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This pamphlet, published by the American Bureau of Mines, reported on the geological characteristics and commercial potential of the salt deposit at Petit Anse Island. It also gives a brief history of the way salt was manufactured on the island…

An accounting book showing entries between October 1865 and July 1867. Dr. M. Judson is mentioned as one of the persons with whom Avery had an account.

This 1883 account, enclosed in a volume listing invitees to Sarah Marsh Avery's wedding, details the recollections of "Aunt Maria Houston" on her being brought to Avery Island as a slave around 1833 by John C. Marsh, father-in-law of Daniel Dudley…

An incomplete list of "graves beneath the cluster of oaks in front of the house," probably recorded by Sarah Avery Leeds together with Aunt Eliza Robertson. The list includes the names of some family "servants," including William Odel (d. 1882) and…

This list in the back of a volume kept by Sara Avery Leeds about her wedding gives the names of numerous "servants" who worked for the family before and after slavery. The earliest notations seem to have been made in 1885, but there are also…

Auchincloss writes about the latest news in his and Avery's families, and also mentions all the good things he has heard about the salt works on Avery Island. He invites Avery to send his ill daughter to New York to recuperate.

Reeve writes to impress upon Avery the importance of rapidly beginning the production of salt at Avery Island and discusses going rates for salt compared to Liverpool prices.

Judson forwards a note by which he judges "that salt will probably save you."

Longcope is relieved to hear of Avery's safe arrival at home and discusses his determination to pursue business, in spite of the losses incurred from freeing his slaves.

Houston businessman C. S. Longcope, who knew the Averys while they were in Houston, reports on events in the city since the Averys returned to Louisiana.