Elrie Robinson collection. Feliciana materials, 1806-1925.

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Elrie Robinson collection. Feliciana materials, 1806-1925.

These are manuscripts and printed items concerning the Felicianas (West Feliciana Parish and East Feliciana Parish, La.) collected by Elrie Robinson. They include judicial writs and orders (1810-1879), assorted manuscripts, and printed items illustrative of various types and periods of printing.

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Robinson, Elrie

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Publisher and job printer of St. Francisville, Louisiana. From the guide to the Elrie Robinson papers, 1934-1946, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Elrie Robinson was born in Alvarado, Tex., on May 17, 1883 and arrived in New Orleans in 1906. He first married May E. Leake, editor and publisher of the St. Francisville True Democrat, which she and W.W. Leake had founded in 1893. Robinson joined her in publishing the newspaper in 1908 and became ...