Inventory of the Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929

Collection Number 2662-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Lenoir family.
Patterson family.
Title
Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929
Call Number
2662-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
10 items.
Abstract
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.


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Administrative Information

Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
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.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Collection Overview

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.