Link to Surrey's Calendar Now Available on Colonial Louisiana Records Collection Finding Aid

The finding aid for the Colonial Louisiana Records Collection in the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection has been updated to include a link to A Guide to French Louisiana Manuscripts: An expanded and revised edition of the 1926 Surrey Calendar with Appendices, which is an electronic version of Nancy M. Miller Surrey's Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives and Libraries Relating to the History of the Mississippi Valley to 1803.

This calendar acts as a comprehensive guide documenting the French experience in the Mississippi Valley and is of great significance to researchers studying French colonial Louisiana. This electronic database, which is housed in The Historic New Orleans Collection, was an ambitious project led by Carl A. Brasseaux, Professor Emeritus of History at UL Lafayette, and Alfred E. Lemmon, Director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection.

For a further description of the Colonial Louisiana Records Collection, view Brasseaux, Carl A. “The Colonial Records Collection of the Center for Louisiana Studies”, Louisiana History, Vol. XXV, No. 2. pp. 181-188, Spring 1984.

To see Surrey's Calendar in electronic form, view A Guide to French Louisiana Manuscripts: An expanded and revised edition of the 1926 Surrey Calendar with Appendices from The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Photo Caption: Le Saint Louis (Relation du Voyage de La Louisiane ou Nouvelle France fait par Sr. Caillot en l'Année 1730 between 1731 and 1758

Photo Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection – Surry (2005.0011)