281. Westbrook, Maude Virginia (850)
1916 -1952 (bulk 1918-1940)
1 linear ft. (ms box, 2 scrapbooks)

Documents written or collected by Maud Virginia Carradine Westbrook, 1885-1959. Music teacher, author poet. She taught at Newcomb College 1914-39; Red Cross worker in France to assist in the World War I cleanup, 1918-19. Contains scrapbooks, manuscripts, news clippings, photos and poems.

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282. Wetmore, Elizabeth (574)
1910-1928
25 items

Letters commenting on Lafcadio Hearn and various literary and political trends. Wetmore was a biographer and friend of Hearn.

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283. White, Louise (527)
1914-1958
50 items

Records and correspondence relating to the Poydras Home where Louise White resided from age ten. After reaching adulthood, she remained in the home as a cook.

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284. White, W. Charlton (125)
1872-1889
1,362 items

Within this large collection is the correspondence of Jeanette Morris (Nettie Morris) with family and friends and the courtship letters between her and William Benjamin White whom she married in 1887.

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285. Whitesell, "Pops" (1876-1958) (no number)
1930s-1950s
8 linear ft.

Whitesell first came to New Orleans in 1918 and settled here in 1921. A self-taught photographer, by the 1940s he was one of the ten most exhibited photographers in the world. He had a one-person show at the Smithsonian in 1946. Collection includes portraits of women literary and artistic figures of the day.

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286. Whittington, G. Purnell (29)
1804-1932
509 items

Within this collection concerning Rapides Parish, Louisiana are two letters from Grace King and the 1863-1866 diary of Mary Eliza Walker.

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287. Williams, Mary L.P. (M 417)
1873-1876
1 volume

An account begun as a school requirement at Girls High School in New Orleans and continued in the post-school year. She writes of schoolwork, family and social life, plays and novels.

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288. Wilmot Family (321)
1848-1962
278 items

Includes documents relating to the social life of Dorothy and Maud Wilmot and some correspondence with Frances Parkinson Keyes.

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289. Wilson, Ellen Elizabeth Latrobe (943)
1868-1991 (bulk 1950-70)
3 linear ft. (6 ms boxes)

Correspondence, estate papers, political documents, photographs, and other papers of Ellen Latrobe Wilson. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland and lived in New Orleans for 40 years. She was the granddaughter of Ferdinand Latrobe, seven times mayor of Baltimore and great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect of the U.S. capitol. She married Sam Wilson, a New Orleans architect. Ellen Wilson served in the Navy during World War II, was President of the Independent Women's Organization during the 1960s, a board member of the Children's Bureau, director of the Fashion Group of New Orleans, and the President of St. Mary's Dominican College Associates. She was a member of Louisiana Landmarks Society, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Society for Architectural Historians, the Louisiana Historical Association, and the Associates of Maison Hospitaliere. The papers include letters from Sam Wilson (1943-1951), Virginia Latrobe papers, photographs, personal correspondence (1930-1990), Fashion Group papers (1954-1955), estate papers and obituary of Ellen Elizabeth Latrobe Wilson, and Independent Women Organization papers (1950-1970).

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290. Wilson, Mattie (843)
1867-1890 (bulk 1867-1873)
3 ms volumes

Diaries of a Tensas parish women who lived on a Mississippi River plantation with her father and three brothers. Her diaries are full of poetry, philosophy and religious writings. She records the weather daily and writes about the conditions of the river, news of passing steamboats, her sewing projects, her household chores, plantation events, and her social activities. She also records the names of books, newspapers and magazines she read, politics (both national and local), illnesses and medications, and past times (card games, piano playing, parties and dances, visits and trips). Constantly, she writes about her far-away "true love."

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291. Woman's Auxiliary to the Orleans Parish Medical Society (938)
1929-1992
17 linear ft. (7 boxes, 14 scrapbooks)

Correspondence (1931-1990), annual reports (1934-1982), constitution and by-laws, activities, minutes (1930-1992), financial papers (1933-1992), membership records (1929-1989), and other records. From its founding in 1929, the objective of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Orleans Parish Medical Society has been "to extend through its members the aims of the medical profession, to the various organizations which look to the advancement of health, education, and philanthropy; to assist in the District, State and National meetings, and promote acquaintance among doctors' families." Since that time, the organization has placed increasing emphasis on community service and philanthropic projects in the educational field.

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292. Woodruff, Lucy (668)
1816-1889
1 volume

Description of family life, teaching, and yellow fever as remembered from a life spent in Connecticut and Baton Rouge.

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293. Wright, Sophie Bell 1866-1912 (801)
1890-1909 (bulk 1898-1901), n.d.
197 items

Collected by her sister, Jennie Wright, and originally mounted in two scrapbooks, this collection includes correspondence, school materials, and programs, musical programs, announcements and invitations, and newspaper clippings. Also included is an eleven page biography. Among Wright's correspondents were Ida Richardson, Frank T. and Elizabeth Howard, G.W. Cable, Rebecca D. Lowe, William Beer, William W. Heard, Edwin Craighead, Molly Moore Davis, Annie R. King, and Ruth McEnery Stuart. Sophie Wright was an outstanding citizen of New Orleans who dedicated her life to education. At fifteen, she opened a day school for girls in her mother's home, which later became the Home Institute, a boarding school with a full teaching staff. Still later, Wright founded a free night school for boys. Disabled herself since the age of three, she took particular interest in people with physical disabilities. In 1903, she became the first woman to receive the Times-Picayune Loving Cup Award. She has also been memorialized by the Sophie Wright Girls High School (now Sophie Wright Middle School) and a New Orleans Street, Sophie Wright Place.

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294. Young Women's Christian Association (637)
1911-
49 record storage boxes, 36 scrapbooks

Minutes, financial records, correspondence, programs, committee reports, pamphlets, and scrapbooks dealing with the administration and activities of the YWCA.