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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William S. Bryan Papers, #3481, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Lawrence H. Mayer Junior of Vienna, Va., May 1960.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866.
• Battle family.
• Bryan family.
• Bryan, Francis Theodore.
• Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870.
• Bryan, William S.
• Everett, Edward, 1794-1865.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gaston, William, 1778-1844.
• Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866.
• Lawyers--Maryland--History--19th century.
• Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Pettigrew family.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Spaight, Richard Dobbs, 1758-1802.
• Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864.
• Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
• Whig Party (N.C.)

• Bryan Family Papers (#96).
• John Heritage Bryan Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

William Shepard Bryan (1827-1906), native of Raleigh, N.C. and graduate of the University of North Carolina, practiced law in Baltimore, Md. He was one of the fourteen children of John Heritage Bryan and Mary Shepard Bryan.

John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870) of New Bern and Raleigh, N.C., was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, a lawyer, state legislator, Whig Party member, and United States congressman.

The papers of William S. Bryan include some legal correspondence, including two pieces from Roger B. Taney, but consist chiefly of letters from his family at Raleigh, N.C., in the 1850s, especially from his brother, Army officer Francis Theodore Bryan of Florida and Washington, D.C., and members of the Pettigrew and Battle families of North Carolina. Also included are political correspondence, 1818-1835 (26 items), and a personal account book of his father, John Heritage Bryan. Correspondents include William Gaston, Francis L. Hawks, Richard D. Spaight, George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, and Nathaniel Macon.