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This manuscript volume contains a list of people who visited the Avery Family plantation at Petit Anse Island during the Civil War along with the dates of their visit and their places of origin.

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…

Sarah Avery writes to her husband from New Orleans and discusses what she has heard about the likely location of their furniture. She also mentions potential hiring arrangements with former slaves.

Writing from New York, Philip Hickey Morgan (a Louisiana Unionist) sends Judge Avery a document (not included) that he says will "enable you to go on with your salt works without fear of molestation from Gun boats or Dist Attys."

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

Winthrop urges Avery to begin bringing salt to market as soon as possible.

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.

A letter from son to father discusses conditions on the Petit Anse plantation and arrangements for hiring laborers. According to Jack Avery, a Mr. Hayes "only wishes to hire three of his hands and says that we are at liberty to make arrangements with…