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Monday, May 16, 2005

Rouquette Papers - Tulane Manuscripts Department

"ADRIEN EMMANUEL ROUQUETTE PAPERS

Manuscripts Collections 267

Rouquette, Adrien Emmanuel 1813-1887

papers 1842-1942 (bulk 1850s-1880s)
.5 linear feet (one manuscripts box)


Processed by Mary LeBlanc

May 1995

Letters poems, articles, clippings and other documents pertaining to Adrien Rouquette, New Orleans-born priest, poet, and missionary who worked among the Choctaw Indians. The Choctaws gave him the name "Chahta-Ima." Also includes papers of his biographer, Dagmar R. Lebreton. Correspondents include Orestes Brownson, Abbé Perché, Monseigneur Blanc, John Dimitry, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mainly typed transcripts and translations. French and English.

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