Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#1111
GRACE ELIZABETH KING PAPERS
Summary
King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932.
Papers, 1781-1933.
1,120 items.
Microfilm. Originals privately owned at the time of filming. At least
part are now apparently located at Louisiana State University.
Business, literary, and personal correspondence of Miss Grace King of New
Orleans, author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and leader in
historical and literary activities. The correspondence contains criticism
and analysis of her works by her editors, and discussion of business
connected with 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 Reginald Somers-Cocks, and Charles Dudley Warner.
Also included are items, 1781-1865, relating to Charles Gayarre of
Louisiana (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 works and general political issues, 1850s-1860s. There are also
79 items relating to the Miller and King families of New Orleans, La.,
dated 1833-1922, including letters to a son at college in Baltimore in the
1830s disucssing family news and local events; letters, 1861-1865, from
Thomas D. Miller commenting on Confederate military and financial problems
in Louisiana and Mississippi; and postwar family letters. Also included in
the collection are two notebooks, 1886-1903, with biographical sketches of
Charles Gayarre and diary entries, 1866-1904, of Grace King.
ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919.
Authors, American--Louisiana--History.
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891.
Bentzon, Therese.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867.
Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs--19th century.
French, Benjamin Franklin, 1799-1877.
Gayarre, Charles, 1805-1895.
Historians--Louisiana--History--19th century.
King family.
King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916.
McLennan, William, 1856-1904.
Miller family.
New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893.
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.
Sloane, William Milligan, 1850-1928.
Somers-Cocks, Reginald.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1865.
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
Women authors, American--Louisiana.
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.