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| | Inventory of the Lewis Family Papers, 1730-1956, 1996-1998 |
 | | These papers are of the Lewis, Battle, Bryan, and Bradley families of Edgecombe, Orange, and Wake counties, N.C. Note that it is often difficult to identify individuals because of the repetition of given names in succeeding generations and among contemporaries in different Lewis lines. |
 | | After 1848, correspondence is chiefly that of Elizabeth ("Bettie") Bryan, including several letters from her mother, Mary Williams Shepard Bryan, discussing family and neighborhood news, the conversion of Episcopal Bishop Levi Ives to Roman Catholicism and the community's negative reaction, and news of Lincoln's election. |
 | | She also received letters from friends and other members of the Bryan family, mostly concerned with social events and everyday life, and a letter from her future husband, Kenelm Harrison Lewis, informing her of the death of his brother Richard H. Lewis. |
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