Excerpt from Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others I had met James Cabell first, I believe, at, Hergesheimer's Dower House, where we were both guests with Priscilla Percie and Fania, but later we met in Richmond at a period when Joe and I were delighted to spend a week now and then in that delectable town. By that time I was more or less familiar with his reticences, his rare enthusiasms, his exclusions, his shyness (he detested New York), and his methods of work. When I first knew James, he lived in ...
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Excerpt from Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others I had met James Cabell first, I believe, at, Hergesheimer's Dower House, where we were both guests with Priscilla Percie and Fania, but later we met in Richmond at a period when Joe and I were delighted to spend a week now and then in that delectable town. By that time I was more or less familiar with his reticences, his rare enthusiasms, his exclusions, his shyness (he detested New York), and his methods of work. When I first knew James, he lived in Dumbarton Grange, a more or less ramshackle farmhouse on the outskirts Of the town that Ellen Glasgow in her novels referred to as Queenborough. However, Dumbarton Grange was such a grandiose appellation for a house of this low character that, when friends in New York asked me to describe it, I recalled instead Ellen Glasgow's magnificent early Victorian mansion with its correct English furniture and its beautiful crystal chandeliers. It helped Cabell's reputation as a rich landowner and a gentleman of taste and it did Ellen no harm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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