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
Waller Family Papers, 1737-1912	DMS 1954.6
Walter Jones letter to Robert Carter, III, 1776 November 9	MS 2010.3
Warrant for the arrest of John Shermadine, 1794 December 25	MS 1958.5
Washington Family Archive, 1779-1934	MS 2006.4
Water-color of Bruton Parish Church ca. 1893 by Alfred W. Thompson	MS 2009.8
Weaver's Draft Notebook, 18th Century	MS 1989.6
Westmoreland County, Estate Inventories, 1780-1784	MS 1999.8
Whitlock-Wingfield Family Bible, 1741-1839	BS 185 Whitlock
Will and estate inventory of James Bray, 1725 November 18	MS 1953.3
Will of Benjamin Wright, 1794 April 21	MS 1934.1
Will of Deborah Morris, 1793	MS 2009.7
Will of Henry Morse, 1775 August 28	MS 1982.5
Will of John Cooke, 1703 Aug 14	MS 1973.1.2
Will of John Copedge, 1709 Oct 30	MS 2000.20
Will of Joseph Ashlin, 1807 July 16	MS 2002.6
Will of Richard Randolph, 1742 February 6	MS 1941.8
Will of William Harwood, 1793 May 11	MS 1930.2
William Ashley certificate of freedom and estate papers, 1845-1915	MS 2009.9
William Blathwayt Papers, 1631 [1680-1700] 1722	MS 1946.2
William Brograve Estate Auction Account Book, 1784	MS 1989.7

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)