Papers, 1882-1895.

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Papers, 1882-1895.

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Letters of Charles E. A. Gayarré (1805-1895), author, to John Dimitry including comment on the reception of his own lecture on the French Revolution; to C. C. Jones acknowledging the receipt of several addresses and his article on Wilde; to Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne commenting on the publication of Claiborne's History of Mississippi; to George T. Heath concerning the publishers of Gayarré's History of Louisiana; and other routine letters.

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Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895

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Charles-Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney, slaveowner and politician born to a Spanish and French Creole planter family in New Orleans, Louisiana. A Confederate sympathizer and a writer of plays, essays, and novels, Gayarré is chiefly remembered for his histories of Louisiana and his exposé of US Army general James Wilkinson as a Spanish spy. Born on his grandfather's plantation just outside the city limits of New Orleans (now Aud...