Emily Caroline Douglas papers, 1855-1913 (bulk 1855-1868).

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Emily Caroline Douglas papers, 1855-1913 (bulk 1855-1868).

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A diary (1855-1868) of Emily Caroline Douglas contains entries written while she was staying with her brother at Jefferson College, Washington, Mississippi (1862-1863). Entries concern the Civil War, civilian aid to Confederate soldiers, the federal occupation, and life at the college, in church, and with family. Later entries concern the Reconstruction, activities at the Calvary Church and the closing of the church, and include personal notes and poems, some of which Emily C. Douglas translated from German. The autobiography of Emily Caroline Douglas, written in 1904, is based partially on her diary. It includes reminiscences of life in Connecticut in the 1840s and 1850s, life in New Iberia, Louisiana, and in Washington and on the Coventry Plantation, in Adams County, Mississippi. Topics included are the arrival of United States troops in Natchez and Adams County, the effect of the Federal occupation on the Blacks, the presence of malaria (1867) in Early Grove, Mississippi, a yellow fever epidemic (1878) in Dry Grove, Mississippi, Mardi Gras celebrations, and the New Orleans exposition of 1884. Manuscript items include copies of poems written or translated by Emily Douglas and an incomplete typescript and extracts from her autobiography. The printed "Genealogical Abstract of the Douglas Family" compiled by Bernard Gruenstein (1913) includes historical as well as genealogical information.

9 items.3 v. (2 ms. v., 1 pr. v.)1 microfilm reel.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Calvary Church (New Orleans, La.)

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Douglas, William Fettes, Sir, 1822-1891

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Douglas family.

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Gruenstein, Bernard.

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Jefferson College (Washington, Miss.)

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Douglas, Emily Caroline, b. 1840.

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Emily Caroline Douglas, daughter of John Douglas VII and Anne Carter (or Cotter) Douglas, was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who moved to Washington, Mississippi, and lived with her brother, the Reverend William Kirtland Douglas, an Episcopal clergyman. William Douglas was rector of the Church of the Epiphany in New Iberia, Louisiana, president of Jefferson College near Natchez, Mississippi, superintendent of public schools at Natchez, rector of Calvary Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, and r...