Wilmot family collection, 1846-1962 | Louisiana Research Collection

Scope and Contents: The collection consists of correspondence (1904-1962), programs for concerts, theatre productions, Mardi Gras ball invitations and krewe publications, pamphlets, travel brochures, and newspaper clippings relating to the social events in the lives of Dorothy and Maud Wilmot. There is also some correspondence, mostly from Frances Parkinson Keyes, and a signed book by M.E.M. Davis, photographs of the Steamboat Robert A. Wilmot, and a cartoon history of D.H. Holmes by John Chase. The newspapers (1897-1934) contain information about the Sinn Fein Rebellion in Ireland, the San Francisco earthquake, and World War I. There is also Panama trip material with the calling cards of Dr. William Gorgas.