Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #3878-z
                        LEVIN LANE PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Levin Lane (1793-1863), planter probably of Pender
           and New Hanover counties, N.C., his father, Ezekiel
           Lane (1773-1834), and Levin Lane's son, William Walker
           Lane (1831-1901), physician of Wilmington, N.C.
               Materials document Levin Lane, his father, and his
           son, including seven bills of sale for slaves,
           1802-1825, most of which pertain to Ezekiel Lane, and
           twenty letters, 1856-1858, most of which are addressed
           to William Walter Lane.  The letters are newsy and
           personal in nature.  Several of them relate to William
           Walter Lane's travels in Europe during this period. 
           Also included are a tintype of a Mrs. Harrelson, dated
           March 1885, apparently a patient of William Walter
           Lane, and modern photographic copies of portraits of
           Levin Lane and family.  Other items include an undated
           map of a city block in Wilmington, N.C., and a
           seemingly unrelated 1847 Columbus County, N.C., land
           grant to Josiah Nye.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Columbus County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
   Europe--Description and travel--1800-1918.
   Lane, Ezekiel, 1773-1834.
   Lane, Levin, 1793-1863.
   Lane, William Walter, 1831-1901.
   Lane family.
   New Hanover County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th
       century.
   Nye, Josiah, fl. 1847.
   Pender County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
   Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.

Size:          32 items.

Provenance:    Received from by John Haywood Hardin of
               Wilmington, N.C., in January 1969.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was rehoused under the
                   sponsorship of a grant from the National
                   Endowment for the Humanities, Office of
                   Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.