MONNOT / Lanier Family Papers
(Mss
48)
Inventory
Earl K.
Long Library
March
1975
Contents
Summary
Historical
/ Biographical Note
Container
List
Index
Terms
Procedures
for Requesting Special Collections Materials
Summary
Size: 5 items
Geographic
locations: Elmfield
Plantation, Napoleonville, Donaldsonville, Bertie, and
Inclusive dates: 1821-1958
Summary: Business and
personal records, papers, and memorabilia of the Monnot / Lanier Family and its
sugar plantation, Elmfield, in Assumption Parish, La. Consists mainly of bills and receipts, cane
weight journals, clippings, correspondence, commission merchant statements,
contracts, land and slave deeds, maps, miscellaneous account books, oaths of
allegiance, payroll records, photographs, promissory notes, school records,
financial statements, succession documents, and tax records. The bulk of the material up to about 1860 is
in French, and thereafter in English.
Source: Gift, October
and December 1973
Access: No
restrictions
Copyright: Physical
rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library,
Citation: Monnot
/ Lanier Family Papers, Earl K. Long Library,
Historical / Biographical Note
References to the Monnot family and its connections can be
found in Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of
Also on deposit are several hundred books from the family
library
Container List
Account Books.
Cane Weight Journals
(Covering loads processed, gross,
tare and net weights, and related information including processing for other individuals
and companies).
48-1 1895 - 1897.
48-2 1899, 1900, 1902 - 1906.
48-3 1907 - 1910, 1928, 1930 - 1932,
1934.
See also Miscellaneous Accounts... 1902
- 1907 (48-13); Notebooks... (48-22).
48-15 Coal Sales Journal? 1896.
Miscellaneous Accounts.
48-4 One
volume (payroll records; commission merchant account; debits and credits; diary
of weather and plantation activities, 1873, 1874), 1838 - 1840, 1844, 1846 -
1851, 1853 - 1858, 1871, 1873, 1874.
48-5 One
volume (payroll records; commission merchant account; debits and credits;
details of weather and crop cultivation; family and plantation expenses; bank
transactions; proceeds from crops, 1869 - 1888; medicinal fertilizer and cane
processing formulae), 1855, 1866, 1869 - 1889, 1894, 1895.
48-6 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; anti-impeachment poem, October
1868; diary of weather and plantation activities, 1870 - 1872), 1866 - 1872.
48-7 One
volume (debits and credits; family, plantation and labor expenses; commission
merchant account; proceeds from crops, 1867 - 1905; sugar bounty records;
medicinal, cane processing and other formulae), 1867 - 1910.
48-8 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; commission merchant account), 1871
(1871 - 1872) 1879.
48-9 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; family and plantation expenses;
commission merchant account; proceeds from crops, 1880, 1881; diary of weather,
1879 - 1881), 1879 - 1882.
48-10 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; family and plantation expenses;
commission merchant account), 1877, 1886 - 1888.
48-11 One
volume (payroll records; diary of weather and plantation activities, 1902),
1896 - 1902.
48-12 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; diary of weather, 1899;
miscellany), 1897 - 1902.
48-13 One
volume (payroll records; debits and credits; cane weights; diary of weather and
plantation activities, 1902; miscellany), 1902 - 1907.
48-14 One
volume (checking account record; debits and credits; receipts on rental
property; notes on investments; miscellany), 1907 (1907 - 1921) 1925.
Note:
loose memoranda and working notes kept as found in Account Books.
48-24 Produce
Tax Collections, Lafourche Basin Levee District, Assumption Parish,
48-16 Address
Book, n.d.
Books (published)
48-20 Lelievre,
J. F. Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane. [Nouvelle-Orléans, J.F.
Lelievre, 1838]. pp. 23 - 200 only.
48-21 Mitchell’s School Atlas. Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.,
1852.
48-19 Nouvel Abecedaire ou Alphabet Syllabique
...Nouvelle-Orléans, Librairie de Hebert et Cie, n.d.
48-25 Catalogue
(J.A. Landry Sporting Goods Co., Ltd.,
48-34 Clippings,
n.d., 1875, 1881, 1882, September 20, 1922 - August 17, 1958.
Correspondence
(Business and
personal; also numerous other documents including commission merchant
statements, miscellaneous contracts, certificates of baptism, communion and
naturalization, land deeds, succession papers, tax receipts, slave rental and
sale contracts and receipts, promissory notes, school reports, oaths of
allegiance, medical diplomas, U.S. individual income tax returns), January 27,
1821 - May 10, 1958.
48-27 n.d.
48-28 n.d.,
January 27, 1821 - March 18, 1846.
48-29 March
23, 1846 - December 24, 1853.
48-30 December
29, 1853 - November 26, 1888.
48-31 November
29, 1888 - December 8, 1942 (Note: oversize certificate, “Roll of Honor,
Locquet - LeRoy Institute.
48-32 December
10, 1942 - May 10, 1958.
48-26 Drawings
(pencil and charcoal drawings of the human figure and landscapes by
unidentified artist), n.d.
Maps
48-35 ...Elmfield Plantation...Assumption Parish...
n.p., 1920 (3 blueprints, one with notations on crop of 1928).
48-36 ...
48-37 ...Iberville Parish and a Portion of St.
Martin’s Parish...Wisner & Dresser,
48-38 ...
48-39 ...Madewood Plantation...Parish of Assumption...n.p.,
April 1919.
48-40 ...Magnolia Grove
48-41 ...
48-42 ...Pointe Coupee Parish... Wisner &
Dresser,
48-43 Russo-Japanese War Map. Interstate Trust
and Banking Company,
48-44 ...
Miscellany
48-18 Miniature
(watercolor on ivory portrait of a man with gold washed oval brass frame and
glass cover; Dr. Charles C. Monnot ? ), ca. 1835.
48-22 Notebooks
(notations on cane hauling, coal, expenses, and addresses), 1899 - 1901, 1904,
1905, 1919.
48-45 Payrolls
(completed
48-33 Photographs
(paper prints and ferrotypes of individuals and scenes).
48-17 School
notebooks, ca. 1839, 1840; 1916, 1917.
Serials
48-46 The Assumption Pioneer, vol. 41, no. 34
(April 1899), vol. 41, no. 45 (April 22, 1899), vol. 65, no. 7 (October 28,
1922).
48-47 Baptist Message, vol. 35, nos.--, 34, 35
(March 9, April 6, 27, 1922).
48-48 Confederate Veteran, vol. 28, no. 3
(March 1920).
D. H. Holmes’ Lady’s Journal, vol. 4,
no. 11 (December 1880), vol. 5, no. 2 (March 1881), vol. 6, no. 5 (June 1882).
Deep Water,
Demorest’s Illustrated Journal, vol. 10,
no. 1 (March 1881).
48-49 Farm Life, vol. 37, no. 11 (November
1918), vol. 39, no. 9 (September 1920).
The Greater Plaquemine Post, vol. 1, no.
6 (June 13, 1957).
48-50 Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Daily
Picayune, October 13, 1912.
Metropolitan Fashions, vol. 8, no. 3
(March 1881).
Modern Farming, The Louisiana-Mississippi
Farm Paper, vol. 49, no. 12 (June 25, 1919).
48-51 The
48-52 Pen and Plow, vol. 11, no. 2 (February
1883).
The Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, vol.
LXXVIV, no. 1 (July 2, 1927).
48-53 Religious Herald, new series, vol. 5,
nos. 9, 11-13, 15, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45 (March 3, 17-31, April 14, July
14, 28, August 18, September 1, 8, October 6, 20, November 10, 1870); vol. 6,
nos. 1, 17, 33 (January 5, April 27, August 17, 1871); vol. 9, no. 27 (July 9,
1874); vol. 15, nos. 45, 52 (November 4, December 23, 1880).
48-54 Southern Agriculturist, vol. 62, no. 12
(December 1932).
The Sugar Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 9
(February 1, 1942).
48-55 The True Democrat, February 24, 1917.
Upsilon Pelican of Upsilon Zeta of Lambda
Chi Alpha, vol. 5, no. 2 (May 1, 1922).
Vickert’s Fireside Visitor, vol. 6, no.
7 (April 1880).
48-23 United
Confederate Veteran Association (Minutes...Annual
Meeting and
See
also Correspondence... November 29, 1888 - December 8, 1942 (48-31); Serials, Confederate Veteran... (48-48).
Index Terms
Education—
Elmwood Plantation (Assumption Parish,
Lanier family
Monnot family
Plantations—