Literary New Orleans

Collection contains: Letter to Comte de Ponchartrain / De Rémonville -- From Journal of a voyage to North America / Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix -- Letter to her father / Sister Hachard de Saint-Stanislas -- Letter to Robert Livingston / Thomas Jefferson -- From Sketches of America / Henry Bradshaw Fearon -- From Journal of John James Audubon / John James Audubon -- "New Orleans in 1848" / Walt Whitman -- From Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- Letter to Major Pond / George Washington Cable -- "A matter of prejudice" / Kate Chopin -- "Odalie" / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- "Cherchez la femme" / O. Henry --"The battle of the handkerchiefs" / Adelaide Stuard Dimitry -- From The pleasant ways of St. Médard / Grace King -- "New Orleans, the Double dealer and the modern movement in America" / Sherwood Anderson -- "The glamour of New Orleans" / Lafcadio Hearn -- From Mosquitoes / William Faulkner -- From Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon -- From Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston -- "New Orleans (1946)" / Truman Capote -- From Satchmo: my life in New Orleans / Louis Armstrong -- "Mornings on Bourbon Street" / Tennessee Williams -- From Half of paradise / James Lee Burke -- From An unfinished woman: a memoir / Lillian Hellman -- "Talk to the music" / Arna Bontemps -- "Secret messages" / Tom Dent -- From "Shrovetide in old New Orleans" / Ishmael Reed -- From A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole -- From The annunciation / Ellen Gilchrist -- From Almost innocent / Sheila Bosworth -- "The city of the dead" / Walker Percy -- "Relic" / Robert Olen Butler -- "The muse is always half-dressed in New Orleans" / Andrei Codrescu -- From Crooked man / Tony Dunbar -- From Glass house / Christine Wiltz -- "Faubourg" / Brenda Marie Osbey.