TULANE MANUSCRIPTS DEPARTMENT

Religious Collections

The Tulane Manuscripts Department has more than thirty collections relating to religion--either the personal papers of a minister, priest or rabbi, or the records of religious congregations. Among these are the papers or records of:

• Episcopal Diocese of LA, ca. 8 cu.ft. plus 89 volumes (1805-1968)
• German Lutheran Church, 10 volumes (1838-1902)
• Charles Colcock Jones [see Agriculture]
• Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette Papers, Manuscripts Collections 267, Rouquette, Adrien Emmanuel 1813-1887, papers 1842-1942 (bulk 1850s-1880s), .5 linear feet (one manuscripts box). 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.
• St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 1,131 items (1964-1971)
• Temple Sinai, LA synagogue, 1,318 items (1840-1973)
• Touro Synagogue, LA synagogue, 737 items, including 73 volumes (1830-1969)

Note: preserving the Jewish heritage of our region is a special mission of the Tulane Manuscripts Department.