AM. Archives & Manuscripts

Content Description These issues were collected by Louis Gilmore a poet, playwright, and assistant editor of The Double Dealer magazine. Gilmore published plays and poems in the magazine. He also has poetry published in some of the issues of The Little Review that were also included in the donation. Scope and Contents This collection is compiled of issues of two literary magazines, a manuscript and a self-published volume of original poetry and translation. The...

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Award-winning American composer Stephen Dankner (b. 1944) has written works that includes orchestral, vocal, chamber, and electronic music. He has released numerous published scores and CD recordings, and his pieces have been performed across the United States as well as abroad. As an educator Dankner has taught extensively at the university and high-school levels, and he taught various music classes at Loyola University New Orleans across a nearly thirty year span.

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This collection contains letters, diary entries, and documents all related to the conditional baptism of the playwright Tennessee Williams into the Catholic Church by the Father Joseph L. LeRoy, S.J. in 1969.

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This collection of cancelled personal checks originated from Walker Percy’s office at his home in Covington, LA and was donated by his daughter Ann Percy Moores. The collection consists of checks written by Percy and his wife Mary from 1956-1965 to various business and individuals.

Scope and Contents This collection originated from Walker Percy’s office at his home in Covington and was donated by his daughter after the death of Mrs. Mary “Bunt” Percy. Handwritten notes, typescripts with marginalia, drafts of speeches and lectures, and correspondence and photocopies of correspondence make up majority of the collection. There are a number of collected articles and academic journals that contain pieces written about Percy as well as unpublished academic papers and theses about him and his...

Scope and Contents The Informed Sources collection consists of DVDs, originally recorded in both VHS and Betacam formats. The tapes are fragile and becoming more unstable with each viewing. In order to preserve the shows for future researchers, the tapes have been transferred to DVDs. However, as recording technology progresses, DVDs themselves are expected to become obsolete. As each DVD was prepared, the data was saved onto a 1-terabyte hard drive which was, itself, backed up on another 1-terabyte hard...