Literary New Orleans Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Letter to Comte de Pontchartrain	1
	from Journal of a Voyage to North America	5
	Letter to Her Father	17
	Letter to Robert Livingston	21
	from Sketches of America	23
	from Journal of John James Audubon	27
	"New Orleans in 1848"	33
	from Life on the Mississippi	37
	Letter to Major Pond	45
	"A Matter of Prejudice"	47
	"Odalie"	55
	"Cherchez La Femme"	59
	"The Battle of the Handkerchiefs"	69
	from The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard	75
	"New Orleans, the Double Dealer and the Modern Movement in America"	83
	"The Glamour of New Orleans"	89
	from Mosquitoes	93
	from Fabulous New Orleans	115
	from Mules and Men	125
	"New Orleans (1946)"	133
	from Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans	141
	"Mornings on Bourbon Street"	153
	from Half of Paradise	157
	from An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir	171
	"Talk To The Music"	187
	"secret messages"	201
	from "Shrovetide in Old New Orleans"	205
	from A Confederacy of Dunces	213
	from The Annunciation	223
	from Almost Innocent	237
	"The City of the Dead"	247
	"Relic"	251
	"The Muse is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans	259
	from Crooked Man	267
	from Glass House	275
	"Faubourg"	285
	Acknowledgments	289