Butler family papers, 1663-1950.

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Butler family papers, 1663-1950.

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Financial papers, correspondence, legal documents, personal papers, printed items, surveys and photographs document the family life and business of the Butlers, Louisiana cotton and sugar planters. Early documents pertain primarily to the political and judicial career of Thomas Butler. Significant early items include correspondence from Jacques Villere, William C.C. Claiborne and Henry Clay and a proclamation and a Spanish land grant signed by Carondelet. Other antebellum material reflects social life and customs and the economics of the planter and slave-owning class in the Gulf South states. A letter from a slave-owner to a formerly-owned female slave addresses the slave's request that her daughter would also be sold to her new owner. Letters written to the family from Anna Butler between 1849 and 1850 discuss life at the White House, where she lived during Zachary Taylor's administration. She also refers to Congressional politics and the debates raging in both houses. Civil War letters from Butlers fighting in the war illustrate Confederate army life in the Gulf South, Tennessee and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Later nineteenth and twentieth-century papers originated largely from descendant Louise Butler and consist of printed religious materials, financial papers concerning inheritance, estates, and investments and correspondence from notable Louisiana residents and others: Grace King, Cammie Henry, Francois Mignon, Lyle Saxon and Constance Rourke. Gervase Butler, who served in the Second World War in North Africa wrote letters to Louise Butler during his tour of duty.

16.5 linear ft.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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