MICROFILM ONLY. Business, literary, and personal correspondence of Miss Grace King of NewOrleans, author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and leader in historical and literary activities. Thecorrespondence contains criticism and analysis of her works by her editors, and discussion of business connectedwith its publication. Among the correspondents are: editor H. M. Alden, author Therese Bentzon, author Samuel L.Clemens, editor Hamilton W. Mabie, William McLennan of Montreal, William M. Sloane of Princeton, naturalist ReginaldSomers-Cocks, and Charles Dudley Warner. Also included are items, 1781-1865, relating to Charles Gayarre ofLouisiana (149 items), including letters from George Bancroft, Joseph M. Bossier, J. D. B. DeBow, Benjamin French,Francis Parkman, William Gilmore Simms, and William Tecumseh Sherman, discussing the publication of Gayarre's worksand general political issues, 1850s-1860s. There are also 79 items relating to the Miller and King families of NewOrleans, La., dated 1833-1922, including letters to a son at college in Baltimore in the 1830s disucssing familynews and local events; letters, 1861-1865, from Thomas D. Miller commenting on Confederate military and financialproblems in Louisiana and Mississippi; and postwar family letters. Also included in the collection are twonotebooks, 1886-1903, with biographical sketches of Charles Gayarre and diary entries, 1866-1904, of GraceKing.
