The Music From Behind the Moon" [1926]
TMs. 21 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
First Version of The Nightmare Has Triplets n.d.
TMs. 62 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"A Note as to Ettarre," preface to The Witch-Woman [1948]
TMs. 11 p.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"A Note on Frances Newman" 1929 Aug 11
TMs. 7 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"A Note on Lichfield" preface to illustrated edition of The Cream of the Jest 1927 Jan
TMs. 3 p.

[w/auto. corrections.]

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Of Horses" 1951 May 24
TMs. 23 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Of Messer Marco Polo, Sixteen years Old" n.d.
TMs. 4 p.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
Second typed version of "On [upon] Second Thought" [1932]
TMs. 4 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Once More, the Immortals," review of Fantastica by Robert Nichols 1923 Sep
TMs. 4 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"One Face and Another," review of The Face of the World by Johan Bojer 1919 Sep
TMsS. 5 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
First version of "Porcelain Cups" n.d.
TMsS. 19 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Portrait of the Artist: Full Lenth," review of works of George Moore 1923 Oct
TMs. 6 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
"Preface to the Past" [1936]
TMs. 10 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
First draft of Quiet, Please [1952]
TMs. 37 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 6
Quiet, Please and associated data [1952]
TMs, TMs(carbon). 185 p.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 7
Second draft of The St. Johns [1943]
TMs TMs(carbon). 260 p.

w/auto. corrections.

Box 7
Printer's copy of The St. Johns [1943]
TMsS. 300 p.

W/auto. corrections.

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.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 8
"The Scope of the Novel" n.d.
TMs. 5 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 8
First version of The Silver Stallion [1925]
TMs. TMs(carbon). ca. 200 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 8
Early drafts of Smire [1937]
TMs,AMs. ca. 200 p.

W/auto. corrections.

Box 8
First version of Smire [1937]
TMs

W/auto. corrections and additions. 215 p.