A Guide to the James Branch Cabell Collection Cabell, James Branch. 5618-a

A Guide to the James Branch Cabell Collection

A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 5618-a, -c, and -d

University of Virginia Library

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Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection Number

5618-a, -c, and -d

Title

James Branch Cabell Collection 1897-1955

Extent

ca. 1000 items

Creator

Location

Language

English

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 5618-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1971 July

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

A.J. Hanna
Agnes Bondurant
As I Remember It
Donald Corley
Dorothy Scarborough
E.W. Lawson
Ellen Glasgow
Frances Newman
Frank C. Papé
George Moore
H. L. Mencken
Isabel Paterson
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell
Johan Bojer
Marjorie May
Merle Johnson
Robert Nichols

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Richmond, Virginia

Container List

Manuscripts

Box 1
"Above Paradise"
n.d.
TMs , 11 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"The Appeal to Posterity"
1922 Feb
TMs , 7 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"Around Lichfield"
n.d.
TMs , 23 p.

[Foreword to an anthology, w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"Art, Beauty, and Balderdash"
n.d.
TMs , 9 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"Art, Beauty, and Balderdash"
n.d.
TMsS , 6 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"The Arts in Gaza"
n.d.
TMs , 8 p.

[Review of Poe's Richmond by Agnes Bondurant , w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
First draft of As I Remember It
[1955]
TMs , 300 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
Printer's copy of As I Remember It
[1955]
TMs , ca. 220 p.
Box 1
Discarded pages from As I Remember It
[1955]
TMs , ca. 100 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"Between Worlds"
n.d.
TMsS , 8 p.
Box 1
Bibliography of Cabell writings
1949 Jul 3
TMs , 68 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 1
"Biography of the Life of Manuel"
n.d.
TMs , ca. 200 p.

[20 author's notes, w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"The Bright Bees of Toupan"
n.d.
TMs , 10 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
Review of A Certain Measure by Ellen Glasgow
n.d.
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"The Chivalry of Ellen Glasgow"
n.d.
AMs , 4 p.
Box 2
"The Chivalry of Ellen Glasgow"
n.d.
TMsS , 11 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"The Comedian"
n.d.
TMs , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"Concerning David Jogram"
1911 Jan
TMs , 12 p.

[w/autographcorrections]
Box 2
Printer's copy of "Concerning David Jogram"
n.d.
TMs , 13 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"The Contentment of Saraide"
n.d.
TMs , 12 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"Coth at Portusa"
n.d.
TMs , 13 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
Printer's copy of epilogue of The Cream of the Jest
n.d.
TMs , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
First draft of preface to The Devil's Own Dear Son
1948 Nov 27
TMsS , 14 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
Second draft of The Devil's Own Dear Son
[1949]
TMs , 161 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"Dizain of the Doomed"
n.d.
TMsS , 9 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"Ellen Glasgow"
n.d.
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"Exit"
n.d.
TMs , 7 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
["Factual Fiction"] re: The First Gentleman of America
[1942]
TMs , 3 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
First draft of Figures of Earth, in 2 parts
[1920]
TMsS , AMs , TMs (carbon) , ca. 150 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
First draft of The First Gentleman of America
[1942]
TMs , ca . 220 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
Notes and discarded passages from The First Gentleman of America
[1942]
TMs , AMs , 45 p.

[w/autograph corrections]
Box 2
"Assisting Data" for The First Gentleman of America
1941
TMs

[Gathered by E.W. Lawson . ]
Box 2
"The Fourth Mrs. Paterson," review of Never Ask the End by Isabel Paterson
n.d.
TMsS , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 2
"The Fourth Mrs. Paterson"
n.d.
TMs , 5 p.

[Clean copy.]
Box 3
First draft of Hamlet Had an Uncle
1939 Jul
TMs , ca. 200 p.

[In a binder, w/autograph corrections]
Box 3
Second version of Hamlet Had an Uncle
1939 Jul
TMs , ca. 150 p.

[w/autograph corrections and insertions.]
Box 3
First draft of The High Place
[1923]
AMs , 39 p.

[w/note by author: "The only first draft of any book by me in existence."]
Box 3
The High Place
[1923]
TMs , ca. 150 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 3
Early draft of part of "Homage of Col. Esmond"
n.d.
TMs , 6 p.

[w/autograph corrections]
Box 3
"Homage to Col. Esmond"
n.d.
TMs , 7 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 3
First draft of I Go to My Father [The Devil's Own Dear Son]
[1949]
TMs , ca. 160 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 3
Notes for I Go to My Father
[1949]
AMs , 11 p.
Box 3
"In the Sylvan's House"
n.d.
TMs , 14 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 3
"The Jewel Merchants"
[1921]
TMsS , 28 p.

[carbon, w/autograph corrections.]
Box 3
Jurgen , Chapters XXI-L, from first edition
[1918]
TMs , 194 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 4
First draft of The King Was in His Counting House
[1938]
TMs , AMs , ca. 170 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 4
Second version of The King Was in His Counting House
[1938]
TMs , 215 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 5
Parts for first versions of Ladies and Gentleman
[1934]
TMs , 49 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 5
Second version of Ladies and Gentleman
[1934]
TMs , 103 p.

[w/autograph corrections, and TMs (carbon).]
Box 5
"Last Cry of Romance," review of Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow
1925 Apr
TMsS , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections]
Box 5
Data for Let Me Lie
[1946]
TMs , 27 p. ; 12 clippings
Box 5
First drafts of Let Me Lie
[1946]
TMs , AMs , 200 p.

[w/autograph 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/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
First draft of "The Lineage of Lichfield"
1921 Aug
TMs , AMs , 15 p.

[w/autograph corrections]
Box 6
"The Lineage of Lichfield," "Epistle Dedicatory," later version
[1921]
TMs , 13 p.

[w/3 printer's sheets, w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"A Little More About Eve," preface to Something About Eve
[1928]
TMs , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections and additions.]
Box 6
Later version of "A Little More About Eve"
[1928]
TMs , 6 p.

[carbon]
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/autograph 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/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"The Mathematics of Gonfal"
n.d.
TMs , 16 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Minus One-Third"
n.d.
TMs , 3 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
First draft of "The Music From Behind the Moon"
[1926]
TMs , 21 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
First Version of The Nightmare Has Triplets
n.d.
TMs , 62 p.

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

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"A Note for the Intending Reader." preface to The House of Lost Identity by Donald Corley
1927 Feb 22
TMsS , 2 p.

[carbons. w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"A Note on Frances Newman"
1929 Aug 11
TMs , 7 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"A Note on Lichfield," preface to illustrated edition of The Cream of the Jest
1927 Jan
TMs , 3 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"A Note Upon Branch Cabell"
n.d.
TMs , 3 p.

[w/autograph corrections and additions.]
Box 6
Printer's copy of "A Note Upon Cabellian Harmonics"
1924 Jan
TMs , 8 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Of Horses"
1951 May 24
TMs , 23 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Of Messer Marco Polo, Sixteen years Old"
n.d.
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph 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/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
Second typed version of "On [upon] Second Thought"
[1932]
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Once More, the Immortals," review of Fantastica by Robert Nichols
1923 Sep
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"One Face and Another," review of The Face of the World by Johan Bojer
1919 Sep
TMsS , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
First version of "Porcelain Cups"
n.d.
TMsS , 19 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Portrait of the Artist: Full Lenth," review of works of George Moore
1923 Oct
TMs , 6 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Preface to the Past"
[1936]
TMs , 10 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
First draft of Quiet, Please
[1952]
TMs , 37 p.

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

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"Realism"
[1935]
TMs , 2 p.

[w/ clipping of printed version and clipping of H. L. Mencken 's reply; w/autograph corrections.]
Box 6
"The Revival of a Classic," review of Mother Goose
1897
TMsS , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 7
First draft of Part I of The St. Johns
[1943]
TMs , TMs (carbon) , 260 p.

[w/autograph corrections & additions.]
Box 7
First draft of Part II of The St. Johns
[1943]
TMs , TMS (carbon) , 240 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 7
Second draft of The St. Johns
[1943]
TMs , TMs (carbon) , 260 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 7
Printer's copy of The St. Johns
[1943]
TMsS , 300 p.

[w/autograph 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/autograph corrections.]
Box 8
"The Scope of the Novel"
n.d.
TMs , 5 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 8
First version of The Silver Stallion
[1925]
TMs , TMs (carbon) , ca. 200 p.

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

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 8
First version of Smire
[1937]
TMs , 215 p.

[w/autograph corrections and additions.]
Box 8
First draft of Smirt
[1934]
TMs , AMs , ca. 125 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
Second version of Smirt
[1934]
TMs , 182 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
First draft of Smith
[1935]
TMs , ca. 230 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
Second draft of Smith
[1935]
TMs , ca. 110 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
"Some Objections to Branch Cabell"
n.d.
TMsS , 3 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
First draft of Some of Us
[1930]
TMs , 77 p.

[w/clippings tipped in; w/autograph corrections and additions.]
Box 9
First draft of Something About Eve
[1927]
TMs , ca. 75 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
Discarded pages from Something About Eve
[1927]
TMs , AMs , ca. 200 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 9
Second draft of Something about Eve , 2 v.
[1927]
TMs , ca. 170 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 10
"Sonnets from Antan"
n.d.
AMsS , 10 p.
Box 10
First drafts of Special Delivery
[1933]
TMs , AMs , ca. 130 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 10
First version of Straws and Prayer Books , 2 v.
[1924]
TMs , ca. 230 p.

[w/autograph corrections & note.]
Box 10
First version of Taboo
1920 Dec
TMs , 19 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 10
There Were Two Pirates
[1946]
TMs , 72 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 10
First drafts of These Restless Heads
[1932]
TMsS , TMs (carbon) and AMs , ca. 300 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
Printer's copy of These Restless Heads
1931 Jul
TMs , 150 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
"The Thin Queen of Elfhame"
n.d.
TMs , 7 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
"Townsend of Lichfield"
[1929]
TMsS , AMs , 12 p.

[w/autograph corrections on TMsS.]
Box 11
Unrevised carbon of "Townsend of Lichfield"
[1929]
TMs (carbon) , 10 p.
Box 11
Printer's copy of "Townsend of Lichfield"
1929 Apr 14
TMs , 24 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
"Turtle-Meat and Broomsticks," review of From a Southern Porch by Dorothy Scarborough
1919 Nov
TMs , 14 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
Clean copy of "Turtle-Meat and Broomsticks"
1919 Nov
TMs , 4 p.
Box 11
First version of "The Water of Airdra"
[1935]
TMs , 10 p.

[became "Book of Elair" in Smith ; w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
Second version of "The Water of Airdra"
[1935]
TMs , 13 p.
Box 11
Draft of "The Way of Ecben"
[1929]
AMs , 3 p.
Box 11
First draft of Part I of "The Way of Ecben"
[1929]
TMs , 22 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
Later version of "The Way of Ecben"
[1929]
TMs , 69 p.

[w/autograph corrections and additions.]
Box 11
First version of "The Ways of Women"
n.d.
Photostat of TMs , 7 p.
Box 11
First version of first part of "The White Robe"
[1928]
TMs , 8 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
First draft of "The White Robe"
[1928]
TMs , 32 p.

[Inscribed to Frances Newman ; w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
Printer's copy of "The White Robe"
[1928]
TMs , 32 p.
Box 11
"The Witch-Woman"
[1948]
TMs , 8 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]
Box 11
"A Word to My Followers"
n.d.
TMs , 4 p.

[w/autograph corrections.]

Photographs and prints

Box 11
Cabell Room, Valentine Museum , Richmond, Virginia
n.d.
Picture postcard
Box 11
Exhibit of Cabell material at [ University of Florida ]
n.d.
Photo
Box 11
43 illustrations by Frank C. Papé ; for books by James Branch Cabell
n.d.
Engravings

Miscellaneous

Box 11
Notes and parts of essays, 13 unidentified pages
n.d.
AMs , TMs
Pamphlets
- Box 11
  "Bibliographic Check List of the Works of James Branch Cabell" by Merle Johnson
  1921
  Pamphlet , 28 p.
  
  [signed by author.]
- Box 11
  Two copies of "James Branch Cabell" by H. L. Mencken
  1928
  Pamphlet , 33 p.
- Box 11
  "Joseph Hergesheimer, an Essay in Interpretation" by James Branch Cabell
  1921
  Pamphlet , 27 p.
- Box 11
  2 copies of "The Nightmare Has Triplets, An Author's Notes on Smire " by James Branch Cabell
  1937
  Pamphlet , 14 p.
- Box 11
  "Of Ellen Glasgow, an Inscribed Portrait" by James Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow
  1938
  Pamphlet , 16 p.
Proofs
- Box 11
  The First Gentleman of America
  [1942]
  Corrected gallery proofs , 71 strips
- Box 11
  Hamlet Had an Uncle
  [1940]
  Corrected galley proofs , 70 strips
- Box 11
  "The Jewel Merchants"
  [1921]
  Corrected page proofs , 63 pp.
- Box 12
  Jurgen , Penguin Edition
  n.d.
  Page proofs , 71 strips
- Box 12
  "A Little More About Eve"
  [1928]
  Corrected galley proofs , 4 strips
- Box 12
  "A Note for the Intending Reader"
  [1927]
  Corrected page proofs , 3 p.
- Box 12
  Quiet, Please
  [1952]
  Corrected page proofs , 105 p.
- Box 12
  2 groups of The St. Johns
  [1943]
  Corrected galley proofs , 78 strips
- Box 12
  The St. Johns
  [1943]
  Corrected page proofs , 317 p.
- Box 12
  The St. Johns p. 1-318
  [1943]
  Corrected page proofs
  
  [Large paged proof sheets]
- Box 12
  Illustrations of opening sections of The Silver Stallion
  [1925]
  Galley proofs , 5 strips