de Caro Francis A. and Rosan A. Jordan. Collection. 1956-2009, undated (bulk 1966-2003). 13 linear ft. Location: 11:19, 15:15-21. De Caro and Jordan were folklorists, authors, and Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) professors. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, writings, exhibitions, photographs, printed items consisting of brochures, handbills, newspapers, and posters; and topical files that document de Caro's folklore class at LSU, his work with the Louisiana Folklife Commission, and Jordan's work with the women's movement. Writings as well as exhibitions comprise material primarily related to folklore within Louisiana and British colonial life in India. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3197, 4089, 4164.

Hebert, Raphael. Family Papers, 1827-1960 (bulk: 1861-1960). Size: 3.5 linear ft. Location: S:135-137, OS:H. Raphael Hebert family of West Baton Rouge and Iberville Parishes (La.). Collection is primarily papers of Raphael Hebert and his children Joseph Guy, Noel, and Marguerite, a school teacher. Correspondence, financial/legal papers, personal papers, printed items. And photographic materials reflect the family's involvement in civic, educational, and religious affairs and includes letters from Melanie Hebert while at student at St. Basil's in Plaquemine in the 1870s, as well as a few Civil War letters. Also included are records from St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Brusly, La. For further information, see online catalog. Mss 4769.

Richardson, Cary Johnson. Papers, 1864-1986, undated (bulk 1955-1963). 1 linear ft. Location: 12:25. Collection includes correspondence, clippings, playbills, recipes, scrapbooks, volumes, and an original typescript for Eudora Welty's, The Ponder Heart. Mss. 4189.

McKenzie, Birdie Stewart and Family. Papers, 1905-1981, undated. 1.5 linear ft. Location: 32:104, OS:M. Prominent family active in the Pollock, Louisiana community. Consists of materials such as family papers and records, correspondence, photographs, and manuscript volumes. Mss. 3601.

McCants, Dorothea Olga. Papers, 1850-1970, undated (bulk 1854-1897). 3 linear ft. Location: 15:25, OS:M, MF:M. Catholic nun from the order of the Daughters of the Cross of St. Vincent de Paul in Shreveport, Louisiana. Papers contain the translated letters of Daughters of the Cross members from 1850 to 1903 and original manuscripts from McCants’s They Came to Louisiana: Letters of a Catholic Mission 1854-1882. Mss. 2519, 2535, and 2694.

Batchelor family papers, 1852-1922. 124 items (on microfilm). Location:Mss. Mf.:B. Papers are comprised of family letters, plantation and business papers, family succession papers, and material related to an Episcopal Church. A letter from Sarah E. Archer describes a Jewish wedding, ca. 1901. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 1293.

Burruss, John C. Family Papers, 1825-1882. 407 items. Location: C:56, Mss. Mf.:B Methodist minister of Virginia and planter of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Correspondence, and personal and business papers of the Burruss and Edward McGehee families. Papers relate to the Methodist Church and plantation operations, including sugarcane growing, rice planting, the construction of a sugar mill, and African American laborers. They also reflect Confederate military life, and civilian life during the Civil War. A group of poems concern the 1845 presidential election of James K. Polk and George M. Dallas. Mss. 1209.

Flynn, Rowena Sceroler and Loretta Sceroler Meaney. Papers, 1925-1994, undated (bulk 1940-1965). 2.5 linear ft., 6 volumes. Location: 18:6-7, OS:F. The Rowena Sceroler Flynn and Loretta Sceroler Meaney Papers contain correspondence, organizational records, printed materials, personal papers, photographs, and volumes created and collected by Rowena Sceroler Flynn and Loretta Sceroler Meaney. Flynn and Meaney were sisters and active members of the Catholic Church and affiliated organizations in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mss. 4050.