A drawing of Charles W. Coleman, Librarian of William and Mary College in 1898. He was at the center of the controversy involving Cabell and two other students. This drawing, originally done in 1910, was used as the frontispiece to Coleman's In His Own Country and Other Poems, privately printed by Whittet & Shepperson, Richmond, 1942. Cabell confided to friends that Coleman was the model for John Charteris...

"And I regarded the little man with a real tenderness: for I saw that he justified the far-fetched analogue I had aforetime employed in speaking of John Charteris, when I likened him to a quizzical black parrot..." Beyond Life, 1919

"He cocked his head to one side -- an habitual gesture with Charteris -- and the Colonel noted as he had often done before, how extraordinarily reminiscent Jack was of a dried-up black parrot..." The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, 1915