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MF:5750, Series E, Reels 11-12
Andrew Hynes Gay and Family Papers
(Mss. 2542)
Inventory
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University Libraries
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University
Reformatted 2007
Contents of Inventory
Biographical/Historical Note | 4 |
Scope and Content Note | 4 |
Collection Description(s) | 5-7 |
Index Terms | 8-11 |
Container List | 12 |
Use of manuscript materials. If you wish to examine items in the manuscript group, please fill out a call slip specifying the materials you wish to see. Consult the Container List for location information needed on the call slip.
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Proper acknowledgement of LLMVC materials must be made in any resulting writing or publications. The correct form of citation for this manuscript group is given on the summary page. Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections are welcomed.
Summary
Size. | 222 items, 9 manuscript volumes, 1 printed volumes |
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Geographic locations. | Iberville Parish, La.; Washington, D. C.; Europe; Canada; Wisconsin; and California |
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Inclusive dates. | 1857-1957 |
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Bulk dates. | N/A |
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Language. | English |
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Summary. | Correspondence of Andrew Hynes Gay and family, sugar planters from Plaquemine, and diaries of Anna Maria Gay McClung. |
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Organization. | Arranged by type, then chronologically. |
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Restrictions on access. | If microfilm is available, photocopies must be made from microfilm. |
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Related collections. | Edward J. Gay and Family Papers, Mss. 1295 Gay-Butler-Plater Family Papers, Mss. 4872 |
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Copyright. | Copyright of the original materials is retained by descendants of the creators in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
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Citation. | Andrew Hynes Gay and Family Papers, Mss. 2542, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. |
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Stack location(s). | Y:82; G:17; OS:G |
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Also available on: | MF:5750, Series E, Reels 11-12 |
Biographical/Historical Note
Andrew Hynes Gay was a sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. He married Mary Augustina Dickinson (1845-1872) in 1865, and they had four children, Anna Maria Gay McClung (b. 1867), Lavinia Hynes Gay Weaver (1869-1901), Mary Susan Gay (b. 1870, married Herbert E. Doolittle and Fenelon Cannon), and Andrew Hynes Gay, Jr.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence pertains to social life, economics, and agriculture, largely during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Five letters of Elias B. Inslee (1868-1871) and a biography of Inslee are included. Confederate officers' letters (including those of Inslee) describe military service and imprisonment on Ship Island, Mississippi. Topics discussed in letters include outbreaks of smallpox (1864) and yellow fever (1867), the use of black troops as occupation forces during the Civil War, flooding and damage to levees (1862), freedmen laborers (1866), agricultural machinery and sugar planting (1867-1868), and Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans (1871, 1872, 1881).
Diaries (1885-1898) kept by Anna Maria Gay McClung record impressions of social life in Washington, D.C., vacation visits to Europe, Canada, Wisconsin, and California, and family activities. Her writings include histories of plantations owned by the Gay family in Iberville Parish; properties described include the Belair, Shady Grove, Live Oak, Retreat, St Louis, Ridgefield, and Homestead Plantations.
Other manuscript volumes include an autograph album (1886), the passport of Anna Maria Gay McClung (1934), a scrapbook (1911-1952), and two school notebooks containing essays by Mary A. Dickinson (1860, 1862). Some calling cards, drawings, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings are included.
Collection Description
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Y:82 | 1 | 1 | 1860-1864 | 20 items: Correspondence Letters from Andrew Hynes Gay to Mary Dickinson from various camps; poem entitled “My Brother’s Room”; musical composition; song “The Prisoner” by Elvé A.B. Moore; letter from Gay to his mother; newspaper clipping |
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| 2 | 1865 | 16 items: Correspondence Letters between A.H. Gay and Mary Dickinson; poem “For my friend Orelle”; letter from Gay to his mother; card |
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| 3 | 1866-1869 | 18 items: Correspondence Song “The Jackets of Grey”; letters between A.H. Gay and his wife Mary; letters from Gay to his mother; letters between E.J. Gay and Mary; letter in rhyme from Mary A. Gay to Nannie Gay (1868) |
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| 4 | 1870-1879 | 30 items: Correspondence Letters from Mary to Nannie; note from Anna Maria Gay to her father (1870); letters from Mary Gay to her mother, her children; song about Anna Gay (1872); letters from Anna M. Gay to her grandmother |
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| 5 | 1880-1897 | 19 items: Correspondence Letters from Anna M. Gay to her grandmother; letter from Andrew Gay to his daughter Anna; railway receipts; business letters to Andrew Gay; letter to Anna Gay from her uncle Andrew Price discussing her upcoming trip to Europe (1897); other letters concerning her passport; copy of record found among papers of Mrs. Andrew Price; letters from Anna in Greece; newspaper clipping |
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| 6 | 1901-1928 | 13 items: Correspondence Letter from Lavinia to her parents; marriage license of Charles J. McClung and Anna M. Gay (1911); letters to Anna |
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| 7 | 1931-1954 | 18 items: Correspondence Application of Anna Maria Gay McClung for membership to the Daughters of the American Revolution; letters to Anna; wedding invitation for Lavinia Lodiska to Laurens Granthan Jones (1932); letter to Laurens from Anna; letters concerning family genealogy; “Gardening from a Rolling Chair” by Anna Gay McClung (1946); postcard |
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| 8 | undated | 28 items: Correspondence Drawings; poems; brochure from the Governor William Blount Mansion; Christmas cards; letters and notes concerning genealogy; letters |
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| 9 | 1868-1871, undated | 5 items: Elias B. Inslee Letters, Biography of Inslee Biography; copies of letters to Mrs. Dickinson |
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| 10 | undated | 5 items: Mary Dickinson Gay Writings |
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| 11 | 1859, 1864, undated | 7 items: Drawings |
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| 12 | 1865, undated | 7 items: Visiting Cards |
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| 13 | 1944, undated | 7 items: Photographs and Post Cards |
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| 14 | 1926-1967 | 13 items: Newspaper Clippings |
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| 15 | undated | 3 items: Empty Envelopes |
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| 16 | Dec. 1884-June 1886 | 1 item: Anna Maria Gay Diary – Carbon typewritten transcription |
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| 17 | June-Sept. 1938 | 1 item: Anna Gay McClung Diary – Ribbon typewritten transcription |
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| 18 | 1934, 1950, 1952, 1956, undated | 15 items: Anna Gay McClung Writings |
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| 19 | Apr. 1915 | 1 item: Confederate Veteran |
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| 20 | 1904 | Commission of Andrew H. Gay, Sr. as a Police Juror for Iberville Parish, May 24. |
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| 21 | 1931 | Gay Family lot at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. |
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G:17 | -- | -- | 1886 | Vol.1 Autograph Album |
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G:17 | 1 | -- | 1885-1886, | Anna Maria Gay Diaries Vol.2 Oct.-Dec., 1885 Vol.3 Dec. 1885-Mar. 1886 Vol.4 June 1886 |
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G:17 | -- | -- | 1890-1898 | Vol.5 Anna Maria Gay Diary, 1890-1898 |
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G:17 | -- | -- | 1934 | Vol.6 Anna Gay McClung Passport |
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G:17 | -- | -- | 1911-1952 | Vol.7 Anna Gay McClung Scrapbook |
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G:17 | -- | -- | 1860, 1862 | Vol.8 Mary A. Dickinson Notebook (1860) Vol.9 Mary A. Dickinson Notebook (1862) |
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Index Terms
(This section provides the subject indexing for the collection found in the card catalog. Index terms have been changed to match Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Documents relating to the subject given are described.)
Subject | Date | Description of relevant documents
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American poetry--Louisiana. | 1868 | Family letters written in verse |
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Bay Saint Louis (Miss.)--Description and travel. | 1871 | Description, Aug. 9. |
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Belair Plantation (La.) |
| Brief history of the plantation |
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Biloxi (Miss.)--Description and travel. | 1871 | Description of the town, June 25 |
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California--Description and travel. | 1890-1898 | Recording vacation trips in Canada, Wisconsin, and California |
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Canada--Description and travel. | 1890-1898 | Recording vacation trips in Canada, Wisconsin, and California |
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Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans. | 1871, 1872, 1881 | Letter describing tableaux of the Mystik Krewe, celebrations, costumes. Mar. 23, 1871; May 1, 1871; Feb. 5, 1872; Mar. 18, 1881 |
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Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence. | 1861-1864, undated | Letters describing military service and prison experience in Federal prison on Ship Island |
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Europe--Description and travel.
| 1938 | Records journey from Knoxville, Tennessee, to France, England, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Italy Switzerland, and Belgium. |
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Freedmen--Employment--Louisiana. | 1866 | Letter reporting difficulties of finding freedmen to contract as laborers, Jan. 12. |
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Girls--Louisiana--Correspondence. | 1870-1884 | Letters of a little girl to family and friends describing her activities: Sept. 15, 1870; Aug. 20, 1872; Apr. 2, 1875; Oct 13, 1876; May 31, 1878; Dec. 26, 1878; Mar. 21, May 2, 1879; undated; Oct. 5, Dec. 10, 1880; Feb. 18, Mar. 18, 1881; Aug. 23, 1884; Dec. 10, 18, 1884. |
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Girls’ schools--Louisiana--New Orleans. | 1865 | Description of life in a girls’ school. |
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Greece--Description and travel. | 1897 | Letter describing travel in Greece, 1897. |
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Homestead Plantation (Plaquemine, La.) |
| Brief history by Anna Gay McClung |
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Hunting--Louisiana--Plaquemine. | 1862 | Report of hunting deer during flood. |
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Ida Henry (Steamer) | undated | Letter describing trip up the Mississippi River |
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James Howard (Steamer) | 1871 | James Howard (Steamer) |
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Levees--Louisiana--Plaquemine. | 1862 | Report of levees breaking, description of life during the flood. |
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Live Oaks Plantation (Rosedale, La.) |
| Brief history of the plantation |
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Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Occupied territories. | 1862-1864, undated | Letters mentioning presence of Federal gunboats near Plaquemine, discussing wisdom of not offering resistance to the Yankees, describing social life during wartime. |
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Louisiana--Social life and customs. | 1861-1954, undated | Letters and other papers reflecting social life of plantation family during and after the Civil War, and through the first half of the twentieth century. |
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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) | 1870 | Letter commenting on effect on social life of location of college in Baton Rouge, Feb. 5. |
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Missionaries--China. | 1868-1871 | Letters from a Protestant missionary in China, describing experiences and hardships. (Elias B. Inslee Letters) |
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Mowing machines--Louisiana. | 1867 | Letter commenting on problems of using mowing machines in the South because of tough weeds and lack of mechanical ability of freedmen, Oct. 15. |
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Plantation owners--Louisiana--Plaquemine. | 1867 | Letters and other papers reflecting activities of a sugar planter in Plaquemine. |
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Port Hudson (La.)--History--Siege, 1863. | 1863 | Description of sounds of gunfire heard in Plaquemine. |
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Retreat Plantation (La.) |
| Brief history of the plantation
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Ridgefield Plantation (Plaquemine, La.) | undated | Brief history by Anna Gay McClung |
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School notebooks--Louisiana. | 1860, 1862 | Notebooks of student essays and other projects (Mary A. Dickinson Notebooks) |
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Shady Grove Plantation (Grosse Tete, La.) |
| Brief history of the plantation |
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Ship Island (Miss.)--History, Military--19th century. | 1864, undated | Letters of a Confederate officer describing experience as a prisoner in Federal prison. |
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Smallpox--Louisiana--Donaldsonville. | 1864 | Report of epidemic, May 27 |
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St. Louis Plantation (La.) | 1936 | Brief history by Anna Gay McClung |
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Steamboats. | 1866 | Letter commenting on discomfort and slowness of “screw steamers” to Europe, Feb. 20. |
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Stradler (Steamer) | 1866 | Description of trip from Baton Rouge to Cairo, Illinois, May 3. |
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Sugar workers--Louisiana. | 1870 | Letter telling of use of hired Swedish and Chinese laborers on sugar plantations, Oct. 29. |
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Sugarcane--Louisiana--Plaquemine. | 1866-1900 | Letters and other papers reflecting the activities of a sugar planter |
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American. | undated | Letter describing Federal use of African American troops as occupation forces. |
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Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel. | 1885-1886 | Diary of young girl visiting Washington, D. C., recording social life, visits to tourist attractions, White House receptions; Diary describing social life, wedding of President Grover Cleveland, White House receptions, and monuments. |
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Wisconsin--Description and travel. | 1890-1898 | Recording vacation trips in Canada, Wisconsin, and California |
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Yellow fever--Louisiana--Plaquemine. | 1867 | Letters commenting on epidemic and its effect on the community, Oct. 21, 25; Nov. 8. |
Container List
Stack Location |
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Y:82 | 1 | 1-8 | Correspondence (1860-1954, undated) |
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| 9 | Elias B. Inslee Letters (1868-1871, undated) |
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| 10 | Mary Dickinson Gay Writings (undated) |
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| 11-15 | Miscellaneous Drawings, Cards, Photographs, and Clippings (1864-1865, 1926-1957, undated) |
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G:17 | -- | -- | Autograph Album (1886) |
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| -- | -- | 4 volumes: Anna Maria Gay Diaries (1885-1898) |
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| -- | -- | Anna Gay McClung Passport (1934) |
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| -- | -- | Anna Gay McClung Scrapbook (1911-1952) |
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| -- | -- | 2 volumes: Mary A. Dickinson Notebooks (1860, 1862) |
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OS:G | -- | 20-21 | Oversize Items (1904, 1931) |
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MF:5750, Series E |
| Reels 11-12 | 2 microfilm reels (11 and 12) containing Andrew Hynes Gay and Family Papers (1857-1957, undated) |
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