Julius Friend and the Double Dealer
Julius Weis Friend (1894-1962) was a founder and editor of the New Orleans literary magazine, The Double Dealer , which was published 1921-1926. Having been educated at Yale University, Julius Friend lectured on literary and philosophical subjects, and taught history at Tulane University in the late 1940s. In 1922, he had married Elise Siess Weil (1896-1984), and they had two children. After his death, Mrs. Friend donated her husband's personal and literary papers to Tulane University. This archival collection (LaRC Manuscripts Collection 138) includes handwritten and typed correspondence, including outgoing carbons, legal and financial documents, tax and insurance papers, travel journals, manuscripts of Mr. Friend's writings including a history of The Double Dealer , biographical and genealogical information about the Friend family and his own life, invitations and other items of social ephemera, poems submitted for publication including one by Loui...