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Manuscript Finding Aids

The Rockefeller Library's Special Collections department owns more than 50,000 manuscript pages. . The form below searches the manuscripts in our collection that have been transcribed.

A portion of our manuscripts have been fully digitized and transcribed and are available in our Digital Library.

Additional finding aids are available through the Virginia Heritage Project: Virginia Heritage: Guides to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia .

A number of manuscripts have been microfilmed and are available through interlibrary loan. Email rocklibrary@cwf.org for more information.

Search for manuscripts:

Title Number
Holywell Hall Horticultural Papers, ca. 1760-1829 MS 1977.2
House and Land Deed to Dr. Alexander Galt, 1823 February 1 MS 1950.7 1X
Howe, William. Signed military commission, 1776 MS 2007.3
Hugh Rankin Theater Research Notes, 20th c. MS 1996. 23
Humphrey Harwood Account Book, 1776-1794 MS 1933.1
Indenture of Apprenticeship, James Williams to George Suggs, Norfolk, Virginia, 1793 September 22 MS 2011.1
Indenture of Apprenticeship: William Coupe to William Sprentall, 1793 February 15 MS 1976.16
Indenture of Norborne Lord Botetourt, James Harris, and Joseph Newton, executors of the estate of Mary Phelps, with Robert Parry, 1766 May 13 MS 2008.6
Indenture of apprenticeship: Jacob Averill to Gideon Kinne, 1770 September 11 MS 2000.36
Indenture of apprenticeship: Thomas Clayton, Jr. to James Griffin MS 1987.1
Independence Hall Documents, 1778-1779 MS 2000.1
Indictment of Slave Amy, 1751 MS 2010.2
Insurance policy issued by the Southern Protection Insurance Co., Alexandria, Va to Lemuel J. Bowden, 1857 December 22 MS 2000.56
Jacob C. Sheldon letter to John D. McGill, 1834 November 27 MS 2012.18
Jahns, Christian, "Ornamental wall colouring and painting, in imitation of paper hangings," ca. 1811-1820 MS 2010.13
James Anderson and Son Account Books, 1778-1805 MS 1962.2
James Carter Invoice Book, 1752-1774 MS 1939.8
James Lee-Teagle Family Papers, 1808-1877 MS 1950.6
James Macoughty Papers, 1831 MS 1975.3
James Maury Sermons, 1743-1764 MS 1991.15
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621 manuscript(s) found

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