INTRODUCTION

This guide describes manuscript collections documenting plantation society and economy in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC) at LSU. The plantation records and personal papers of planters, factors, merchants, and others whose livelihood came from plantations provide a wealth of documentation supporting research in plantation economy, slavery, and the social history of Southern landholding elites.

The collections described below touch upon all facets of plantation life. They include the papers of tutors, preachers, lawyers, and doctors who provided services to planters. They include the letters of Northerners who visited plantations in the antebellum period and wrote home about them, and those of Union soldiers who marched past plantations and sometimes plundered them. While the majority of collections are from the prewar years, there are substantial holdings on postbellum plantations as well. The sugar and cotton plantation records in LLMVC are among its most noteworthy and famed collections, and among the earliest collections that LSU acquired.

Collections in this guide are listed alphabetically, with a chronological index after the alphabetical listing. Brief descriptions include references to sources for additional information--either the LSU Libraries' catalog, which is accessible through the Internet, or the manuscript card catalog in the Special Collections reading room of Hill Memorial Library. Still additional information on some of these collections can be found in detailed finding aids in the reading room. Increasingly, electronic copies of these finding aids can be found on the World Wide Web site for Special Collections, where you can also find information about using the collections, searching the online catalog remotely, and asking us questions.

July 31, 1998 

A. Ledoux and Company. Record book, 1856-1857. 1 vol. (110 pages). Location: W:53. Plantation record book kept by Samuel Leigh and Lewis F. Pulliam, overseers of the sugar plantation owned by A. Ledoux and Company, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 9. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 964. HTML | PDF

Abraham Bell & Co. Letters and receipts, 1841-1844. 5 items. Location: Misc:A. Quaker-owned shipping merchant company of New York City, with business interests in New Orleans. Two receipts document cotton purchased in New Orleans for Abraham Bell & Co. One letter discusses American and English cotton and freight prices, and social matters. A bill of lading and a letter document the shipment of personal goods from New York. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4675.

Account book, 1796-1799. 1 ms. vol., 1 mf reel. Location: Vault, Mss.Mf:A. New Orleans merchant. Account book recording names and accounts of customers. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1054.

Acy, William, b. 1822. Papers, 1844-1909. 2 linear ft. (655 items; 18 ms. vols., 39 printed vols.). Location: E:1-2, F:1. Justice of the Peace in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and plantation owner in Carroll County, Mississippi. Personal, legal, and financial papers; personal letters concern mainly relatives and friends in Baltimore, Maryland. Papers also include photographs, newspapers, and other printed items. Collection includes letters on legal matters from Francis T. Nicholls, governor of Louisiana and chief justice of the state Supreme Court. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 717, 722. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. Papers, 1807-1876 (bulk 1842-1868). 12 linear feet, 43 mss. volumes, 6 printed volumes. Location: W:110-121, J:25, OS:A. Native of Scotland who established one of the first commercial nurseries in the South and published widely on scientific and agricultural subjects. He also published the Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation Garden Calendar from 1845 to the 1860s. Early papers concern Affleck's family in Scotland. Papers from 1842 to 1859 pertain to the management of Affleck's wife's plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, his commercial nursery, and his service as agricultural editor of several newspapers. Civil War letters by Affleck's sons describe battles, camp life, and troop movements. Post-Civil War papers describe Affleck's agricultural and speculative enterprises. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3, 4, 1110, 1263, 1264. Complete Finding Aid HTML | PDF

Alabama cotton sales and shipping statements collection, 1834-1927. 53 items. Location: Misc:A. Collection consisting of statements from cotton factors of Mobile, Alabama, which show freight and related charges for handling and commissions. Included are waybills for the steamers Magnolia, Lucy E. Gastrell, Hard Cash, and Nettie Quill. Also included is a manifest for the steamer Peri. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1717.

Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866. Letter and related photograph, 1864 July 6. 2 items. Location: Misc:A. Lawyer of Mississippi who served in both the Mississippi and Louisiana legislatures. Allen served in the 4th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War and was Confederate governor of Louisiana in 1864. Letter from Allen to William F. Lockwood, keeper of machinery of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, authorizes Lockwood to loan penitentiary looms to cotton planters in eastern Louisiana and includes instructions for loaning the looms. Included is a photograph of Lockwood. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2867.

Allendale plantation records. 11 ms. vols. Location: Range 50. Mss. 3824.

Allyn, William B. Letter, 1862 November 25. 1 item. Location: Misc:A. Federal officer serving in Louisiana during the Civil War. Written from Camp Stevens, near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Allyn's letter describes the surrounding countryside, federal policy toward captured Confederate sugar, and social relations with local planters. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2941.

Alston, Solomon. Estate document, 1809 April 27. 1 item. Location: C:61. FPlanter of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Document manumitting a slave according to a clause in Alston's will. or further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Anderson McNutt estate, 1868-1895. 42 items. Location: 32. Planter of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and brother of Mississippi governor A. G. McNutt. Records of the disposition of McNutt's estate describe the founding of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and early Mississippi politicians; family history; and economic and political difficulties of Reconstruction. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4187.

Anderson, Harrod C. (Harrod Clopton). Papers, 1849-1888 (bulk 1885-1887). 7 items, 3 ms. vols. Location: Mf:A, F:1, Misc:A. Planter of Magnolia, Haywood County, Tennessee. Papers include a cashbook, photoprints, and diaries which discuss opinions on philosophical, religious, political, and Civil War issues. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 20. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 8, 490, 539.

Andrew Jackson account, ca. 1840, n.d. 1 item. Location: Misc. President of the United States, 1828-1836. Anonymous manuscript apparently submitted to a periodical for publication describes a visit to Jackson's Tennessee home, the Hermitage. The writer discusses the location and appearance of the plantation and Jackson's health, interests, and family. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. Account. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3212.

Andry, M. T. (Michel Thomassin), 1811-ca. 1871. Family Papers, 1840-1882 (bulk 1858-1879).0.3 linear ft. (199 items). Location: UU:66. Sugar planter of St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes, Louisiana, and resident of New Orleans. Collection includes correspondence and legal and financial papers. Letters received by Andry's daughter Rosa from his sons describe their participation in the Battle of Shiloh, campaigns in Kentucky, and skirmishes at Camp Beauregard in the Civil War. Partly in French. Available on microfilm 5735: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 1. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1318. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF.

Anonymous cashbooks, 1876-1902. 3 ms. vols. Location: F:2. Accounts for a general store in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Entries list the names of many of the prominent planters in the area and include some plantation records. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 848.

Anonymous Civil War letter, 1863 April 13. 1 item (4 pages). Location: Misc. Union soldier's letter from Baton Rouge to his sister Ann relating details of his present situation and his impression of the local population, of Baton Rouge, and of nearby plantations. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3309.

Anonymous Confederate civilian letters, 1863 August 27 and 29. 2 items. Location: Misc. Pages from a letter-diary of a plantation owner, possibly the wife of a Confederate soldier, recording daily activities, local news, plantation work, and slave health. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2997.

Anonymous diary, 1858-1860. Mss. 3504. See LeBret Diary.

Anonymous letter, 1807. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter from a Natchez, Mississippi, planter to a brother living in the East, outlining the favorable economic conditions for plantation owners in the Natchez area. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1658.

Anonymous Planter Ledger, 1848-1849. 1 vol. Location: Misc.:Anon. Plantation ledger, possibly kept by Abraham Lobdell, a West Baton Rouge Parish, La. planter. Ledger records payments for services, goods, and taxes on land. Included are entries recording slave births and deaths, medical bills, gifts to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and goods sold to slaves on credit. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2905.

Anonymous Port Hudson journal, 1838-1839. 1 vol. Location: G:2. Journal for a general merchandise and cotton firm of Port Hudson, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1100.

Arceneaux, Alexander. Papers, 1839-1895, n.d. 133 items. Location: C:68. Cotton planter of Port Barre, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, along with his son-in-law, Louis Fuselier. Papers consist of receipts for parish and state taxes, medical services, food supplies, and for recording brands for cattle. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1319.

Ashland Plantation record book, 1852. 1 vol. Location: M:19. W. C. Wade was an overseer of Ashland Plantation, Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Ashland Plantation was owned by the sugar planter and politician, Duncan Farrar Kenner (1813-1887). Record book containing daily entries which describe activities on Ashland Plantation. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 534.

Ashton Plantation auction broadside, 1859 December 8. 1 item. Location: Microfilm 5322. Cotton plantation in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, consisting of 1,800 acres on Bayou Macon and the Mississippi River. It was owned by Dr. William Webb Wilkins until his death (ca. 1859) after which it was auctioned to help settle his succession. Broadside printed to advertise the public auction of Ashton Plantation, which was ordered by the Fourth Judicial Court of St. James Parish, where Wilkins' estate was probably settled. The item briefly describes the real and personal property to be sold. Also listed on the broadside to be sold are 98 slaves and their ages. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3729.

Avart, Valentine Robert. Document, 1806. 1 item. Location: Misc. Sale (notarized copy) of a plantation by V. Robert Avart to Lancelot Pearson at public auction. The plantation near New Orleans was given to receivers by its former owner, Charles Latours. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 18.

Bacon, Edmund, 1776-1826. Letters, 1802-1820. 14 items. Location: B:16. Virginia native, lawyer, and cotton planter educated in Augusta, Georgia, and Litchfield, Connecticut. He settled in Savannah, then moved to Edgefield, South Carolina. Letters to Bacon's sister Agnes and her husband Colonel Joseph Pannill of Loftus Heights, Mississippi, pertaining to legal, business, and agricultural matters; family and local news; difficulties with Creek Indians in the area; and travel. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2178.

Badin, Norbert, d. 1903. Papers, 1829-1937 (bulk 1870-1890). 695 items, 3 ms. vols., 57 printed vols. Location: U:97-98, OS:B. Free African American planter from the Cane River settlement of Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, an area that was home to a large community of freedmen. Personal and business papers document Badin's activities as a planter, and include family correspondence, a journal, an account book, and miscellaneous printed items. Some items in French and Spanish. Available on microfilm 6061: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 1. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 825. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Badley Family papers, 1834-1940, undated (bulk: 1845-1865). 0.3 linear feet. Location: W:2, OS:B, F:2. Badley family, plantation owners in Port Hudson and East Baton Rouge Parish. Personal papers and printed items document their plantations, landholding, and political and professional activities. Works Progress Administration manuscripts collection notes and botanical specimen books are also present. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3062. Complete Finding Aid. PDF

Bagatelle Plantation cotton record book, 1879. 1 ms. vol. Location: H:20. Plantation owned by Benjamin Tureaud. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 19.

Bailey, Albert. Account books, 1838-1847. 11 vols. Location: G:2. General merchant and cotton buyer of Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Cashbooks, daybooks, a journal, ledgers, and a record book record Bailey's accounts. Also recorded are accounts of the Clinton Artillery Company and the newspaper Feliciana Whig. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1100.

Baines, Henry. Papers, 1796-1905. .6 linear ft. Location: C:55, 65. Planter of Bains, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and a member of London's Royal College of Surgeons. Baines was related to the McDermott and Maynard families. Collection contains papers and letters of the Baines, McDermott, and Maynard families related to the cotton trade, medical education, the Civil War, and financial dealings. Includes a Spanish land grant of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 1. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1209. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Baker, Sarah. Oral history interview, 1974. 2 sound cassettes. Location: L:4700.2. Sarah Baker was born and raised on the Magee Plantation in Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and was 113 years old when the interview was done. Interview discusses plantation life and the end of the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.2.

Baldwin & Co. Records, 1879-1928. 7 vols. Location: G:22. Plantation store of Old Johnson Plantation in Baldwin, Louisiana. Ledgers, receipt book, payroll accounts, and records of cane produced for John Baldwin and Baldwin & Co. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4597.Complete finding aid.

Balmer Plantation account, 1778-1782. 1 item (13 pages). Location: Misc. Indigo plantation located at Mirebalois, Haiti. Receipts and expenditures made by the manager of the plantation, and prepared by the firm of J. M. Leremboure, Lassale, and Company, representatives of Mr. Balmer on the island. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2270.

Bannon, Lois Elmer. Research papers, ca. 1983. .5 linear ft. (115 items). Location: U:154, Misc:B. Papers pertaining to the history, structure, and National Register nomination of Magnolia Mound Plantation and the history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, both in Baton Rouge. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2810.

Barbier, Charles. Correspondence, 1806-1831. 11 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc:B. Planter in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Letters discuss family matters, planting conditions in Lafourche and Assumption parishes, and social and economic conditions in France. In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2831.

Barrow, Abram Feltus, 1868-1928. Family Papers, 1804-1982.6 linear ft. Location: 7:60-62, G:11, OS:B, Vault:1, 36. The Barrow family moved to Nuevo Feliciana (now in Louisiana) in 1799 and built several plantation houses there. Papers document the business interests of the Barrow family and their involvement with various fraternal orders. Records of the People's Bank, St. Francisville, and the Creole Oil and Mineral Co. reflect the involvement of the Barrow and Leake families. Photographs depict family members and fraternal gatherings. Also included are records of St. John's Church, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3696, 3745. Complete finding aid. Complete finding aid. | PDF.

Barrow, Bartholomew, 1836-1869. Family collection of sheet music, 1848-1891 (bulk 1861-1874). 4 items, 3 vols. Location: 65:. Planter of Eldorado Plantation, a sugar plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Collection of bound and loose vocal and piano sheet music collected by Barrow and his family. Some compositions in French, German, and Italian. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1379.

Barrow, Bennett H., 1811-1854. Diary, 1833-1846. 1 microfilm reel, 1 typed transcript. Location: W:24. Owner of Highland Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Diary records daily activities on the plantation, weather conditions, relations with slaves, and personal activities and attitudes. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2978.

Barrow, W. M. Family Papers, 1847-1874, n.d. 24 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: U:7. St. Francisville, Louisiana, merchant. Letters by Willie Macajah Barrow (1810-1853) and Civil War diary and letters of his son, Willie Macajah Barrow (1843-1863) reflecting economic and family life on a plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reel 6. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 574.

Bass-Farrar Family Papers, 1829-1917 (bulk: 1829-1843; 1858-1867) 285 items. Location: R:41. Papers of the Bass, Farrar, and Richardson families from Tensas Parish, La., and vicinity. Includes material on family matters, personal and professional activities, maintenance and overseeing of cotton plantations before and after the Civil War, life along the Mississippi River, life in Civil War Louisiana, and slavery. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4907. Complete finding aid.

Batchelor, Albert A. (Albert Agrippa), 1845-1905. Papers, 1852-1930 (bulk 1870-1900). 15 linear ft. Location: S:143. Planter, Louisiana legislator, and physician of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence, diaries, and account books documenting plantation management and schools in Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi (including Oakland College near Rodney, Jefferson County, Mississippi) before and during the Civil War. Collection also documents Confederate military service and civilian life during the Civil War. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 5, Reels 1-15, or Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series B, Reels 1-2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 919. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Batchelor, Ruth Ker, 1895 or 6-1977. Batchelor-Nutt collection, 1835-1960. 24 items, 2 vols. Location: Misc:B, F:16. James Batchelor was a planter and legislator of Amite County, Mississippi. Rushwell Nutt, his father-in-law, of Laurel Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, was a planter, physician, scientist, and world traveler. Collection includes papers, photographs, and ephemera of the Nutt and Batchelor families and the Davenport family of Louisiana. Letters include local and family news, and one letter describes teaching in Texas schools. Included are trade card scrapbooks of 19th century companies, and an article (1960) on Beech Grove Plantation in Amite County, Mississippi. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3018.

Bateman, Mannah W. Family Papers, 1840-1879. 439 items on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:B. Louisiana planter of Avalon Plantation. Correspondence, receipts, legal papers, and other items related to Mannah W. Bateman and family, and to their management of Avalon. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3332.

Bateman, Mary. Diary, 1856. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:19, TC. Young girl living with relatives at Argyle Plantation, near Greenville, Mississippi. Diary gives personal observations of local plantation social life. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 661.

Bayou Attanobe land grant, 1828. 1 item. Location: Impr. Official printed pamphlet giving the report of The Committee on Public Lands...on the case of Ebenezer Cooley; a land dispute concerning a plot on the Mississippi River in Louisiana settled as an indigo plantation in 1767. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3365.

Beauregard, Rene Toutant. Recollections, n.d. 1 item [typewritten copy]. Location: U:14. Son of General P. G. T. Beauregard. Typescript of Magnolia, by Rene Beauregard, telling of family life at 'Magnolia,' the plantation home of his grandfather, Jules Villere, and some criticism of General Beauregard's military and civilian life. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 787.

Beech Grove Plantation house photograph.  1 item. Location: 32:81. Mss. 4048.

Bell and Company. Papers, 1835, 1836. 2 items. Location: Misc. Cotton broker of New York City. Letters from factors at Petersburg, Virginia, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, regarding the cotton market and amount of cotton expected from Tennessee and North Alabama. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2356.

Belmont Plantation scrip, n.d. 8 items. Location: Misc. Plantation in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Scrip money used in exchange for merchandise at the plantation store. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2584.

Bennett, Ezra. Family Papers, 1818-1881. 217 items on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:B. Planter and storekeeper of Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Papers include letters written from Port Hudson and Camp Pratt, Louisiana, during the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2896.

Bennett, George W. Business records, 1858-1917. ca. 5000 items and 202 vols. Location: O:6-13, 127:10, 128:10. General merchant and cotton buyer and dealer in Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana; postmaster at Bennettville; and operator of a cotton and sugar cane plantation and plantation store at Theoda Plantation, Rapides Parish. Papers include correspondence, ledgers, daybooks, journals, receipts, leases, agreements, labor contracts with freedmen, invoice books, record books, stock inventories, and other items relating to Bennett's commercial interests. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1010.

Benson Family Papers, 1775-1967, n.d. 447 items, 4 ms. vols., 4 printed vols., microfilm., 25 enlargement prints. Location: Mf., OS:B. Cotton planters of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Letters, documents, and plantation diaries reflect plantation economy, the administration of secondary schools, the history and administration of the Baptist Church, and civilian and military participation in the Civil War. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2424.

Benson Family Papers, 1784-1969, n.d. 2,231 items, 18 ms. vols., 1 printed vol. Location: Mf. Cotton planters of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Business papers, letters, and documents reflect plantation economy in Alabama and Louisiana, social life, and schools. Papers include cotton factors' letters, receipts and statements, blacksmiths' bills, and letters from Confederate soldiers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2440.

Berbice Colony slave records, 1826-1827. 3 items, 1 microfilm reel. Location: OS:B, Mss.Mf:B. Deed of arrangement between owners of three sugar plantations in Berbice (Guyana), and lists of slaves attached to the plantations as of October 20, 1826, citing names, ages, employment, places of birth, and distinguishing marks. Also listed are children born to slave mothers on the plantations (1819-1826) with names, dates of birth, ages, and names of mothers noted. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2934.

Bertrand, Charles, Jr. Papers, 1866-1928. 728 items, 38 ms. vols. and 1 printed vol. Location: UU:141, H:14. Planter of Cloutierville, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Business papers and records of Charles Bertrand, Jr., and family documents (1676-1884) of members of the family in Couches-les-Mines, France. Partly in French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 840, 867, 978.

Bienvenue Family Papers, 1779-1907, n.d. 143 items. Location: E:19. Planters of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, and New Orleans. Business papers of Alexandre Devince Bienvenue and Pierre Armand Bienvenue largely concern land ownership and sales in the Attakapas region, St. Martin Parish and New Orleans. Collection also includes family letters and genealogical papers. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2604.

Bills, John H. Family Papers, 1825-1880 (bulk 1855-1861). .15 linear ft. (103 items). Location: A:17. Postmaster, merchant, and major of Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, who also owned a plantation on Bayou Bartholomew, Louisiana. Bills was the father-in-law of Tennessee and Louisiana legislator Horace M. Polk. Personal and business letters discuss lands in Arkansas, dealings with factors, the cotton trade, national and Louisiana state politics, the Democratic Party, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh, and slave customs and behavior. Correspondents include Daniel Graham, James Walker, and Horace M. Polk. Additional items consist of statements of accounts, receipts, and bills of lading. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2075.

Bisland, John. Family Papers, 1767-1884 (bulk 1773-1855). 1.187 items and 12 ms. vols. Location: U:241-242. Scottish immigrant, storekeeper, and planter who came to Adams County, Mississippi, from North Carolina. Collection includes personal and business papers of John Bisland, Sr., and his sons Peter, James, Alexander, John, and William, relating to the establishment and development of Bisland plantations near Natchez, Mississippi, and mercantile enterprises. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 6-8. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 29.

Blanche, Alexander, 1833-1908. Papers, 1851-1914. 81 items (includes 2 vols.). Location: W:48, Vault. Cotton planter of Marydale Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Blanche employed or subleased Louisiana State Penitentiary convicts from S. L. James, who leased prisoners directly from the state. Antebellum plantation diary contains notes about cotton farming; slave labor and health; weather; medical remedies; and other plantation affairs. Papers consist of correspondence, tax and payroll receipts, account sheets, and receipts for prisoners. Letters to Blanche from S. L. James include information on plantation supplies and prison laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 11, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Reel 14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3342. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Blount, W. M. Account book, 1817-1860. 1 vol. Location: H:14. Record of payment to Blount in settlement of William Pitt Higbee's estate and account. Also recorded are the accounts of Mrs. Amelia Gradinego, Daniel Zeringue, members of the Close family, and others of Petit Bois, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Entries include commodity prices, prices of slaves, taxes, cost of schooling, wages for a laborer, and other expenses incurred by local planters. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 177.

Bond, Priscilla Munnikhuysen, 1838-1869. Papers, 1858-1866. .7 linear ft. (98 items, 3 ms. vols.). Location: B:15. Resident of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to which she had moved with her parents from Maryland. Priscilla married Howard Bond; she had no children. Two diaries record Bond's daily activities and observations. Subjects covered include plantation life, runaway slaves, social engagements, hypnotism, and Civil War experiences and thoughts, including participation by African American soldiers. Collection also includes correspondence, poems, and photographs. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 33. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2155. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Boney, Richard K. (Richard Kinsey), 1855-1937. Papers and diaries, 1866-1884. 18 items ( on 1 microfilm reel). Location: Mss.Mf:B. Lawyer and planter of Duckport Plantation, Madison Parish, Louisiana. Diaries record student life at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington; social life in Virginia and Vicksburg, Mississippi; and legal studies at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), New Orleans. Included are miscellaneous papers and photographs of Boney. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3041.

Bonner, Samuel C. Family Papers, 1772-1886 (bulk 1808-1886). 172 items. Location: UU:111. Cotton planter of Pickens County, Alabohe son-in-law of William A. Powell of Mount Flat Plantation, Red River Parish. Plantation records, business papers, and personal correspondence of the William A. Powell family; and similar papers and store ledgers of Hubbard S. Bosley and members of the Bosley family. Included are materials relating to the Civil War. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 19. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 963.

Bordelon, Leonce P., Diaries, 1876-1931, 2005. 15 v. Location: J:28. Avoyelles Parish, La., planter. Diaries of Leonce P. Bordelon reflect Louisiana plantation life on rural Avoyelles Parish during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Entries pertain primarily to plantation operations, the effects of climate on those operations, social activities, health and local elections. Some entries in French. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4952. Complete finding aid.

Bosley, Hubbard S. Papers, 1825-1947 (1850-1880). 10 linear ft., 39 vols. Location: C:1-5, O:1, 98:B, OS:B, Planter of Red River Parish, Louisiana, son-in-law of William A. Powell of Caddo Parish, Plantation records, business papers, and personal correspondence of Hubbard S. Bosley, William A. Powell and families. Included are materials relating to the Civil War. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 19, and microfilm 6061: Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration. Series B, Part 2, reels 12-13. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 963.Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Boucry Family Papers, 1814-1884, 1910 (bulk 1830-1884).6 items, 3 vols. Location: 77:88, Mss. Mf.:B.Sugar planters of Bonne Esperance Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Papers include record books of Helene Boucry containing financial and genealogical information about the Boucry, Bonnecaze, Webre, and related families. Partly in French. Available on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 8. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 790, 800. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Boucry, Hélène. Family record books and Papers, 1830-1910 (bulk 1830-1884). 9 items, including 3 vols.; vols. 2-3 also available on microfilm. Location: 77:88, Mss Mf:B. Sugar planters of Bonne Esperance Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Papers include record books of Hélène Boucry containing financial and genealogical information about the Boucry, Bonnecaze, Webre, and other related families. Partly in French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 790, 800.Complete finding aid.

Boudreaux, Maximilien E. Family Papers, 1856-1927 (bulk 1866-1905). .4 linear ft. (78 items, 15 ms. vols., 1 printed vol.). Location: E:41. Sugar planter in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Boudreaux and his son Rene may have practiced tenant farming in the 1890s. Papers pertain largely to the cultivation and sale of sugar cane and the purchase of merchandise, and include correspondence, cashbooks, time books, a letterbook, and a memorandum book containing genealogical information. Some items in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 15. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1099. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Bowling, L. Cotton Record Book, 1856. 1 vol. Location: M:18. Probably a clerk in a New Orleans cotton factor's office. Record book kept by Bowling lists the number of bales of cotton received, the names of steamers and railroads transporting the cottong, and the places of origin of the cotton. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1351.

Bowman, James P. Family Papers, 1806-1926. 2615 items; 100 ms. vols., 6 printed vols. Location: B:19-24; J:18-19:OS:B. Planter of Rosedown Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana. Records and papers documenting the administration of Rosedown. Includes papers of William R. Bowman, Episcopal clergyman; and of James P. Bowman, Robert H. Barrow, Eliza Bowman Lyons, Catharine Rucker Turnbull, and Daniel Turnbull. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 8-19. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1372, 1382.

Bradford, David, d.1816?. Family Papers, 1798-1882 (bulk 1833-1838). 50 items. Location: U:120. Planter of the Myrtles Plantation, Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers include Spanish land grants, surveys, plats, conveyances, appraisals, and mortgages for land owned by David Bradford and family, chiefly in West Feliciana and East Baton Rouge parishes. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 735.

Bradford, David, d.1816?. Letters, 1798-1805. 25 items [typescripts]. Location: H:16, U:120. Planter of the Myrtles Plantation, Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Photocopies of letters written to David Redick of Pennsylvania relate to the settlement of Bradford's debts, the disposition of his property in Pennsylvania, and economic and political matters in Spanish West Florida. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 855.

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Letter, 1856. 1 item. Location: Misc. Confederate general in command of the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. Letter to Bragg's wife describes Bivouac, a 2000-acre plantation three miles from Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, which he had just purchased. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2025.

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Letter, 1875. 1 item. Location: Misc. Confederate general in command of the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. In reply to a request for biographical information, Bragg discusses his situation as a sugar planter in Louisiana at the beginning of the Civil War; laments the wartime misfortunes of his 'happy and contented' slaves; and describes his military career. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Bragg, Braxton. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2537.

Braintree Manufacturing Company. Correspondence, 1844-1845. 7 items. Location: Misc. Located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Letters to Jonathon Cushing, agent for the Braintree Manufacturing Company, from Washington Jackson and Company, New Orleans factors. Letters concern the sale and delivery of cotton gins. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1404, 1417.

Bray, John A. Papers, 1838-1856. 4 items. Location: Misc:B. Cotton planter of 'Cotile,' Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Items include a bill for goods bought by Bray and for freight shipped aboard the steamboat Louisiana; a statement by New Orleans cotton factor A. Miltenberger recording Bray's sale of cotton; and a letter concerning the hire of a 'boy.'. Included is a copy of a deed to land and slaves in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Brees, Ray. Photographs, 1959-1960. 37 items. Location: E:Pict. Coll. Photographs from 1959 and 1960 capture scenes from plantation homes, as well as buildings and streets of New Orleans. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 0236.

Brent, Joseph Lancaster, 1826-1905. Papers, 1869-1940 (bulk 1869-1904, 1926-1940). 12 vols., 55 items. Location:U:244-246, U:114. Maryland native who married Rosella Kenner, the daughter of prominent Louisiana planter and politician Duncan Kenner, in 1870. He administered her father's plantations in Louisiana until Kenner's death. Recipes, household hints, New Orleans trade cards, and newspaper clippings. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reel 15. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1477, 1822. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Brent, Rosella Kenner, 1849-1928. Papers, 1902-1915. .1 linear ft. Location: U:210. Daughter of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, planter and politician Duncan Farrar Kenner and wife of Confederate brigadier general Joseph F. Brent. Two narratives of Brent's recollections of Ashland Plantation, including a sketch of slave Henry Hammond. She also recounts an 1862 incident in which her father escaped to Bayou Lafourche upon learning that Union troops were coming to arrest him. Three letters pertain to Rosella Kenner Brent's husband, Brigadier General Joseph L. Brent, C.S.A. A 1910 letter describes General Brent's service in the Confederate army. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reel 14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1167, 1822.

Bringier, Louis Amadee, 1827-1897. Papers, 1786-1901. 599 items and 14 vols. Location: T:96-97, F:9, OS:8, Mf. Planter of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and Confederate officer. Bringier served as commander of the 4th Louisiana Cavalry and the 7th Louisiana Regiment in the Civil War. Papers include correspondence, business papers, military orders and communications, records relating to the administration of Hermitage Plantation in Ascension Parish and Houmas, Burnside, and Bagatelle plantations. Collection includes a letter (1862) telling of a woman killing a federal soldier in New Orleans; also includes papers (1786-1825) relating to the Augustin M. Tureaud family. Some items in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reels 1-2, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 1, Reel 13. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 43, 139, 544. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Britton & Koontz. Records, 1824-1899 (bulk 1838-1858). 569 items, 7 vols. Location: U:18-19, F:9. Banking house in Natchez, Mississippi, operated by Audley Clark Britton, also a plantation owner, and by George W. Koontz. Collection includes records related to the Commercial Bank of Natchez. Other items relate to Britton & Koontz banking activities and to personal bills and receipts of the Britton family. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 747.

Britton, A. C. (Audley Clark), 1822-1894. Family Papers, 1830-1929. 1,760 items, 14 ms. vols. Location: S:119, O:16, OS:B. Banker and planter of Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include letters and descriptions of the family, plantation, and social lives in Natchez and documents specific to Britton's business activities. Miscellaneous items include photographs, autographs, poems, ledgers, and genealogies. Included are two letters to Eliza Britton written by Mrs. Jefferson (Varina Howells) Davis. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 1. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1403, 1710. Complete Finding Aid. HTML| PDF

Brooks, F. M. Bills, 1870, 1882, 1883. 3 items. Location: Misc. Dr. F. M. Brooks, plantation and retail druggist of Baton Rouge. Bills from Dr. Brooks. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2555.

Brown, W. D. Account books, 1913-1921. 7 vols. Location: F:15. Owner or agent of Gossypia Plantation. Records for the plantation kept by Brown covering cotton ginning and crop records, pay roll, cash accounts, and merchandise. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 45.

Bruce, Seddon, and Wilkins plantation partnership records, 1741-1865 (bulk 1847-1854). 607 items, 6 ms. vols. Location: S:124-125, J:20. William Webb Wilkins, James Coles Bruce, and James Alexander Seddon, partners in the ownership of sugar and cotton plantations, a saw mill, and a cooper's shop in Saint James Parish and Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Papers include legal documents, bills and receipts, correspondence, and manuscript volumes related to plantation operations and slave matters. Included are photocopies of a Union Army-issued circular and broadsides regarding slave employment and the subsistence of federal troops. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reels 9-10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2668.Complete finding aid.

Brusle, Charles A. Diary, 1861 July-September. 1 ms. vol. Location: Safe:2. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana; and Confederate army officer; state senator and representative; tax collector; and sheriff. Brusle's diary contains an account of his trip to the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, to muster a regiment of Creeks into the military service of the Confederacy under orders from General Benjamin McCulloch. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1627.

Brusle, Charles A. Papers, 1854-1905. 32 items (includes 3 vols.). Location: U:20, F:11. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana; and Confederate army officer; state senator and representative; tax collector; and sheriff. Papers include diaries, a record book, and a scrapbook, primarily concerning Brusle's activities in the Civil War and in politics. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 3. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 558, 1605, 1627.

Buhler, John Christian, 1789-1866. Family Papers, 1805-1952 (bulk 1824-1931). 437 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: C:49, Map case. Planter of Winters Plantation in Buhler's Plains near Baton Rouge. Collection includes family correspondence, chiefly of John Christian Buhler, John Robert Buhler, Mary Edith Buhler, Hester S. Simmons, and Jane (Jennie) Gillespie Buhler. Letters concern politics, notable persons, and social and economic conditions. Financial documents include a copy of an act of sale (1852) of a parcel of land by John Buhler and his wife to the town of Baton Rouge, now the site of Magnolia Cemetery. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1192, 1210, 1238, 1311.

Buhler, John Robert, 1829-1886. Papers, 1843-1914. 6 ms. vols. Location: H:17. John Robert Buhler was the son of John Christian Buhler, a planter of Buhler's Plains near Baton Rouge. After his marriage to Mary Reynolds, they lived at Independence Plantation, home of his grandparents, the Smiths, near Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include three volumes of a diary containing entries (1847-1849) reflecting family and social life on Independence Plantation and providing information on events in and around Natchez, Mississippi, and Baton Rouge. Includes another diary containing manuscript poems (1881-1914) by Mary Edith Buhler, an autograph book, and a notebook containing poems by Buhler. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1311.

Buhler, M. E. (Mary Edith). Papers, 1881-1931. 985 items, 7 ms. vols., 8 printed vols. Location: C:50-51; H:17. Poet and journalist of Mount Independence Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, and resident of New Orleans and New York City; author of The Grass in the Pavement (1918). Papers consist of her manuscript and printed writings published in the New York Times and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and of materials relating to her family history and genealogy. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 1-4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1192, 1210, 1333. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Burden, Dan. Papers, 1860-1898. 8 items. Location: Misc. Resident of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Business and legal papers, including a probate court record relating to claims against the succession of Oscar Barber (1879) and copy of the lease of Myrtle Grove Plantation by Mary A. Pike to Dan Burden (1898). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 255.

Burden, Ione. Family Papers, 1815-1985.23 linear ft. Location: P:39-50, OS:B. LSU administrator and Baton Rouge philanthropist. Along with her brothers, Pike and Steele Burden, Ione Burden donated family land to establish the Burden Research Plantation and the LSU Rural Life Museum. Papers include correspondence, legal documents, financial papers, photographs, and scrapbooks of Ione Burden and her brothers. Collection documents Baton Rouge community events, family history, and Burden family philanthropic activities. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3063. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Burden, Steele. Oral history interview, 1978. Transcript (13 pages). Location: L:4700.4. Landscape architect, gardener, and founder of the Rural Life Museum at LSU. Interview discusses Burden's work with Edward Avery McIlhenny (1872-1949) and Avery Island, and Weeks Hall's garden plan. It also discusses the landscaping and construction of Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.4.

Burruss, John C. Family Papers, 1825-1882. 407 items. Location: C:56, Mf. Methodist minister of Virginia and planter of Woodville and Cliffwood Plantation, Pinckneyville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Correspondence and personal and business papers of Burruss, his children, and grandchildren. Included are papers of the family of Edward McGehee of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Papers relate to the Methodist church, family life, the Civil War, and slavery. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Butler Family Papers, 1663-1950. 16.5 linear ft. Location: S:2-S:8, OS:B, Vault. Cotton and sugar planters in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers include letters, personal papers, financial and legal documents, photographs, and printed items. Papers discuss the Civil War; plantation life; Thomas Butler's judicial and political career; and antebellum life in the Gulf South states. Included is correspondence from prominent Louisiana residents and others. Letters from Anna Butler who lived in the White House (1849-1850). Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reels 13-27. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1026. Complete finding aid.

Butler, Anna Elizabeth. Correspondence, 1838-1861. 1.5 linear ft. Location: S:23. Anna and Sarah Jane Duncan Butler were the daughters of Louisiana Judge Thomas Butler and Ann Butler. They lived at The Cottage in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville. Letters from friends and family reflect the social life and customs of antebellum Louisiana. Letters written by Anna and Sarah from home and during travels chronicle their social and private lives, describe local activities, and allude to national events. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reel 1. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 581. Complete finding aid.

Butler, Anna and Sarah. Correspondence, 1838-1861. 1.5 linear ft. Location: S:23. Anna and Sarah Jane Duncan Butler were the daughters of Louisiana Judge Thomas Butler and Ann Butler. They lived at The Cottage in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville. Letters from friends and family reflect the social life and customs of antebellum Louisiana. Letters written by Anna and Sarah from home and during travels chronicle their social and private lives, describe local activities, and allude to national events. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reel 1. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 581.Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Butler, Edward. Family papers, 1809-1950 (bulk 1904-1945). 10 linear ft. Location: U:282-290, M:19, OS:B. Cotton planter of West Feliciana Parish, La. Correspondence, personal papers, business records, printed material, and photographs reflect the personal activities and plantation operations of the Butler and related Mathews families, with a focus on Edward Butler and his immediate family. Noteworthy are two letters discussing a sick slave (Dec. 29, 1817) and runaway slaves (Aug. 15, 1835). Letters also discuss student life, World War II experiences, and malaria and yellow fever. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4315. Complete finding. PDF

Butler, James. Letter, 1804. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter addressed to the Duke of Ormonde, British ancestor of the Butler Family of The Cottage, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1537.

Butler, Margaret, 1821-1890. Correspondence, 1847-1880. .5 linear ft. Location: S:24. Daughter of Louisiana judge Thomas Butler and Ann Ellis Butler. She lived at the Cottage in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville. The Butlers were sugar and cotton planters. Letters from family and friends reflect the life of the Butler family in the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. Antebellum letters depict plantation life and religious life in the Episcopal church. Several family members served on the Confederate army and corresponded with Margaret, describing the life of army personnel. Later letters illustrate social and economic conditions after the war. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reel 2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1068.

Butler, Richard, 1777-1820. Papers, 1795-1899. 1.25 linear ft. Location: S:2, OS:B, Vault. Richard Butler, army officer and sugar planter, was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Colonel William Butler and Jane Carmichael of New Orleans. Papers include correspondence, financial papers, and plantation records. A diary describes Butler's travels from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Natchez, Mississippi, to deliver army dispatches. Included are two letters from Andrew Jackson to Butler. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reels 2-3. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1000, 1069. Complete finding aid. HTML| PDF

Butler, Robert Ormond. Papers, 1848-1888. 1.5 linear ft. Location: S:25-26, OS:B. Medical doctor in New Orleans and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, and sugar planter and molasses producer in Terrebonne Parish. Papers include correspondence, financial papers, legal documents, printed items, and photographs related to Butler's business and professional lives. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reels 3-4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1068.Complete finding aid.

Butler, Thomas W., 1842-1913. Papers, 1842-1910. 3766 items. Location: U:21-25, J:10, Mf. Owner of Cedars Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and properties in Arkansas. Personal correspondence, daybooks, ledgers, plantation diaries, and other business papers, of Butler and of his father, Richard Ellis Butler, planter of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Butler, Thomas W., 1851-1913. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 888.Complete finding aid.

Butler, Thomas W., 1842-1913. Papers, 1842-1913. 7 linear ft. Location: U:17-19, J:10. Planter of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers comprised of correspondence, plantation records, financial papers of Cedars Plantation and Butler's own personal and financial papers. Some materials relate to Le Carpe Plantation, owned by his father Richard Ellis Butler. Included are letters related to the higher education of Butler's children. Available on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reels 4-9. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 888. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Butler, Thomas, 1785-1847. Family Papers, 1663, 1793-1950 (bulk 1820-1920), n.d. 8,333 items, 53 ms. vols., and 74 printed vols. Location: F:16, OS:B, Mf., 65:B. Judge of the Louisiana Third District Court. Butler owned plantations in West Feliciana and Terrebonne Parishes. Papers include letters from public officials, friends, and family and correspondence and business papers relative to the management of Butler's plantations and to accounts and civil cases handled by Butler for merchants in Mississippi and Louisiana. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Butler, Thomas. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 581, 893, 965, 1353.

Thomas Butler Family Photographs and Plantation Journal, 1844-1907, 1952, 1961, undated (bulk:1844-1907). 0.3 linear feet. Location: S:16. The Thomas Butler family were cotton and sugar planters of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and resided at The Cottage. Collection consists of a plantation journal for Grand Caillou and Le Carpe Plantations, Terrebonne Parish, ca. 1844-1866, and photographs of family members and home interiors. The journal, kept during Thomas Butler and later Richard E. Butler's ownership of the plantations, contains financial accounts and a list of overseers' names (1842-1859), as well as slave registers that record births, deaths, and parents of children. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4347. Complete finding aid.

Butler, Thomas, 1785-1847. Papers, 1804-1945. 5.5 linear ft. Location: S:13-S:15, OS:B. Judge of the Louisiana Third District Court. Butler owned plantations in West Feliciana and Terrebonne Parishes. Papers include correspondence and documents related to household and business finances, documenting the plantation economy in the antebellum and post-bellum periods. Civil War papers include Confederate military orders and other official correspondence. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 5, Reels 9-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2850.Complete finding aid.

Cade account books, 1828-1878. 2 vols. Location: F:11. Robert Cade, resident of West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Entries include Poplar Grove Plantation and the W. B. Chamberlin plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 474.

Caffery, Donelson Jr. Letter, 1889. 1 item. Location: Misc. Editor and manager of the Franklin, Louisiana, St. Mary Banner. Letter (1889) from Caffery to W. B. Logan, United States Marshal, in New Orleans, concerning the sale of Ivanhoe Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 889.

Caffery, Donelson. Family Papers, 1580, 1725, 1790, 1813-1958 (bulk 1861-1909). 537 items, 24 ms. vols., 15 printed vols. Location: C:74-75, O:23, OS:C. Planter of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and U.S. senator from Louisiana. Correspondence of Caffery and correspondence, genealogical and historical writings, and related items of Senator Caffery's family, particularly of his son, John Murphy Caffery (1877-1958). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1865.

Caldwell and Hicky. Receipt, 1837. 1 item. Location: Misc. New Orleans factor. Receipt for payment by Ramsey and Parker of brokerage fee on sale of cotton. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1244.

Capell family. Papers, 1816-1931 (bulk: 1840-1880). 1 linear ft; 30 v.. Location: U:299; F:11; OS:C; MssMf:C. Planters and merchants of Amite and Wilkinson Counties in Mississippi. Eli Jackson Capell was a planter of Pleasant Hill Plantation in Amite County and operated a store near Rose Hill, Mississippi. His son Henry Clay was an attorney in Centerville. Business and plantation papers and legal documents comprise the bulk of this collection. These include land deeds; invoices and correspondence regarding shipping cotton; slave bills of sale; diaries, ledgers, and scrapbooks that document daily activities of Pleasant Hill Plantation; and a daybook from the Rose Hill store. Personal correspondence includes two letters from Jefferson Davis and letters of recommendation written for Henry Clay Capell when he was seeking employment with the federal government. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 56, 257, 1751, 2501, 2597. Complete Finding Aid.

Capell, Eli J. (Eli Jackson), 1814-1888. Family Papers, 1840-1932 (bulk 1886-1900). 1.3 linear ft., 16 v. Location: E:47-48, F:11, OS:C, Mss.Mf:C. Planter of Pleasant Hill Plantation, Amite County, Mississippi. Capell also operated a store near Rose Hill, Mississippi. Correspondence and business records of the Capell family and related Crawford family. Business, plantation, and legal papers include letters, accounts, and invoices with cotton factors and memorandum books of cotton and merchandise sold; labor contracts and laborers' record book; land deeds; and records from the Rose Hill store. Family correspondence from Crawford relatives (1880-1899) relates geographic, economic, race relations, health, and social conditions in parts of Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Montana, and letters to Capell daughters concern news of friends, personal relationships, and social activities (1865-1879). Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 3-5. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 674. Complete Finding Aid

Carroll, Daniel R. Family Papers, 1870-1948. 191 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: T:6, Vault. Owner of Ackbar Plantation, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Carroll was also a cotton broker in New Orleans. Papers include personal letters, scrapbooks, and genealogies of the Carroll and Parker families. Some papers document plantation management, including sugarcane growing, rice planting, the construction of a sugar mill, and black laborers. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1514, 2296.

Carson, William Waller. Family records, 1845-1930. 1 vol. Location: F:23. Residents of Tennessee and Mississippi. Family records include genealogical listings, biographical and autobiographical sketches, and correspondence, all pertaining to the history of the Carson and related Waller, Green, Hutchins, and other families. Included is information about plantation life, slavery, and the Civil War. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2919.

Centenary College of Louisiana. Document, 1845. 1 item. Location: Misc:C. Undergraduate college in Jackson, Louisiana. Formed in the 1840s from a merger of the College of Louisiana and Centenary College. Judge Edward McGehee, a planter and businessman of Mississippi, was instrumental in the founding of the college. Document pertaining to the purchase of the College of Louisiana, to be called the Centenary College of Louisiana. It states Judge McGehee's responsibility for the purchase of the property along with promises of subscribers to make endowments. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 133.

Central America. Cacao Plantation reports, 1736-1797. 1 vol. Location: F:11. Reports to the 'Royal Society' in Guatemala containing information concerning the cultivation and varieties of cacao; adverse climatic conditions; owners' lack of interest; economic improvements that could be made; and data on uncultivated lands. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 406.

Chaffe record books, 1887-1895. 3 ms. vols. Location: H:23. John Chaffe & Sons, a cotton and sugar trading concern in New Orleans, was succeeded by Wm. H. Chaffe & Co., Limited. Wm. H. & J. C. Chaffe's Shingle Mill was a manufacturer of cypress shingles and lumber in Eugenia, Louisiana. Collection includes a cotton market report book (1887-1893), an order book (1894-1895), and daily report forms (1893), respectively, for the three Chaffe businesses. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1139.

Chalmette, Azelie Delino, de. Azelie Delino and Ignacio Delino de Chalmette Papers, 1801-1952 (bulk 1823-1852). 47 items. Location: E:52. Plantation owners of New Orleans. Most of the collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Azelie Delino de Chalmette. Included are letters from family members, F. Godefroy of the West Indies, the Delahoussaye family, Jean Saint-Avid of Paris, and M. Cruzat of New Orleans. Letters from Ignacio Delino de Chalmette written to John Forbes & Company of Mobile, Alabama, concern Bernard de Marigny's involvement with the company. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1245.

Champomier, P. A., 1846. 1 printed volume. Location: Impr. 'Statement of the Sugar Crop made in Louisiana in 1845-6.' (New Orleans: Magne & Weisse, 1846). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1774.

Charles C. Peck letter, 1838. 1 item. Location: Misc:C. R. C. W. & Co. was a New York mercantile firm. Letter to Charles C. Peck from R. C. W. & Co. of New York regarding the Mississippi cotton trade and financial matters. Letter may be incomplete. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3635.

Charles L. Thompson and Associates. Blueprint, 199-. 1 item. Location: OS:C. Architect in Little Rock, Arkansas. Blueprint produced to commemorate the publication of the book Charles L. Thompson and Associates: Arkansas Architects 1885-1938, by Dr. F. Hampton Roy. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4590.

Chatsworth Plantation store records, 1865-1893. 7 linear ft. Location: 33:33. Plantation in Louisiana purchased by the Gardere family in 1866 and managed by Fergus Gardere until 1895. Gardere also operated a cotton gin in partnership with Joseph Staring in the 1880s. Papers relate to the operation of the store and plantation at Chatsworth, and to the Gardere and Staring families. They include store ledgers recording accounts and payrolls. There is also material from a plantation journal in French and English. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4589. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Chinn, Jane McCausland. Civil War reminiscence, 1863. 1 item [16 pages, typescript copy]. Location: Misc. Mistress of Fair Oaks Plantation, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and widow of Cabell Breckinridge Chinn. Reminiscences taken from her diary record encounters with Union soldiers and the burning of grain stores. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2647.

Clauss & Fischer. Journal, 1851-1852. 1 vol. Location: G:16. Merchants and commission brokers of Bayou Sara,inancial relationships with agents in New Orleans. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3022.

Close, John. Papers, 1802-1872 (bulk 1802-1859). 325 items. Location: U:134-135. Contractor's agent for the United States Army post at Opelousas and a cotton planter of Petit Bois Plantation, Port Barre, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. He had relatives in Washington County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Mississippi. Correspondence to Close as an Army contracons Series I, Part 2, Reels 17-18. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1646. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Cockfield, E. J. Family Papers, 1854-1930 (bulk 1875-1890). 915 items, 26 vols. Location: A:65-66, P:19. Planter and businessman of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Family papers spanning three generations include local Natchitoches news; correspondence and descriptions of the Cockfield family in Williamsburg County, South Carolina; and letters from a son in France during World War I. Included are items related to local public schools, including programs for musicals and plays at Louisiana State Normal College (now Northwestern State University). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 989.

Colbert, Elenor Robinson, 1940-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (2 pages). Location: L:4700.222. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Colbert's great-grandmother was a slave. Colbert describes working in cane fields as a child; customs of family gatherings, the burial of umbilical cords of newborns, and cutting hair on Good Friday; the challenges of plantation life; christening and baptism traditions; and natural remedies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.222.

Compton, Mary E. Family Papers, 1858-1955 (bulk 1858-1888). 26 items, 2 ms. vols., on one microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:C, C:72. Wife of George W. Compton, a planter of Walnut Grove Plantation near Cheneyville, Louisiana. Letters of Capt. Henry E. Handerson, 9th Louisiana, relate to life at Camp Bienville and the Battle of Manassas. Compton's diary documents wartime operation of the plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1299.

Concordia Parish inquest case file, 1857. 4 items [transcriptions]. Location: Misc. Transcription by the Historical Records Survey of case papers in the courthouse in Vidalia, Louisiana, for an inquest in the death of the slave Samuel at Forest Home Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2032.

Conner, Lemuel Parker, 1827-1891. Family Papers, 1810-1953,undated 12.5 linear feet and 22 ms. vols. Location: A:119-120, 98:C, OS:C, Vault, J:24. Planter from Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include correspondence, cotton statements, legal and business papers (including slave testimony in an alleged slave uprising, 1861), plantation records, and Civil War papers of Confederate soldiers and civilians, family letters from LSU and Smith College, and First Presbyterian Church (Natchez) records. Also included are papers of Levin R. Marshall, the Sessions family, and Henry R. Chotard; 256 pieces of published sheet music (1824-1883); a minstrel show program (1879); and miscellaneous programs of Natchez concerts and music recitals. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 14-18. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 81, 1403, etc. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana. Papers, 1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882). 9,666 items, 85 vols. Location: U:27-44, F:12-14, OS:C. Land bank of sugar planters designed to aid planters in securing better credit facilities. Financial records including banking papers; account books; legal documents; land and slave sales; diaries; letter books; plantation records; and correspondence. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 82.

Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana. Bond, 1836. 6 items. Location: Misc:C. Bond no. 606 issued to the State of Louisiana for one thousand dollars by the Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana of New Orleans. The bond is signed by Governor E. D. White. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3659.

Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana. Papers, 1829, 1831. 3 items. Location: Vault:4. Letter requesting transfer of stock held by Theodore Bergeron of Lafourche; a letter requesting membership in the association; and a letter requesting transfer of James Bowie's stock in the association to the person who bought his sugar plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 82.

Cooley, E. C., and Robert J. Document, 1867. 1 item. Location: Misc. Labor contract titled Agreement With Freedmen for the working of the Cooley Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 149.

Corbin, James P. Papers, 1865-1904 (bulk 1875-1890). 19 vols. Location: F:15. Virginia Military Institute cadet, Confederate soldier, and justice of the peace of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Business and personal papers include plantation diaries recording the operation of Moss Neck and Race Field plantations, Virginia. Papers include minutes from Fredericksburg city council meetings. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 85.

Cotton factors' statements, 1838-1839. 2 items. Location: Misc:C. Taylor Gardiner & Co. and Brander, McKenna, and Wright were cotton factors and commission brokers in New Orleans. Itemized statements from Taylor Gardiner & Co. and Brander, McKenna, and Wright record sales of baled cotton, prices, and accessory charges. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3005.

Cotton sales documents, 1838, 1839. 2 items. Location: Misc. Itemized statements from New Orleans cotton factors Taylor Gonolin Company and Brander, McKenna, and Wright record sales of baled cotton, prices, and accessory charges. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3005.

Cotton, William Davis and Family. Papers, 1852-1989. 1 linear ft., 4 vol. Location: S:136, OS:C, H:14. Collection contains correspondence and papers belonging to the Cotton Family. This includes the Civil War correspondence of Dr. Drury P. Gibson and his sister Mary Gibson Cotton, correspondence between George Spencer Cotton and his fiancée Lizzie Davis (1888-1890), and correspondence, photographs, and printed items belonging to William Davis Cotton, attorney of Rayville, La, and former president of LSU Alumni Federation (1969-1989). For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4780. PDF

Cox, Owen B. Papers, 1844-1882, n.d. 21 items. Location: Mf. Planter and merchant of Clinton and Briarfield, Mississippi. Papers include slave sale documents; family letters; two Jefferson Davis documents; and a contract (1879) and a letter (1882), both pertaining to the management of Briarfield Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3041.

Cox, Robert Ray. Oral history tapes, 1977-1978. 10 tapes. Location: W:41. Tapes of interviews conducted by Cox while doing research on his thesis on Weeks Hall and his work on the gardens at the Shadows in New Iberia, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3282.

Crane, Andrew E. Family Papers, 1835-1917. 1,016 items, 6 vols. Location: U:46-47, F:16. Carriage maker in New Orleans and planter in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Early papers (1835-1845) pertain to Crane's business interests as a carriage maker. Other materials relate to Crane's purchase of a plantation in St. James Parish (1849) and to a partnership (ca. 1864) with C. R. Kuneman to cultivate a plantation. Correspondence(1874) with William Little of Galveston, Texas, discusses timber interests. Later material relates to Zachary Crane and the St. Michael Corporation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 89.

Dalrymple, C. G. Letter, 1847 June 5. 1 item. Location: Misc:D. Resident of Monroe County, Mississippi, and the wife of a cotton plantation overseer. Letter to Dalrymple's brother and sister in North Carolina describing her life on a small cotton plantation, land settlement in the area, the activities of family members, local attitudes towards violence, and her psychological state. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2966.

Dardenne, Eugenie. Land document, 1856 March 24. 1 item (4 leaves). Location: Misc:D. Land document recording the sale of slaves and one-third of the ownership of Dardenne Plantation, a sugar plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The sale was made by Eugenie Dardenne to John A. Dardenne. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 668.

Davis, Joseph M., Jr., interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (4 pages). Location: L:4700.232. Resident of Four Corners, a community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, who owned a trucking company and was a police juror for 20 years. Davis describes working as a child; his college career; involvement in his family trucking business, and challenges of breaking into the white dominated trucking industry; federal programs for minorities; his political involvement; and his family values. Davis also discusses the history of South Coast Plantation and his parents' employment there; plantation life in the 1950s and 1960s; and sugarcane. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.221.

Dawkins, Guilford. Petition, 1853 January 6. 1 item (2 leaves). Location: Misc:D. Plantation overseer of Madison Parish, Louisiana. Petition to the 10th Judicial District Court, Madison Parish, for redress regarding an injury inflicted on Dawkins by Dudley, a slave. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4515.

Dawson and Pipkin. Receipts, 1847-1850. 21 items. Location: Misc. Cotton planters. Receipts from New Orleans merchants reflect cotton sales and purchases of plantation supplies. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2950.

Day of Jubelo Cartoon, 1865. 1 printed item. Location: E:69. Carte-sized cartoon drawn by E. B. Bensell and printed in Philadelphia depicting emancipated slaves celebrating freedom in their former master's house. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3644.

De Bordes Family Papers, 1765-1822. 106 items. Location: B:13, OS:D, Mf. Papers relating to land holdings and the operation of sugar and coffee plantations in Haiti and Santo Domingo; slave insurrections and the life of refugees from them in New Orleans; and decisions and decrees relating to trade, commerce, and emigration. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2246.

de Caro, Francis A. and Rosan A. Jordan, 1926-2006, n.d. (bulk 1966-2003) 12.5 linear ft. Location: 11:19, 15:15-20. De Caro and Jordan were folklorists, authors, and Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) professors. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, writings, exhibitions, photographs, printed items consisting of brochures, handbills, newspapers, and posters; and topical files that document de Caro's folklore class at LSU, his work with the Louisiana Folklife Commission, and Jordan's work with the women's movement. Writings as well as exhibitions comprise material primarily related to folklore within Louisiana and British colonial life in India. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3197, 4089, 4164. Complete finding aid.

De La Vergne family. Papers, 1751-1972. 1 ft. and 1 reel of microfilm. Location: 11:21, O:22, Mf. A family of lawyers, planters, and businessmen, of New Orleans. Correspondence, military papers, genealogical material, and other papers include material on banking and finance, the Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana, defense of New Orleans during the War of 1812, and Jefferson College. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2642.

DeClouet, Alexandre (Alexandre Etienne), 1812-1890. Family Papers, 1787-1905 (bulk 1855-1888). 1.2 linear ft. (150 items, 37 vols.). Location: U:181, J:5. Sugar planter, Confederate congressman, and state senator from St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Beginning in the 1860s, DeClouet was active in the White League, an organization opposed to rights for freedmen. Collection includes financial papers, legal documents, political papers, and correspondence. Financial records of Alexandre DeClouet and his son Paul document plantation management and labor issues. Political papers include White League materials. Some items in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reels 5-6. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 74, 258, 461, 756.Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Dent, Lewis. Report, 1863 June 1. 1 item. Location: Misc:D. Lessee of Horace Tibbetts' plantation in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. The U.S. Commission was a U.S. Treasury Department agency organized prior to the Freedmen's Bureau to handle the leasing of abandoned plantations during the Civil War. Report prepared by Dent for the U.S. Commission reports the number of tillable acres on the plantation; the number, age, and sex of blacks employed; livestock and equipment; and names of whites residing on the plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1418.

Desobry, Louis. Partnership agreement and amnesty oath, 1854-1865. 2 items. Location: Misc:D. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Articles of agreement establishing a partnership for the ownership and operation of Irion Plantation, a sugar plantation near Plaquemine. The terms of the sale of land and slaves state that the partnership will be called 'Desobry's and Company.'. Included is an oath of amnesty and allegiance to the United States signed by Louis Desobry (1865). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Dewees, John. Family Papers, 1789, 1817-1954, n.d. 593 items; 4 ms. vols. Location: W:47, M:22, OS:D. Planter of Charleston, South Carolina, and later of Eunice, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence; land and slave sale documents; tax receipts; stocks and bonds; court decisions; wills; deeds; estate and property settlements; and photos, especially pre-Civil War and Reconstruction period. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3089.

Diary, 1835-1837. 1 vol. Location: M:19. Governess from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at Belfield Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. Diary records reactions to plantation life, amusements, visits to neighbors, and expressions of discontent with the South. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 33. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 533.

Dornier, Jules A. and Family Papers, 1917-1965. 0.3 linear ft. Location: 50:15. Farm and sugar planting family near Convent, Saint James Parish, Louisiana. Correspondence and ephemeral related to the family's farm business including World War II prisoner of war labor contracts. The collection also contains letters from former POW laborers and records showing Lillian Dornier's involvement in the Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe (CARE, Inc.) program.. Mss. 3468. Complete Finding Aid

Dougherty, John A., b. 1809. Papers, 1861-1890. 8 ms. vols. and 1 item (on 1 microfilm reel). Location: Mss.Mf:D. Native of New York, plantation owner, and prominent citizen of Baton Rouge. Dougherty served as a police juror and as president of the New Board of Control of the penitentiary. Six diaries of Dougherty and two receipt books, one of which belonged to A. T. Prescott. Diary entries report on family, neighbors, acquaintances, and associates; historical events and personages; social activities; and government, law, and health. Also included are entries reporting on the cotton and sugar plantation economy; climate; and dreams. Noteworthy are the entries pertaining to the Civil War and the daily notations on weather. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3528.

Douglas, Emily Caroline, b. 1840. Papers, 1855-1913 (bulk 1855-1868). 9 items, 2 ms. vols., 1 printed vol. Location: U:49, Mss.Mf:D. Connecticut native and resident of Louisiana and Mississippi. Autobiography, diary, and writings describe life in New England; with her brother, the Rev. William Kirtland Douglas, near Natchez, Mississippi, during the Civil War; at New Iberia, Louisiana; in various Mississippi towns; and in New Orleans. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 8-9. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 566.

Doussan Family Papers, 1827-1872. 94 items. Location: U:300. Correspondence, financial papers, and personal papers of members of the Doussan family (primarily Antoine Doussan, Louise Perrin Doussan, and Auguste Doussan) of East and West Baton Rouge Parishes, Louisiana, and France. Correspondence of Charles de Rabars of Bordeaux, France, is also included, as is a letter from General Baron Joachim Ambert. Most documents reflect the Doussans' planting operations in West Baton Rouge Parish; their financial and legal transactions in Louisiana and France; family activities, interests, and concerns; and the experience of French émigrés in Louisiana as they encountered Anglo-American culture and society. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4800. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Drouillard, Jean Baptiste. Family Papers, 1794-1901, n.d. 165 items and 2 microfilm reels. Location: Mss.Mf:D and S:121. Planter of Santo Domingo and of New Orleans. Letters and documents concern labor and economic conditions on Santo Domingo after the rise to power of Toussaint l'Ouverture in 1793, and the lives of exiles from the island who resettled in the United States. For further information see online card catalog. Mss. 2590. Complete Finding Aid PDF | HTML.

Dugas and LeBlanc. Account books, 1886-1933. 144 vols. Location: L:7-12. Residents of Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, manufacturers of Westfield sugar and molasses, and dealers in general merchandise. Records include account books, daybooks, and ledgers for the firm; and payroll books for Armelise, Magnolia, Westfield, and Whitmel plantations and for levee work in the Fourth Mississippi River District. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 611.

Dugas, Honore. Family Papers, 1861-1910, 1955, n.d. 1,825 items, 16 ms. vols. and 23 pamphlets. Location: T:24-27. Sugar planter of Armelise Plantation, Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Business and personal papers of Honore Dugas and family. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1645.

Dunbar, Archibald. Document, 1836. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Adams County, Mississippi. Sale (notarized) of slaves formerly attached to Ashwood Plantation by Archibald Dunbar to Peter M. and Joseph H. Lapice. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Duncan, Abner L. Papers, 1825-1866 (bulk 1841-1862). 13 items. Location: MISC:D. Planter of Baton Rouge, La. Correspondence between Abner L. Duncan and his relatives concerning the management of his late father's estates, the deaths of family members, and issues of inheritance among family members. Also included is an exchange of letters between Leon Bonnecaze, the French vice consul at Baton Rouge, and David Farragut of the U.S. Navy, regarding the bombardment of Baton Rouge on May 28, 1862. Mss. 4199.

Duncan, Lucius C. Letter, 1822. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Letter by Duncan to Rufus Flynt, who had befriended him while at school in Monson, Massachusetts, tells of visiting at the cotton plantation of his uncle, Colonel Abner Duncan, near Baton Rouge. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1334.

Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family Papers, 1817-1877. 158 items, 2 ms. vols. Location: S:120. Planter and banker of Natchez, Mississippi. Duncan plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas. Correspondence includes letters from friends and family concerning social, political, and economic problems of Reconstruction. Papers include legal documents, bills, and receipts. A daybook includes lists of slaves present at Homochitto Plantation. Included is a diary of W. P. Duncan, son of Stephen Duncan, Jr., describing his travels in France and Italy. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 5. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1403, 1431, 1551, 1595, 1793.

Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family Papers, 1846-1899. 255 items, 11 ms. vols. Location: U:49, F:17, Mss.Mf:D. Planter and banker of Natchez, Mississippi. Duncan plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas. Correspondence, business papers, diaries, and plantation and personal records of Dr. Stephen Duncan and his son, Stephen, Jr., who also resided in New York City. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 126, 721.

Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Letters, 1855, 1859-1860. 72 items. Location: U:65. Planter and banker of Natchez, Mississippi. Duncan plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas. Includes letters written by Duncan to his financial advisor, Charles Leverich, related to the economic and financial activities of a wealthy planter and land owner. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4641.

Eggleston-Roach papers, 1825-1903. 285 items, 6 vols. Location: U-51. Planters of Wilkinson County and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mrs. Elizabeth Eggleston of Vicksburg smuggled goods through Union lines to Confederate soldiers. She was subsequently imprisoned and banished from Vicksburg. Diaries and personal papers of members of the Gildart, Eggleston, and Roach families. Horace Nelson Gildart's diary gives an account of a journey through England and Ireland; Dick Hardaway Eggleston's diary records activities on Learmont Plantation. Included are correspondence and orders of Union military authorities concerning Elizabeth Eggleston's activities during the Civil War. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 5. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 832. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Elliot, William St. John, 1800-1855. Papers,1824, 1835-1858.5 items. Location: OS:E. Cotton broker, planter, and owner of D'Evereaux Hall, Natchez, Miss.. Among other properites in Adams County, Miss., he also owned Saragossa Plantation. Indentures and deeds for land in Adams County, Mississippi, purchased by William St. John Elliot from Stephen Duncan, Samuel A. Moore, and Henry Chotard; and a land survey of a plantation in Tensas Parish, La., owned by his wife, Anna F. Conner Bell Ruffin Elliot. Also includes a plat of land in Adams County owned by various members of the Conner family. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1147.

Ellis, E. John and Thomas C. W. Family Papers, 1829-1936 (bulk 1870-1920). 9.3 linear ft., 72 vols. Location: U:52-65, G:5. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reels 21-22. Sons of Ezekiel Parke Ellis, a judge and state legislator from Amite, Louisiana. E. John and Thomas C. W. Ellis were practicing attorneys who were active in Louisiana politics. Both men served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and business papers of three generations of the Ellis family. Civil War correspondence includes letters by E. John Ellis from prison camp at Johnson's Island, Ohio. Politics occupies a large place in the correspondence and speeches of 1856-1861 and in the correspondence of the Reconstruction period. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 136. Complete finding aid (PDF)

Ellis-Farar papers, 1768-1871 (bulk 1804-1833). 308 items. Location: S:1; OS:E; Vault:21. Richard Ellis, planter of White Cliffs, Homochitto, and Laurel Hill plantations, Natchez. His children included Mary (who married Captain Benjamin Farar), Jane, and Abram. Papers document plantation management and include deeds, vouchers, correspondence with overseers, and receipts. Jane took a special interest in managing Laurel Hill. Personal correspondence deals with education, plantation life, and family news. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reel 10. For further information, see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1000. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Embree, Joseph. Family Papers, 1826-1884. .88 linear ft. (805 items, 1 vol.). Location: E:19-20. Cotton planter near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and soldier in the Confederate army. Papers include letters, account statements of cotton brokers, land deeds, contracts, slave bills, receipts, and documents related to education in Wilkinson County. Includes a printed list of the 1879 Democratic state ticket. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 10-11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 693.

Ende, Jacques F. de. Document, 1837 May 5. 1 item. Location: Misc. Certification of a deposition at New Orleans given by Jacques F. de Ende, reporting his slave, Sep, had run away from his Avoyelles Parish plantation, and offering a reward of fifty dollars for his return. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 537.

Eno, Frank. Letter, 1857. 1 item. Location: Misc. Teacher of a private school in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Letter from Eno to a New York cousin, describing his teaching position and the effect of the Panic of 1857 on cotton planters. He also explains his move from the North to Concordia Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1585.

Evans, Nathaniel. Family Papers, 1791-1932 (bulk 1800-1850). 3,475 items, 47 ms. vols., 42 printed vols. Location: E:10-15, G:12, OS:E, 98:E, Vault:6, Mf. Postmaster and general merchant of Fort Adams, Wilkinson County, Mississippi; and owner of Oakland Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers consist of business and family correspondence and plantation records. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 1-10. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 670, 893, 913.

Evergreen Plantation painting, 1860. 1 item [photographic copy]. Location: E:. Painting, gouache on paper, showing Evergreen Plantation, in West Feliciana or Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The artist is unidentified. Picture collection For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3460.

Fair, James. Papers, 1833-1838. 4 items. Location: Misc:F. Owner of Grove Hill Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to Fair's mortgage of Grove Hill and its slaves. Included is a copy of the sale of the plantation by Mrs. Maria Jones to Fair and an appraiser's certificate. There is also a questionnaire for stockholders of Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 668.

Farar, Benjamin. Papers, 1773-1826 (bulk 1820-1826). 56 items (on 1 microfilm reel). Location: Mss.Mf:F. Planter of Laurel Hill Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include personal and business correspondence (1820-1826) related to family matters, plantation operations, and social life in New Orleans. Includes some land grants in Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1364.

Farrar, Alexander K. Papers, 1804-1931. 2,304 items. Location: UU:74-75. Planter and lawyer of Kingston, Adams County, Mississippi, and Mississippi state senator. Personal, professional, and plantation papers concerning Farrar's law practice, including settlement of several estates, and his plantation and business interests. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 6-10. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 782, 1348.

Farwell, F. Evans, 1906. Lecture and narration, 1980. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (1 page). Location: L:4700.14. President of Millican and Farwell Shipping Line. Farwell discusses the establishment of Millican and Farwell Shipping and family sugar cane plantations in Louisiana. He narrates a slide show, not contained in the collection, about changes in farming technology, especially pertaining to sugar cane. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.14.

Faulk, John T. Papers, 1833. 2 items. Location: Misc. Planter of Bayou DeSiard, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Letter of John T. Faulk to Mr. Goodwin, teacher, outlining the course of study desired for his sons; and a contract with William Henderson to board Faulk's children in order that they could attend the public school house in Prairie Maroughe. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 877.

Ferris, Livingston Polk. Papers, 1920-1968, n.d. 3 linear ft. Location: 95. Electrical engineer of Ashton Plantation, Lecompte, Louisiana. Professional correspondence (1920-1968) pertains mainly to his work on electric railroads and experiments with electrical shock. Other papers include reports of experiments, lectures, technical papers, notebooks, films, and other materials. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2829.

Fischer, Max. Max and August Fischer Papers, 1881-1907. 136 items. Location: E:52, O:20. Max and August Fischer were wholesale and retail dealers in general merchandise in Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. They also operated Kenmore Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Collection contains ledgers, journals, and other business papers related to Kenmore Plantation and to Fischer's merchandise dealings. Includes account and sales records of the Grace Episcopal Church in Bayou Sara, and of prominent families in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1259.

Fitz, Charles. Letter, 1865 November 28. 1 item. Location: Misc. American lawyer. Letter to Edwards Pierrepont dealing with a claim made by an ex-Confederate Louisiana planter against the U.S. government for property confiscated during the Civil War. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2564.

Fleming, George A. Papers, 1826-1872 (bulk 1838-1866). 18 items and 1 vol. Location: W:52, OS:F. Planter of Madison County, Mississippi. Account book (1838-1866) contains accounts with overseers; entries for sale of feed, hardware, and clothing, and for repairs, loans, travel and personal expenses. Papers (1826-1872) consist of tax receipts, letters patent, and deeds of conveyance. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reel 18. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 462, 898, 936.

Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Manuscript, n.d. 1 item. Location: A:27. Manuscript of Rosedown: A Report on Echo Hunting in a Louisiana Plantation Home (1968). Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Flint, Lewis H., 1893-1973. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2199-79.

Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Notebook, 1954, n.d. 1 ms. vol. Location: A:37. Handwritten notes, including transcriptions of letters, taken by Lewis H. Flint in preparation for the various chapters in his book Rosedown: A Report on Echo Hunting in a Louisiana Plantation Home(1968). Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Flint, Lewis H., 1893-1973. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2199-79.

Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Transcriptions, [1765-1861]. 2 ms. vols. Location: A:27. Two notebooks containing transcriptions of materials from Rosedown, consisting of letters, bills and receipts, and documents of the Turnbull, Bowman, and related families of Rosedown and Oakley Plantations, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Flint, Lewis H., 1893-1973. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2199.

Florence. Letter: Lecompte, La. to Friend, 1884 August 24. 1 item. Location: Misc:F. Teacher residing in Lecompte, Louisiana, in 1884. Letter to 'Friend' mentions Rapides Parish and Alexandria, Louisiana, opportunities in the area, and the Wells-Wood Plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4604.

Flournoy, Alfred. Papers, 1824-1936. 1 ms. vol. (51 items). Location: G:6. Medical doctor and cotton planter of Pulaski, Tennessee, and after 1838, cotton planter of Greenwood Plantation in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and leader in the Democratic Party. Bound typewritten copy of a scrapbook, containing papers of Dr. Flournoy, Civil War letters to and from Flournoy's sons Alfred, Jr., and Alonzo, and related newspaper clippings and family histories. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 628.

Fluker, David J. Papers, 1839-1867. 54 items. Location: E:3. Resident of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Estate papers of David J. Fluker consist of business papers to his wife I. Ann Fluker. A letter from Fellowes and Company, New Orleans, urges sale of the plantation 'Isabella Place,' 1856. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 727. Complete Finding Aid PDF

Fontenot, Ozeme, 1846-1928. Family Papers, 1834-1949. 1148 items; 49 ms. vols.; 5 printed vols. Location: UU:190-194; O:21;0S:F. Planter of Grand Prairie, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Plantation, business records, correspondence of Ozeme Fontenot and family. Some relate to the marriage and divorce of daughter Alma Parker, and to her hospitalization in New Orleans. Papers also deal with United Confederate Veterans activities. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reels 3-6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3248. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Foster, James, d. 1880. Family Papers, 1829-1904. 92 items, 7 ms. vols. Location: U:117. Medical doctor of Natchez, Mississippi, and owner of the Hermitage Plantation near Natchez. Correspondence consists chiefly of personal letters from family members concerning travel in the East; yellow fever in New Orleans; and plantation affairs. Some letters relate to student life at Oakland College (Mississippi) and Harvard University. Three manuscript volumes contain poetry and four record books concern a Confederate monument in Natchez, listing subscribers to a memorial fund (1888-1889). Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1705.

Fourniquet, E.P. Letter, 17 January 1838. 1 item. Location Misc:F. E.P Fourniquet was the owner of Long Branch Plantation in Grand Gulf, Miss. Letter from Fourniquet to his overseer William Pugh gives instructions about the maintenance of Long Branch. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4862

Frellsen, Henry, ca. 1800-1884. Diary, 1878-1884. 1 vol. (101 pages). Location: G:17. Native of Denmark who fought in the Greek War of Independence (1824) and moved to Louisiana (ca. 1840). He was the Danish Consul in New Orleans, a cotton factor, and the owner of Fairview Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Entries document Frellsen's operation of Fairview Plantation. Weekly reports detail crop and weather conditions; record maintenance of a sugarhouse, machinery, and levees; and list farmhands (including children) and their wages. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3497

Garland, Kate A. Papers, 1860-1870 (bulk 1860-1868). 28 items; 1 vol. Location: Misc:G, G:6. Member of a slaveholding family in Virginia. Kate Garland spent several months in Alabama during the Civil War. Papers include a diary (1860-1868) containing descriptions of social life in Virginia and Alabama; and correspondence to and from John Holt Gill, a friend of Kate Garland. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 10-11. For further inf Y:82, G:17, OS:G. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. He married Mary Augustina Dickinson in 1865, and they had four children. Papers include Civil War and Reconstruction correspondence, with letters by Confederate officers, including Elias B. Inslee. Diaries kept by Anna Maria Gay McClung, a daughter, record social life in Washington, D.C., and travel (1885-1898). Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 11-12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2542.

Gay-Butler-Plater Family Papers, 1814-2004. 29 linear ft., 25 v., 14 oversize folders. Location: G:43-72, OS:G, Q:1-6. Planters of Iberville, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes, La. Correspondence, financial records, legal records, photographic materials, and personal papers created and accumulated by the Gay, Butler, Plater, and Price families of Louisiana documenting their political, social, and financial affairs. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4872. Complete Finding Aid.

Gay, Edward J. Family Papers, 1797-1938. 53,039 items, 165 ms. vols. Location: Y-1-61, H:25-27. Planters of St. Louis Plantation near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Edward J. Gay was a U.S. representative (1884-1889); his grandson of the same name was a U.S. senator (1918-1921). Personal and business papers of the Gay and related families, containing materials on the Civil War and Reconstruction, St. Louis Plantation, the sugar cane industry, and slavery. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1295.

Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895. Collection, 1720-1895 (bulk 1845-1857). 588 items, 6 vols., and 1 microfilm reel. Location: U:124-132, Vault, Mss.Mf:G. Louisiana historian, jurist, statesman, and plantation owner. Papers include plantation and business records, legal documents, historical and political writings, and personal correspondence of Gayarré. The plantation diary is for Roncal plantation in Tangipahoa Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1282.

George, John, 1854-1931. Papers, 1887-1931, n.d. 348 items and 6 ms. vols. Location: W:9-10. General merchant and cotton buyer in Tangipahoa, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Collection consists of business papers and ledgers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1550.

Gianelloni, Sabin J., Sr. Papers, 1887-1942. 1379 items, 31 vols. Location: UU:262, J:20-21, OS:G, vault:7. Sugar planter of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to operation of the Longwood Plantation sugar factory, saw mill, store, and Burtville Plantation store. Records concern production of sugar, laborers' wages, tenants' leases, and financial transactions of the Maguire Building. Papers also contain some correspondence and memos of Sabin Gianelloni, Sr., and photographs of field hands, farm equipment, and the Longwood Plantation store. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3458, 4279.Complete Finding Aid. PDF

Gillespie, James A., planter. Family Papers, 1776-1928 (bulk 1840-1890). 1,149 items, 20 ms. vols. Location: E:22-24, G:16, 65:G, Vault. Planter of Hollywood Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, and Indian Village Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes plantation records, business papers, and correspondence of the Gillespie family and business papers of the Davis family. Papers include slave sales, land deeds, a will, diaries, portraits, maps, sheet music, and fashion publications. Includes some printed items in German. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 5-8, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Reels 13-14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 669, 695, 1104, 2086. Complete Finding Aid

Girod, Joseph. Papers, 1816-1899 (bulk 1830-1880). 588 items, 6 ms. vols. Location: U:133, G:8. Native of France and planter of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and nephew of Nicholas Girod, first elected mayor of New Orleans. Joseph Girod's brother, Francis Girod, lived in Paris, France, and New Orleans. Papers include letters from Francis Girod, some of them related to the estate of Nicholas Girod, which provided for the aid of New Orleans orphans of French parentage. Plantation journals (1838-1877) and a letter book (1825-1832) are also included. In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 838, 853.

Godet, Desire. Papers, 1826-1881. 66 items. Location: U:133. French-speaking cotton planter of Port Barre, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Papers include letters to his parents, brother, and sister in Rouen, France. There are also bills, statements, and receipts from Opelousas merchants and statements of account with A. A. Mouton, Planters' and Merchants Agency. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 159.

Golsan Brothers. Papers, 1845, 1866-1876. 15,645 items, 102 ms. vols. Location: UU:199-210, G:8-10, 915:. New Orleans cotton factors and agents for the DuBois cotton gin, doing business with merchants, and commission firms in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Tennessee, and Texas. Business papers of Golsan Brothers consisting chiefly of bills and receipts for merchandise, printing, and advertising; waybills; invoices for cotton purchased; bank checks; trial balance sheets; telegrams; statements of account; and correspondence. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 501.

Good Hope Plantation: Papers, 1864-1867 (bulk 1865). .5 linear ft. (100 items). Location: U:145. Papers indicate that George Gilson Klapp of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and James D. Waters leased Tyconia Plantation in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, in 1864. Klapp and Waters jointly leased Good Hope and Hermitage plantations during 1865 and 1866. Papers focus largely on the operation and management of Good Hope and Hermitage cotton plantations in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Legal papers include a plantation lease agreement, mule loans, an arms permit, and labor agreements with freedmen. Financial papers include promissory notes; receipts for goods, services, and taxes; and accounts of merchandise purchased by laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 161.

Gordon Family Papers, 1848-1857. 50 items. Location: Misc:G. Owners of Woodland Plantation in Port Gibson, Mississippi, where they raised cotton. Papers mainly consist of receipts for cotton shipments and invoices for purchases in New Orleans. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4666.

Graham, Alice Walworth. Papers, 1884-1992, undated 5.3 linear feet. Location: 104:2-4; J: 25; and OS:G. Novelist and native of Natchez, Miss., and sometime resident of New Orleans. Professional and personal correspondence includes letters document Graham's literary career. Scrapbooks and printed items contain literary reviews of her books and describe her personal appearances at literary functions. Graham describes Natchez plantations in manuscript drafts for many of her published and unpublished works including Cibola, The Natchez Woman, and Romantic Lady. The letters of Graham's mother, Lela Gordon Walworth, and her sister, Mary Walworth Whitaker of Baton Rouge, are also part of the collection, and pertain to personal and family matters. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4295. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Graham, George Mason, 1807-1891. Letter, 1860 January 24. 1 item. Location: Misc. Planter of Tyrone Plantation, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and a member of the Board of Supervisors of the State Seminary of Learning at Alexandria, Louisiana. Letter to Senator John Moore of New Iberia, Louisiana, expresses his views on the merits of a military school. Original manuscript letter is in the Weeks Family Papers. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Graham, G. Mason, 1807-1891. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1761.

Graham, George Mason, 1807-1891. Letters, 1848-1849. 3 items. Location: Misc. Planter of Tyrone Plantation, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and a member of the Board of Supervisors of the State Seminary of Learning at Alexandria, Louisiana. Letters to his sister of Gunston Hall, Virginia, concern family and plantation matters. Letter (1849) tells of emigrants in the area suffering severely from cholera and refers to the cholera epidemic of 1833 on Graham's plantation. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Graham, G. Mason, 1807-1891. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 163.

Grand-Pre, Carlos De. Succession Papers, 1809-1816. 16 items. Location: Misc. Governor of the Baton Rouge District, West Florida. Statements and receipts for payment of accounts filed in connection with the settlement of the estate of Grand-Pre by Pedro Favrot and Samuel Fulton, executors, George Mather, tutor for his minor children, and Philip Hicky and Gilbert Leonard, auditors. Included is a copy of an inventory of the goods and effects of Alexander See, a weaver, who died on Philip Hicky's plantation, Hope Estate. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1067.

Gray, Lillie Trust. Papers, 1860-1920 (bulk 1886-1890). 178 items; 8 vols. Location: U:154; F:9. Musician and teacher at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Papers document Gray's teaching of and interest in music, and include a record book (1874-1900, 1902) containing lists of musical compositions and a diary (1900-1905) containing entries on music sung at Roman Catholic masses. Collection also includes household and farm entries; receipts for music lessons; and a payroll book (1865-1867) for Houmas Plantation. The payroll book is available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reel 15. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 165, 965, 422.

Great Britain. Board of Trade. Records, 1700-1721. 1 vol. Location: M:21. The Council of Trade and Plantations (1696-1782) was a British administrative body that regulated trade, manufacturing, plantations, and the use of natural resources in British colonies. Collection contains reports and memoranda related to Britain's colonial commerce and relations with France, Spain, and Portugal, including trade in the West Indies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 680.

Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Correspondence, 1834-1842. 23 items. Location: Misc. Located in Boston, Massachusetts. Letters to George H. Kuhn, treasurer, of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company pertaining to purchase of cotton from New Orleans factors for New England textile mills. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1404, 1417.

Green, Caleb, Jr. Letter, Aug. 2, 1835. 1 item. Location: Misc.: G. Resident of St. Martin Parish, La. In a letter to his father in Saratoga County, New York, Caleb Green, Jr. announces the birth of his daughter, describes suffering a heat related illness and the use of bleeding as a medical treatment. He also reports on the financial worth of two planter friends in Mississippi. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4406.

Gumbel, S. and Company, Ltd. Records, ca. 1870-1918 ca. 67 ms. vols. Location: 114:. New Orleans sugar and cotton factor. Includes cotton ledgers, account books, and journals of the company. Mss. 1490.

Gumbel, Simon. Family Papers, ca. 1851-1949. 2.5 linear ft.Location: P:21-22. Resident of New Orleans. Comprised almost entirely of property tax receipts for city, parish and state taxes; remaining papers consists of three stock certificates and personal legal papers. Also includes the records of the Sophie L. Gumbel Home, comprised of correspondence, printed items, financial and administrative records. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1490. Complete finding aid.

Gurley, John W. Papers, 1858-1866. 81 items. Location: U:145. Attorney of New Orleans. Gurley and his wife Rosa were registered as enemies of the United States during the Civil War but were excused after they signed oaths of amnesty. The majority of letters are from Edward G. Stewart, a planter of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Papers of the Civil War period include claims the Gurleys were enemies of the United States, their oaths of allegiance, and letters confirming their loyalty. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B Reel 6 and Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 507. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Haag, William George, 1910-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1994. 2 sound cassettes (3 hours), Transcript (104 pages). Location: L:4700.453. LSU Boyd professor emeritus of geography and anthropology. Haag discusses his family history; the University of Kentucky; his work as an archaeologist for the Tennessee Valley Authority; the University of Michigan; World War II; the University of Mississippi; and his impressions of William Faulkner. Haag also discusses his career at LSU; the Poverty Point archeological site; excavations at the Centroplex and Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge; research in the Antilles; and Civil War studies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.453.

Hale, William George, 1810-1883. Papers, 1797-1967. 287 items, 1 ms. vol. on 1 reel of microfilm. Location: Mss. Mf:H. Planter of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence, legal documents, and financial records, including some that relate to the Civil War and regiments mustered at Camp Moore, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2426.

Hall, George Otis. Family Papers, 1856-1900, 1990, n.d. (bulk 1856-1880). .7 linear ft. Location: T:54. George Otis Hall and his wife Charlotte Emma LeDoux Hall, owners of Magnolia Mound, a sugar and indigo plantation in Baton Rouge. From 1860 on they lived in England and Europe. Papers include correspondence, photographs, social invitations, and newspaper clippings. Topics include the education of the Hall children in Louisiana and Europe, the family's resettlement in Europe, and Magnolia Mound. Partly in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 12-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4320. Complete finding aid.

Hamilton, William Sutherland, 1789-1867?. Family Papers, 1766-1942 (bulk 1780-1884). 4 linear ft., 16 vols. Location: T:82-87, H:21, UU:148, OS:H. U.S. Army officer under General Wade Hampton, planter of Holly Grove Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and politician who served on the first board of trustees for the College of Louisiana and a term in the Louisiana legislature. Papers reflect the administration of U.S. Army troops in the Territory of New Orleans and give an inclusive picture of national and Louisiana politics. Included are descriptions of Southern college facilities and curricula and early medical treatments. The papers also document conditions in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War, land speculation in Texas, and various aspects of plantation life and economy. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1029, 3167.

Hamilton-Barrow Family Papers, 1781-1965. .3 linear ft. Location UU:253. Financial papers, legal documents, and correspondence of Bennett I. (James) Barrow, a plantation owner in West Feliciana Parish, and his descendents. Documents concern land claims and disputes in West Feliciana Parish, while personal correspondence pertains to family history, and includes letters during both the Civil War and World War II. Also included are original land claims signed by Governors Miró and Carondelet. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4458. Complete finding aid.

Harding, Sidney, b. 1841. Diaries, 1863-1865. 2 vols. Location: U:230. Daughter of W. S. and Elizabeth Harding, Old Brier Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. During the Civil War, her family fled three times from home, the final time to DeSoto Parish. Three diaries chronicle the family's flight to North Louisiana during the Civil War and the hardships her family dealt with during their exile. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 721.

Harkins, John. Manuscript, 1967. 1 item (59 pages). Location: Misc. 'Poplar Grove, Sugar Plantation on the West Bank of the Mississippi River across from Baton Rouge,' term paper presented for Fine Arts 120 taught by Mr. James R. Reeves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2250.

Harris, William H. Papers, 1893-1930. 14 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: Misc. Probably a black man who served as foreman or handyman around Augusta Plantation Sugar House, Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Papers include business correspondence and a Wholesale Pocket Business Directory of New Orleans for 1893. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3261.

Hawkes, John. Letter, 1863 January. 1 item. Location: Misc. Union soldier in the Civil War, a member of the 50th Massachusetts Regiment. Letter written from Camp Parapet, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to a member of Hawkes' family in Maine. He mentions the fortifications at camp, guarding the plantation of a widow, and drinking the river water. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1265.

Hawkins, J. E. (Josiah Edwin). Papers, 1857-1929 (bulk 1880-1900). 6.7 linear ft. (4,464 items, 135 ms. vols., 52 printed vols.). Location: UU:309-315, J:8-9, OS:H, 98:H. Physician, surgeon, and farm owner in Bayou Chicot, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. Hawkins was originally from Georgia and first practiced medicine in Columbia City, Arkansas. Collection includes professional, business, and personal papers related to Hawkins' medical career. Papers include medical daybooks, plantation diaries, financial records, maps, and newspapers from New Orleans and St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 982.

Hazard Company. Letters, 1839-1855. 88 items. Location: E:57.Rhode Island manufacturer of cotton and woolen clothing, shoes, and textiles, with agents operating in New Orleans. Correspondence deals with clothing and textiles sold to plantation owners of Louisiana and Mississippi, and clothing worn by slaves on plantations. Customers were primarily from the Feliciana parishes in Louisiana and the Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi, areas.  For further information see online catalog. Mss. 789, 845, 942, 1194, 1232.

Henderson, John J., Jr. Account books, 1870-1900. 10 vols. Location: G:11. Resident of Avalon Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Cash book, ledgers, and time books. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 536.

Henry C. Minor Papers, 1846-1956 (bulk 1918-1956). 1,263 items, 86 vols. (85 printed vols., 1 ms. vol.). Location: T:8-11, X:87-88, F:5. Sugar planter of Southdown Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Papers relate to the estate of Henry C. Minor and contain letters, maps, photographs, reports, and items reflecting the management, reorganization, and financing of sugar plantations, including the Southdown Plantation, especially during the 1930s. Many materials relate to sugar technology and the revival of the Louisiana sugar industry in the 20th century through the introduction of fungus resistant P. O. J. sugarcane. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1509, 1607.

Herbert, Susan F. Papers, 1839, 1852-1857. 34 items. Location: C:61. Resident of Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Statements from Payne and Harrison, New Orleans factor, for sale of cotton for the estate of T. S. Herbert and for his wife, Mrs. Susan Herbert. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Herrin, Edmund. Papers, 1849-1891. 83 items, 1 vol. Location: E:39, G:11. Planter of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. Papers include tax receipts, promissory notes, and bills; personal letters from the Roddy family, relatives, and from Herrin's brothers; an oath of allegiance to the United States and registration certificates; and a currency bill issued by Louisiana. Included is a fee book of Thomas H. Roddy, Sheriff of St. Helena Parish (1849-1855). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 711.

Hicky, Daniel and Philip. Papers, 1667, 1762-1846. 33 items. Location: U:122. Daniel Hicky was an early planter of the District of Manchac, West Florida. His son, Philip Hicky, was an officer of the Louisiana militia. Papers of Daniel Hicky include land documents and a passport. Military papers of Philip Hicky include papers pertaining to troop movements before and after the Battle of New Orleans. Also included are miscellaneous documents and letters. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 720.

Hicky, Daniel. Letter, 1793 April 10. 1 item. Location: Misc. Manchac, Louisiana, planter. Letter sent from Baton Rouge to Hicky's son Philip in New Orleans, discussing a Mississippi River flood, bad weather, and Hicky's gout. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3430.

Hicky, Daniel, 1740-1808. Papers, 1667, 1762-1846. 33 items. Location: U:122. Daniel Hicky was an early planter of the District of Manchac, West Florida. His son, Philip, was captain of cavlary in the Spanish militia during the West Florida Rebellion. During the War of 1812, he was a colonel in the Louisiana militia. Papers of Daniel Hicky include land documents and a passport. Papers of Philip Hicky include military documents and correspondence. Correspondence between 1814-1815 concerns troop movements before and after the Battle of New Orleans. Also included are a few miscellaneous documents that seem to have direct relationship with the Hicky family. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 720.

Hicky, Philip, 1778-1859. Family Papers, 1667-1846 (bulk 1814-1815). .4 linear ft. (53 items, 1 vol., 1 artifact), 1 mf reel. Location: U:122, Vault, Mss.Mf:H. Planter of Hope Estate Plantation, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Hicky built the first sugar mill in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1814. Papers include a 1793 proclamation by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to the Natchez District, French military orders and letters from Carlos de Grand-Pre, and a letter from Thaddeus Mayhew to 'Susan' describing the Battle of New Orleans. Included is correspondence pertaining to members of the Morgan and Mather families and to the military service of Philip Hicky and his father Daniel Hickey. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 720, 2007, 2035.

Hicky, Philip. Letter, 1815 February 28. 1 item [photocopy]. Location: Misc. Planter of Hope Estate Plantation, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Hicky built the first sugar mill in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1814. Letter from Hicky to Major Charles Tessier concerning the latter's appointment to the office of East Baton Rouge Parish judge. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2704.

Hilliard, Isaac H. (Isaac Henry), 1811-1868. Family Papers, 1756-1924 (bulk 1845-1920). 173 items, 12 ms. vols. Location: E:50, H:21. Planter on Hilliard Plantation in Grand Lake, Chicot County, Arkansas, where his family owned a merchandising business. Collection includes legal papers, correspondence, cashbooks, and diaries that document the personal, agricultural, and business activities of the Hilliard family. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1236, 1347.

Hilliard, Isaac H. (Isaac Henry), Mrs. Diary, 1849-1860 (bulk 1849-1850). 1 vol.; also available in microfilm. Location: U:239, Mss. Mf:H. Wife of Isaac H. Hilliard, plantation owner of Grand Lake, Chicot County, Arkansas, originally of Henry County, Kentucky. Mrs. Hilliard was related by marriage to Leonidas Polk. Diary depicts plantation life from an affluent woman's perspective, describing family holidays, social occasions, steamboat travel, and trips to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Includes her son's expenses at Kentucky Military Institute (1866). Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 178, 762. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Hillin, James. Document, 1791. 1 item. Location: Misc. Planter in the District of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Will of James Hillin. In Spanish. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 179.

Hines, Betty, 1948, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (3 pages). Location: L:4700.285. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Hines was the foster child of a sharecropper. Hines' memories of childhood as the daughter of a sharecropper; sugarcane growing; the recollections of her great-grandparents' enslavement; difficulties of her early work with foster children; birth customs; and traditional foods. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.285.

Hoard, Daniel. Document, 1847. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Sale (copy) of Jewell Plantation and slaves by Hoard to Richard H. Cox. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Honore Daigre – Adelaide Hebert Sale, 1856, November 17. 1 item. Location: Misc: H. Honore Daigre and Adelaide Hebert were residents of Iberville Parish, La. A true copy of sale and adjudication of the sale of the plantation, land, and slaves of Honore Daigre and Adelaide Hebert, Iberville Parish. Includes a listing of their slaves' ages, sex, and family relationships, as well as a description of land and moveable property. In English and French. For further information see online ecatalog. Mss. 4888.

Hope Farm Plantation photograph collection, 1870s?. 13 photographic prints. Location: E:64. Photographs of a plantation home, a sugar mill, men hunting, and an African American laborer on a sugar plantation on Bayou Terrebonne, 12 miles south of Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4568.

Howard, David. Roll of freedmen, 1864 November 7. 1 item. Location: Misc:H. List of freedmen employed by David Howard on his Adams County, Mississippi, plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Hubert, Louis A. Papers, 1832-1846. 10 items. Location: Misc. Resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Papers consisting of acts of sale for slaves and a plantation, and a commission appointing Hubert justice of the peace of Pointe Coupee Parish in 1846. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1724.

Hunt, David and Anne F. Memorial, [1874]. 1 item. Location: E:96, Impr. Wealthy planters of Natchez, Mississippi. Biographical sketch of David Hunt (1779-1861) and of his wife Anne Ferguson Hunt (1797-1874). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3256.

Hunt, David. Family Papers, 1803-1838. 20 items. Location: U:158. Wealthy planters of Natchez, Mississippi. Personal and business letters to Abijah Hunt, wealthy merchant and slave holder of the Natchez District, and to his nephew, David Hunt, who amassed a large fortune as his successor. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 517.

Hunter, Robert and Sarah Jane. Letters, 1846-1847. 9 items. Location: Misc:H. Letters exchanged between R. [Robert] A. Hunter while serving in the Louisiana State Senate, and his wife, Sarah Jane, residing either on their plantation or their summer home in the "Pine Woods" in Rapides Parish or in Alexandria. In addition to love letters, correspondence includes description of political activities and also his service as an officer in the Mexican War. She relates news of family, friends, crops, and other local happenings. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4072.

Hunter, Napoleon Bonaparte. Family Papers, 1841-1968 (bulk 1870-1937). 79 items, 28 vols. Location: T:87, P:19. Mayor and merchant of Waterproof, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Papers include a ledger containing accounts with individuals and plantations in Tensas Parish and a Mayor's Record that extends through the administrations of Hartwig Moss, Joseph Gorton, and Napoleon B. Hunter. Also included are records and printed material of the Order of the Knights of Pythias, Tensas Lodge No. 84, and of the Woodmen of the World. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2360.

Iberville Parish (La.) Parish Court. Probate sale, 1837 February 14. 1 item. Location: Misc:P. A broadside for a probate sale to take place March 1837 in the Parish of Iberville (La.) for the estate of Robert Loyd. The items to be auctioned include the undivided half of a plantation, livestock, and slaves. Slaves are listed by name and their age. The item is signed by John Dutton, Parish Judge. In English and French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4892.

Inman, B. R. (Benajah R.), b. 1820. Family Papers, 1808-1888. .2 linear ft. (68 items). Location: B:50. Planter of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Inman inherited Smithland Plantation in 1863 from his aunt, Nancy Quine. Collection includes financial records; legal materials; correspondence; and miscellaneous and printed items. The financial and legal records document Smithfield Plantation and a dry goods store on it. Business letters to John Lee, a purchasing agent in New Orleans, deal with the price of cotton and other commodities. Slave bills of sale and labor contracts with sharecroppers are included. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Innerarity, John. Papers, 1800-1854. 48 items. Location: B:50. Vice Consul of France at Pensacola, Florida, and a member of the firm John Forbes and Company, which engaged in trade with Native Americans along the Gulf Coast. Correspondence documents shipment of goods, accounts, and purchases of slaves for a plantation in Georgia. Letters relating to Innerarity's French consular service (1835-1853) discuss land claims, political appointments, and the Mexican War. Some items in French and Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1271, 1273.

Jackson, Andrew. See: Andrew Jackson account.

Jackson, Willie, 1889-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (3 pages). Location: L:4700.282. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Jackson and his daughter, Emma Dell Peters, lived on Sterling Plantation; Jackson's grandparents were slaves. Jackson describes his childhood in Four Corners, work cultivating and harvesting sugarcane, and raising crops with his parents. He describes early transportation by horse, foot, and boat; churches in the area; and life on Sterling Plantation. Jackson also describes credit at the plantation store; illnesses; marriage customs; gambling on the card game 'Kotch'; use of French language; French language work songs; and schooling. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.282.

James, Francis Henderson. Papers, 1908-1958. 0.25 linear feet. Location: T:95, T:100. Graduate of LSU, World War I veteran, and chief engineer at Salsburg Sugar Factory on Helvetia Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Papers include a diary (1937-1958) kept during his employment as chief engineer in which he recorded formulas, calculations, cane crop data, and administrative notes; a 1915 LSU calendar that includes campus photographs; and family portraits and photographs of him as a cadet at LSU and during his military service; letters and clippings. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4960.

James Gilliam Kilbourne photographs ca. 1890. 2 items. Location: Pict.Coll:K. Jurist of Clinton, Louisiana. Includes a photograph of Kilbourne and his home Bonnie Burn, which was the site of a Civil War skirmish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 236.

Jefferson, Elizabeth. Collection, 1867-1885, ca. 1918. 10 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc. Reminiscences by Elizabeth Jefferson describing her antebellum Mississippi home, and the treatment of the slaves and free blacks on the plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2329.

Jenkins, John C. Family Papers, 1840-1900 (bulk 1840-1855). 89 items, 13 vols. Location: B:66, G:21, Mf. Experimental agriculturist and horticulturist and resident of Elgin Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Personal papers and diary of the Jenkins family. The diary records results of Jenkins' experiments at Elgin, plantation routine, financial transactions, social and literary activities, and travels. Purchases of slaves and health of slaves are noted. Jenkins' account book shows expenditures for the home, family, plantations, and slaves. Correspondence includes Civil War letters from Jenkins' son, a Confederate soldier. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 141, 142, 184, 187. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Johnson (Alfred Grima) Family Papers, 1805-2001 (bulk: 1850-1950). 0.6 linear feet. Locations: 111:7, OS:J. Retired Central Intelligence Agency officer and historic preservationist. Collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal documents, research notes, photographs, and other records pertaining to the Grima, Montegut, Pitot, Foley, and Pugh families of South Louisiana. The records were accumulated for the purpose of studying genealogy and family history. Contains records in both English and French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 5005. Complete Finding Aid. PDF

Johnson, Bradish. Account books, 1819-1896 (bulk 1868-1886). 3 ms. vols. Location: F:18. Owner of Whitney Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Time book (1868) and pay roll book (1880-1886) for Whitney Plantation; an anonymous ledger containing accounts with early residents of St. John the Baptist Parish (1819-1822); and copies of letters written from Whitney Plantation (1896). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 753.

Johnson, William T. Family Papers, 1793-1937 (bulk 1830-1870).1,323 items, 58 ms. Vols., 5 printed vols. Location: U:161, O:24, 65:, TC.  African-American barber and planter of Natchez. Personal papers, commercial records, diaries, and music of the Johnson family reflecting the condition of cultured and educated free persons of color both before and after the Civil War. Available on microfilm 5322: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 1-6. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 529, 561, 597, 770, 926, 1093. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Jones, James M. Plantation Journals, 1854-1888 (bulk: 1855-1880). 6 items, 2 mansucript volumes, 1 mf reel. Location: Vault:64, Mss.Mf:B. James M. Jones was a cotton planter of Poplar Ridge Plantation, Rodney, Jefferson County Miss. Plantation journals (volume 1: 1854-1861, 1876-1880) and (volume 2: 1861-1866) record the weather, work done by his hands on the cotton, corn, pea, and fruit crops, the dates of the first cotton bloom for the year, and the amount of cotton picked. Farmers almanacs for 1876-1878 and 1880, as well as accounts with merchants, have been sewn into volume one. In addition to plantation work, volume two contains a few notations of Union soldiers in the area and the activities of freedmen (1864), as well as mentions of Jones's furloughs from the 4th Mississippi Cavalry. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4824. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4824.

Keary, Patrick F. Letters, 1848-1855. 19 items. Location: Misc. Planter of Ben Lomand Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Letters to Wylie and Egana (1848) and Juan Y. de Egana (1849-1855), brokers in New Orleans, concerning business matters on Keary's cotton plantation, Ben Lomand, and his sugar plantation Catalpa Grove, on Bayou Boeuf, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1053.

Keller family. Plantation records, 1858-1937 (bulk 198-1923). 1.9 linear ft. (9 items, 17 vols., 1 microfilm reel). Location: Misc:K, P:16, Mss.Mf:K. The Keller family owned Welham Plantation and operated a store in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes antebellum slave record books (1858-1860), and plantation and store ledgers, cashbooks, daybooks, and receipts. Slave record books are on microfilm. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3010.

Kelly, Lou M. Reminiscences and Letters, [1905], 1925. 3 items. Location: E:4. Lou Kelly lived at Ranson Plantation, St. Charles Parish, La. Kelly's reminiscences and letters pertain to an African American labor riot in St Charles Parish in 1880. Kelly wrote the reminiscences in 1905 for author Helen Pitkin Schertz's fictionalized account of the riot. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4796.

Kendrick, Benjamin. Papers, 1806-1894 (bulk 1810-1840). .7 linear ft. (611 items). Location: U:170. Cotton planter and slaveholder of the Feliciana parishes, Louisiana. In 1823 he moved from St. Francisville (West Feliciana Parish) near Jackson (East Feliciana Parish) and in 1830 he established Asphodel Plantation there. Collection includes legal papers, bills, receipts, and correspondence. Papers document medical care for family members and slaves; and include letters from New Orleans merchants and a letter from a Missouri slave dealer (1836). Some materials relate to David J. Fluker of East Feliciana Parish, Kendrick's son-in-law. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 11-12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 906. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Kenner, Duncan Farrar, 1813-1887. Papers, 1838-1905 (bulk 1838-1894). .8 linear ft. (342 items, 2 ms. vols., 1 printed vol.). Location: A:51, F:4, Vault:1. Planter of Ashland, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and Confederate diplomat. Financial, legal, and personal papers related to Ashland Plantation and Kenner's investments and business dealings in New Orleans, especially leasing the New Basin Canal in New Orleans and horse racing, as well as to Kenner's diplomatic mission to France on behalf of the Confederacy. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reel 14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 198, 1402, 1477. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Kenner family. Papers and diaries, 1844-1892 (bulk 1844-1856). .65 linear ft. (49 items; 8 vols.). Location: C:30. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B Reel 10 and Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 5. Residents of Oakland Plantation, Jefferson Parish; and Roseland Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Both were sugar and rice plantations. Papers and volumes pertaining to the William B. Kenner family consist of personal correspondence, a diary, and two memorandum books. Included are letters from Kenner's grandson, Lieutenant Philip Minor Kenner, during his service in the Confederate army. Plantation diaries and correspondence of Charles Oxley, Kenner's son-in-law and husband of Martha Kenner, record activities at Roseland Plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 775. Complete Finding Aid

Kenner, William, 1776-1823. Papers, 1802-1832, n.d. 371 items. Location:  T:30. New Orleans factor and commission merchant affiliated with John Oldham and Richard Clague in a general mercantile and commission business under the firm name of William Kenner & Company. Business and personal papers of Kenner document territorial and antebellum economic and social life at New Orleans; conditions on the eve of the War of 1812; and details of the Battle of New Orleans. Included are papers relating details received at New Orleans on the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; and papers reflecting slavery and plantation life in Louisiana and Mississippi.Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 12-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1477, 1491. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Ker, John, 1789-1850. Family Papers, 1803-1862. 27 items, 1 vol. Location: S:108. Medical doctor of Good Hope Plantation of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, and the father of Mary Susan and William H. Ker. Papers include letters from Stephen Duncan, Sr., of Natchez, Mississippi, and Philadelphia, to Dr. John Ker; and Civil War letters from William H. Ker, a Confederate soldier. Collection also includes a diary (1850-1851) of Mary Susan Ker with details on For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4720.

Key, Philip B. Letter, 1851. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter to Thomas T. Haley concerning activities and death of Haley's father, who served as overseer on a plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2466.

Kilbourne, James Gilliam, 1828-1893. Family Papers, 1817, 1869-1939 (bulk 1869-1939). .3 linear ft., 2 vols. Location: T:29. Planter, jurist, state legislator, Confederate captain, and member of the law firm Fuqua and Kilbourne of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers include letters to Mrs. James Gilliam Kilbourne from her children; and verse and music composed by a daughter, Margaret Gayden Kilbourne Breedlove. They also document family history, the Kilbourne library, and the succession of Peter Gilliam. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1058.

Kilbourne, James Gilliam, 1828-1893. Family Papers, 1838-1899. 565 items, 43 vols. Location: E:5-7, G:13, OS:K. Planter, jurist, state legislator, Confederate captain, and member of the law firm Fuqua and Kilbourne of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Collection contains personal and business papers of three generations of the Kilbourne family. Papers include documents related to Kilbourne's legal career, Civil War letters from Kilbourne to his wife, and records of the Comite Plantation. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 690, 730. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Kilbourne, James Gilliam. See also: James Gilliam Kilbourne photographs.

Kimball, Fredrick. Letters, 1804-1812, 1833. 21 items. Location: Vault:11. Cotton planter of Pinckneyville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory. Letters (originals and typescripts) refer to the embargo in the West Florida Rebellion and alleged mistreatment by the United States of the rights of persons in the Mississippi Territory after the annexation of the Florida Parishes to the Union. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932. Papers, 1851-1941, n.d. (bulk 1864-1932). 3,800 items, 6 ms. vols., 1 printed vol. and 26 microfilm reels. Location: UU:10-31, N:6, Vault:11 and Mss.Mf:K. New Orleans writer and historian. Correspondence, literary writings in notebooks, photographs, bound manuscript volumes, and printed material concern Grace King's literary career, historical interests, travels, and personal affairs. Diary 3 describes her childhood experiences at L'Embarass plantation in St. Martin Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1282.

King, Roswell, Jr. Diary, 1838-1845. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:19, BTC. Agent for the Butler family and farmer of South Hampton, Georgia. Entries record periodic trips to the plantations on Butler Island and give routine plantation information. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 20. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 201.

King, William W. Family Papers, 1833-1954 (bulk 1868-1936), n.d. ca. 8,802 items. Location: 36. New Orleans lawyer and the father of writer Grace King. Personal and family papers of King consisting of correspondence and bills and receipts concerning the law firm of Elmore and King; L'Embarrasse Plantation in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; and hardships during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also included are papers concerning the education of the children; the social, cultural, religious, and economic life of New Orleans; the anti-lottery movement; and travel in the U.S. and Europe. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1282.

Kleinpeter, Andrew. Papers, 1827-1833. 20 items. Location: B:40. Resident of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Correspondence from relatives in Spencer County, Kentucky; and letters from James Neilson, attending school in Lexington, Kentucky, commenting on Henry Clay after attending a party in his home, and mentioning a shooting by supporters of Clay and Jackson. Included business letters of Isidor Larguire, cotton broker, of New Orleans; and a letter of A. Jones, Baton Rouge, concerning the treatment of cholera. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 238.

Kleinpeter, Joseph, b. 1798. Family Papers, 1817-1895. .25 linear ft. (51 items, 1 ms. vol., 1 printed vol.). Location: C:63, OS:K, 99:. Sugar planter of Variety Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Papers include land records, slave sales, mortgages, and succession documents. A record book includes entries of slave births (1822-1852). There are also Civil War military papers and two Bureau of Refugees labor contracts (1865-1866). Some items in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 9. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1241. Complete finding aid

Lanaux, George. George Lanaux and Family Papers, 1830-1915. 3 linear ft. (3,100 items). Location: UU:61-63, J:9, OS:L, 104-105. Planter of Bellevue Plantation in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and later president of the New Orleans Insurance Association. Papers include correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, and photographs documenting the Lanaux family, plantation management, slave holdings, and land sales. Partly in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reels 11-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1318.

Landry, Charles. Mortgage, 1860. 1 item. Location: Misc. Mortgage on a sugar plantation in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, giving the size of the plantation and names and ages of slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1927.

Landry, Elu. Estate record book, 1848-1851. 1 ms. vol. Location: Mf. Louisiana sugar planter. Record book kept by administrator of Landry's estate includes accounts of money paid and received by the estate; a list of debts; and a plantation diary (1848-1850). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3106.

Landry (Theodore E. and Lou Bird) Papers, 1931-1984. 15,000 items. Location: Z:30-31, Z:33, 43:26-28, 43:30-34, 82, 104-105. Landscape architects in Port Allen, La., Theodore E. and Lou Bird Landry were active in projects to restore plantation gardens to historical accuracy and donated their services to landscape churches in the Baton Rouge diocese. Personal and professional papers include correspondence, lectures, scrapbooks, and client files comprised of drawings, plans, photographs and color slides relating to landscape architecture. Mss. 3771. For additional information, see online catalog or complete finding aid (PDF).

Landry, Severin. Family Papers, 1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882). 148 items, 2 vols. Location: U:199, G:15. Sugar planter of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes personal and family correspondence, business and financial records, plantation regulations, and a daybook (1846-1849) and journal (1846-1865) kept by Dufossard Landry recording sales of plantation produce. Chiefly in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 8. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 210.

LaReunion Plantation document, 1812. 1 item. Location: Misc. Plantation located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Sheriff's seizure and sale of LaReunion Plantation to Charles V. M. Pelletier includes an inventory of property and slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 508.

Laughlin, Clarence John. Papers, 1941-1969. 44 items, 1 vol. Location: E:45. Louisiana photographer. Papers include a heavily annotated copy of Louisiana: A Guide to the State (1941). Loose notes refer to plantations mentioned in the book. Miscellaneous items include some correspondence, brochures, newspaper and magazine clippings, and maps. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4538.

Lazaro, Ladislas. Papers, 1894-1928. 6,046 items, 29 ms. vols., 189 printed vols. Location: C:37-43, P:4, Z:16. Louisiana physician, state senator, U.S. congressman, and planter. Papers include medical account and record books, political papers and correspondence, and personal correspondence. Political papers reflect his interest in agriculture and the tariff question, state and local politics, and related national matters. Some bound volumes include material about World War I. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1113, 1149.

LeBlanc, Auguste. Family Papers, 1812-1866 (bulk 1859-1866). 5 items (includes 1 vol.). Location: Misc:L, G:16. Cotton planter on Happ Retreat Plantation near Grosse Tete, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Papers consist of documents relating to Octave LeBlanc of Plaquemines Parish and Louis LeBlanc of St. Martin Parish. A plantation record book kept by Auguste LeBlanc contains entries for daily work performed and slave assignments. Memoranda discuss runaway slaves in Baton Rouge with the federal army in the Civil War, an expense account of building materials used to construct the Grosse Tete Chapel, and accounts with neighbors. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 17. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 214.

Lebret diary, 1858-1861, 1977 (bulk 1858-1861). 1 item, 1 vol. and 1 microfilm reel. Location: Vault:12 and Mss.Mf:L. The Lebret family of Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, La., was headed by Peter (a.k.a. Pierre) Lebret, French-born owner and operator of Lebret and Hearsey, a general merchandising firm in Bayou Sara, and Fancy Point Plantation. Diary, probably written by Peter Lebret's sister-in-law. She mentions caring for children and slaves, teaching children, sewing, housekeeping, business dealings in trying to purchase more land, Waterloo Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, and local and family news. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3504.

Leidigh, Jacob M. Correspondence, 1859-1860. 4 items. Misc. Letters by Northerners teaching music at the Brooksville Academy in Mississippi, to their brother, giving their impressions of slavery in Mississippi. They also describe travel and Colonel Brooks' plantation home. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1598.

Leonard, Theodule. Papers, 1841-1896. 135 items. Location: C:55. Planter, tax collector, and sheriff of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and captain of Company O of the West Feliciana Regiment of the Louisiana Militia in the Civil War. Letters relate Confederate maneuvers around Columbus, Kentucky. Some papers and letters in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1209.

Leverich Company. Correspondence, 1839-1848. 5 items. Location: Misc. Cotton factors of New York and New Orleans. Letters of J. H., Henry L., and Charles P. Leverich concerning business and family matters. Included is a letter from Charles P. Leverich describing a sea voyage from New York to New Orleans in 1845. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2466.

Leverich Company. Papers, 1830-1851, n.d. 149 items. Location: W:11. Cotton factors of New York and New Orleans. Letters pertain to New Orleans business and banking conditions, shipping between New York and New Orleans, and family matters. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2998.

Leverich, Charles P. Correspondence, 1834-1847. 69 items. Location: A:56. Factor of New York City associated with J. H. Leverich and Company of New Orleans. Correspondence consists of letters from New Orleans merchants and factors including Maunsel White. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2418.

Leverich, Charles P. Correspondence, 1843-1853. 12 items. Location: Misc. Factor of New York City associated with J. H. Leverich and Company of New Orleans. Letters from a New Orleans factor comment on the effect of the Oregon Question on the sugar market. Letters from St. Mary Parish planters refer to shipping sugar and other cargo, a mortgage on Leonidas Polk's plantation, floods, and the parish's health. Letter from William J. Minor of Natchez mentions his interest in horse racing and comments on his son's finances in relationship to Yankee thriftiness. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1078, 1220, 1352, 1506.

Liddell Family Papers, 1850-1869, n.d. 23 items. Location: C:61. Letters from members of the Liddell Family pertain to the California Gold Rush, the migration of Southern planters to South America after the Civil War, and financial aid offered by Southern colleges to prospective students during Reconstruction. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under George M. Lester Collection. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Liddell, Moses and St. John Richardson. Family Papers, 1813-1919 (bulk 1838-1870). 6,261 items, 39 ms. vols., 10 printed vols., 11 mf reels. Location: U:200-209, G:21, 98:, Mf., Mss.Mf:L. Planters of Elmsley Plantation, Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and Llanada Plantation near Trinity, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. St. John Richardson Liddell was Moses Liddell's son. Papers consist of plantation records, personal correspondence, business and legal papers, account books, notebooks, and plantation diaries. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 531.

Lobdell (John L. and Family) Papers, 1817-1912 (bulk: 1825-1890). 0.5 linear feet. Location: A:78; H:12; OS:L. A lawyer and planter in West Feliciana and West Baton Rouge Parishes who experienced financial difficulties as a result of the Civil War. Consists of legal documents, financial records, correspondence, certificates and a cotton book from Arbroath Plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4359. Complete Finding Aid. PDF

Lockett, Noland, 1938-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (1.5 hours), Index (7 pages). L:4700.284. Resident of Four Corners, a community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Lockett, the great-grandson of a migrant sugarcane worker from the Caribbean, was a building contractor and former associate dean of a junior college. Lockett discusses the logging industry at Four Corners; the origin and history of the Lockett clan; local sugar growing and South Coast Plantation; service by African Americans in the Korean War; the plantation store system; and race relations. Lockett also discusses his seminary experience; plans for a private school in the area; and recalls childhood memories of Mardi Gras; gambling and his father; and social conditions of his community. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.284.

Lopez, Manuel. Papers, 1802-1835. 26 items. Location: U:211. Planter of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, superintendent of the Spanish royal warehouse in New Orleans, and Justice of the Peace of East Baton Rouge Parish. Papers of Manuel Lopez, a description of the boundaries of Distrito de la Feliciana (1802), and an inventory of the department of forts. Also included is the will of Juan Perez. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 721.

Louisiana pictures, 1720-1865. 17 items. Location: Old Map Case. Prints include John Law's concession at New Biloxi; a plantation on Bayou Goula, Louisiana; the Civil War Battle of New Orleans sketched by a federal soldier; federal gunboats passing Port Hudson, Louisiana; and Jackson Station after it was burned. Also included are reprints of Civil War scenes of Port Hudson and Baton Rouge from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly Newspaper. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1733.

Louisiana postal cards, n.d. 2 items. Location: Impr. 2 items. Postcards of a crawfish race at Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; and of Kolb's Restaurant in New Orleans. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2600.

Louisiana Postcard Collection, 1904-1951. 507 items. Location: 11:4. Postcards depict subjects, especially churches, schools, and some plantations in towns and regions of Louisiana. Louisiana towns and regions best represented in the collection include Abita Springs, Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Bogalusa, Convent, Covington, Donaldsonville, Franklin, Hammond, Houma, Jennings, Lake Charles, Mandeville, Monroe, Morgan City, New Orleans, Plaquemine, Saint Francisville, Shreveport, and Thibodaux. Included is a photograph depicting three women in front of a plantation house. The photograph is labeled "Alice Emilie Knapp, Forrest Home." For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3654. Complete finding aid

Louisiana Sugar Planters Association. Papers, 1905-1911. 644 items. Location: U:212-213. Sugar planters' association based in New Orleans. Correspondence of the association. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1492.

Louisiana Sugar Planters Association. Records, 1897-1908. 205 items, 1 vol. Location: U:212, G:16. Sugar planters' association based in New Orleans. Records include meeting minutes (1877-1891) and correspondence related to sugar cane growing, immigrant plantation workers, and organizational changes. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 266.

Lowery, June Amy. Manuscript, 1976. 1 ms. vol., 12 items. Location: Misc., OS:L. Author and resident of Delano Plantation, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Collection consists of manuscript with original illustrations of the children's book Ah Ain't Got Nobody (Opelousas, 1976), and photolith plates used in printing the book. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3068.

Loyd, Gladys Means, d. 1984. Family Papers, 1904-1975. 462 items, 9 ms. vols., 1 printed vol. Location: UU:215, P:18, 99:L. Schoolteacher of Ida (Caddo Parish) and St. Joseph (Tensas Parish), Louisiana. Papers include correspondence and genealogical notes on Ida, Louisiana, families; photograph albums on plantations, including Hundred Oaks Plantation in Baton Rouge; and scrapbooks on the history of Ida and Tensas Parish. Collection also includes ledgers of the Ida Hardware Store owned by James Taylor Means. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3224.

Lyons, Henry A. Papers, 1829, 1834-1877, n.d. 611 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: UU:106. Lawyer of St. Francisville, Louisiana, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of California in San Francisco (1840); third husband of Eliza Pirrie Bowman, the owner of Oakley Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Personal and legal papers including his address to the first term of the Supreme Court and other papers regarding his work as judge. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1382.

Macarty, Jno. (John). Family Papers, 1764-1935 (bulk 1764-1837). 9 items. Location: B:50. Native of France and resident of New Orleans. Macarty owned a plantation home near New Orleans which was used by Andrew Jackson as a field headquarters in 1815. Papers pertain to the estate of John Macarty and include a forty-page inventory of the contents of his New Orleans residence and the Macarty plantation home. Also included is a roll of the Royal Legion of the Mississippi Militia (ca. 1798). In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 270, 496.

MacKowen, John C. (John Clay), 1842-1901. Papers, 1846-1966 (bulk 1897-1901). 103 items, 3 printed vols. Location: E:64. Planter and physician of Jackson, Louisiana, and owner of a property in Anacapri, Italy. Letters concern the education of John MacKowen and his brothers in New England schools, MacKowen's Confederate service during the Civil War, the education of African Americans by plantation women, and the MacKowen property in Italy. Some letters and papers in Italian and French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2465.

Macrery, Andrew, 1775-1843. Papers, 1795-1855, n.d. 46 items, 3 ms. vols. Location: S:121. Planter of Natchez, Mississippi, and owner of Roseland and Springfield plantations. Family correspondence concerns social life, health, and medical practices. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 10-11. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1403.

Madewood Plantation titles and deeds, 1816-1906. 1 ms. vol. [1 reel microfilm]. Location: Mf. Plantation located in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Copies of titles and deeds to Madewood Plantation record transfers of land ownership to the Pugh family and later through successions within the family. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Titles and deeds of Madewood Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2924.

Magnolia Mound sale document, 1837, 1841. 2 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc. Plantation in Baton Rouge. Sales agreement records terms of transfer of property from owners Bernard and Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil Villars to Achille Murat. Included is a document recording the cancellation of the contract in 1841. Copied from the original in the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3059.

Magruder, Eliza L. Diary, 1846-1857. 2 vols., 1 typescript. Location: G:17. Young woman of Locust Plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, the home of her aunt and uncle, Olivia and Joseph Dunbar (d.1846). Diary comments on local social events and amusements; visiting friends; births and deaths; and treatment, care of, and unrest of slaves. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 34. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 654.

Magruder, Samuel Bertron, Jr. Collection, 1968, 1971. 7 items. Location: Misc. LSU student. Photographs of the ruins of Windsor Plantation house, near Port Gibson, Mississippi, and related subjects. Included in the collection is a newspaper article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune about Windsor. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2570.

Mandeville, Henry D. (Henry David), 1781-1878. Family Papers, 1815-1925 (bulk 1854-1883). 2 linear ft. (1,776 items), 6 ms. vols. Location: U:214-216. Henry D. Mandeville, originally from Philadelphia, was a factor in trade with China; his son Henry, Jr., was a lawyer in Natchez, Mississippi. Two other sons, Theodore and Ellwyn, served in the Confederate army. Collection includes personal and business correspondence documenting life in Natchez and New Orleans; the operation of Westwood Plantation (owned by Henry, Jr.), in Louisiana; and Civil War papers of Theodore and Ellwyn. Papers also include letters referring to musical performances in Arkansas, Virginia, Natchez, New Orleans, and Chicago; and materials documenting civilian life in New Orleans in the Civil War. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 3-6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 491, 535.

Marchand Gin Company. Cotton book, 1900. 1 vol. Location: G:18. Cotton book of the Marchand Gin Company recording cotton ginned and shipped from September to December, 1900. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 280.

Marchant (James Alexander) Family Papers, 1860-1934 (bulk 1860-1887). 0.4 linear feet. Location E:112. Personal correspondence and papers, one diary, and photographs pertaining to the Marchant and DeArmond families of Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and, later, Brazil. Letters pertain primarily to conditions in Clinton and East Feliciana Parish after the Civil War, including labor relations with freedmen. A few Civil War letters are also present and pertain to the Battle of Vicksburg, the C.S.S. Arkansas, and Ship Island, Miss. Also included is a letter of introduction for James Marchant from the citizens of Clinton to those of Brazil, a diary kept by the Marchants' son Madison chronicling their journey to Brazil, and photographs of family members, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E. Johnston. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3641. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Marshall, George B. (George Benoist). Family Papers, 1807-1900 (bulk 1850-1880). .5 linear ft. Location: B:41, J:7. Sugar and cotton planter of Crescent Plantation, Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and captain in the Confederate army. Collection includes records, daybooks, bills, receipts, and other documents related to the plantation. Includes a 1866 record of fines imposed on African Americans for breaking the peace. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reels 12-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 969. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Marshall, John J. Plantation ledgers, 1866-1899. 4 ms. vols. Location: Mf. Owner of Allendale Plantation, near Stonewall, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Plantation ledgers record wages and supplies given to freedmen laborers and include accounts of the Trinity Mission and the All Saints Church, rent records, crop production, and sick days of each laborer. Another ledger records butter production. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3025.

Marshall, Maria Chotard. Family Papers, 1819-1868. 48 items. Location: S:126. Family of businessmen and planters whose branches settled in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Letters of Sarah Foster Chotard to her daughter Maria Louisa Marshall, and Maria's to her sister Eliza Gould, discuss family, legal, and business affairs, social life, travel, and Civil War experiences. Memoirs by Eliza Gould deal with family history. Collection includes a biographical sketch of David Hunt, a wealthy planter of Natchez, Mississippi, and his wife Anne Ferguson Hunt. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3256.

Marshall-Furman Family Papers, 1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905). 3,046 items, 35 vols., 8 microfilm reels. Location: W:59-68, OS:M, Mss.Mf. Henry Marshall was a cotton planter and a member of the Louisiana Senate. S. C. Furman, Marshall's son-in-law, was a medical doctor and officer in the Louisiana Second Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Correspondence deals with politics, economics, agriculture, and the Civil War. Also included in the collection are financial and professional papers, a muster roll, diary, account book, memorandum book, map, and scrapbook materials. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2740, 4042. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Marston, Henry, 1794-1884. Family Papers, 1820-1938 (bulk 1850-1890). 2,104 items, 59 vols. Location: U:220-222, G:19. Planters of East Feliciana Parish and Red River Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes diaries; plantation records; legal documents; personal correspondence; bank records; and Civil War papers. Diaries comment on public health, yellow fever epidemic, race relations, labor and the political participation of African Americans. Other volumes record activities of the Clinton & Port Hudson Railroad and the Silliman Female Collegiate Institute. Papers of son , Bulow, reflect his activities as planter, steamboat operator, and warehouse owner. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm 5735 and 6061: University Publications of America, Confederate Military Manuscripts, Series B, Reel 13 and Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 14, or For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 624. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Martin, Robert Campbell, b. 1839. Papers, 1767-1932. 241 items, 75 vols. (68 ms. vols., 8 printed vols.). Location: C:9, OS:M, O:18-19, 98. Sugar planter of Albemarle Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, and son of Robert Campbell Martin and Mary Winfred Pugh. Martin served as first lieutenant in the 26th Louisiana Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. Papers include Pugh family property and estate records such as deeds and leases, an estate inventory, powers of attorney, and a promissory note. Other papers include a funeral notice, marriage license, muster roll, receipts, and voter registration form. Also included are record books of Albemarle Plantation, memorandum books, newspaper clippings, and printed items. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reels 7-11. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1045. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Martin, Sigur. Papers, 1905-1912. 236 items, 16 ms. vols. Location: U:211, G:18. Sugar planter of Grand Point Plantation and a dealer in general merchandise and liquor in Paulina, St. James Parish, Louisiana. He later held office in the Treasury Department in Baton Rouge. Collection includes store records, accounts, invoices, and receipts, many with Baton Rouge merchants. Some items document Martin's management of a sugarcane plantation. Included are letters from the Colonial Sugars Company listing cane deliveries from tenant farmers working on Grand Point Plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 460.

Martin, W. L. Collection, 1831, 1863, 1869. 4 items. Location: 99:. Copy of a Benjamin Levy (New Orleans) imprint of a sugar statement for the year 1831 by Pierre A. Degelos which gives the names of the sugar planters by parishes; and three Thibodaux, Louisiana, newspapers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1904.

Mason, Polly, 1855-1974, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1971. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), 10 pages. Location: L:4700.41. Former slave, born at Ulster Plantation near Alexandria, Louisiana. Mason was 115 years old at the time of the interview, and was residing in Woodworth, Louisiana. Mason describes her master, Judge Henry Boyce, and her life on his cotton plantation in Boyce, Louisiana. Included are her memories of Union soldiers in Louisiana during the Civil War and her sadness upon the assassination of President Lincoln. Mason also recalls the establishment of a station for the Texas and Pacific Railroad in the area, and her first view of an airplane. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.41.

Mather, George. Account books, 1782-1845. 4 vols. Location: G:18. Resident of St. James Parish, Louisiana. Plantation account books, including a journal of Acadia Plantation in Baton Rouge. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 8. For further information, see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 283, 568. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Mather, Joseph. Diary, 1852-1859 (bulk 1855-1856). 1 vol. Location: G:18. Superintendent of Aurora Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Diary relates the day-by-day activities on a sugar plantation, noting the weather, work done at various times of the year, condition of crops, and health of slaves and stock. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 285.

Mathews, Charles Lewis, 1824-1864. Family Papers, 1797-1898 (bulk 1840-1872). 1908 items; 2 ms. vols. Location: U:224-227, OS:M. Family of Greenwood Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Charles Mathews was the son of George and Harriet Flower Mathews, husband of Penelope Stewart. Papers document the family's plantations, managed by women: Greenwood, Georgia (Raceland), Coco Bend, and Chaseland, Rapides Parish. Included are factors' statements, slave records, overseer's letters; freedmen's contracts; and Civil War soldiers' letters. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 14-17. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 910.

Mathews-Ventress-Lawrason Family Papers, 1770-1934. (bulk 1797-1798; 1820-1838; 1860-1876; 1919-1933). 3 linear feet. Location: UU: 255-258, OS:M. Families were cotton and sugar planters of West Feliciana, Lafourche, and Pointe Coupee Parishes, Louisiana. 19th century papers reflect planting activities of Mathews family; 20th century materials reflect real estate management and investment activities of the Ventress and Lawrason families. Papers include personal and business correspondence, printed items, newspaper clippings, financial records, and legal documents. Financial papers centering on Harriet Flower Mathews, and records of legal work for Penelope Stewart Mathews. Ventress-Lawrason correspondence primarily addressed to Sallie Mathews Ventress, including series of letters from cousin Mrs. M. M. Slaughter. Also legal documents for land purchased by Sallie Mathews Ventress. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4358. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Maury Brothers. Ledger, 1851-1856. 1 vol. Location: M:20. James and Ruston Maury were cotton and commission merchants in New Orleans. Ruston Maury conducted company business in Liverpool, New York, Charleston, and Richmond. He was a member of Christ Church, New Orleans. Ledger records company income, expenses, and accounts of company partners. Accounts of cotton shipped and exported to England and the northern United States are included, along with smaller amounts of sugar and corn. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4676.

McCall, Henry. Speech, 1899. 1 item; typescript. Location: Misc. Speech, 'History of Evan Hall Plantation,' delivered by the Honorable Henry McCall to the Louisiana Historical Society, Nes, general plantation matters, and attendance at the theater. Travel diary (1866-1867) of Andrew McCollam contains entries for a trip to Brazil. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 550.

McCrindell, Thomas. Account book, 1851-1855. 1 vol. Location: J:12. Commission merchant of Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Daybook listing names of customers and daily expenditures credited to each customer for plantation supplies, storage, and shipping. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 913.

McCutchon, Samuel, 1820-1874. Family Papers, 1832-1890 (bulk 1832-1874). 104 items, 8 vols. (5 ms. vols., 3 printed vols.). Location: U:158, P:19, Misc:M. Manager of Ormond Plantation, Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, and manager (1866-1874) for the Young, Toledo and Company in Belize, British Honduras. Collection includes diaries documenting the operation and management of the sugar plantation and saw mills. Papers include business letters, record books, inventories, newspapers, broadsides, and plans. Includes papers and descriptions of plantation life in Belize. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reels 5-6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1049, 1087, 1060, 1109.

McDaniel-Gill. Letters, 1849-1859. 12 items. Location: Misc. Caroline McDaniel and her planter husband Robert D. Gill. Letters written in Mississippi and Louisiana relate to western emigration, family life, and economic difficulties. The last letter by Gill to Caroline's mother announces his wife's death. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3416.

McDonogh, John. Papers, 1799-1938 (bulk 1801-1850). 3,595 items and 2 printed vols. [typescript copies]. Location: X:63-65. General commission merchant of New Orleans and planter of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Papers consist primarily of business records, correspondence (1801-1850) with business associates, commission firms, merchants, planters, tenants and civil authorities. Papers also include personal correspondence, with some letters relating to the American Colonization Society and the Washington National Monument Society. Papers also relate to death, his will and the controversial issues of his estate. For further information, online catalog. Mss. 1247.

McGehee, J. Burruss (John Burruss), 1836-1913. Papers, 1816-1951. 15 linear ft. Location: C:34-35, UU:54-60, P:1, OS:M, Z. Plantation owner in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Collection includes letters, newspaper articles, business papers related to McGehee's plantations, and genealogical notes. One item records damage to Bowling Green Plantation during the Civil War, and a map (1874) shows an area of racial uprising. Includes a letter (1866) from Scotland about a Scottish immigrant. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1111.

McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. Family Papers, 1826-1912 (bulk 1903-1904). 35 items. Location: C:26, A:3. Planter and businessman of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. His grandfather, Edward McGehee, owned Bowling Green Plantation in Mississippi and was president of the West Feliciana Railroad. Papers include family letters, McGehee's autobiography, the history of a slave family, and financial documents. Includes items related to the destruction of Bowling Green Plantation in Mississippi by Union and African American troops. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2302, 2789.

McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. McGehee family collection, 1724-1929 (bulk 1862-1880). 5 ms. vols. Location: H:1. Planter and businessman of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. His grandfather, Edward McGehee, owned Bowling Green Plantation in Mississippi and was president of the West Feliciana Railroad. Collection contains typewritten copies of McGehee family papers including reminiscences, biographical sketches, genealogical notes, diaries, and obituaries. Includes an account of the Veal family, a family of slaves associated with the McGehees. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 326.

McKowen-Lilley-Stirling family papers, 1797-1921 (bulk 1877-1901). 829 items (on microfilm). Location: Mss.Mf. Thomas William Lilley founded Springfield Plantation in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. His daughter Edith married John Stirling. John McKowen, an Irish immigrant, was a resident of Jackson, Louisiana. Papers include Lilley-Stirling legal documents and financial papers; McKowen family correspondence; and legal papers, and medical correspondence of John C. MacKowen, a Louisiana physician. Other papers relate to McKowen's property in Anacapri, Italy. Some items in Spanish, Italian, French, and German. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4356. Complete finding aid.HTML | PDF

McMurran-Austen Family Papers, 1846-1878; 1942, undated (bulk:1856-1868). 0.6 linear feet. Location: U:298, OS:M. John T. McMurran family of Melrose in Natchez, owners of Louisiana plantations, son John, Jr., married Alie Austen of Maryland. Primarily correspondence related to family matters, the Civil War, home life, politics, plantation operation, and attitudes toward federal forces. Newspapers clippings, cartes de visites of family members, a household inventory, J. T. McMurran, Jr.'s discharge from the Confederate army in 1862, and military passes are also present. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4795. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

McMurran, John T., 1801-1866. Family Papers, 1820-1875. 94 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: S:121. Lawyer and state senator of Natchez, Mississippi. William B. Griffith was McMurran's law partner and brother-in-law. McMurran was married to Mary Louisa Turner McMurran, whose family owned Melrose Plantation near Natchez. Correspondence and business and legal papers of John McMurran, his wife, and their daughter, concern travel, social life, and the administration of the Woodlands and Killarney plantations. Also included are estate papers of William B. Griffith and papers of William T. Griffith while he was a student at Oakland College in Mississippi. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reel 18. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1403. Mss. 1403.

McVea-Neville Family Papers, 1830-1917. 0.1 linear ft. Location: 50:15. Allied families of St. Francisville and Port Hudson, La. Personal correspondence; financial records comprised of tax rolls, credit account statements, bills and receipts; and documents related to family property, including property agreements, a plat map and court records from a family property dispute. Also includes a copy of a Confederate States army substitution affidavit, a congressional report booklet on abandoned property claims, a grade report for Albert McVea from Silliman Collegiate Institute. Mss. 3284. For additional information, see online catalog or Complete finding aid.

Meade, George G., 1815-1872. Letter, 1867 November 5. 1 item. Location: Misc. Union army general in the Civil War. Letter to the Commissioner of Agriculture seeking employment for his niece indicating that her family's plantation in Mississippi, on the direct route of Grant's army, had been destroyed. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2761.

Mercer, William Newton, 1792-1874. Papers, 1789-1936 (bulk 1827-1874). 2 linear ft. (1,558 items, 64 vols., 2 microfilm reels). Location: UU:79-81, Vault, OS:M. Surgeon and planter of Adams County, Mississippi; Louisiana; and Illinois. Collection includes slave records, diaries, business and personal correspondence, and financial documents. Correspondence includes letters from Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Butler. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 9-10, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Reels 1-3. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 292, 1051, 1233.

Merrick, Edwin Thomas, 1808-1897. Papers, 1830-1917 (bulk 1866-1871). 0.3 linear feet (229 items; 1 printed vol). Location: C:45, 99:M. Lawyer of New Orleans who served as chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He married Caroline Thomas of Cottage Hall Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Letters (1830-1838) from Merrick to his mother, Ann Merrick, and his brother, William Winston Merrick record Merrick's activities as a prep student in Wilbraham, Mass., and his law studies and early legal career in Ohio. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1137, 1752. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Merrill-Buckner Papers, 1787-1870 (1830-1860). 578 items. Location: U:228. A. P. Merrill of Natchez, Mississippi, was a physician and the cashier of the Agricultural Bank. Aylett Buckner settled in Natchez around 1830, where he was a prominent attorney, cotton factor, and director of the Commercial Bank of Natchez. Collection primarily consists of financial and legal papers of Merrill, Buckner, and Jane Dunbar Ferguson, a planter of Washington, Adams County, Mississippi. Other items include plats of the property of Abner Green and the deed to Patesi Plantation and its slaves. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 598.

Meullion family. Papers, 1776-1906 (bulk 1776-1796). 121 items. Location: U:230. Free black family of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Louis Augustin Meullion and his son Jean Baptiste (whose mother was a slave) were slaveholders; the son owned a plantation on Bayou Teche. Collection includes slave bills of sale, land sales, and other financial records; manumission papers for Maria Juana and her son Baptiste Meuillon; and an amnesty oath taken in 1865 by Miss Belazaire Meuillon. In French, English, and Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 243, 294.

Mignon, François. Journal, 1939-1970, 1992. ca. 17,000 items (on 41 microfilm reels). Location: Mss.Mf:M. Journalist, horticulturist, and curator of Cammie G. Henry's Melrose Plantation, Natchitoches Parish, La.. Correspondence, journal, writings, and subject files describe and relate to thirty years spent by Mignon at Melrose, which also served as an artists and writers colony. Among his corresondents are African American artist Clemintine Hunter and Louisiana writers Lyle Saxon and Harnett Kane. Many ideas expressed in the journal later appeared in 'Cane River Memo,' Mignon's column in the Natchitoches newspaper Enterprise. Microfilm of originals at the University of North Carolina. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4484.Complete finding aid.

Millard, Albert and Company. Account, 1834. 1 item. Location: Misc. Company located in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. Statement of account for plantation supplies from Albert Millard and Company to Messrs. Oulerbridge (?) Horsey and John Lee. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2186.

Millikin, James Shaw. Scrapbook, [1874]-1917 (bulk 1881-1898).11 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: U:238. Merchant and planter, of Millikin near Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Scrapbook. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1990.

Mills, John. Letters, 1795, 1807. 2 items. Location: Misc: M. Member of the West Florida Convention, planter on Alexander Creek, and merchant of Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Letters to a cousin, Gilbert Jackson of New York City. The 1795 letter comments on a slave insurrection in Pointe Coupee Parish. The 1807 letter comments on slavery and slave punishment in Louisiana, and on commerce on the Mississippi River. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1375.

Minor family photograph collection, 1885. 6 items. Location: E:73. William J. Minor was a sugar planter of Terrebonne and Ascension Parishes, Louisiana. His father, Stephen Minor, owned a plantation and a home in Natchez, Mississippi. Ayres P. Merrill was the U.S. Minister to Belgium. Collection contains formal portraits of William J. Minor, John Minor, Mrs. Minor (probably the wife of William J. Minor), and Ayres P. Merrill II. Included are photographs depicting Oakland, the Minor family home, and Elmscourt, the Merrill family home, also in Natchez. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3173.

Minor, Henry C. See: Henry C. Minor papers.

Minor, John. Account book, 1815-1823. 1 vol. [microfilm copy]. Location: Mf. Executor of the estate of his brother, Stephen Minor. Journal listing the income received from cotton and other produce on Concord Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi; Waterloo Plantation, Ascension Parish, Louisiana; and Lake Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1035.

Minor, Katherine Surget, 1834-1926. Letter, 1867 Dec. 5. 1 item. Location Misc: S. Katherine Surget Minor was a native of Natchez and wife of Natchez plantation owner John Minor. The Minor and Surget families owned several plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi. Letter to C.E. [Charles E.] Leverich expresses Minor's dissatisfaction with economic conditions in Reconstruction era Mississippi and an employee of the Freedman's Bureau. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4867.

Minor, Rebecca A. G. Papers, ca. 1860-1870. 786 pages. Location: Mf. Wife of William J. Minor and executrix of his estate. Case files of Rebecca Minor against the United States, filed in the U.S. Court of Claims, for the Civil War seizure by Union military authorities of sugar, molasses, and supplies at Hollywood and Southdowns plantations, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 857.

Minor, Stephen, 1760?-1815. Family Papers, 1774-1914 (bulk 1774-1891). 24 items, 1 printed vol. Location: Vault. Planter of the Concord Plantation and governor of the Spanish district of Natchez, Mississippi. Collection includes correspondence related to plantation and family matters in Mississippi and Louisiana; a sugar producer's license; a printed item signed by President John Adams; and a will. Includes land titles for property in Natchez, in Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 859, 947.

Minor, William J., 1807-1869. Family papers 1779-1941 (bulk 1830-1870). 410 items, 37 vols. Location: U:229-230, H:2, Mf. Sugar planter of Southdown and Hollywood Plantations in Terrebonne Parish and Waterloo Plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Minor was president of the Agricultural Bank of Natchez, Mississippi. Collection includes plantation records; banking papers; and personal correspondence of the Stephen, William J., and Henry C. Minor families of Natchez and Terrebonne Parish. Some letters in Spanish and French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reels 1-4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 519. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Minor, William J., 1807-1869. Papers, 1854-1862. 18 items, 2 printed vols. Location: U:229. Sugar planter of Southdown and Hollywood Plantations in Terrebonne Parish and Waterloo Plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Minor was president of the Agricultural Bank of Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include letters about horse racing written by Minor from Natchez, Mississippi, to a friend in Louisiana, and pamphlets related to horse racing and thoroughbred breeding. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 859.

Mississippi River Map Collection, ca. 1858-1878. 19 items, 1 manuscript volume, 4 CD ROMs and 1 microfilm reel. Location: OS:M, M:29, Mss.Mf:M., AA:(CD-ROM shelf). Loose manuscript maps of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Jefferson Parish and land along the river, showing land parcels, landings, land ownership, and changes in the course of the river, and a bound volume of cut and pasted in maps of the Mississippi River from above Vicksburg to New Orleans, showing land parcels, land ownership, and landings. Included in the volume are pieces of Marie Adrien Persac's NORMANS CHART OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM NATCHEZ TO NEW ORLEANS IN 1858. These maps depict the Mississippi River from above Vicksburg to New Orleans, showing land parcels, land ownership and plantation names, and landings For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4818. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Monette, James. Day book and diary of James Monette of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, 1848-1863. 1 vol. Location: G:17r. Cotton planter in Bastrop, Louisiana and the son of Samuel Monette. Typescript of a day book and diary, including frequent references to what the women were doing on a given day. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 16. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 590.

Monette, John W. Letters, 1850. 2 items. Location: Misc. Planter of Islington Plantation, Richmond, Louisiana. Letters from Monette to his brother, James Monette of Vicksburg, Mississippi, concerning personal and plantation matters. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 612.

Montgomery, George W. Papers, 1866-1932. 191 items, 43 vols. Location: B:18, P:23, P:2. Planter of Montrose Plantation, Tallulah, Madison Parish, Louisiana. Volumes contain records for the Montrose, Morgan Fields, Lower Banks, Cape Place, Okalona, and Islington Plantations. Entries chiefly relate to the accounts of tenant farmers and sharecroppers. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1015, 1091. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Montgomery, Joseph. Papers, 1806-1886. 233 items; 1 vol. Location: U:240, H:13. New Orleans cotton broker, owner of Belmont plantation near Port Gibson, Mississippi, and husband of Amelia Smylie. Papers of the Montgomery and Smylie families. Joseph's document financial matters; Amelia's written from Belmont relate to family matters, rumors of civil war, slaves, black laborers, shortages, and plantation management during Reconstruction. Available on microfilm: University Publication of America Records of Southern Plantation from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1019. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Moore, John, 1788-1867. Family Papers, 1831-1880. 47 items. Location: W:31. Sugar planter, judge, and politician of St. Mary, St. Landry, and Iberia parishes, Louisiana. Moore was a member of the Louisiana and U.S. House of Representatives; and built Magnolia Ridge and later owned Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia. Papers consist of legal and business papers and correspondence of Moore, his daughters, and his sons-in-law. Included are bills of lading, crop production statements, slave documents, mortgages, and promissory notes. The collection also includes land grants (1860) for acreage in Opelousas, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2973.

Moore, John, 1788-1867. Letter, 1823 August 23. 1 item. Location: Misc:M. Sugar planter, judge, and politician of St. Mary, St. Landry, and Iberia parishes, Louisiana. Moore was a member of the Louisiana and U.S. House of Representatives; and built Magnolia Ridge and later owned Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia. Letter from Opelousas, Louisiana, addressed to Messrs. Gales & Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C. It refers to an enclosed subscription payment of five dollars to be paid each to Benoit Vanille (?) and Clement A. Mudd. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2343.

Moore, Thomas Overton, 1804-1876. Papers, 1832-1877 (bulk 1856-1871). 711 items, 1 mf reel. Location: U:231, H:3, Mss.Mf:M. Sugar planter of Rapides Parish, Louisiana; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and state Senate; and governor of Louisiana (1860-1864). Moore fled Louisiana after the Civil War but later returned. Papers include personal correspondence, business papers, and political and legal documents. Antebellum materials include slave sales and accounts of physicians treating slaves. Papers from 1859 to 1871 deal largely with Moore's political activities. They include gubernatorial papers concerning his nomination, the Democratic Party, the transport of the state archives from Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Secession Convention, and other matters. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 18-19. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 305, 893, 1094. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Morancy, Honore P. Family Papers, 1780-1936 (bulk 1841-1897). 120 items; 2 printed vols. Location: C:73, M:14. French Catholic planter of Milliken's Bend, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Morancy's father emigrated from France to Santo Domingo before 1789; the children were orphaned and raised in Louisiana. Papers include family letters concerning social life, the Catholic Church, and education, in northeastern Louisiana and Kentucky. Confederate civilian letters describe hardships during the Civil War; later letters document relocation of refugees. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 16-17. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2430. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Moreland, William F. Diaries and account book, 1834-1867. 3 vols. [on microfilm]. Location: Mf., P:20. Resident of LaGrange, Georgia. Plantation diary and account book (1834-1849, 1861-1867); and typescripts of two small diaries of a trip from Macon County, Alabama, by way of New Orleans to Texas (1850). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 939.

Morgan Family Papers, 1772-1941 (bulk 1827-1911). 220 items, 7 vols. Location: Y:83, H:22. Planters and jurists of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Thomas Gibbes Morgan was a lawyer and judge. James Morris Morgan was a lawyer, planter, and journalist involved in politics. Relatives include the Frellsen, Hicky, Erksine, and Bunyan families. Correspondence, genealogical notes, family histories, and other papers document the Morgan, Frellsen, and related families. An autobiography by Margaret Benson Erksine (1840) describes her captivity with Shawnee Indians in Kentucky. Included is a grounds survey of the Baton Rouge State Capitol (1847) and a contract for the construction of a levee on Fairview Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2090.

Morris-Sibley Family Papers, 1846-1910 (bulk 1846-1879). 93 items; also available as a bound typescript. Location: A:2, H:3. Thomas Henry Morris moved from Wales to Louisiana and married Mary White Sibley in 1854. She was born in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and her family owned Mount Elon Plantation. Papers consist of family correspondence, including that of Mary Wells Sibley and Mary White Morris; Civil War correspondence of Thomas H. Morris and others; and letters from the Morris sons describing life at a school in North Carolina, 1878-1879. Available on microfilm 5750: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 34. For further information, see online catalog. Mss.562. For Complete Finding Aid PDF

Muggah-Glover-Guyther. Family Papers, 1844-1896, 1906, n.d. (bulk 1844-1852). 14 items. Location: UU:168. The Muggah, Glover, and Guyther families lived in Natchez, Mississippi and Pattersonville, Louisiana. Collection includes correspondence, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and photographs. Correspondence consists mostly of letters between women discussing marriage, family life, domestic obligations, religion, social events, and customs. Mss. 4790.

Murphy, Carolyn. Bound manuscript, 1967. Microfilm. Location: Mf. LSU graduate student in the Department of History. Term paper on Longwood Plantation in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2228.

Murrell, John D. Papers, 1839-1852. 41 items. Location: T:88. Resident of Lynchburg, Virginia, and owner of Tally-Ho Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Letters addressed to J. D. Murrell, some written by L. Hewett, overseer at Murrell's Tally-Ho Plantation. Other letters, concerning business, finance, and real estate are with the law firm of Preston & Rings, and with the attorney Shackleford. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3366.

Myers, W. G. Letter, 1865 March 26. 1 item. Location: Misc. Federal surgeon stationed at the U.S. army general hospital in Baton Rouge in the Civil War. Letter giving detailed information concerning the city of Baton Rouge and describing the plantation area along the Mississippi River in Southeastern Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1506.

Nashua Manufacturing Company. Correspondence, 1840-1841. 1 item. Location: E:57. Company located in Boston, Massachusetts. Correspondence of James S. Amory, treasurer of the Nashua Manufacturing Company, from company agents in New Orleans, about the purchase of cotton from factors for New England textile mills. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1383, 1404, 1417.

New Orleans cotton sales receipt, 1846 May 16. 1 item. Location: Misc. Receipt for 47 bales of cotton purchased by Fearn Crenshaw and Company, New Orleans, from John Robinson, giving weights of bales and charges. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3228.

New Orleans factors' letters, 1832-1851. 33 items. Location: B:11. Names of the factors listed on the inventory. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2414.

Newell, Robert Aiken, b. 1819. Papers, 1841-1887 (bulk 1863-1864). 250 items. Location: U:235, 65. Irish immigrant and owner of Oak Grove, Cheneyville, Louisiana. The collection consists chiefly of personal papers of Newell and family. Personal correspondence of the 1850s and 1860s reflects the plantation and social activities of the Newell, Forman, and Keary families. Some letters were written from Newell to his wife during a trip to his home in Ireland (1859). Civil War letters from family in the 16th Louisiana Infantry and 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery at camps in the state discuss the quality of Louisiana conscripts, provisions, the Red River campaign, Vicksburg, and deserters. Available on microfilm 5735: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 14. For further information, see Complete Finding Aid (PDF).

Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1793-1857. Letter, 1840 June 9. 1 item. Location: Misc. U.S. senator, Louisiana secretary of state, and planter from Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Letter to William G. Harrison from Baltimore referring to the quantity of sugar imported into the U.S. between 1838-1839. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3117.

Norwood Plantation Store. Ledger, 1887. 1 ms. vol. Location: F:14. Store owned by William A. West and Max C. Bridges, Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Ledger records sales of merchandise. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3036.

Norwood, Abel John, 1818-1896. Papers, 1844-1897.34 items, 6 ms. vols. Location: G:18, Misc:N, Mss.Mf:N. Judge and planter of Hollywood Plantation near what is now Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Norwood also owned several firms in the parish, was the proprietor of a commissary, a cotton gin, and a sawmill, and was a cotton factor. Manuscript ledgers and a cashbook reflect Norwood's activities as a planter, store owner, and commission merchant. Included are volumes relating to the estates of Elias and Catherine Norwood; J. and N. Nettles; and David E. Brunson. Diary of Hollywood Plantation records details of daily plantation management including accounts of the weather, the conditions of slaves, work done on the plantation, and the capture of runaway slaves. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 15, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 2, Reels 12-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1373.

Norwood, George, b. 1847. Papers, 1797-1901. .3 linear ft. Location: E:7. Planter and miller of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, who served on the police jury of the seventh ward for many years. He married Stella Currie, daughter of Malcolm M. Currie, a planter and former senator from Franklin County, Mississippi. Papers of George and Stella Norwood and related families include deeds and land grants in East Feliciana Parish and Franklin County, Mississippi. Correspondence and cotton trade records from Clinton to Port Hudson are included. Also included are the papers of Thomas W. Scott, judge of East Feliciana Parish, that pertain to the settlement of the estates of James Winter, William J. Boatner, James H. Cason, and G. W. Jelks. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 677.

Nottoway photograph, n.d. 1 item. Location: E:75. Plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Photograph of three men in a sugar house at Nottoway Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2600-73.

Oaklawn Manor Photograph (undated). 1 28 x 35 cm. Location: OS:O. Plantation house built by Louisiana Supreme Court Judge Alexander Porter in 1827. The house fell into disrepair after the Civil War. In 1927, steamboat captain C. A.Barbour purchased, restored, and rebuilt the house. Photograph depicting front and side view of Oaklawn Manor, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3268.

Occupied New Orleans Collection, 16 January-14 November, 1864. 7 items. Location: Misc: O. Certificates, receipts, and bills of lading. documenting business activities in occupied New Orleans, including the sale and shipping of corn and cotton and the purchase of groceries and soap. Three receipts and one certificate were issued to A[uguste] Lesseps of St. Clair Plantation in Plaquemines Parish, La. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4863.

Oge, John M. Papers, 1836-1937. .5 linear ft. Location: W:53-54, OS:O. Prominent resident, politician, and planter of Grand Coteau, Louisiana. His political offices included mayor of Grand Coteau, deputy sheriff of St. Landry Parish, and representative in the Louisiana State Legislature. Financial papers relate to the production of agricultural products. Early business correspondence discusses cotton and a property dispute. Personal correspondence from Oge's sons discusses employment, the military, and WWI. Political correspondence reflects the political atmosphere in Louisiana during the early 20th century with letters from the Louisiana governor's office, Huey P. Long, and political allies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4207.

Olcott, Joseph H. Letter, 1844 June 20. 1 item. Location: Misc. Cotton planter on the Red River above Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1860. Letter giving information on the economy of the Red River Valley and on persons in the Alexandria area. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2125.

Owen, George S. Account books, 1857-1906 (bulk 1874-1896). 36 vols. Location: H:8-9. Postmaster, commission agent, steamboat agent, and general store owner at Pilcher's Point, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Shapley Owen was a planter of Owenton Plantation, Bunch's Bend, East Carroll Parish. Collection consisting of volumes relating primarily to Owen's management of the general store at Pilcher's Point but including some records kept by Shapley Owen as a planter of Owenton Plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 332.

P. A. Giraud & Co. Letter, 1856 March 15. 1 item. Location: Misc:G. Commission merchants located in New Orleans, dealing in molasses and sugar. Edward James Gay, born in Virginia, married Lavinia Hynes. Upon his father-in-law's death, Gay assumed control of Hynes' property in Louisiana and moved there in 1856. Letter from New Orleans by P. A. Giraud and Company to Gay at Hynes Plantation 'near Plaquemine,' Louisiana, details the shipping schedule of molasses and sugar on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3313.

Palfrey Family Papers, 1776-1918. (bulk 1806-1875). 388 items; 21 vols. Location: 77:89, H:22, Mf, 99. Papers of John Palfrey (1768-1843), ship chandler and manager of Forlorn Hope Plantation, Bayou l'Albaye near St. Martinville, Louisiana, and his family, primarily sons John Gorham Palfrey, abolitionist, author, and minister of Boston, Mass. and William Taylor Palfrey, planter, judge, sheriff, and state senator of St. Mary parish. Collection includes documents related to plantation life and operation, papers related to the education of Palfrey's sons at Harvard University, War of 1812, land documents, and marriage certificates. George D. Palfrey, son of William T. Palfrey, was the proprietor of the Franklin Brick Yard. Business and plantation records of William and George Palfrey include account books for W. T. Palfrey and Company. Includes letters of Henry William Palfrey ([1855] and 1964 printed volume), New Orleans merchant, written from London and Paris during the summer of 1855 when he was American Commissioner to the Exposition Universelle at Paris, France. Some items in French and Spanish. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 6, Reel 12, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 1, Reels 1-4. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 333. Complete finding aid.

Patrick, R. W. Family Papers, 1803-1918 (bulk 1845-1900). 123 items, 8 ms. vols. Location: E:40, H:10. Deputy clerk of court of Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Personal papers and journal of Reuben Woodworth Patrick; the Civil War diary of his son, Robert D. Patrick; and excerpts from diaries of Patrick's grandson, Jay Nash of Nash Plantation, near Clinton. Earlyapers consist of land deeds of the Patrick family of New York state. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 686, 712.

Peck, Charles C. See: Charles C. Peck letter.

Percy, Leroy. Family Papers, 1894-1930. 5,509 items, 3 ms. vols. [on microfilm]. Location: Mf. Lawyer, plantation owner, and U.S. senator of Greenville, Mississippi. Papers reflecting Percy's wide interests and including topics such as administration of large scale cotton farming and factoring; employment of immigrant labor, mainly Italians; railroad and levee policies; state politics; and his world-wide travels. Also covered is Percy's relationship to family, friends, and adversaries. Of special interest is a collection of correspondence on his outspoken stand against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3275.

Peters, Emma Dell, 1941-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (6 pages). Location: L:4700.283. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Peters lived on Sterling Plantation; her great-grandparife in her large family. She also discusses Civil Rights legislation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.283.

Peyroux, Constance. Papers, 1832, 1835. 2 items. Location: Misc. Sale of a plantation and slaves in Faubourg Marigny, New Orleans, by the estate of Marie Eulalie Peyroux to Constance Peyroux; and sale of a plantation and slaves in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, by Pierre A. Peyroux to Constance Peyroux. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Peytavin, John Ludger, b. 1859. Papers, 1806-1937. 342 items, 43 vols. Location: C:27-29, O:17, OS:P, 99:P. Attorney, author, composer, and planter of Ancient Domain Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and of New Orleans. Business and professional papers concern the operation of Peytavin's plantation and law practice. Personal papers include correspondence, manuscript copies of poems, songs, speeches, and historical sketches. Collection also includes programs for New Orleans theater, opera, and concert performances. Most of the legal papers before 1843 are in French, as is some of the post-1885 correspondence. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 465, 1067, 1071, 1072.

Peytavin, John Ludger, b. 1859. Papers, 1852-1915. 102 items. Location: UU:84. Attorney, author, composer, and planter of Ancient Domain Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and of New Orleans. Collection includes letters, bills and receipts, and photographs, chiefly of Jefferson College in Convent, Louisiana, which Peytavin a planter, manufacturer, and steamboat owner of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Papers and account books of Captain Pharr and records of the J. N. Pharr and Sons, Limited. Papers and volumes cover the operation of all the Pharr holdings including several plantations, Glenwild Sugar Refinery, the Fairview Dairy, and the Pharr Line. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 555.

Picture Collection. Location: E:65-80. Collection consists of photographs and reprints of steamboats and river scenes; pictures of Confederate and World War I military officers; photographs of forts, plantations, and schools; and lithographs by J. Lion of New Orleans. Also included are engravings by George E. Perine, Perine and Giles, and John Sartain of authors, statesmen, inventors, and bankers made for the ECLECTIC MAGAZINE. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 236.

Picture of Nottoway Plantation home. 2 items. Location: E:. Home of John H. Randolph, Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Picture post card of Nottoway Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1331.

Pinson, Nancy. Papers, 1820-1890. 1 linear ft. Location: C:62. Planter of Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Correspondence and business papers of the Daniel B. Pinson family, including bills and receipts for taxes; goods and services; and medical and dental treatments. Letters refer to slave riots, the cotton trade, cholera, and family matters. Also included are statements from cotton brokers in New Orleans, contracts with freedmen, and a slave list. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 13-14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 828, 1255. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Pintard, John M. Papers, 1796-1809 (bulk 1808-1810). .5 linear ft. (118 items; 5 vols.). Location: UU:67, H:10. Store owner and cotton planter of Laurel Hill Plantation on Thompson's Creek, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers include documents related to Pintard's plantation and store, transportation on the Mississippi River, and commerce before and during the War of 1812. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Partems pertaining to the Louisiana Republican Party and sugarcane. Scrapbook includes material from Pipe's political campaign. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 887. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Pirrie, James, d. 1824. Papers, ca. 1803-1830. .2 linear ft. (82 items). Location: UU:104. Member of a distinguished Scottish family, an alcalde under the Spanish, and owner of Oakley Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers include documents related to plantation and business matters, cotton marketing, and legal affairs of the family. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1382.

Plantation store account book, 1889-1958 (bulk 1889-1899). 1 item. Location: G:18. Account book of an unidentified plantation store merchant of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Recorded are the debits and credits principally of tenant farmers in that area for rent, hauling, lumber, wages, ginning cotton, and their purchase of food, clothing, medicine, whiskey, and tobacco. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1888.

Plauche, Joseph. Papers, 1901-1946. 576 items, 78 vols. Location: O:58. Black planter of Natchez, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Plantation account books, business papers, and personal correspondence reflect the extent of the Plauche's farming operations. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reels 7-11. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 944. Complete Finding Aid

Plough, Alonzo L. Papers, [1818-1866]. 1 roll microfilm. Location: Mf. New Orleans dentist. Papers of Plough and of Edward Simon, and a plan of Jean Berard's plantation, now the town of St. Martinville, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2149.

Poche, Louis Aristee. Papers, 1937-1954. 8 items, 2 ms. vols. Location: Misc:P, Mss.Mf:P. Perique tobacco planter from Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence and record books documenting the cultivation of perique tobacco in St. James Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2882.

Polk, Horace M. Letters, 1860-1868. 16 items. Location: U:119. Planter on Bayou Bartholomew near Bastrop (Morehouse Parish), Louisiana, and delegate to the Louisiana Secession Convention. Letters from Polk to his father-in-law, Major John H. Bills of Bolivar, Tennessee, dealing with cotton and tobacco farming, prices for land, and African American labor issues. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1628.

Polmer, Irving. Plantation time book, 1910-1911. 1 ms. vol. Location: G:18. Plantation time book from Irving Polmer of 'Ducros', containing monthly time record for laborers employed at Waubun, operated by John T. Moore Planting Co., Ltd., according to Bouchereau's Directory of . . . Cane Growers of Louisiana, 1909-1910. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1838.

Porteous, Thomas Clark, 1841-1919. Papers, 1858-1898. .5 linear ft. (137 items; 6 vols.). Location: C:68, J:9, M:21. Manager of Levois Drygoods Store in New Orleans and of Star Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana; and bookkeeper for the Godchaux Department Store in New Orleans. Porteous was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Papers include documents related to Porteous' work at Star Plantation and at the stores. Included are letters, bank books, account records, receipts, and a map of the plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1200, 1201, 1316.

Porter, Alexander. Papers, 1811-1844, 1870-1879. 13 items. Location: Misc:P and OS:P.Alexander Porter (1785-1844), Louisiana resident, politician, and owner of Oaklawn Manor, a sugar plantation, in Franklin, La. Items consist of correspondence, a 10-page biography of Alexander Porter, an 1821 certificate naming Porter to the Louisiana Supreme Court, and an 1811 certificate validating a land grant to a free person of color. Correspondence discusses Porter's involvement with the slave trade, slave behavior, their treatment, and their value. Other correspondence discusses various lease agreements between the Porter and Leverich families over tenancy of Oaklawn Manor. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4947.

Pradel, Jean Charles de, 1692-1764. Family Papers, 1719-1954. 407 items on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:P. Native of France and soldier and planter of New Orleans. He was married to Alexandrine de la Chaise de Pradel and operated Mon Plaisir Plantation. Papers include correspondence of Jean Charles de Pradel and his wife. His letters deal with business matters, the development of the Louisiana colony, and the discipline of slaves. Her letters deal with his estate and their daughters in France. In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2866.

Pre Aux Cleres Plantation. Record books, 1852-1854. 2 vols. Location: H:10. Plantation located in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, owned by J. H. McKnight. Record books of Pre Aux Cleres Plantation containing quarterly inventories of stock and implements and daily reports of plantation routines made by the overseer noting weather, progress of crops, work of slaves, and amount of cotton picked. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 19. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 684.

Prescott, M. R. E. (Mary Rose Emma), d. 1864. Record book, 1850-1863. 1 ms. vol. Location: Misc:P. Wife of planter Aaron Prescott. Infrequently-dated notations listing slaves of Cedar Grove Plantation, Rapides Parish, Louisiana; clothing and tobacco issued to them; and other related information. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4276.

Prichard, Walter, 1887-1965. Collection, ca. 1804-1950 (bulk 1804-1828, 1838-1897). 196 items. Location: C:11-12. Professor of Louisiana history at LSU. Jane Dunbar Ferguson of Washington, Mississippi, was a plantation owner; two of her children became Natchez planters. Collection contains the letters and excerpts of journal entries (1804-1828) by Thomas Bolling Robertson, Louisiana's first member of the House of Representatives and governor, with transcriptions, research notes, and footnotes by Prichard. Collection also includes Jane Ferguson's correspondence (1821-1827, 1838-1839, 1852-1853, 1880, 1896-1897). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2509.

Prudhomme, P. Lestant. Diaries, 1850-1852. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. Location: Mss.Mf.P.  P. Lestant Prudhomme was the son of Lestant Prudhomme, a
wealthy Creole planter on the Cane River near Natchitoches, La.  Personal diary reflects plantation life detailing social events, family affairs, personal activities, and local area news and weather. Several entries pertain to his many relations among the Metoyer, Cloutier, and Lambre families. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1578.

Pugh, Alexander Franklin, 1819-1883. Papers, 1850-1865. .25 linear ft. (11 items, 7 ms. vols., 3 transcript vols.). Location: 77:88. Part owner and manager of Augustin, Bellevue, Boatner, New Hope, and Whitmell plantations on Bayou Lafourche in Assumption and Lafourche parishes, Louisiana. Papers include plantation diaries describing crop yields, behavior and health of slaves, economic conditions, and Civil War news. Includes a payroll account of former slaves (1865). Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reels 6-7. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 354. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Pugh, Josephine Nicholls, 1820-1868. Civil War account, n.d. 2 items (17 pages). Location: Misc.:P. Wife of Colonel William W. Pugh, planter of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Personal account titled 'Dark Days: A Woman's Record,' describes the occupation of Assumption Parish by Union troops in 1862 and comments on the behavior of the occupying troops, the reaction of slaves, and Confederate civilian experiences. Included is a reminiscence of Mrs. Pugh by her husband. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2618.

Pugh, Josephine Nicholls, 1820-1868. Civil War account, n.d. 2 items (17 pages). Location: Misc.:P. Wife of Colonel William W. Pugh, planter of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Personal account titled 'Dark Days: A Woman's Record,' describes the occupation of Assumption Parish by Union troops in 1862 and comments on the behavior of the occupying troops, the reaction of slaves, and Confederate civilian experiences. Included is a reminiscence of Mrs. Pugh by her husband. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 7. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2618.

Pugh, Mary W. Papers, 1882-1925. 1.5 linear ft. 17 vols. Location: A:6-8, P:20, OS:P. Widow of Richard L. Pugh, of Live Oak Plantation, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. Correspondence of Mrs. Pugh principally from her children. Contains a letter concerning African American labor problems; and memorandum book #5 and time books for the Thibodaux Brick Works. Photographs of Live Oak Plantation and the Maguire home in Tennessee are also included. For further information, see manuscript card catalog. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reels 13-14. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 897, 1055. Complete Finding Aid. HTML | PDF

Pugh, W. W. (William Whitmell), 1811-1906. Family plantation records, 1852-1912 (bulk 1903-1908). 2 linear ft. (131 items, 14 vols.). Location: G:38-39, OS:P. Planter of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, state representative, and president of the Board of Levee Commissioners. Papers include correspondence, legal and financial papers, township maps and survey plats, and printed materials. Financial records deal with Woodlawn, Himalaya, and Mount Lawrence plantations. Papers also include minutes of the Woodlawn Planting & Manufacturing Co., of which Pugh was chair; maps of land holdings in Assumption Parish; and cashbooks, ledgers, record books, and a time book. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 740, 753.

Pugh, W. W. (William Whitmell), 1811-1906. Family plantation records, 1852-1912 (bulk 1903-1908). 2 linear ft. (131 items, 14 vols.). Location: G:38-39, OS:P. Planter of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, state representative, and president of the Board of Levee Commissioners. Papers include correspondence, legal and financial papers, township maps and survey plats, and printed materials. Financial records deal with Woodlawn, Himalaya, and Mount Lawrence plantations. Papers also include minutes of the Woodlawn Planting & Manufacturing Co., of which Pugh was chair; maps of land holdings in Assumption Parish; and cashbooks, ledgers, record books, and a time book. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 740, 753.

Pugh, W. W. (William Whitmell), 1811-1906. Welman F. Pugh diary, 1844-1864 (bulk 1862-1863). 8 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: Misc., H:22. Planter of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, state representative, and president of the Board of Levee Commissioners. Confederate diary of Col. W. W. Pugh's fifteen year old son (1847-1863) of Woodlawn Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Included are eight items removed from the diary. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Pugh, Col. W. W., 1811-1906. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2113.

Pugh-Williams-Mayes Family Papers, 1844-1933 (bulk 1855-1884). 1.5 linear ft. (283 items, 15 vols.). Location: D:98, H:11. Plantation owners and slaveholders in Louisiana. Richard Pugh served as a private in the Louisiana 5th Company Battalion of the Washington Artillery during the Civil War. His family fled to Texas before Union troops invaded the Bayou Lafourche area. Papers include genealogical notes on the Pugh family, Civil War correspondence between Mary and Richard Pugh, correspondence from friends and relatives, legal documents, financial papers, and financial manuscript volumes. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 7, and Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 730, 733, 741.

Purvis, George C. Family Papers, 1840-1956, n.d. 1,706 items, 87 ms. vols., 18 printed vols. Location: UU:150-153, 159-161, H:15, 99:, OS:P. Planter of Richland Parish, Louisiana. Collection encompasses personal and business correspondence of Purvis, Hatch, and Evans family members, residing in Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Washington. Included are ms. volumes, printed items, photographs, postcards, newspapers, and miscellanea. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2971.

Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Letter, 1821 December 20. 1 item. Location: Misc. Natchez, Mississippi lawyer, soldier, politician, and planter. Letter to E. L. Hazelius, written from Natchez, Mississippi, discussing his reasons for leaving his former home in Ohio, his impressions of Mississippi and Natchez, and his professional prospects. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3218.

Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Letter, 1848 April 29. 1 item. Location: Misc. Natchez, Mississippi lawyer, soldier, politician, and planter. Letter from 'Monmouth' to Peter G. Washington listing a series of biographical and factual corrections possibly for Frost's history of the Mexican War published about that time. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Quitman, John A., 1798-1858. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2139.

Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Note, 1855. 2 items. Location: Misc. Natchez, Mississippi lawyer, soldier, politician, and planter. Items include an autographed note to the Library of Congress and a brief published biographical sketch. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Quitman, John A., 1798-1858. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1955.

Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Papers, 1823-1872, 1919, n.d. 145 items, 12 ms. vols., 6 printed vols. Location: B:8, OS:Q, H:10, 99:. Natchez, Mississippi lawyer, soldier, politician, and planter. Personal and family papers include record books, correspondence, broadsides and other printed documents, and diaries. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1403, 1431, 1471, 1595, 1793.

Rabb, Nicholas, b. 1799. Family Papers, 1799-1919 (bulk 1836-1876). 99 items, including 8 vols. on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:R. Blacksmith and planter of Jefferson and Madison counties, Mississippi. His oldest son, Constantine N. Rabb, was a planter and general merchant of Madison County, Mississippi, and Evangeline and Vernon parishes, Louisiana. Papers include diaries, memoranda, daybooks, and a record book, documenting plantation management, social life, and blacksmith fees. Rabb family genealogical information is in the record book. Constantine Rabb's papers (1851-1905) include letters, tax receipts, and other items reflecting his work as a planter and general merchant. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1843.

Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Family letters, ca. 1780-1860. 13 items. Location: Misc:R. Lawyer, planter, and circuit court judge. Randolph was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1819. In 1841 he moved to Iberville Parish, Louisiana, where he owned Nottoway Plantation. Letters written from Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana by various members of the Randolph family of Nottoway Plantation, Louisiana. They discuss family matters, plantation crops, and the family's move from Virginia to Louisiana. An early letter (1820) describes traveling through Indian territory. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4673.

Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Family Papers, 1823-1889 (bulk 1834-1889). 1.3 linear ft. (1034 items, 16 ms. vols.). Location: A:10, OS:R, Vault. Lawyer, planter, and circuit court judge. Randolph was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1819. In 1841 he moved to Iberville Parish, Louisiana, where he owned Nottoway Plantation. Collection includes records and documents related to Randolph's cotton and sugar plantations in Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and Iberville and Catahoula Parishes, Louisiana. Includes items related to the White League, an organization which promoted white racial interests in Louisiana. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reels 14-15. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 355, 356.Complete finding aid.

Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Papers, 1855. 1 item. Location: A:10. Lawyer, planter, and circuit court judge. Randolph was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1819. In 1841 he moved to Iberville Parish, Louisiana, where he owned Nottoway Plantation. Act of sale of a slave, a house carpenter, to Randolph by Alexander Hagan of New Orleans (1855). Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Randolph, John H. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 893.

Randon, François. Ledger, 1876-1888. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:21. New Orleans dealer in sugar mill supplies. Ledger contains accounts for plantations along the Mississippi River from False River to New Orleans and on Bayou Teche. The volume also includes a record of household expenses. In French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 15. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 992.

Ransdell, John H. Papers, 1842-1886 (bulk 1842-1869). 11 items (9 items, 2 ms. vols. on 1 microfilm reel). Location: Mss.Mf:R, B:40. Planter of Elmwood Plantation in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. He and his wife, Amanda Thickman, had nine children, one of whom, Joseph E. Ransdell, became a U.S. congressman and senator from Louisiana. Papers include a plantation diary (1842-1863) and letters written from Elmwood Plantation to Governor Thomas Overton Moore (1863) describing destruction of property by federal troops. A plantation account book (1867-1869) contains accounts of laborers on Elmwood Plantation (1869). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 959.

Raymond, Mrs. Clara C. Reminiscences, n.d. 1 item [typed copy]. Location: Misc. Resident of Evergreen Plantation. Reminiscences include a description of the plantation and scattered biographical data on members of the family. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 359.

Reagan, George N. Document, 1807. 1 item. Location: Misc. Planter in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Copy of lease for rent of Reagan's plantation to Thomas Hall for one year. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1257.

Redhead, Joseph. Joseph and John A. Redhead diary, 1853-1870. 1 ms. vol. on 1 reel of microfilm. Location: Mss.Mf:R. Doctor and planter of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Diary and letters copied in it describe plantation activities during and his family's experience of the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1374.

Reed, Thomas, 1817-1891. Family Papers, 1787-1926 (bulk 1840-1890). 243 items, 8 vols. Location: A:12 and OS:R. Attorney in Natchez, Mississippi, and resident of Cottage Home Plantation, Mississippi. Collection includes a land claim by the city of Natchez, documents related to Reed's law career, personal letters, genealogies, newspaper clippings, notes on Natchez history, and a bank book. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 783.

Rees, Grover, 1891-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1991-1992. Transcript (22, 25 pages), 2 sound cassettes (2.5 hours). Location: L:4700:0078. Native of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and graduate of Louisiana State University (1912) and Harvard Law School (1915) who wrote a history of Breaux Bridge. Interview deals with his student years at Louisiana State University and Harvard; his book on Breaux Bridge; and his work at Gulf Oil Corporation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.0078.

Reggio Family Papers, 1771-1860. 9 items. Location: Misc. Sugar planters of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Papers include a petition (1771) by Francisco Maria Reggio to the King of Spain; papers (1812-1834) of Nicholas Reggio concerning property sales and mortgages; and papers (1836-1860) of Auguste Reggio, among them slave sales, mortgages, and accounts. Partly in French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 363.

Richland Plantation plat, 1874 November 16. 1 item. Sugar plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, in the vicinity of Bayou Goula. Framed map of Richland surveyed and drawn by P. N. Judice, Civil Engineer. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3050.

Rives, Mary Elizabeth Carter, 1829-1900. Diary, 1865-1900. 1 vol., 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:R. Widow and planter of Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Diary records sentiments toward Confederate defeat and her experiences managing a plantation during early Reconstruction, including relations with freedmen. It also relates family activities and social life in Mansfield and Shreveport, Louisiana. Genealogical materials and remedies for smallpox, cancer, and scarlet fever are included. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2670.

Robertson, Frederick D. Plantation record books, 1852-1923. 1 linear ft. (17 vols.). H:13. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Louisiana. Robertson owned and operated Island, Homestead, Myrtle Grove, and Hunter's Lodge plantations. Five daybooks, three payroll books, and nine record books consisting of information regarding daily plantation activities such as cultivation of sugar cane and minor crops, payment of laborers, and expenditures and credits. Entries about Robertson's court cases are included in Volume 2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 579, 687.

Robertson, Maria McKinne Winter, 1854-1932. Papers, 1894-1932. .2 linear ft. [photocopies]. Location: UU:166. Robertson was born on Fairview Plantation, Georgia, and lived in Augusta, Georgia, and New Orleans. Papers consist of anecdotal accounts of her own and other families, and focus primarily on her life in Georgia. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3479.

Robin, Jean. Document, 1764. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale of the plantation of Jean Robin to Phillip Perriche of New Orleans. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 423.

Robinson, Joseph Toole. Papers, 183-, 1854-1866, n.d. 13 items, 6 ms. vols. Location: C:13. Cotton planter of Willow Point Plantation, Red River Parish, Louisiana. Plantation diaries, record books, and other records of Robinson and his family pertain to plantation operation; cotton growing; slaves; medical visits; weather observations and instrument readings; Indians in the work force; and skilled labor. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 20. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1413.Complete finding aid.

Rosedown Plantation restoration photograph collection, 1961-1962. .5 linear ft. (650 photographs and safety negatives). Location: A:98. The main house at Rosedown Plantation was built (1834-1835) by cotton planter Daniel Turnbull in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, near St. Francisville. In 1956 Catherine Fondren Underwood purchased the plantation and began extensive renovation. Chiefly photographs and negatives taken in 1961 and 1962 by Louis 'Red' Martel, documenting the restoration work carried out at Rosedown Plantation. A few additional photographs and negatives depict livestock, grounds, and St. Mary's Episcopal Church. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4350.Complete finding aid.

Salisbury Plantation: papers, 1858-1900 (bulk 1894). 3 items, including 2 vols. Location: Misc:S, M:18. Salisbury Plantation was located near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. A plantation record book contains accounts of payments made to laborers for cotton picked and work in turnip patches, as well as purchases made by laborers and crop estimates. Includes a school notebook of Arthur Crisfield of Maryland and a letter from Seymoura Scudder to Mrs. Shepherd of Salisbury Plantation commenting on house guests and plans for a trip to Tennessee. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1749.

Sanders, Jared Young, II. Family Papers, 1816-1950 (bulk 1860-1930). 4 linear ft. Location: C:32-33, P:5, Z:7, 99:S Vault, Mss.Mf:S. Planter and sheriff of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, who served in the 26th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War. He married his second wife, Elizabeth Alzira Wofford, in 1868. His son Jared Young III, was a lawyer and politician. Correspondence and financial papers document the family life and business concerns of the Sanders and Wofford families. Includes Civil War letters and diaries of Jared Sanders II. Speeches by Jared Sanders III constitute the bulk of the collection. Also included are scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, broadsides, and correspondence documenting Jared Sanders III's political career. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1081, 1105, 1126.

Savoy, Joseph. Family Papers, 1856-1909. .3 linear ft. (93 items). Location: W:31. Sugar planter on Bayou Lafourche, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Papers include family correspondence, with two letters of Corrine Savoy discussing the election of 1900; business papers dealing with the sale of sugar and molasses in New Orleans; and insurance policies for Joseph Savoy's plantation and sugar house. One letter and one receipt in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reel 15. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3022. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Schloss Gin. Record book, 1916-1929. 1 ms. vol. Location: F:18. Cotton gin located in Baton Rouge. Record book lists customers and costs of ginning services. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2975.

Scott, Eva, 1877-1961. Family Papers, 1832-1959. 939 items; 10 ms. vol. Location: Y:84-85, H:10. Eva Scott was an owner of The Shades Plantation in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. She lived on the plantation with her aunt, Kate Scott. Papers include correspondence (1866-1877) written to Bettie Gordon Scott and family papers (1892-1900). Papers (1900-1959) include correspondence of Eva and Kate Scott. Cards and letters of Lyle Saxon and Sherwood Anderson are included. Business papers (1853-1941) pertain to the administration of The Shades Plantation. Manuscript volumes include 5 ledgers (1889-1913) recording supplies and wages paid to hired laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reels 28-31. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2994. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Scott, Margaret J. E. Document, 1853. 1 item (copy). Location: Misc. Resident of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Sale of Montevideo Plantation and slaves by Mrs. Scott to Mr. Lewis G. Sterling, March 24, 1853. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Seale, H. M. Diary, 1853-1857. 1 vol. Location: J:12. Manager of Houmas Plantation, Burnside, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, owned by Col. John Smith Preston. Plantation diary of Seale reflecting the plantation's management during the absence of its owner. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 13. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 234.

Sebastopol Plantation. Documents, 1858, 1859. 2 items. Location: Misc. Sales (notarized copies) of Sebastopol Plantation and slaves in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, from Ulger Henry Lauve of New Orleans to Henry Van Bibber al Trust in 1958. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3508.

Shadows-on-the-Teche photographs, n.d. 8 items. Location: E:. Plantation in New Iberia, Louisiana. Photographs show house exterior and gardens before and after restoration. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Shadows (The) photographs. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3249.

Shattuck, Albert R. Report, 1893, 1966. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:23. Report comparing the cost of raising cane; delivering it to the carrier; and manufacturing cane into sugar; and the price at which it was sold on Adeline, Calumet, Des Lignes, Glenwild, and Magnolia plantations for the year 1892. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2316.

Shepherd Family Papers. 1701-1884. 47 items. Location: Misc:S, OS:S, Vault. Shepherd family of Salisbury Plantation, Wilkinson County, Miss. Papers relate primarily to the sale and transfer of land in Wilkinson County, Miss. Also includes Moses Hooke's naval appointment (March 11, 1799), an agreement with Secretary of War, Henry Dearborn, for Oliver Ormsby to provide rations to U. S. troops (May 24, 1804), a deed and abstract for Woodstock Plantation, which belonged to Richard Butler, and documents concerning the estates of Richard Butler and Harriet Browder.

Shields, Joseph D. (Joseph Dunbar), 1820-1886. Papers, 1802-1960 (bulk 1843-1897). 712 items, 4 ms. vols., 2 printed vols. Location: T:37-T:44; 99:S; Vault; O.S.: S. Resident of Natchez who was a judge, legislator, planter, and author. His son Joseph Dunbar Shields, Jr., served under J. E. B. Stuart in the Civil War and was killed at Culpepper, Virginia. Papers consist of personal, political, financial, Civil War, and plantation management correspondence and papers; historical, literary, legal, and political manuscripts; and printed items, documenting three generations of the Shields family. Includes letters from Joseph Dunbar Shields while attending the Univeristy of Virginia and drafts of his writings. Plantation papers relate to the family's plantation Pecano, in Waterproof, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 12-15, or Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries, Series E, Reel 34. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 390, 1526, 1542, 1709, 1821. Complete finding aid.

Simmons, Sion R. and Washington L. See: Sion R. and Washington L. Simmons papers.

Sims, James T. Letter, 1841. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter addressed to William Kelly in Fishdam, Union District, South Carolina, with information on Kelly's earnings from his plantation, crop conditions, and land values in Chickasaw Indian territory. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3464.

Sion R. and Washington L. Simmons Papers, 1839-1862. 4 items [photocopies]rther information see online catalog. Mss. 505.

Sizer, George W. Bill, 1852. 1 item. Location: Misc. New Orleans merchant and dealer for planter's, farmer's, and gardener's implements. Bill from Sizer to L. D. Seltzer. New Orleans Agricultural Warehouse is printed across the top of the bill. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1563.

Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Correspondence, 1797-1826. 37 items, 1 mf reel. Location: Vault:22, Mss.Mf:S. Consul to France during the French Revolution and later a planter in Baton Rouge. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Skipwith at Montesano Plantation near Baton Rouge, and relates to political and civic matters, and financial affairs. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2024.

Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Document, 1807. 1 item. Location: Misc. Consul to France during the French Revolution and later a planter in Baton Rouge. Official letter from the director of the General Liquidation of the Public Debt of France. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1257.

Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Records and account book, 1794-1815 (bulk 1794-1799). 3 items, including 1 vol., 1 mf reel. Location: Vault, Mss.Mf:S. Consul to France during the French Revolution and later a planter in Baton Rouge. Account book contains official and personal accounts while Skipwith was consul in Paris, France. Entries report names of American ships, descriptions of cargo, and accounts of individuals including James Monroe and Thomas Pinckney. Two loose items are a record of the import and sale of American cotton in the 1790s and a deposition dealing with the sale of cotton in 1815. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2000.

Slauson, Daniel D. Papers, 1869-1872. 1 vol. Location: G:7. Physician of Morchy Plantation and later Ernst Place. Record of visits of Dr. Slauson, with date, name of person, purpose of charge, amount, and notation of payment. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1100.

Slowey, Robert M. Photographs, 1961-1979. 2 linear ft. Location: N:27. 35 mm photographic slides depicting plantation buildings, landscapes, and architectural sites in Southern Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4598.

Smith, Ann E. Papers, 1836-1867. 265 items. Location: C:55. Wife of James P. Smith, Clover Hill Plantation, Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Factors letters and statements from M. B. Brady and Company and J. B. Byrne and Company, New Orleans factors, to Mrs. Smith for cotton sales. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Smith, Anna Davis, 1841-1938. Reminiscences, 1927, 1928, 1938. 3 items (one photostatic copy). Location: MiYork Public Library. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2630.

Smith, Annabell, 1862-. Diary, 1873-1874, n.d. 1 ms. vol., 1 printed vol. Location: W:17. Resident of 'Forest,' near Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Volume contains original poetry and recipes, as well as a diary (1873-1874) which records daily activities, family visits, a trip to New Orleans by steamboat, social life, and life in a girls' school. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2904.

Smith, Joseph Davis, 1817-1876. Papers, 1865-1901, n.d. 11 items. Location: Misc. Medical doctor and planter of Solitude Plantation, St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Letters between family members describe life during Reconstruction in Louisiana, including problems with freedmen, taxation, and the imprisonment of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Included are two letters from Davis to his daughter Varina. Later papers concern legal disposition of the family graveyard area on Solitude Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2493.

Smith, Philander. Letter, 1806. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Natchez, Mississippi. Letter from Smith to his brother Jedideah Smith of Massachusetts, relating his economic status, political views, and cost of living conditions of planters. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 634.

Smithfield Plantation. Records, 1900-1970, n.d. 35 linear ft., 191 ms. vols. Location: 92:, 124:. Sugar plantation complex near Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Business records include correspondence; bills and receipts; cane yield reports; tax returns; stock orders; ledgers; journals; and production reports. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2908.

Snellings, John P. (John Phillip), 1834-1923. Account books, 1855-1905 (bulk 1894-1897). 1 linear ft. (11 vols.). Location: A:99, J:12. Merchant of Elbert County, Georgia, and planter and commissary operator of Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes individual account sales records, plantation records, a volume of verses written by Snellings, and a volume used to practice penmanship. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 956.

Snyder, Alonzo. Papers, 1779-1919 (bulk 1800-1860). 3,534 items. Location: R:38-40, J;7, and OS:S. Cotton planter, judge, and Louisiana senator from Madison and Tensas parishes, Louisiana. Snyder's business, official, and personal papers consist of letters, land records, financial papers, and legal record books that reflect legal cases, state laws, politics, plantation management, secession, the Civil War, public health, and his family. Snyder served as attorney for the estate of Jacob Bieller of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, and these files include correspondence and reports from Natchez, Mississippi, businessmen. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 655. Complete Finding Aid

Snyder, Caleb Hurst. Records: Cuba plantation commissary and store ledger. 1 ms. vol. Location: Mf. Mss. 3896.

Sommer, Jacob. Papers, 1829-1857 (bulk 1831-1843). 27 items. Location: C:52. Coachmaker of Baltimore, Maryland. William B. Hyman was an attorney of Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Letters to Sommer from family members including his father, Leonard Sommer, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, concerning family matters. Also letters to William B. Hyman from family in Williamston, North Carolina, and New York City, discussing family news. In an 1857 letter R. C. Martin of Albemarle Plantation comments on the Democratic Party's accepting renegades from the American Party. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1202.

Southern historical manuscripts. Plantation records, 1779-1900. 526 items [microfiche]. Location: Mf. Plantation records from the Department of Archives, LSU; 10,500 items, and 190 bound volumes on 526 microfice. Part 1 of a Greenwood Publishing Company microform program, Southern Historical Manuscripts. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2729.

Stauffer, Walter J. Papers, 1883-1897, 1914. 7 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc. Notarized affidavits give information by an ex-slave of Confederate General Richard Taylor regarding plantation supplies and family possessions at Fashion Plantation in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, when Union troops occupied the plantation in 1862. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2525.

Steele, Archibald B. Family Papers, 1830-1897, n.d. 22 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: Mf. Planter and merchant of Amite County, Mississippi. Papers include business records, a family letter (1853), and a journal of Archibald Steele (1832-1840). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2645.

Stephenson, P. D. (Philip Daingerfield), 1845-1916. Papers, 1862-1903. .9 linear ft. (44 items, 11 vols.). Location: E:53, G:21, Mss. Mf:S. Presbyterian minister of Woodstock, Virginia, who served as a private in the Confederate army, Missouri Brigade of Tennessee, during the Civil War. Stephenson's memoirs relate his experiences in the Confederate army and are based on diaries he kept during the war and letters to his family. He describes the defense and evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi, campaigns, and battles. A diary records Stephenson's experiences during the Union invasion and occupation of Huntsville, Alabama. Reminiscences of his wife contain her comments on plantation life and the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2482, 2657.

Stewart, Ashton L. Papers, [1790-1838], 1903-1967. 158 items, 2 printed vols. Location: 91:29. Lawyer for the law suit of the Recreation and Park Commission for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, versus Al. H. German. Papers include correspondence, manuscript documents, Baton Rouge maps, and legal documents. There are also five color photographs of Magnolia Mound Plantation house and grounds. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2445, 2445-74.

Stewart, Mrs. Sarah A. Account books, 1866-1874. 2 vols. Location: J:12. Stewart leased Magnolia Plantation, owned by the Fort family of Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; and owned Holly Grove Plantation near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Record book for Magnolia Plantation containing copies of contracts and accounts with freedmen (1866-1870) and a record book for Holly Grove Plantation listing plantation expenses (1873-1874). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 965.

Stewart, Robert H. Family account books, 1822-1904. 4.1 linear ft. (18 items, 57 vols.), 7 mf reels. Location: UU:118, H:18-19, J:23, Mf., Mss.Mf:S. Mortician and furniture dealer of Natchez; and owner of Edler Grove Plantation at Bunch's Bend, Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes daybooks related to the mortuary business, ledgers and inventories related to the furniture business, and a plantation diary and record books. Of note is a ledger containing a list of African-American funeral directors and benevolent societies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 404, 4732. Complete Finding Aid

Stille and Yarbrough, Ltd. Account books, 1900-1937. 707 items, 75 ms. vols., 1 printed vol. Location: A:67, F:6-10. Cotton factors and dealers in dry goods, groceries, and plantation supplies in Robeline, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Papers consist of business letters, bills for merchandise, and inventories of stock. Volumes include cashbooks, index books, an inventory book, journals, ledgers, record books, a trial balance book, and a printed volume, Telegraphic Cipher Code. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1009.

Stirling, Lewis. Family Papers, 1797-1938 (bulk 1830-1860). 2,651 items, 38 ms. vols., 2 printed vols. Location: B:76-81, Vault. The Stirlings were sugar cotton planters of Wakefield Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Business and personal papers of the Stirling family reflect antebellum plantation economy, education, health, and travel. Military orders and receipts for supplies relate to Lewis' service in the Louisiana militia and at the Battle of New Orleans. After 1860 the papers diminish in number and consist primarily of family letters discussing labor problems with freedmen, migration to and life in Texas during the war, and plantation, household, and personal bills. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 21-25. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1866. Complete Finding Aid

Stone Wall Plantation. Cashbook, 1872. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:21. West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, sugar plantation. Entries are mainly for wages paid to laborers, giving name and type of work performed. Other entries are for freight and plantation supplies. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 483.

Stone, Kate. Diary, 1861-1907. 2 vols, 1 mf reel. Location: Vault, Mss.Mf:S. Louisiana planter and diarist. Diaries describe Stone's experiences during the Civil War in Louisiana. The diaries were published by John Q. Anderson as Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4643.

Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Letters, 1896-1908. .1 linear ft. Location: Misc:S. Louisiana writer, born near Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, where her family had a plantation. She lived in New Orleans as a writer until c.1885, when she moved to New York, where she continued to write short stories about plantation life. Several letters from Stuart to friends discuss such topics as her short stories, word etymologies, and Stuart's activities in New Orleans. A 1905 letter asks for part time work for Martha Waddill Austin, also a Louisiana author. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 31. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1561, 3139, 3396.

Surget, Francis, d. 1856. Papers, 1850-1867. 126 items, 5 ms. vols. Location: C:54, H:19. Land speculator, planter, and one of the largest slaveholders of the antebellum South with more than 10,000 slaves. Surget had extensive holdings in Louisiana and Arkansas. Collection includes papers related to management of Surget's estates in Natchez, Mississippi; an examination and appraisal of lands in Arkansas; and papers related to an estate in Mississippi. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 12, 749. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Survey Collection, 1786-1928.. 2 linear feet, 1 mf reel. Location: E:106-108, Mf:S. Collection consists of land surveys, chiefly by Spanish surveyors, in central, south, and southeastern Louisiana, including East Baton Rouge Parish and Orleans Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 552, 743, 933, 936, 955, 961 Container list

Swett, Charles, Diary, 1867-1868. 1 vol. Location: Impr. Resident of Warren County, Mississippi. Published diary of Charles Swett containing daily entries of a trip from New Orleans to Belize, British Honduras, and San Pedro, Republic of Honduras with a group of Southern planters. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1117.

Swift, John. Account books, 1830-1833. 3 vols. Location: G:7. Merchant of Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Daybooks and ledger include accounts for steamers, plantations, and individuals. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1100.

Tabor, Hudson. Family Papers, 1812-1916 (bulk 1834-1868). 32 items; 2 ms. vols.; and 2 microfilm reels. Location: Mss.Mf:T, Misc:T, OS:T. Cotton broker and merchant of St. Francisville and Thibodaux, Louisiana. Collection includes business correspondence between planters and merchants of New Orleans, family letters, and Civil War letters. Letters discuss slavery; destruction of property by Union troops; abolition; and economic and education issues. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 954.

Talcott and Bowers. Letter, 1814. 1 item. Location: Misc. Factors of New Orleans. Letter from Talcott and Bowers to Messrs. Brown and Ives, of Providence, Rhode Island, commenting on the war situation in New England and at Pensacola, Mobile, and New Orleans. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1248.

Taliaferro, James. Letters, 1852-1876. 79 items on 1 microfilm reel. Location: Mss.Mf:T.  Judge and delegate to the Louisiana Secession Convention, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, newspaper publisher, and Catahoula Parish planter. Letters discuss his participation in the convention and politics during the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1562.

Taliaferro, James. Papers, 1861-1869 (1870). 2 items, 1 printed vol. Location: Misc., 99:. Judge and delegate to the Louisiana Secession Convention, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, newspaper publisher, and Catahoula Parish planter. Papers include an 1861 issue of The Independent of Harrisonburg, Louisiana; an invitation to Taliaferro to attend the Closing Exercises of the current session of Louisiana State Seminary of Learning, Alexandria; and an annual report of the Seminary. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Taliaferro, James G. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3327.

Taussig, Charles William, 1896-. Collection, 1667, 1700, 1717-1915, 1922. 130 items, 15 printed vols., 2 ms. vols. Location: UU:107-108. Materials pertaining to sugar cane; trade and commerce in sugar, molasses, and rum; the slave trade and slave labor; and the promotion, encouragement, and protection of agriculture and trade in British, French, and Spanish colonies and Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2220.

Tauzin, Marcelin, d. 1877. Family Papers, 1834-1944. 982 items, 10 vols. Location: A:61-62, J:12. Planter of Natchitoches, Louisiana. Collection contains correspondence and business papers of the Tauzin family, including plantation records, correspondence concerning family members and their education, cashbooks, and notebooks. Some letters in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 15. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 912. Complete Finding Aid

Taylor, Miles, 1805-1873. Family Papers, 1821-1954 (bulk 1821-1890). 200 items. Location: U:236, 99. Congressional representative, lawyer, judge, and sugar planter of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Taylor's son Thomas was a sergeant in the 8th Louisiana Volunteers in the Civil War. Collection includes family letters, photographs, manuscript writings, genealogical and biographical materials, and reprints of speeches Taylor made in Congress (1856-1857). Mrs. Taylor's mother lived in Natchez, Mississippi, and the collection includes letters between them; and Civil War letters from Thomas Taylor as a prisoner of war in Saratoga Springs, New York. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reels 18-19. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1378, 1448, 1636.

Taylor, William. Diary, 1838-1842. Plantation diary of William Taylor, owner of Lakeland and Briers plantations in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., and cousin of Gen. Zachary Taylor, describes the routine activities and operations of his sugar and cotton plantations. Taylor records the visits of many relatives and friends, including the family of Zachary Taylor. He also discusses local politics. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 899.

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. Papers, 1814-1931. 631 items [on microfilm]. Location: Mf. U.S. president. Papers consist of correspondence, military papers, an autobiographical account, documents relating to Taylor's estate, and to the management of Fashion plantation in Louisiana by his son Richard. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1644.

Ternant, Claude Vincent De. Inventory, 1842. 1 item [typescript photocopy]. Location: Misc. Inventory describing the estimated value of the movable and immovable property at Parlange Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2132.

Terry, William. Family Papers, 1766-1896 (bulk 1860-1869). 67 items. Location: A:63. The Terry family resided in Pine Woods, Jefferson County, Mississippi, and was related to the Jefferies, Baillio, and Ellett families. Papers include family correspondence; a military discharge (1766); a Spanish land grant (1795); Civil War letters; and photographs of family homes and plantations. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 19. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 915.

Texada-Preot Family Papers, 1830-1939. 274 items. Location: W:25, 99:T. Lewis Texada was a planter of Bayou Rapides, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes papers related to property ownership in Rapides Parish; letters from Louisiana Governor Henry Watkins Allen; papers related to a girls' school in Virginia; and letters of Confederate civilians in the Civil War. Also included are sheet music and printed items. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 19. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2985. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Thibaut, James. Account book, 1878-1879. 1 vol. Location: M:20. Commission merchant of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Account book records sugar and molasses sold for various plantations in Louisiana, listing names of plantations and consignees; and contains written reports on the conditions of crops, health, weather, and the Mississippi River. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 421.

Thibaut, James. Ledger, 1878-1879. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:20. Commission merchant of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Entries record sugar and molasses sold, and list names of Louisiana plantations and consignees. In the back of the volume Thibaut has written reports on the conditions of crops, health, weather, and the Mississippi River. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 421.

Thomas, Isaac, 1774-1859. Family Papers, 1802-1851. .3 linear ft. Location: D:95. Politician, lawyer, and planter. Thomas moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1819, where he operated a steamboat, a sawmill, and a large plantation. He was a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate (1823-1827). Papers relating to the business and legal career of Isaac Thomas. Several papers document the history of land ownership in Rapides and Catahoula parishes, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4634.Complete finding aid.

Thurston, George N. Family Papers, 1843-1907. .16 linear ft. (64 items, 3 vols.). Location: C:45. Mississippi River steamboat captain for the New Orleans Ice Company, and a sugar planter at Baskerville Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Papers include personal and business letters related to Thurston's work, and diaries and account books kept by his wife, Mary Thurston, concerning the household and plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1124.

Tibbetts, Hiram B. Family Papers, 1830-1857. 25 items. Location: A:4. Planter and physician of Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. A native of Massachusetts, Tibbetts and his wife corresponded with his brother John C. Tibbetts in Boston and New Hampshire. Letters primarily to John C. Tibbetts deal with planter-slave relations and plantation and family news. Topics include Christmas festivities; a wedding held in the slave quarters; and the prevalence of cholera. A partial letter (ca. 1850) provides analysis of the political situation in Louisiana and Mississippi following the Compromise of 1850. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 831, 856, 868, 1300, 1352.

Toulmin, J. B. Letters, 1833-1844. 12 items. Location: Misc:T. Cotton merchant located in Mobile, Alabama. Correspondence by J. B. Toulmin relating to shipping and cotton interests. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3635.

Trinity Plantation. Records, 1903-1913. 3 ms. vols. Location: L:6. Sugar plantation near Rosedale, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Journals and ledger record expenses and creditors. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2653.

Trotter, Daniel. Family Papers, 1883-1949 (bulk 1889-1940). 349 items, 78 vols. Location: A:33, P:17. African American farmer of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, and member of the St. Mary's Baptist Church Benevolent Society. Papers include copies of diaries, deeds, receipts, and record books related to farming activities; and meeting minutes, memoranda, by-laws, and other documents related to the St. Mary's Baptist Church Benevolent Society. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 990, 999. Complete Finding Aid

Tunnard, Fred D. Diary, 1868-1870. 1 vol. Location: H:20. Manufacturer of farming equipment in Baton Rouge. Diary gives personal notes, expenditures, and lists of names of planters visited while traveling through Louisiana to sell equipment. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 596.

Tureaud, Benjamin. Family Papers, 1803-1932 (bulk 1849-1880). 3,332 items, 88 vols. Location: E:42-44, J:1-3. Plantation and store owner of Bagatelle, Brule, and Houmas plantations in Ascension and St. James parishes, Louisiana. Papers include plantation records, business records, and correspondence of Benjamin Tureaud and his family. Some records document merchandise sold to African American laborers. Partly in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reels 3-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 427. Complete finding aid.

Tureaud, Benjamin. Papers, 1872-1877, 1880-1882. 3 ms. vols. Location: G:7. Plantation and store owner of Bagatelle, Brule, and Houmas plantations in Ascension and St. James parishes, Louisiana. Business records consist of a check book for Houmas Plantation; a cashbook for B. Tureaud and Company; and a payroll book for Houmas and Brule Plantations. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Tureaud, Benjamin, 1818-1883. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1100.

Turnbull, Daniel Family Papers, 1803-1913. (bulk 1832-1871). 74 items. Location: C:96. Daniel Turnbull was a sugar and cotton planter and founder of Rosedown Plantation in West Feliciana ParishThe collection contains correspondence, legal papers, and financial records of the Turnbull family, including Turnbull's daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and James P. Bowman, and concern the operation of family plantations Rosedown and Bayou Grosse Tete, as well as to the family's experiences during the Civil War, the destruction of DeSoto Plantation, and Turnbull's war claims. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4973. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Turnbull, Martha, 1809-1896. Diary, 1837-1895. Transcription, 1 item (31 pages). Location: Misc. Transcription prepared by Charles A. Haines, curator of Rosedown, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Entries in the diary describe the planting and cultivation of the flower and vegetable gardens. Included is an inventory (1864) of household goods. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2375.

Turnbull, Sarah, 1831-1914. Diary, 1851. Transcription, 1 item (2 pages). Location: Misc. Wife of James Pirrie Bowman, cotton planter, Rosedown, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Entries describe places visited on a European tour. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2375.

Turnbull-Allain Family Papers, 1784-1941 (bulk 1820-1890). 15 linear ft. Location: C:98-112, OS:T, 99:T. The Turnbull and Allain families were cotton and sugar planters of West Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, and Iberville parishes, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence, legal and financial documents, and plantation records. Included are a large number of Braille writings of Hélène Allain, some written while she studied and taught at the Louisiana Institute for the Blind in Baton Rouge. Plantation papers include lists of slaves and laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 19-34. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4261. Complete finding aid HTML | PDF

Turnbull-Bowman Family Papers, 1771-1956 (bulk 1820-1910). 8 microfilm reels. Location: Mss.Mf:T. The Turnbull and Bowman families were cotton and sugar planters of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes financial papers, correspondence, legal documents, personal papers, sheet music, printed items, and photographs. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4452. Complete finding aid HTML | PDF

Turnbull-Bowman-Lyons Family Papers, 1797-1955 (bulk 1820-1910). 3.5 linear ft. Location: C:113-115, OS:T. Sugar and cotton planters with properties in West Feliciana Parish, Iberville Parish, Pointe Coupee Parish, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Correspondence, plantation management papers, financial papers, legal documents, personal papers, and printed and graphic materials documenting the lives of members of the Turnbull, Pirrie, Lyons, Bowman, Barrow, Stirling, and Fort families. Correspondence discusses plantation, slave, financial, and social matters, and includes antebellum letters. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 34-38. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4026. Complete finding aid. HTML | PDF

Tuner, Edward, 1778-1860. Family Papers, 1767-1878. 173 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: S:120. Judge and planter of Natchez, Mississippi. Collection includes family correspondence, legal and business papers, plantation documents, poems, photographs, a specimen of currency (1778), and an issue of the newspaper Southern Watch Tower (1843). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1403.

Tuttle, Isaac O. Letter, 1840. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of or visitor to Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Letter to his cousin Miss Maria E. Seeley, of Fairhaven, Connecticut. Tuttle comments on the social customs of the Southern people, and describes the natural beauty and graciousness of Creole ladies at a plantation ball. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 872.

Uncle Sam Plantation Papers, 1815-1914 (bulk 1848-1911). 22 linear ft. Location: UU:217-234, P:11-16. Plantation built by Samuel Fagot of St. James Parish, Louisiana, in the 1840s; it produced sugar cane and was known as Constancia Plantation prior to 1864. The plantation store operated ca. 1875-1914. Collection includes business records, correspondence, slave and free labor records, and plantation store records and scrip. Later papers include payroll accounts and labor statistics for Cypress Knee Plantation. Some correspondence in French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 408.Complete finding aid.

United States. Army. Dept. of the Gulf. Bureau of Free Labor. Rules and Regulations Governing Colored Labor at Work on the Plantations under Control of the U.S. Government. 1863 March 9. 1 item. Location: Imprints, Range: E. After the fall of New Orleans to Union troops on May 1, 1862, the threat of violence by escaped slaves in Southern Louisiana required Union intervention to maintain civil order. The enlistment of former slaves into the Union army, and later a wage-labor system on sugar plantations was established. General Superintendent of Negro Labor, George H. Hanks, was charged with overseeing that wage-labor rules were observed on working plantations. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4822.

Urquhart, David. Journal, 1833-1841. 1 ms. vol. Location: P:5. Member of the firm of Urquhart and Milligan, New Orleans factors. Journal contains business and personal accounts. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1277.

Ventress Brothers account books, 1900-1901. 2 ms. vols. Location: J:12. Residents of Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. James Alexander Ventress married Sallie Mathews of Greenwood plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, where these account books were found. Ledgers listing accounts for Caledonia, Lake Home, and Longwoodegal documents related to land grants and conveyances in Louisiana, Davis' land speculation documents, and Surget's papers related to his estate. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 11-12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 432.

Vincent-David Papers, 1831-1881. 222 items. Location: C: 48. Cotton planters of Pointe Coupee Parish, La. Personal and business papers of Jean Vincent and Jean Baptiste David, of Fausse Rivierre Plantation, consist of financial papers, bills for medical services and correspondence from commission merchants. (In French). For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1203.

W. P. A. Historical Records Survey Transcriptions of Louisiana Police Jury Records, 1811-1941. 206 linear feet on 581 reels. Typed, printed, and handwritten transcriptions of Police Jury minutes and ordinances for 60 of 64 Louisiana parishes. For additional information, see online catalog. Mss. 2984. Complete finding aid.

Wade, B., Account Sheet, 1870. 1 item. Location: Misc.:W. Merchant of Natchez, Miss. Statement showing account of T. C. Reddy of Cottage Grove Plantation with B. Wade. For more information, see online catalog. Mss. 896.

Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862. Notebook, 1849. 1 vol. Location: M:20. Scientist and planter, chiefly remembered for his interest in soil, rocks, fossils, plants and animal life. Wailes assisted in building collections at Jefferson College, the University of Mississippi, and the Mississippi state capital. List of minerals in the cabinet of Benjamin Wailes. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 186.

Wall-Pettibone Family Papers, 1795-1889. 15 items. Location: Misc:W. John Wall, an early settler in the Spanish district of Natchez, received land granted by the Spanish in 1795. This land became Richland Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, later owned by Chauncey Pettibone. The papers document the land ownership of the Wall and Pettibone families. Included is the marriage license of Evans S. Wall and Mary L. Pettibone. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3344.Complete finding aid.

Walsh, Antonio Patrick. Papers, 1789-1826 (bulk 1820-1823). 632 items, 2 vols. Location: A:71-72. Soldier in Europe and colonial Louisiana, and a planter in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Personal and business papers reflecting Walsh's military service and life as a planter. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 887.

Walsh, Henry Hicky. Papers, 1841-1892, 1941. 9 items. Location: OS:W. Prominent New Orleans lawyer and grandson of Philip Hicky of Hope Estate Plantation, Baton Rouge. Personal papers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1622.

Walworth, Douglas, b. 1833. Walworth and Gordon Family Papers, 1806-1881 (bulk 1850-1881). 189 items; 10 ms. vols. Location: U:234. Planter and attorney of Natchez,Missisf James Gordon and his wife, family correspondence, the American naturalization certificate of Alexander Gordon, and Alexander's diary. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reels 20-21. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2471, 2499.

Warmoth, Henry Clay. Papers, 1869-1872. 11 items. Location: Misc:W. Reconstruction governor of Louisiana and sugar planter. Correspondence received as governor concerns political appointments and quarantines. Also included is a letter from James Longstreet about the Louisiana militia and a campaign pamphlet for Warmoth. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 133, 773, 791, 1131.

Wartelle, Ferdinand M. Ledger, 1878-1896. 1 ms. vol. Location: Mf. Planter of Moundville Plantation, Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Plantation ledger records wages paid to field hands, debts and earnings of tenant farmers, and purchases made by hands or tenants at a plantation store. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2650.

Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter, 1799 December 10. 1 item [photostat]. Location: OS:W. First President of the United States. Letter to James Anderson with attached plans for the operation of Washington's plantations for the calendar year 1800. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 965.

WBRZ collection, 1969-1970, n.d. 337 items, 3 reels. Location: X:54. Television station in Baton Rouge. Collection includes script, film, and slides from a television broadcast about Solitude Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana; a collection of pictures of historical subjects; and a videotape of an interview originally made by the LSU CCTV system. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2459, 2528.Complete finding aid.

Wederstrandt, Charles. Document, 1827. 1 item (notarized copy). Location: Oversize. Resident of St. Bernard Parish. Sale of one-third interest in Magnolia Grove Plantation by Wederstrandt to the Bank of the United States. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Weeks, David. Family Papers, 1782-1894 (bulk 1830-1870). 10,106 items, 15 vols. Location: -70, J:6, X:76, Mf. The Weeks and related Conrad, Moore, and Gibson families were planters of New Iberia, Louisiana, and other areas in south Louisiana. Correspondence and other materials document the sugar plantation economy; cotton planting; slaves and free African American laborers; railroad building; state and national politics; education; and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Includes early papers of Charles N. Conrad, U.S. senator; political correspondence of John Moore, U.S. congressman; and a microfilmed inventory of The Shadows in New Iberia. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 528, 605.

Weeks, David. Family Papers, 1802-1957. 14,400 items, 112 ms. vols., 26 printed vols. Location: S:73-102, X:75-77. The Weeks and related Conrad, Moore, and Gibson families, planters of New Iberia, Louisiana, and other areas in south Louisiana. Papers document the papers, 1852 December 8. 1 item. Location: Safe:26. The Weeks and related Conrad, Moore, and Gibson families, planters of New Iberia, Louisiana, and other areas in south Louisiana. Receipt for funds collected in New Iberia to aid in the erection of the National Washington Monument. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 6, Reels 1-11 or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 6, Reels 1-20. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1655.

West Indies Collection land tenure, 1798-1883. 14 items. Location: C:71. Selected public documents reflecting land tenure in the Parish of Vere, Jamaica, principally for George Radcliff, sugar planter, and for his estate. Also a document pertaining to the surrender of the charter of the Levant Company (British merchants). Other land documents include a conveyance for the sale of a plantation, Negroes, and livestock on the Island of Antigua; and a mortgage and lease for a coffee plantation in the colony of Babire. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 622.

White, Maunsel. Papers, 1852, 1897-1898. 4 items. Location: Misc. Former owner (1852) of Ashley Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Letters and documents establishing the title of Ashley Plantation by White for the sale of the plantation by John Julian Pringle to Albert A. Batchelor (1898). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1293.

White, Maunsell, ca. 1780-. Letterbook, 1845-1850. 1 ms. vol. [positive microfilm]. Location: Mf., Misc. Sugar planter of Deer Range Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Letterbook containing family and business letters dealing with sugar planting, processing, and slavery; politics; support for a university in Louisiana; and the planning and construction of the State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge. Original letterbook is in the University of North Carolina Library. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2888.

Wilkins, W. W. (William Webb), d. 1859. Letters, 1848-1852. 6 items. Location: Misc:W. Plantation owner and saw mill operator of East Carroll Parish and St. James Parish. Collections contains six letters from Wilkins to his brother, Edmund, in North Carolina, concerning crops, plantation life, slaves, and his neighbors. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4005.

Wilton Plantation letter, 1863 April 1. 1 item. Location: Misc. Cotton plantation apparently located in Louisiana and apparently owned by W. C. Wagley of Lake Providence. Letter from the plantation manager to Wagley reports on progress of picking and ginning operations under federal government contract and contraband labor. Information is provided about disposition of abandoned plantations and relations with freedmen. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2983.

Wilton Plantation sugarhouse plan, n.d. 1 item; 25.5 x 40 inches. Location: Vault:27. Sugar plantation owned by the Bruce, Seddon, and Wilkins Company near Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Floor plan of a sugarhouse shows the location and dimensions of rooms and equipment. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2763.

Wise, James Calvert, 1823-1904. Papers, 1860-1904. 1,331 items; 2 vols. Location: UU:154-156, O:3, O:41-42, OS:W. Native of Maryland who settled in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. During the Civil War he organized the Red River Rebels, which became part of the First Louisiana Regiment. Wise owned Grand Bend plantation on the Red River. Collection contains Wise's personal, political, business, and military papers. Printed items include Confederate tax forms, currency, a notice to planters and freedmen from the U.S. Army, and papers related to the Republican party. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3239.

Witherell, W. Frank. Papers, 1839-1958 (bulk 181860-1889). 6 linear ft. Location W:129-135, F:19, OS:W. Native of New York, West Point graduate, businessman and entrepreneur, in business with his uncle, W. H. H. Witherell, a New Orleans commission merchant and dealer. Correspondence related to the wholesale trade in hides and mining ventures in the West comprises the majority of this collection. Early papers relate to W. H. H. Witherell's dealings in Natchez and offer insight into the attitudes of West Point cadets towards the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1860-1865). Items associated with the hide trade include, shipping records, invoices, bills of lading, bank drafts, and receipts. Additional papers pertaining to mining enterprises contain assay certificates, invoices, contracts, deeds and reports on mines. Also included is material related to extending telephone service west of the Mississippi River and a plantation journal recording daily work activities, and sugarcane production for Magnolia Plantation, Plaquemine Parish, La. (1877-1880). For further information see online catalog or finding aid. Mss. 1498. Complete finding aid

Wood, William W. Account books, 1835-1866, 1886. 2 vols. Location: H:23. Purvis, Wood, and Company were cotton commission merchants of New Orleans. Fragmentary ledger of Purvis, Wood and Company containing accounts and a list of planters and their addresses in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas; and a cashbook of Silas and W. W. Wood containing records of personal and business expenditures. Included in the cashbook are work sheets for laborers showing location and amount of timber cut and statements of account for supplies with James Dunning and Solomon Johnston. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1103.

Woodland Plantation inventory, 1966. 1 item (11 pages). Location: Misc. Plantation located in Mississippi. Itemized inventory of household goods of Woodland Plantation appraised by Merritt Shilg for Morton's Auction Exchange, New Orleans. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2173.

Wright, Charles L., 1867-1951. Papers, 1884-1970 (bulk 1907-1934). 2 linear feet. Location: 32:134, OS:W. Wright worked in the lumber industry and ran the Excelsior Cypress Co. mill at Timberton, St.James Parish, La. The mill operated from 1907 to 1927. Collection consists of correspondence and letters, financial and legal papers, photographs, and printed items. These relate to Wright and his family's personal matters, the operation of Neta Plantation (the family farm), and the Excelsior Cypress Co. For more information see online catalog. Mss. 4785. Complete finding aid..

Wright, Jesse D., 1793-1850. Papers, 1831-1899 (bulk 1835-1882). 1.2 linear ft. The Wright family owned lands in Louisiana and Texas. Jesse practiced medicine in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and also managed several business concerns, including a store and plantations, and was active in civic and church affairs. Correspondence mostly reflects the business concerns of the Wright family. Topics include land acquisition, property management, division of property, settling wills, and financial and legal concerns. Other items include Esther Wright Boyd's memoirs. UU:248-249. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 99.Complete finding aid.

Wright-Boyd Family Papers, 1812-1914. 2.5 linear ft. Location: R:23-24, OS:W, Vault. The Wright family owned plantations in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Esther Gertrude Wright married David French Boyd, president of the Louisiana State Seminary, later LSU. Papers include correspondence, diaries, journals, memoirs, and photographs. The papers mainly document the lives of the women members of the Wright and Boyd families. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3362.Complete finding aid.

Wynne, Michael D. Collection, 1827-1976, n.d. 5 linear ft. Location: U:34-35, P:19, Vault:5. Resident of Lafayette, Louisiana, and collector of historical materials on south Louisiana history and culture. Collection includes papers of planters, Civil War soldiers, politicians, and professionals. It contains letters, sheet music, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks documenting New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and surrounding parishes. Also included are papers of the Mayer Brass Band of Opelousas, Louisiana (1892-1909). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3053.

No "X" Records.

Young, Robert Thomas, 1812-1890. Family Papers, 1793-1927 (bulk 1830-1890). .5 linear ft. Location: E:35, OS:Y. Cotton planter of the Plains region of Louisiana, in upper East Baton Rouge Parish. Correspondence, legal documents, financial papers, slave lists and bill of sale, personal papers, and printed items document the lives of the Young family. Included are letters written during the Civil War by Robert's sister-in-law, Julia. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4548.Complete finding aid.

No "Z" Records.

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
1580, 1725, 1790, 1813-1958 (bulk 1861-1909). Caffery, Donelson. Family papers
1663-1950. Butler family papers
1663, 1793-1950 (bulk 1820-1920), n.d. Butler, Thomas, 1785-1847. Family papers
1667-1846 (bulk 1814-1815). Hicky, Philip, 1778-1859. Family papers
1667, 1700, 1717-1915, 1922. Taussig, Charles William, 1896-. Collection
1667, 1762-1846. Hicky, Daniel and Philip. Papers
1700-1721. Great Britain. Board of Trade. Records
1719-1954. Pradel, Jean Charles de, 1692-1764. Family papers
1720-1865. Louisiana pictures
1724-1929 (bulk 1862-1880). McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. McGehee family collection
1736-1797. Central America. Cacao Plantation reports
1741-1865 (bulk 1847-1854). Bruce, Seddon, and Wilkins plantation partnership records
1751-1972. De La Vergne family. Papers
1756-1924 (bulk 1845-1920). Hilliard, Isaac H. (Isaac Henry), 1811-1868. Family papers
1764. Robin, Jean. Document
1764-1935 (bulk 1764-1837). Macarty, Jno. (John). Family papers
1765-1822. De Bordes family papers
[1765-1861]. Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Transcriptions
1766-1896 (bulk 1860-1869). Terry, William. Family papers
1766-1942 (bulk 1780-1884). Hamilton, William Sutherland, 1789-1867?. Family papers
1767-1878. Turner, Edward, 1778-1860. Family papers
1767-1884 (bulk 1773-1855). Bisland, John. Family papers
1767-1932. Martin, Robert Campbell, b. 1839. Papers
1768-1871 (bulk 1804-1833). Ellis-Farar papers
1770-1934 (bulk 1797-1798; 1820-1838; 1860-1876; 1919-1933)
1771-1860. Reggio family papers
1771-1956 (bulk 1820-1910). Turnbull-Bowman family papers
1772-1886 (bulk 1808-1886). Bonner, Samuel C. Family papers
1772-1941 (bulk 1827-1911). Morgan family papers
1773-1826 (bulk 1820-1826). Farar, Benjamin. Papers
1774-1914 (bulk 1774-1891). Minor, Stephen, 1760?-1815. Family papers
1775-1967, n.d. Benson family papers
1776-1906 (bulk 1776-1796). Meullion family. Papers
1776-1918 (bulk 1806-1875). Palfrey, John, 1768-1843. Family papers
1776-1918 (bulk 1806-1875). Palfrey, William Taylor, 1800-1868. Palfrey family papers
1776-1928 (bulk 1840-1890). Gillespie, James A., planter. Family papers
1778-1782. Balmer Plantation account
1779-1900. Southern historical manuscripts. Plantation records
1779-1907, n.d. Bienvenue family papers
1779-1919 (bulk 1800-1860). Snyder, Alonzo. Papers
1779-1941 (bulk 1830-1870). Minor, William J., 1807-1869. Family papers
1780-1860 ca. Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Family letters
1780-1936 (bulk 1841-1897). Morancy, Honore P. Family papers
1781-1965. Hamilton-Barrow Family Papers
1782-1845. Mather, George. Account books
1782-1894 (bulk 1830-1870). Weeks, David. Family papers
1784-1941 (bulk 1820-1890). Turnbull-Allain family papers
1784-1969, n.d. Benson family papers
1786-1901. Bringier, Louis Amadee, 1827-1897. Papers
1787-1870 (1830-1860). Merrill-Buckner papers
1787-1905 (bulk 1855-1888). DeClouet, Alexandre (Alexandre Etienne), 1812-1890. Family papers
1787-1926 (bulk 1840-1890). Reed, Thomas, 1817-1891. Family papers
1789-1826 (bulk 1820-1823). Walsh, Antonio Patrick. Papers
1789-1936 (bulk 1827-1874). Mercer, William Newton, 1792-1874. Papers
1789, 1817-1954, n.d. Dewees, John. Family papers
[1790-1838], 1903-1967. Stewart, Ashton L. Papers
1791. Hillin, James. Document
1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882). Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana. Papers
1791-1932 (bulk 1800-1850). Evans, Nathaniel. Family papers
1793 April 10. Hicky, Daniel. Letter
1793-1927 (bulk 1830-1890). Young, Robert Thomas, 1812-1890. Family papers
1793-1937 (bulk 1830-1870). Johnson, William T. Memorial collection
1794-1815 (bulk 1794-1799). Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Records and account book
1794-1901, n.d. Drouillard, Jean Baptiste. Family papers
1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905). Marshall-Furman family papers
1795-1855, n.d. Macrery, Andrew, 1775-1843. Papers
1795-1889. Wall-Pettibone family papers
1795-1899. Butler, Richard, 1777-1820. Papers
1795, 1807. Mills, John. Letters
1796-1799. Account book
1796-1809 (bulk 1808-1810). Pintard, John M. Papers
1796-1905. Baines, Henry. Papers
1797-1826. Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Correspondence
1797-1898 (bulk 1840-1872). Mathews, Charles Lewis, 1824-1864. Family papers
1797-1901. Norwood, George, b. 1847. Papers
1797-1921 (bulk 1877-1901). McKowen-Lilley-Stirling family papers
1797-1936 (bulk 1797-1869). Vidal, Joseph. Family papers
1797-1938 (bulk 1830-1860). Stirling, Lewis. Family papers
1797-1938. Gay, Edward J. Family papers
1797-1955 (bulk 1820-1910). Turnbull-Bowman-Lyons family papers
1797-1967. Hale, William George, 1810-1883. Papers
1798-1805. Bradford, David, d.1816?. Letters
1798-1882 (bulk 1833-1838). Bradford, David, d.1816?. Family papers
1798-1883. West Indies Collection land tenure
1799 December 10. Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter
1799-1919 (bulk 1836-1876). Rabb, Nicholas, b. 1799. Family papers
1799-1938 (bulk 1801-1850). McDonogh, John. Papers
1800-1854. Innerarity, John. Papers
1801-1952 (bulk 1823-1852). Chalmette, Azelie Delino, de. Azelie Delino and Ignacio Delino de Chalmette papers
1802-1820. Bacon, Edmund, 1776-1826. Letters
1802-1832, n.d. Kenner, William, 1776-1823. Papers
1802-1835. Lopez, Manuel. Papers
1802-1851. Thomas, Isaac, 1774-1859. Family papers
1802-1872 (bulk 1802-1859). Close, John. Papers
1802-1872. Close, John. Papers
1802-1957. Weeks, David. Family papers
1802-1960 (bulk 1843-1897). Shields, Joseph D. (Joseph Dunbar), 1820-1886. Papers
1803-1830 ca. Pirrie, James, d. 1824. Papers
1803-1838. Hunt, David. Family papers
1803-1862. Ker, John, 1789-1850. Family papers
1803-1918 (bulk 1845-1900). Patrick, R. W. Family papers
1803-1932 (bulk 1849-1880). Tureaud, Benjamin. Family papers
1804. Butler, James. Letter
1804-1812, 1833. Kimball, Fredrick. Letters
1804-1931. Farrar, Alexander K. Papers
1804-1945. Butler, Thomas, 1785-1847. Papers
1804-1950 ca. (bulk 1804-1828, 1838-1897). Prichard, Walter, 1887-1965. Collection
1804-1982. Barrow, Abram Feltus, 1868-1928. Family papers
1805-2001 (bulk: 1850-1950). Johnson (Alfred Grima) Family Papers
1805 May 10. Bookter, Alexander. Succession papers
1805-1952 (bulk 1824-1931). Buhler, John Christian, 1789-1866. Family papers
1806. Avart, Valentine Robert. Document
1806. Smith, Philander. Letter
1806-1821, 1832-1875. Palfrey, William Taylor, 1800-1868. Family papers
1806-1831. Barbier, Charles. Correspondence
1806-1881 (bulk 1850-1881). Walworth, Douglas, b. 1833. Walworth and Gordon family papers
1806-1886. Montgomery, Joseph. Papers
1806-1894 (bulk 1810-1840). Kendrick, Benjamin. Papers
1806-1926. Bowman, James P. Family papers
1806-1937. Peytavin, John Ludger, b. 1859. Papers
1806, 1835-1964. Carpenter, George H., 1849-1892. Family papers
1807. Anonymous letter
1807. Reagan, George N. Document
1807. Skipwith, Fulwar, 1765-1839. Document
1807-1876 (bulk 1842-1868). Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868. Papers
1807-1900 (bulk 1850-1880). Marshall, George B. (George Benoist). Family papers
1808-1897. Merrick, Edwin Thomas, 1808-1917 (bulk 1866-1871)
1808-1888. Inman, B. R. (Benajah R.), b. 1820. Family papers
1809 April 27. Alston, Solomon. Estate document
1809-1950 (bulk 1904-1945) Butler (Edward and Family) Papers
1809-1816. Grand-Pre, Carlos De. Succession papers
1810-1953, n.d. Conner, Lemuel Parker, 1827-1891. Family papers
1811-1941. W. P. A. Historical Records Survey Transcriptions of Louisiana Police Jury Records
1812. LaReunion Plantation document
1812-1866 (bulk 1859-1866). LeBlanc, Auguste. Family papers
1812-1914. Wright-Boyd family papers
1812-1916 (bulk 1834-1868). Tabor, Hudson. Family papers
1813-1919 (bulk 1838-1870). Liddell, Moses and St. John Richardson. Family papers
1814. Talcott and Bowers. Letter
1814-1884, 1910. Boucry family papers
1814-1931. Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. Papers
1814-2004. Gay-Butler-Plater Family Papers
1815-1985. Burden, Ione. Family Papers
1815 February 28. Hicky, Philip. Letter
1815-1823. Minor, John. Account book
1815-1914 (bulk 1848-1911). Uncle Sam Plantation papers
1815-1925 (bulk 1854-1883). Mandeville, Henry D. (Henry David), 1781-1878. Family papers
1816-1899 (bulk 1830-1880). Girod, Joseph. Papers
1816-1900. Capell family. Papers
1816-1906. Madewood Plantation titles and deeds
1816-1950 (bulk 1860-1930). Sanders, Jared Young, II. Family papers
1816-1951. McGehee, J. Burruss (John Burruss), 1836-1913. Papers
1817-1860. Blount, W. M. Account book
1817-1877. Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family papers
1817-1882, 1969. Capell, Eli J. (Eli Jackson), 1814-1888. Family papers
1817-1895. Kleinpeter, Joseph, b. 1798. Family papers
1817-1932 (bulk 1842-1890). Capell, Eli J. (Eli Jackson), 1814-1888. Family papers
1817, 1869-1939 (bulk 1869-1939). Kilbourne, James Gilliam, 1828-1893. Family papers
1817-1912 (bulk: 1825-1890). Lobdell (John L and Family) Papers
[1818-1866]. Plough, Alonzo L. Papers
1818-1881. Bennett, Ezra. Family papers
1819-1868. Marshall, Maria Chotard. Family papers
1819-1896 (bulk 1868-1886). Johnson, Bradish. Account books
1820-1875. McMurran, John T., 1801-1866. Family papers
1820-1890. Pinson, Nancy. Papers
1820-1938 (bulk 1850-1890). Marston, Henry, 1794-1884. Family papers
1821 December 20. Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Letter
1821-1954 (bulk 1821-1890). Taylor, Miles, 1805-1873. Family papers
1822. Duncan, Lucius C. Letter
1822-1894 Britton, A. C. (Audley Clark). Family Papers (1830-1929)
1823 August 23. Moore, John, 1788-1867. Letter
1823-1872, 1919, n.d. Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Papers
1823-1889 (bulk 1834-1889). Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Family papers
1824-1858. Elliott, William St. John Papers
1824-1899 (bulk 1838-1858). Britton & Koontz. Records
1824-1936. Flournoy, Alfred. Papers
1825-1880 (bulk 1855-1861). Bills, John H. Family papers
1825-1882. Burruss, John C. Family papers
1825-1903. Eggleston-Roach papers
1825-1947 (bulk 1850-1880). Bosley, Hubbard S. Papers
1826-1827. Berbice Colony slave records
1826-1872 (bulk 1838-1866). Fleming, George A. Papers
1826-1881. Godet, Desire. Papers
1826-1884. Embree, Joseph. Family papers
1826-1912 (bulk 1903-1904). McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. Family papers
1827. Wederstrandt, Charles. Document
1827-1833. Kleinpeter, Andrew. Papers
1827-1872. Doussan Family Papers
1827-1976, n.d. Wynne, Michael D. Collection
1828. Bayou Attanobe land grant
1828-1878. Cade account books
1829-1857 (bulk 1831-1843). Sommer, Jacob. Papers
1829-1904. Foster, James, d. 1880. Family papers
1829-1937 (bulk 1870-1890). Badin, Norbert, d. 1903. Papers
1829, 1831. Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana. Papers
1829, 1834-1877, n.d. Lyons, Henry A. Papers
183-, 1854-1866, n.d. Robinson, Joseph Toole. Papers
1830-1833. Swift, John. Account books
1830-1851, n.d. Leverich Company. Papers
1830-1857. Tibbetts, Hiram B. Family papers
1830-1897, n.d. Steele, Archibald B. Family papers
1830-1910 (bulk 1830-1884). Boucry, Hélène. Family record books and papers
1830-1915. Lanaux, George. George Lanaux and family papers
1830-1917. McVea-Neville Family Papers
1830-1929. Britton, A. C. (Audley Clark), 1822-1894. Family papers
1830-1939. Texada-Preot family papers
1831-1880. Moore, John, 1788-1867. Family papers
1831-1899 (bulk 1835-1882). Wright, Jesse D., 1793-1850. Papers
1831, 1863, 1869. Martin, W. L. Collection
1832-1846. Hubert, Louis A. Papers
1832-1851. New Orleans factors' letters
1832-1877 (bulk 1856-1871). Moore, Thomas Overton, 1804-1876. Papers
1832-1890 (bulk 1832-1874). McCutchon, Samuel, 1820-1874. Family papers
1832-1918 (bulk 1832-1865). Palfrey William Taylor, 1800-1868, and George D. Account books
1832-1959. Scott, Eva, 1877-1961. Family papers
1832, 1835. Peyroux, Constance. Papers
1833. Faulk, John T. Papers
1833-1838. Fair, James. Papers
1833-1841. Urquhart, David. Journal
1833-1844. Toulmin, J. B. Letters
1833-1846. Barrow, Bennett H., 1811-1854. Diary
1833-1941. Pugh, W. W. (William Whitmell), 1811-1906. Family papers
1833-1954 (bulk 1868-1936), n.d. King, William W. Family papers
1834. Millard, Albert and Company. Account
1834-1842. Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Correspondence
1834-1847. Leverich, Charles P. Correspondence
1834-1865. Palfrey, William Taylor, 1800-1868. Papers
1834-1867. Moreland, William F. Diaries and account book
1834-1904. Stewart, Robert H. Family account books
1834-1927. Alabama cotton sales and shipping statements collection
1834-1940. (Bulk: 1845-1865) Badley Family Papers
1834-1944. Tauzin, Marcelin, d. 1877. Family papers
1834-1949. Fontenot, Ozeme, 1846-1928. Family papers
1835-1837. Diary
1835-1866, 1886. Wood, William W. Account books
1835-1917. Crane, Andrew E. Family papers
1835-1960. Batchelor, Ruth Ker, 1895 or 6-1977. Batchelor-Nutt collection
1835, 1836. Bell and Company. Papers
1836. Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana. Bond
1836. Dunbar, Archibald. Document
1836-1867. Smith, Ann E. Papers
1836-1937. Oge, John M. Papers
1837. Caldwell and Hicky. Receipt
1837 May 5. Ende, Jacques F. de. Document
1837-1895. Turnbull, Martha, 1809-1896. Diary
1837, 1841. Magnolia Mound sale document
1838. Charles C. Peck letter
1838-1839. Anonymous Port Hudson journal
1838-1839. Cotton factors' statements
1838-1845. King, Roswell, Jr. Diary
1838-1847. Bailey, Albert. Account books
1838-1856. Bray, John A. Papers
1838-1861. Butler, Anna Elizabeth. Correspondence
1838-1861. Butler, (Anna and Sarah) Correspondence
1838-1887 (bulk 1843-1882). Landry, Severin. Family papers
1838-1899. Kilbourne, James Gilliam, 1828-1893. Family papers
1838-1905 (bulk 1838-1894). Kenner, Duncan Farrar, 1813-1887. Papers
1838, 1839. Cotton sales documents
1839-1848. Leverich Company. Correspondence
1839-1852. Murrell, John D. Papers
1839-1855. Hazard Company. Letters
1839-1862. Sion R. and Washington L. Simmons papers
1839-1867. Fluker, David J. Papers
1839-1867. McCollam, Andrew and Ellen. Papers
1839-1895, n.d. Arceneaux, Alexander. Papers
1839-1918 (bulk 1839-1877). Gardiner, John I. Papers
1839, 1852-1857. Herbert, Susan F. Papers
1840 ca., n.d. Andrew Jackson account
1840. Tuttle, Isaac O. Letter
1840 June 9. Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1793-1857. Letter
1840-1841. Nashua Manufacturing Company Correspondence
1840-1879. Bateman, Mannah W. Family papers
1840-1882 (bulk 1858-1879). Andry, M. T. (Michel Thomassin), 1811-ca. 1871. Family papers
1840-1900 (bulk 1840-1855). Jenkins, John C. Family papers
1840-1917 (bulk 1842-1869). Capell, Eli J. (Eli Jackson), 1814-1888. Plantation records
1840-1956, n.d. Purvis, George C. Family papers
1841. Sims, James T. Letter
1841-1844. Abraham Bell & Co. Letters and receipts.
1841-1887 (bulk 1863-1864). Newell, Robert Aiken, b. 1819. Papers
1841-1892, 1941. Walsh, Henry Hicky. Papers
1841-1896. Leonard, Theodule. Papers
1841-1968 (bulk 1870-1937). Hunter, Napoleon Bonaparte. Family papers
1842. Ternant, Claude Vincent De. Inventory
1842-1886 (bulk 1842-1869). Ransdell, John H. Papers
1842-1910. Butler, Thomas W., 1842-1913. Papers
1842-1913. Butler, Thomas W., 1842-1913. Papers
1843-1853. Leverich, Charles P. Correspondence
1843-1907. Thurston, George N. Family papers
1843-1914. Buhler, John Robert, 1829-1886. Papers
1844 June 20. Olcott, Joseph H. Letter
1844-1845. Braintree Manufacturing Company. Correspondence
1844-1864 (bulk 1862-1863). Pugh, W. W. (William Whitmell), 1811-1906. Welman F. Pugh diary
1844-1882, n.d. Cox, Owen B. Papers
1844-1892 (bulk 1844-1856). Kenner family. Papers and diaries
1844-1897. Norwood, Abel John, 1818-1896. Papers
1844-1909. Acy, William, b. 1822. Papers
1844-1933 (bulk 1855-1884). Pugh-Williams-Mayes family papers
1845. Centenary College of Louisiana. Document
1845-1850. White, Maunsell, ca. 1780-. Letterbook
1845-1930. Carson, William Waller. Family records
1845, 1866-1876. Golsan Brothers. Papers
1846. Champomier, P. A.
1846 May 16. New Orleans cotton sales receipt
1846-1857. Magruder, Eliza L. Diary
1846-1899. Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family papers
1846-1910 (bulk 1846-1879). Morris-Sibley family papers
1846-1939 (bulk 1846-1868). Pugh, Josephine Nicholls, 1824-1868. Record book
1846-1956 (bulk 1918-1956). Henry C. Minor papers
1846-1966 (bulk 1897-1901). MacKowen, John C. (John Clay), 1842-1901. Papers
1847. Hoard, Daniel. Document
1847 June 5. Dalrymple, C. G. Letter
1847-1850. Dawson and Pipkin. Receipts
1847-1874, n.d. Barrow, W. M. Family papers
1847-1880. Butler, Margaret, 1821-1890. Correspondence
1848 April 29. Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Letter
[1848]-1934. Pharr family papers
1848-1849. Anonymous planter ledger
1848-1849. Graham, George Mason, 1807-1891. Letters
1848-1851. Landry, Elu. Estate record book
1848-1852. Wilkins, W. W. (William Webb), d. 1859. Letters
1848-1855. Keary, Patrick F. Letters
1848-1857. Gordon family papers
1848-1863. Monette, James. Day book and diary of James Monette of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
1848-1888. Butler, Robert Ormond. Papers
1848-1891 (bulk 1861-1874). Barrow, Bartholomew, 1836-1869. Family collection of sheet music
1849. Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862. Notebook
1849-1859. McDaniel-Gill. Letters
1849-1860 (bulk 1849-1850). Hilliard, Isaac H. (Isaac Henry), Mrs. Diary
1849-1888 (bulk 1885-1887). Anderson, Harrod C. (Harrod Clopton). Papers
1849-1891. Herrin, Edmund. Papers
1850. Monette, John W. Letters
1850-1852. Prudhomme, P. Lestant. Diaries
1850-1863. Prescott, M. R. E. (Mary Rose Emma), d. 1864. Record book
1850-1865. Pugh, Alexander Franklin, 1819-1883. Papers
1850-1867. Surget, Francis, d. 1856. Papers
1850-1869, n.d. Liddell family papers
1851. Key, Philip B. Letter
1851. Turnbull, Sarah, 1831-1914. Diary
1851-1852. ClaussJohn Ludger, b. 1859. Papers
1852-1923. Robertson, Frederick D. Plantation record books
1852-1930 (bulk 1870-1900). Batchelor, Albert A. (Albert Agrippa), 1845-1905. Papers
1852, 1897-1898. White, Maunsel. Papers
1853. Scott, Margaret J. E. Document
1853 January 6. Dawkins, Guilford. Petition
1853-1857. Seale, H. M. Diary
1853-1870. Redhead, Joseph. Joseph and John A. Redhead diary
1854-1862. Minor, William J., 1807-1869. Papers
1854-1865. Desobry, Louis. Partnership agreement and amnesty oath
1854-1905. Brusle, Charles A. Papers
1854-1930 (bulk 1875-1890). Cockfield, E. J. Family papers
1855. Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858. Note
1855. Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883. Papers
1855-1905 (bulk 1894-1897). Snellings, John P. (John Phillip), 1834-1923. Account books
1855-1913 (bulk 1855-1868). Douglas, Emily Caroline, b. 1840. Papers
1855-1917 (bulk 1866-1871). Merrick, Edwin Thomas, 1808-1897. Papers
1855, 1859-1860. Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Letters
1856. Bateman, Mary. Diary
1856. Bowling, L. Record Book
1856. Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Letter
1856 March 15. P. A. Giraud & Co. Letter
1856 March 24. Dardenne, Eugenie. Land document
1856-1857. A. Ledoux, Miltenberger and Hall Company. Account book
1856-1900, 1990, n.d. (bulk 1856-1880). Hall, George Otis. Family papers
1856-1909. Savoy, Joseph. Family papers
1856-1927 (bulk 1866-1905). Boudreaux, Maximilien E. Family papers
1856-1932 (bulk 1856-1860). Spyker, Leonidas P. Collection
1857. Concordia Parish inquest case file
1857. Eno, Frank. Letter
1857-1906 (bulk 1874-1896). Owen, George S. Account books
1857-1929 (bulk 1880-1900). Hawkins, J. E. (Josiah Edwin). Papers
1857-1957. Gay, Andrew H. (Andrew Hynes), 1841-1914. Family papers
1858-1860. Anonymous diary
1858-1866. Bond, Priscilla Munnikhuysen, 1838-1869. Papers
1858-1866. Gurley, John W. Papers
1858-1898. Porteous, Thomas Clark, 1841-1919. Papers
1858-1900 (bulk 1894). Salisbury Plantation: papers
1858-1917. Bennett, George W. Business records
1858-1937 (bulk 1908-1923). Keller family. Plantation records
1858-1953, n.d. Garig, William Wallace, 1839-1908. Family papers
1858-1955 (bulk 1858-1888). Compton, Mary E. Family papers
1858, 1859. Sebastopol Plantation. Documents
1859 December 8. Ashton Plantation auction broadside
1859-1860. Leidigh, Jacob M. Correspondence
1860. Evergreen Plantation painting
1860. Landry, Charles. Mortgage
1860 January 24. Graham, George Mason, 1807-1891. Letter
1860-1868. Polk, Horace M. Letters
1860-1870 (bulk 1860-1868). Garland, Kate A. Papers
1860-1870 ca. Minor,Rebeccbr>1863 January. Hawkes, John. Letter
1863 April 1. Wilton Plantation letter
1863 April 13. Anonymous Civil War letter
1863 June 1. Dent, Lewis. Report
1863 August 27 and 29. Anonymous Confederate civilian letters
1863-1865. Harding, Sidney, b. 1841. Diaries
1864 July 6. Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866. Letter and related photograph
1864 November 7. Howard, David. Roll of freedmen
1864-1867 (bulk 1865). Good Hope Plantation: papers
1865. Day of Jubelo Cartoon
1865 March 26. Myers, W. G. Letter
1865 November 28. Fitz, Charles. Letter
1865-1893. Chatsworth Plantation store records
1865-1900. Rives, Mary Elizabeth Carter, 1829-1900. Diary
1865-1901, n.d. Smith, Joseph Davis, 1817-1876. Papers
1865-1904 (bulk 1875-1890). Corbin, James P. Papers
1866. Bordis & Co. Records
1866-1867. Lobdell, James L. Record book
1866-1874. Stewart, Mrs. Sarah A. Account books
1866-1884. Boney, Richard K. (Richard Kinsey), 1855-1937. Papers and diaries
1866-1899. Marshall, John J. Plantation ledgers
1866-1928. Bertrand, Charles, Jr. Papers
1866-1932. Montgomery, George W. Papers
1867. Cooley, E. C., and Robert J. Document
1867 November 5. Meade, George G., 1815-1872. Letter
1867-1868. Swett, Charles. Diary
1867-1885, 1918 ca. Jefferson, Elizabeth. Collection
1868-1870. Tunnard, Fred D. Diary
1868-1895. Anderson McNutt estate
1869-1872. Slauson, Daniel D. Papers
1869-1872. Warmoth, Henry Clay. Papers
1869-1940 (bulk 1869-1904, 1926-1940). Brent, Joseph Lancaster, 1826-1905. Papers
1870. Wade, B. Account sheet
1870-1871. Gassie, August. Account book
1870-1900. Henderson, John J., Jr. Account books
1870-1918 ca. Gumbel, S. and Company, Ltd. Records
1870-1948. Carroll, Daniel R. Family papers
1870, 1882, 1883. Brooks, F. M. Bills
1870s?. Hope Farm Plantation photograph collection
1871-1892. Clifton, Christopher. Papers
1872. Stone Wall Plantation. Cashbook
1872-1877, 1880-1882. Tureaud, Benjamin. Papers
1873-1874, n.d. Smith, Annabell, 1862-. Diary
[1874]. Hunt, David and Anne F. Memorial
[1874]-1917 (bulk 1881-1898). Millikin, James Shaw. Scrapbook
1874 November 16. Richland Plantation plat
1875. Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Letter
1876-1888. Randon, François. Ledger
1876-1902. Anonymous cashbooks
1878-1879. Thibaut, James. Account book
1878-1879. Thibaut, James. Ledger
1878-1884. Frellsen, Henry, ca. 1800-1884. Diary
1878-1896. Wartelle, Ferdinand M. Ledger
1879. Bagatelle Plantation cotton record book
1879-1928. Baldwin & Co. Records
1881-1907. Fischer, Max. Max and August Fischer papers
1881-1931. Buhler, M. E. (Mary Edith). Papers
1882-1925. Pugh, Mrs. Mary W. Papers
1883-1897, 1914. Stauffer, Walter J. Papers
1884 August 24. Florence. Letter: Lecompte, La. to Friend
1885. Minor family photograph collection
1886-1933. Dugas and LeBlanc. Account books
1887. Norwood Plantation Store. Ledger
1887-1895. Chaffe record books
1887-1942. Gianelloni, Sabin J. Sr. Papers
1887-1931, n.d. George, John, 1854-1931. Papers
1889. Caffery, Donelson Jr. Papers
1889-1958 (bulk 1889-1899). Plantation store account book
1890 ca. James Gilliam Kilbourne photographs
1890 ca. Kerr Family photograph album
1893-1930. Harris, William H. Papers
1893, 1966. Shattuck, Albert R. Report
1894-1928. Lazaro, Ladislas. Papers
1894-1930. Percy, Leroy. Family papers
1894-1932. Robertson, Maria McKinne Winter, 1854-1932. Papers
1896-1908. Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Letters
1897-1908. Louisiana Sugar Planters Association. Records
1899. McCall, Henry. Speech
1900. Marchand Gin Company. Cotton book
1900-1901. Ventress Brothers account books
1900-1937. Stille and Yarbrough, Ltd. Account books
1900-1970, n.d. Smithfield Plantation. Records
1901-1946. Plauche, Joseph. Papers
1902-1915. Brent, Rosella Kenner, 1849-1928. Papers
1903-1913. Trinity Plantation. Records
1904-1951. Louisiana postcard collection
1904-1975. Loyd, Gladys Means, d. 1984. Family papers
1905-1911. Louisiana Sugar Planters Association. Papers
1905-1912. Martin, Sigur. Papers
1905-1956. Pipes, David Washington, 1886-1968. Papers
1910-1911. Polmer, Irving. Plantation time book
1913-1921. Brown, W. D. Account books
1916-1929. Schloss Gin. Record book
1917-1965. Dornier, Jules A. and Family Papers
1920-1968, n.d. Ferris, Livingston Polk. Papers
1926-2006, n.d. de Caro, Francis A. and Rosan A. Jordan Collection
1927, 1928, 1938. Smith, Anna Davis, 1841-1938. Reminiscences
1931-1984. Landry (Theodore E. and Lou Bird) Papers
1937-1954. Poche, Louis Aristee. Papers
1941-1969. Laughlin, Clarence John. Papers
1954, n.d. Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Notebook
1959-1960. Brees, Ray. Photographs
1961-1962. Rosedown Plantation restoration photograph collection
1961-1979. Slowey, Robert M. Photographs
1966. Woodland Plantation inventory
1967. Harkins, John. Manuscript
1967. Murphy, Carolyn. Bound manuscript
1968, 1971. Magruder, Samuel Bertron, Jr. Collection
1969-1970, n.d. WBRZ collection
1971. Mason, Polly, 1855-1974, interviewee. Oral history interview
1974. Baker, Sarah. Oral history interview
1976. Lowery, June Amy. Manuscript
1977-1978. Cox, Robert Ray. Oral history tapes
1978. Burden, Steele. Oral history interview
1980. Farwell, F. Evans, 1906. Lecture and narration
1983 ca. Bannon, Lois Elmer. Research papers
199-. Charles L. Thompson and Associates Blueprint
1991-1992. Reese, Grover, 1891-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1991-1992.
1992. Mignon, François. Journal, 1939-1970
1993. Colbert, Elenor Robinson, 1940-, interviewee. Oral history interview
1993. Davis, Joseph M., Jr., interviewee. Oral history interview
1993. Hines, Betty, 1948, interviewee. Oral history interview
1993. Jackson, Willie, 1889-, interviewee. Oral history interview
1993. Lockett, Noland, 1938-, interviewee. Oral history interview
1993. Peters, Emma Dell, 1941-, interviewee. Oral history interview
1994. Haag, William George, 1910-, interviewee. Oral history
n.d. Allendale Plantation records
n.d. Beauregard, Rene Toutant. Recollections
n.d. Beech Grove Plantation house photograph
n.d. Belmont Plantation scrip
n.d. Flint, Lewis Herrick, 1893-1973. Manuscript
n.d. Louisiana postal cards
n.d. Nottoway photograph
n.d. Oaklawn Manor Photograph
n.d. Picture Collection
n.d. Picture of Nottoway Plantation home
n.d. Pugh, Josephine Nicholls, 1820-1868. Civil War account
n.d. Raymond, Mrs. Clara C. Reminiscences
n.d. Shadows-on-the-Teche photographs
n.d. Snyder, Caleb Hurst. Records: Cuba plantation commissary and store ledger
n.d. Wilton Plantation sugarhouse plan



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