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[Identification of item], in the Eliza Usher Berry Papers, #3004, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Americans--Mexico--History--19th century.
• Berry, Eliza Usher, fl. 1830-1843.
• Berry, William Augustus.
• Catholics--United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Church buildings--United States--History--19th century.
• Convents--United States--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--United States--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Mexico--History--19th century.
• Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
• Ohio River Valley--Description and travel.
• Texas--Politics and government--1836-1846.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• Usher, Francenia, fl. 1830-1831.
• Usher, Patrick, fl. 1839-1843.
• Women travelers--United States--Diaries.

• William B. McKoy Papers (#471); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.