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Literature -- New Orleans, La

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John Kennedy Toole Manuscript

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 23
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was donated by Lyn Hill Hayward, a longtime friend of Walker Percy's, and described by her as the manuscript given Percy by Thelma Toole. It is a typewritten draft entitled "Ignatius Reilly" (the name of Confederacy's protagonist), with a few penciled edits and blanks where the typist could not identify a word (cf. Ignatius Rising pp. 190-1). It is missing pages 3 and 4.

Dates: Created: 1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/04/2001

Samuel Louis Gilmore, Jr. Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 77
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: Other: 1920-1926