A Guide to the James Branch Cabell Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 5298-v
University of Virginia Library
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
James Branch Cabell Collection, Accession 5298-v, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Transfer, 1992 June 24
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Desmond Tarrant
- Ellen Glasgow
- Frances Brewer
- Frances J. Brewer
- Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.
- Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.
- James Branch Cabell
- John Cook Wyllie
- Matthew Bruccoli
- T. Catesby Jones
Item Listing
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1932 Mar 25
TLS, 1 p.
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1937 May 29
TLS (C), 1 p.
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1938 Apr 7
TLS, 1 p.
[Expresses pleasure after reading his article on contemporary Virginia literature and confesses that he too has puzzled over "what a Virginian is?"]
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1947 Mar 18
TLS (C), 1 p.
[Makes a case for Cabell leaving his papers and manuscripts in the care and safekeeping of the Manuscripts Department of the University of Virginia because 1) a great writer's papers should be at a University and neither of the two Richmond institutions is interested in collecting contemporary material and 2) the University of Virginia Library already has related papers, such as the Joseph C. Cabell Papers and the Cabell -Carrington Papers.]
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1947 Mar 26
TLS, 1 p. w/env
[Agrees to weigh carefully Berkeley's request to make the University of Virginia the repository for his papers and gives his best wishes ("unflavored with any special optimism") to the University in its pursuit of the Ellen Glasgow papers with Mrs. Van Doren.]
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1947 Mar 31
TLS (C), 1 p.
[Thanks Cabell for giving serious consideration to his request for the University to be the depository of his papers and informs him of Mrs. Van Doren's response to his letter seeking the Ellen Glasgow papers, "So far there has been no decision made about the permanent disposal of Miss Glasgow's papers and manuscripts. I may say, however, that Mr. Morley and I have discussed --and with considerable favor --the University of Virginia as a repository."]
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1948 Mar 2
TLS (C), 1 p.
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1948 Mar 6
TLS, 1 p. w/env
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1953 Jul 27
TLS, 1 p.
[Informs Berkeley that although he has spent all spring weeding out his files and papers keeping only those items he was willing to preserve he has not yet decided upon their ultimate deposition.]
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1953 Jul 30
TLS (C), 1 p.
[Discusses some advantages to an author who has a depository institution willing to cooperate with him to preserve his work and offers again to preserve them at the University of Virginia . ]
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1955 Nov 13
TLS, 1 p.
[Shares his delight with Wyllie's review of his book As I Remember It but takes him to task for accusing him of "getting even" with Ellen Glasgow "whom I both loved and admired. She was, in addition to her other talents, a shrewd business woman who made the very utmost of her resources. That is all I had meant to convey"; he also expresses his joy that the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is going to publish Mrs. Frances J. Brewer 's Cabell bibliography.]
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1955 Nov 16
TLS (C), 1 p.
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1956 Jan 7
TLS, 1 p.
[Asks for Wyllie to please send a set of the galley proofs of Mrs. Brewer's bibliography of his work and offers to suggest any recent additions that she may have missed; he also hesitates to write a preface to the fourth bibliography of his work because he feels that the theme may be exhausted but promises to see what he can do.]
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1956 Apr 23
TLS, 1 p.
[Asks when Mrs. Brewer's bibliography will be published as he is leaving for the summer cottage where he will have little data with which to check any galley proofs.]
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1956 Apr 25
TLS (C), 2 p.
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1956 May 1
TLS, 1 p.
[Confesses that he believes it will be impossible and unnecessary to compare all of his various editions on the Hinman machine as most of the changes were to correct errors by the printers and were not really revisions.]
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1956 May 15
TLS (C), 1 p.
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1956 Aug 29
TLS, 1 p.
[Believes Desmond Tarrant 's Towards Jerusalem , for which he answered questions and supplied some general commentaries, was excellent, suggests he submit his treatise to the Bibliographical Society , and asks Wyllie to answer as many of Mrs. Brewer's questions as he can.]
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1956 Sep 10
TLS (C), 1 p.
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1956 Sep 17
TLS, 1 p.
[Describes the visit of Mrs. Brewer to Poynton Lodge and asks his opinion of Tarrant's treatise.]
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1956 Oct 24
TLS, 1 p.
[Informs him of his decision to sell some of his manuscripts and to present others to various libraries, including the University of Virginia and asks for a list of competent appraisers.]
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1956 Nov 1
TLS (C), 1 p.
[Sends the first galleys of both Mrs. Brewer's bibliography and Matthew Bruccoli 's supplementary notes on the collections at the University of Virginia . ]
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1956 Nov 8
TLS (C), 2 p.
[Encloses a copy of Matthew Bruccoli 's unfavorable assessment of Towards Jerusalem which parallels his own view that the book would need considerable reworking.]
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1956 Nov 11
TLS, 1 p.
[Recommends that he write Tarrant "that the book, while containing much that is fine, needs overhauling. In the version that I have, the entire first fourth of the typescript is devoted to recent American authors in general, with just an occasional mention of Cabell --which is disproportionate, and would bewilder at outset almost any reader as to what exactly the book is to be about. These three chapters should be made into one chapter." He also believes that Tarrant should discuss more of his works than just the eighteen that are mentioned.]