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
Smith-Digges Papers, 1789-1843	MS 1931.7
Some thoughts upon America, and upon the danger from Roman Catholicks there, ca 1740	MS 2011.3
Squire Boone promissory note to Marsham Brashear, 1783 January 27	MS 2013.4
St. George Tucker Collection, 1771-1821	MS 1942.4
St. George Tucker House Collection, 19th century	MS 1994.7
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 23, 1780. Whereas the troops of the southern states will now be needed for the defence of that quarter…	MS 2014.1
Stephen Colbey Account Book, 1772-1812	MS 2004.12
Subjects from Minutes of the Meetings of the Advisory Committee of Architects, 1928-1948	MS 1996.7 20C
Subscription list: for a public school in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773 July 15	MS 1991.5
Surveyor's certificate issued to Richard P. Clements, 1800 November 22	MS 1934.6
Swedish last bill for the Caledonia, 1810 May 26	MS 2000.63
Table of the authors of English law reports, {ca. 1850}	MS 1967.2
Tappahannock Seminary on the Rappahannock River Records, 1818-1860	MS 2002.11
Tazewell Family Papers, 1664-1842	MS 1931.4
The Baylor Family in America. 1993	MS 1996.8
The Complete Mariner,1731	MS 1931.2
The Dickinson Family Papers, 1778-1845, and n.d.	MS 2001.9
The Gentleman's Jockey and Approved Farrier, 17th-century	MS 1994.8
The Reverend Donald McDonald Millar sketchbook, ca. 1919	MS 1989.5
The Reverend Robert Rose Diary, 1746-1751	MS 1941.9

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)