Cabell in Correspondence

Bill's recent post on the FB thread reminded me of the couple of recent occasions that I've seen Cabell mentioned in correspondence between other authors. For instance, in The New Mencken Letters, Mencken responds to a letter from Ezra Pound who had "scolded him for not getting aboard the 1930s and abandoning such out-of-date authors as {James} Huneker and Cabell." Mencken, beyond the many correspondences he had directly with Cabell, on more than a few occasions, praises Cabell in correspondence to other critics and writers.

So did Paul Bowles (In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles), but unflatteringly. To his friend, Bruce Morrissette (Feb. 28, 1930), Bowles listed a few writers that he would "intuitively avoid ... Cabell, I suppose for one; Congreve, Thomas Love Peacock and Petronius..."

I'd be curious to know if others have similarly bumped into mention of Cabell, secondhand.

You may have seen this old thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/139026

I believe there are a handful of other mentions in this group, I'll post here if I manage to track them down.

Thanks, elenchus. I hadn't seen that. I've been going through the indices of literary bios searching for Cabell ….