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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, #2662-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mary Patterson Fisher of Asheville, N.C., January 1944.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Alexander, Eben, 1851-1910.
• College orations.
• Diaries.
• Electricity--Study and teaching--History--19th century.
• Lenoir family.
• New Haven (Conn.)--Description and travel.
• Patterson family.
• Patterson, Andrew Henry, 1870-1928.
• Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dialectic Society.
• Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel.
• Women--United States--Diaries.

The Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Sam F. Patterson, Mary Patterson Fisher, Andrew Henry Patterson, William Lenoir, and others.

The collection includes miscellaneous items including a diary, June-July 1841, kept by an unidentified woman on a trip from Raleigh, N.C., to New Haven, Conn., with particulary detailed descriptions of activity in New Haven and sights of Washington, D.C., with some entries by a child of the diarist; notes, circa 1890, by Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) on lectures on electricity by Prof. J. J. Thomson, presumably at Harvard University; three letters, 1895-1896, to Eben Alexander (1851-1910), United States minister to Greece; and an address, circa 1850, by the president of the Dialectic Society, University of North Carolina. Also genealogical and historical correspondence and a copy of the will of Thomas Lenoir, 1765.