Manuscripts Division Update, an annual listing of manuscripts at The Historic New Orleans Collection, was published from 1982 to 1994. The subjects treated in the thirteen volumes available now for download as PDF files included:

Family Papers (vol. 1, no. 1) 384kb
New Orleans Sheet Music (vol. 1, no. 2) 312kb
Papers Relating to the Battle of New Orleans (vol. 2) 376 kb
German Archives (vol. 3) 436 kb
Papers Relating to the Civil War, Part 1 (vol. 4) 384 kb
Papers Relating to the Civil War, Part 2 (vol. 5) 520 kb
Papers Relating to the Visual Arts (vol. 6) 444 kb
Microforms (vol. 7) 408 kb
Microfilm from the National Archives (vol. 8) 308 kb
Land Records (vol. 9) 404 kb
Papers Relating to Colonial and Territorial Louisiana (vol. 10) 732 kb
Papers Relating to Religion (vol. 11) 692 kb
Papers Relating to Antebellum Louisiana (vol. 12) 1.1 mb
Papers of Individuals, Families, and Organizations: An Update (vol. 13) 696 kb

All accessioned and cataloged collections were reported in Update volumes 1 through 10. Volumes 11, 12, and 13 describe only fully cataloged materials. Volume 1 had 2 numbers; all other volumes had only 1 number.