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Collection Number: 03004

Collection Title: Eliza Usher Berry Papers, 1830-1831; 1839-1843.

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Size 7 items.
Abstract MICROFILM ONLY. Travel diary, October 1830-January 1831, of Berry's sister, Francenia Usher; letters, 1839-1843, from Berry's brother, Patrick Usher; and undated physicians' accounts. The travel diary was kept by Francenia Usher on a trip from Emittsburgh, Md., by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Fort Jackson, La., to visit her sister, Eliza Usher Berry, wife of William Augustus Berry, a United States Army doctor. Francenia Usher, a Roman Catholic, particularly noted churches, convents, and co-religionists encountered on her trip. The letters from Patrick Usher, were written in Texas and in prison in Mexico to his sister, Eliza Berry, in Wilmington, N.C. Patrick Usher's letters concern conditions and politics in Texas and details of a private "invasion" of Mexico in 1842.
Creator Berry, Eliza Usher, fl. 1830-1843.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Eliza Usher Berry Papers, #3004, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Typed transcriptions of letters also on film.
Location of Originals
Originals in private hands in 1969.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
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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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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MICROFILM ONLY. Travel diary, October 1830-January 1831, of Berry's sister, Francenia Usher; letters, 1839-1843, from Berry's brother, Patrick Usher; and undated physicians' accounts. The travel diary was kept by Francenia Usher on a trip from Emittsburgh, Md., by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Fort Jackson, La., to visit her sister, Eliza Usher Berry, wife of William Augustus Berry, a United States Army doctor. Francenia Usher, a Roman Catholic, particularly noted churches, convents, and co-religionists encountered on her trip. The letters from Patrick Usher, were written in Texas and in prison in Mexico to his sister, Eliza Berry, in Wilmington, N.C. Patrick Usher's letters concern conditions and politics in Texas and details of a private "invasion" of Mexico in 1842.

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Reel M-3004/1

Microfilm

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