Editing James Branch Cabell (section)

== Honors ==
In 1970, [[Virginia Commonwealth University]], also located in Richmond, named its main campus library "James Branch Cabell Library" in his honor. In the 1970s, Cabell's personal library and personal papers were moved from his home on Monument Avenue to the James Branch Cabell Library. Consisting of some 3,000 volumes, the collection includes manuscripts; notebooks and scrapbooks; periodicals in which Cabell's essays, reviews and fiction were published; his correspondence with noted writers including [[H. L. Mencken]], [[Ellen Glasgow]], [[Sinclair Lewis]] and [[Theodore Dreiser]]; correspondence with family, friends, editors and publishers, newspaper clippings, photographs, periodicals, criticisms, printed material; publishers' agreements; and statements of sales. The collection resides in the Special Collections and Archives department of the library.<ref name="content">{{citation |url=http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00065.xml|title=A Guide to the James Branch Cabell Papers, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Libraries |periodical=James Branch Cabell Library |access-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref> 
The VCU undergraduate literary journal at the university is named ''Poictesme'' after the fictional province in his cycle ''[[Biography of the Life of Manuel]]''.

More recently{{when?|date=January 2023}}, VCU spent over $50 million to expand and modernize the James Branch Cabell Library to further entrench it as the premier library in the Greater Richmond Area and one of the top landmark libraries in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://richmondmagazine.com/api/content/41a4c660-dfea-11e5-b354-22000b078648/|title=Modern Library|last=Robertson|first=Gary|date=2016-03-14|website=richmondmagazine.com|language=en-us|access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref> In 2016 Cabell Library won the New Landmark Library Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=James Branch Cabell Library {{!}} New Landmark Libraries 2016 Winner|url=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/09/buildings/lbd/james-branch-cabell-library-new-landmark-libraries-2016-winner/|website=Library Journal|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>
The ''[[Library Journal]]''{{'}}s website provides a virtual walking tour of the new James Branch Cabell Library.<ref>{{cite web|title=Academic New Landmark Libraries 2016 Walking Tour: James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond|url=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/09/buildings/lbd/new-landmark-libraries-2016-walking-tour-james-branch-cabell-library-virginia-commonwealth-university-richmond/|website=Library Journal|access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref>