James Branch Cabell Collection

Biographical Note:
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was born in Richmond, Virginia and spent the majority of his life in his home city. He is the author of over fifty works and numerous articles and short stories. Cabell is best known for Jurgen, the controversial work published in 1919 which was labeled as obscene and pornographic.

Scope and Content:
This collection is comprised of materials by and about the Virginia author, James Branch Cabell. The first item in the collection is typed originals (with one set of copies) of letters by Cabell to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1940-1953). The copies were typed from original letters in the University of Florida Special Collections. The second item in the collection is a typed copy of a cumulative index to the Storisende Edition of Cabell's works (McBride, NY, 1930, 18v). The index was prepared by John M. Campbell, Jr. of Paris, France, and includes a notation: "No other index exists, either in individual volumes or for the works as a whole, and the information contained herein should be of extreme value to any student of Cabell or of the literature of Cabell's period." The final item in the collection is the photographic copy of a Ph.D. thesis, "James Branch Cabell: A Critical Consideration of His Reputation," from the University of Illinois, dated 1954.

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