Research Guides: John James Audubon: Manuscript Collections

Manuscript Materials and Drawings

Collections in LSU Libraries
Collections Elsewhere

Some of the materials listed here are also available in the Louisiana Digital Library. For direct links to the digital versions, see inside individual catalog records linked to entries below.

John James Audubon manuscript of Bear killing
Call Number: VAULT:53
John James Audubon manuscript of The hurricane
Call Number: VAULT:53
John James Audubon manuscript of Children's warbler
Call Number: VAULT:53
John James Audubon letters, 1831-1832
Call Number: MISC:A LLMVC
These items are photocopies
John James Audubon letter and print, 1836, 1841
Call Number: MISC.:A LLMVC
John James Audubon drawings and proofs, 1840-1844
Call Number: VAULT:53
Drawings and proofs associated with "The Birds of America" octavo edition
Victor Gifford Audubon letter, 1838 Dec. 24
Call Number: VAULT:53
Lucy Audubon letter, 1873 March 14
Call Number: MISC:A LLMVC
Edward Everett letter, 1831 Sept. 9
Call Number: MISC:E LLMVC
LeFort letter, 1855
Call Number: MISC:L LLMVC

Collections of related interest

James Pirrie papers
Call Number: UU:104 LLMVC
Business and financial papers related to the Pirrie family of Oakley Plantation in Louisiana. Does not include any material directly pertaining to Audubon's stay at Oakley in 1821.
Charles James Johnson papers
Call Number: C:31 LLMVC
Includes two letters written in the late 1830's to Eliza Edington Johnson by her cousin Amelia Jane Havell (née Edington), wife of Audubon's London engraver Robert Havell, Jr. Both letters include news of the Audubon family.

John James Audubon Early Drawings in the Natural History Museum of La Rochelle, France
John James Audubon Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
John James Audubon Collection, Field Museum, Chicago
This site includes information on Audubon's manuscript journal of 1826, held in the Field Museum.
John James Audubon Papers, American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia
John James Audubon Collection, Princeton University Library
John James Audubon Papers, Tulane University Libraries
Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
A general description of Audubon holdings is under "Rare Books & Manuscripts" on this page. Click on "Search the Collections" button near top of page to access a selection of digitized material from Rare Books & Manuscripts.
Morris Tyler Family Collection of John James Audubon, Beinecke Library, Yale University

Collections of related interest

Collections at Mill Grove, Pennsylvania
Manuscript collections at Mill Grove, Audubon's first home in the United States. Click on finding aids link on their page to see individual collection descriptions. Collections include:
Audubon-Bakewell-Shaffer family papers
Alice Ford papers on John James Audubon
Edward Harris Diary, from Edward Harris Papers at Alabama Department of Archives and History
Diary kept by Edward Harris while accompanying Audubon on the 1843 expedition up the Missouri River
Edward H. Dwight Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Waldemar H. Fries Audubon Research Papers, Cornell University Library

John James Audubon

Manuscript Materials and Drawings

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