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
Mann Page, Jr., Papers, 1765-1869	MS 1931.8
Marcus Whiffen, Papers, 1959-1981	MS 1991.9
Marquis de Lafayette letter to Governor Thomas Nelson, 1781 June 28	MS 2011.11
Marriage bond: Enoch Powell and Mary Poythress 1759 Feb 27	MS 1985.1
Martin, Peter. "From Sufficiency to Elegance: Gardening in Eighteenth-Century Virginia." 1st draft, 1982.	MS 1993.8
Massachusetts General Court Order, 22 January 1776	MS 2003.2
Meltiah Green letter to William E. Green, 1801 November 10	MS 2010.11
Memorandum of wearing apparrelle belonging to my self [Edward Brattle Oliver], 1760	MS 2011.4
Memorandum to Patrick Henry, 1777 December 20	MS 1941.7
Meriweather Family Papers, 1792-1864	MS 1975.4
Militia Appointment to Henry Lee, 1737 June 2	MS 2000.25
Militia Commision of John Hall, 1783 January 21	MS 1930.8
Militia Commission to George Givens, 1776 May 14	MS 1984.1
Minutes of the Advisory Committee of Architects, 1928-1948	MS 1996.6.20C
Minutes of the Conservative Party of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1868 February 24	MS 1987.9.2
Miscellaneous Original Newspapers	various
Mordecai B. Sweeney Papers, 1830-1884	MS 1931.22
Morton, Richard L. "History of Virginia, Volume 3, Parts 1-2." ca. 1924	MS 1993.9
Nathaniel Baker his book, 1792-1796	MS 2010.9
Nathaniel Burwell Ledger and Papers, 1771 [1773-1805] 1812	MS 1981.12

621 manuscript(s) found

Collection guides:

Guide to Manuscripts (PDF)
Microforms Short Title/Subject Catalog Guide (PDF)
Photocopied Manuscript Collections Guide (PDF)
Transcript Collections Guide (PDF)