Tulane University Law Dept. Program, May 22, 1899. 1 item. Location: Misc.:T. Program for commencement exercises held at the Tulane Theater for the University's law school includes a list of graduates. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4523.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Louisiana Division. Collection, 1922-1928. 8 items and 60 vols. Location: J:3, X:85-86. Mrs. Fred W. Bradt was historian of the Louisiana Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings. Printed material includes two programs of annual conventions; a constitution and by-laws of the New Orleans Chapter; and yearbooks for the Bunkie Chapter. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 428.

Tulane, Paul. Letter, 1885. 1 item. Location: Misc.:T. Resident of Princeton, New Jersey. Letter from Tulane to LSU President David F. Boyd in reply to a request for funds to purchase a scientific collection exhibited at the World's Exposition at New Orleans. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 965.

Vinet, John B. (John Baptiste), b. 1835. Papers, 1861-1900. .16 linear ft. (37 items, 3 ms. vols., 3 printed vols.) Location: A:69, OS:V. Confederate officer in the Orleans Artillery Battalion in the Civil War and later Chief of Ordnance, Louisiana State National Guard (1889-1896). Papers include Civil War dispatches, field orders, vouchers, passes and correspondence. A notebook (1861) kept by a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, physician contains remedies for illness, some in French. Two case records books of Vinet deal with the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans and document relief administered by the Howard Association. Some notebook entries in French. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 850, 898.

United Confederate Veterans. Papers, 1889-1910. 14 items, 1 ms. vol., and 9 printed vols. Location: A:70, J:12. Organization established in New Orleans in 1889 to unite all associations of Confederate veterans, maintain ties between veterans, care for the disabled, collect data, and preserve records of service o f its members. Scrapbook, letters, and printed materials pertaining to the Louisiana Division, United Confederate Veterans, and the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 236.

Colomb, Bessie B., Collection, 1880, 1934, 1964-1969 32 items, 3 v. Location: Misc. C, OS:C. Collection of printed material pertains to Louisiana and New Orleans (1964-1969), and to Huey P. Long (1934). The collection also includes three photographs of LSU cadets (1880).

Thomas, Robert M. Heirs Papers, 1864-1867. 3 items. Location: Misc.:T. Documents signed by the children of Robert Matthew Thomas (Elizabeth Margaret Thomas, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; and Mary Ellen Thomas, New Orleans) in connection with the settlement of the estate of Thomas Sellers of England. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1071.

Town, Clarissa E. Leavitt, b. ca. 1806. Diary, 1853, 1954, undated 4 items, 1 ms. vol. [typescript copy]. Location: A:4, Map case:D-5, S-24. Native of Buffalo, New York, living in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, the Reverend A. H. Lamon, in Devall, West Baton Rouge Parish, La. Entries pertain to trips to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the religious and social life of the slaves, and holiday celebrations. Collection includes a photocopy of a section of the Persac map (1858). Also available on microfiche 2729 (Southern Historical Manuscripts, Plantation Records 1799-1900), Greenwood Publishing Co., Microform Division, Westport, Conn. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1376.

Thurston, George N. Family Papers, 1843-1907. 64 items, 3 vols. Location: C:45. Mississippi River steamboat captain for the New Orleans Ice Company, and a sugar planter at Baskerville Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Papers include personal and business letters related to Thurston's work, and diaries and account books kept by his wife, Mary Thurston, concerning the household and plantation. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1124.

Thompson, H. Bolivar. Collection, 1885-1887, 1896-1899. 9 items, 2 vols. Location: UU:110. Resident of New Orleans and assistant state engineer of Louisiana. Personal papers of Thompson; and bound volumes and stapled records of the Spanish army in Cuba, for the period before and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, pertaining to the military defenses at Havana. Records of the Spanish army are in Spanish. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1367.