Arrangement: The collection is arranged as follows: manuscripts, notebooks (arranged chronologically), correspondence (arranged chronologically), subject files (arranged alphabetically), and bound clippings files (arranged chronologically). The collection consists of 25 boxes, 26 volumes and 1 oversize folder. It is 24 linear feet.

Date Acquired: 10/00/1961

Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century., Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans., Civil War Round Table., Dufour, Charles L., Journalists -- Louisiana -- New Orleans., Louisiana -- History., New Orleans (La.) -- History., New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Forms of Material: Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence., Drafts (documents), Galley proofs., Manuscripts for publication., Notebooks.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection of manuscripts by Charles L. Dufour includes the research notes, original drafts, revisions, final drafts and galley and page proofs of his books "Gentle Tiger," "The Night the War Was Lost," and "Nine Men in Gray." The collection also contains correspondence and notebooks from his trips to Europe.

Biographical Note

Charles L. "Pie" Dufour (1903-1996) was a New Orleans newspaperman, author, radio broadcaster, public relations worker, historian, and Tulane University professor. He came from a family that had moved to New Orleans in 1809, and he lived in the city except during the World War II era, when he served in the Army. He wrote twenty books, more than fifty scholarly articles, and over 9,700 installments of his daily New Orleans Item newspaper column, "Pie Dufour's a la Mode." He wrote on diverse subjects, including Louisiana history, New Orleans Carnival, law, sports, classical music, gourmet food, and European travel. Dufour worked as a reporter and columnist for the New Orleans Item (and States-Item) most of his adult life, retiring from journalism in 1978. He also wrote New Orleans, Yesterday and Today: A Guide to the City with John Chase, Walter G. Cowan, Osborne K. Leblanc, and John Wilds. He lived to the age of ninety-three.

Subject/Index Terms

Authors, American -- 20th century.
Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Civil War Round Table.
Dufour, Charles L.
Journalists -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Louisiana -- History.
New Orleans (La.) -- History.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Administrative Information

Repository: Louisiana Research Collection

Alternate Extent Statement: 24 linear feet

Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public. No known restrictions.

Use Restrictions: Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Acquisition Source: Charles L. Dufour.

Acquisition Method: Gift.

Preferred Citation: Charles L. Dufour papers, Manuscripts Collection 90, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Processing Information: Collection originally processed November 1961. First created in Archon on 4/19/2010. Updated with creator and subject headings on 7/27/2010.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid information entered in Archon by LAC Group in 2011. Revised by LAC Group 10/17/11.

Other Note: OCLC Number: 635589676

Box and Folder Listing

Box 24: Subject files G-R

Folder 1: Garden District notes, correspondence, pamphlets
Folder 2: Guggenheim Fellowship
Folder 3: Glendy Burke by Elizabeth Fowler paper, correspondence, 1948 February 17
Folder 4: Address of Major General U.S. Grant to CWRT and Historic Fredericksburg, Inc., 1960 June 17
Folder 5: Gentle Tiger book reviews
Folder 6: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan notecards
Folder 7: Don Giovanni speech made before the Opera Guild, 1972 March 23
Folder 8: The Greatest Free Show on Earth by Dufour published in Southern Living, 1967 February
Folder 9: Henry Howard- Forgotten Architect notes, correspondence
Folder 10: Highlights of the Forty Years of Football at Tulane by E. Davis McCutcheon, 1911-1950
Folder 11: History class taught by Dufour
Folder 12: Published works by Marten ten Hoor
Folder 13: How to Write a Column notecards
Folder 14: Hurricane Betsy printed materials
Folder 15: Journalism and Liberal Arts notecards
Folder 16: Gilbert Knaupp testimonial at Fontainbleau Motel, 1963 October 16
Folder 17: La Boheme notes
Folder 18: Lafayette Cemetery
Folder 19: Lafayette manuscript; Maurois newspaper article
Folder 20: John B. Lafitte correspondence, research, photographs
Folder 21: Les Escargots Orleanais
Folder 22: Libraries, God Bless 'Em notes
Folder 23: Louisiana Historical Association newsletters, correspondence, programs
Folder 24: The Louisiana Purchase script
Folder 25: LSU Archives manuscript
Folder 26: Proces-verbal of transfer of Louisiana to US from France (copy), 1803 December 20
Folder 27: Holy Rosary Parish
Folder 28: The Louisiana Tigers manuscript
Folder 29: The Madonna of Louisiana unknown author
Folder 30: The Man on the Horse in Jackson Square notes, research, manuscript
Folder 31: Maps
Folder 32: Major Simon Mayer (Civil War) typed script of bound volume also included is correspondence regarding that volume
Folder 33: Mayflower Descendants newspaper article
Folder 34: Sara Mayo notes, printed material
Folder 35: Mercury Records correspondence regarding After Gettysburg also included is the manuscript
Folder 36: The Mexican War book reviews
Folder 37: Mexico trip, 1963
Folder 38: Miscellaneous
Folder 39: New Orleans a la Mode notecards
Folder 40: New Orleans Mon Amour by Walker Percy Harper's, 1968 September
Folder 41: New Orleans Portraits, Dixie, 1968 June 16
Folder 42: New Orleans 250th anniversary
Folder 43: The Night the War Was Lost excerpts from reviews
Folder 44: Nine Men in Gray book reviews, jacket manuscript, (see also Forgotten Men of the Confederacy)
Folder 45: Opera/symphony in New Orleans
Folder 46: The Origin of Dixie by Bascom Timmons, correspondence
Folder 47: Our Lady of the Poets manuscript, correspondence
Folder 48: Samuel J. Peters notes and research
Folder 49: Photographs
Folder 50: Pierre Soule manuscript
Folder 51: Pius X notecards
Folder 52: Pius XII notes and research
Folder 53: Oliver Pollock notes and research
Folder 54: Port Hudson
Folder 55: Presidents and the Press manuscript and notes
Folder 56: Psychological Warfare notecards from speech given by Dufour to the Air Force Reserve also correspondence regarding this speaking engagement, 1951 August 28
Folder 57: Purefoy Hotel
Folder 58: Henry Charles Ramos
Folder 59: Raphael Semmes and the Cruise of the Sumter and Alabama manuscript and correspondence
Folder 60: Research expenses, 1958-1962, 1965-1966
Folder 61: Maurice Ries biographical from Bob J. Scultz Service
Folder 62: Rex material
Folder 63: Rex material
Folder 64: Rex material
Folder 65: Rex/Mardi Gras material

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