University of Virginia Library

JAMES BRANCH CABELL PROFESSORSHIP OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

The following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS Mr. Robert G. Cabell, III, under a trust agreement entered into on 31 December
1964, has provided for a distinguished professorship at the University of Virginia to be
known as the James Branch Cabell Professorship of English and American Literature, in honor
of his brother, the late James Branch Cabell, whose manuscripts Mr. Cabell has already
presented to the University,

AND WHEREAS it is the wish of the donor that this act of great beneficence not be
announced at the present time,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, in becoming parties to the withholding of public
acclaim that so generous an act deserves, the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia nevertheless wish to and hereby do make a matter of permanent and, for the present,
private record of their individual and collective pride in this gift, both as a symbol of
the precious ties that have bound the University of Virginia and the Cabell family together
since Mr. Jefferson's day, and also as a fitting monument to Virginia's most gifted prose
artist of this century,

AND RESOLVED FURTHER that the Secretary be and he is hereby directed to transmit a copy
of this resolution to Mr. Cabell.