Collection contains:
Letter to Comte de Ponchartrain / De Rémonville --
From Journal of a voyage to North America / Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix --
Letter to her father / Sister Hachard de Saint-Stanislas --
Letter to Robert Livingston / Thomas Jefferson --
From Sketches of America / Henry Bradshaw Fearon --
From Journal of John James Audubon / John James Audubon --
"New Orleans in 1848" / Walt Whitman --
From Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain --
Letter to Major Pond / George Washington Cable --
"A matter of prejudice" / Kate Chopin --
"Odalie" / Alice Dunbar-Nelson --
"Cherchez la femme" / O. Henry --"The battle of the handkerchiefs" / Adelaide Stuard Dimitry --
From The pleasant ways of St. Médard / Grace King --
"New Orleans, the Double dealer and the modern movement in America" / Sherwood Anderson --
"The glamour of New Orleans" / Lafcadio Hearn --
From Mosquitoes / William Faulkner --
From Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon --
From Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston --
"New Orleans (1946)" / Truman Capote --
From Satchmo: my life in New Orleans / Louis Armstrong --
"Mornings on Bourbon Street" / Tennessee Williams --
From Half of paradise / James Lee Burke --
From An unfinished woman: a memoir / Lillian Hellman --
"Talk to the music" / Arna Bontemps --
"Secret messages" / Tom Dent --
From "Shrovetide in old New Orleans" / Ishmael Reed --
From A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole --
From The annunciation / Ellen Gilchrist --
From Almost innocent / Sheila Bosworth --
"The city of the dead" / Walker Percy --
"Relic" / Robert Olen Butler --
"The muse is always half-dressed in New Orleans" / Andrei Codrescu --
From Crooked man / Tony Dunbar --
From Glass house / Christine Wiltz --
"Faubourg" / Brenda Marie Osbey.