October, 1917

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.

This collection is compiled of issues of two literary magazines, a manuscript and a self-published volume of original poetry and translation. The Little Review (1914-1922), a modernist literary magazine and the Double Dealer (1921-1926), a New Orleans based literary journal, comprise the bulk of the collection.

Louis Gilmore a poet, playwright, and assistant editor of the Double Dealer magazine, collected the majority of these publications. He also had poetry published in some of the collection’s issues of The Little Review. Some issues have marginalia and handwritten notes assumed to be written by Gilmore. Nine issues of the Double Dealer included in this collection were removed from the Special Collections and Archives, J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans periodical holdings and integrated into this collection; these issues are clearly marked.

Also included are the typewritten manuscript of Vine Leaves with handwritten notes, and a self-published copy of Gilmore’s Vine Leaves paired with his translations of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. These were originally part of the Special Collections and Archives, J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans Rare Books Collection.