Manuscripts (document genre)
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Caruthers Phelps papers
Albert Sidney and William Preston Johnston papers
Allison Owen manuscript
The collection contains pages of the Allison Owen's unpublished manuscript, How We Came Here. Written during the 1930s, Owen wrote the fictive piece using his family's genealogy as its basis.
André Lafargue papers
The collection consists of personal papers of André Lafargue, an attorney who supported French culture in New Orleans. Includes minutes of committee meetings of various organizations, certificates, typescripts of articles, speeches, letters, and other writings.
Baron de Carondelet appointment
A document dated 1793 July 9, New Orleans, signed by the Baron de Carondelet, Governor of Louisiana, in which he appointed Antonio Gautier "Teniente" of the Post of San Carlos de Misuri. The commission was countersigned by Andrés López Armesto. In Spanish. With a transcription/translation.
Baynard family papers
Burruss family papers
Charles Cassedy Bass papers
Charles Etienne Arthur Gayarré papers
The collection contains materials written by or relating to Charles Etienne Arthur Gayarré, a Louisiana historian. There is personal correspondence, manuscripts by Gayarré, genealogical material, a biography of Gayarré, notes on his publications, and personal financial records.
Colleccão de varias memories
Covington Hall manuscript
The collection consists of the unpublished manuscript of Louisiana writer Covington Hall titled "Labor Struggles in the Deep South." In addition, there are two bound volumes of xeroxed copies of the manuscript.
Denègre family papers
Doris Lurie Chesky papers
The collection consists of three bound manuscripts that document some of the activities of Doris Lurie Chesky, vocal music teacher at Alcee Fortier High School, New Orleans, during the middle of the twentieth century. There are letters regarding special personal sick leave, a proposed program about improving human relations for teachers and students, and a pageant written by Chesky.
Duncan Francis Young scrapbooks
The collection consists of six scrapbooks by writer Duncan Francis Young (b. 1862) that date between 1876 to 1940. Contents of the scrapbooks include manuscripts, correspondence, poems, photographs, articles, advertisements for his books, a biography, and clippings. There are two folders of separata that include published poems by Young.
Frances Bryson Moore papers
Frederick Cable Oechsner papers
Frederick Creighton Wellman papers
George C.H. Kernion papers
The collection is made up of drafts of speeches and lectures given by George C.H. Kernion. Some were given to civic groups, while others were heard over the radio on WJBO in New Orleans, especially his lectures on communism. There is also Kernion's correspondence with Trist Wood (1933-1934). In addition, there is a manuscript of a work called "Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos." in the collection.
George R. Wendling papers
Gerald M. Capers papers
This collection contains manuscripts for two books. Gerald M. Capers, Jr. was Head of the History Department at Newcomb College.
Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita
Latin Manuscript
Jackson Thornwell Witherspoon papers
Jesuit plantation survey
A Jesuit plantation survey report in English translation, 1763. The original English translation of the official report and minutes of the survey of the Jesuit plantation above New Orleans. The survey was certified 1763 July 22, by Olivier Duvezin, Surveyor General of Louisiana, and the minutes are dated November and December of that year. The document established the boundaries of the Jesuit lands seized by the French Crown.
John A. Watkins papers
John Leonard Riddell papers
The collection consists of diaries, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other printed material of John Leonard Riddell. There are also several articles by Riddell's bibliographer, Karlem Riess.
John Madison Fletcher Mental Health
Manuscript copy of John Madison Fletcher's "Mental Health".
John Wilds papers
The collection consists of the manuscript of John Wilds' book, Afternoon Story, a history of the New Orleans States-Item, published in 1976 by the Louisiana State University Press. The papers consist of first, second, and third drafts of his manuscript as well as notes on writing the book.
Louisiana folklore documents collection
The collection is made up of materials relating to Louisiana folklore, mostly from the meeting of the Louisiana Association of the American Folklore Society, including minutes, membership lists, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts of folk tales.
Louisiana folktales collection
The collection consists of a series of folktales told by a nurse on a Louisiana sugar plantation. These tales are similar to those of Edwar Avery McIlhenny printed in the Louisiana Progress (1938).
Lumberman's diary
A diary of an unidentified lumberman who worked in Hancock County near Pearlington and Logtown, Mississippi. It is a bound manuscript of 84 pages written in pencil.