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
Doughty and Cole Agreement, 1882 November 4	MS 2002.2
Dr. Samuel Powell Byrd Papers, 1823-1859	MS 1939.4
Drawing of Carter's Grove, ca 1850	MS 1989.19.5
Drawing of the Apollo Room in the Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia	M-1561
Dunmore Proclamations, 1771-1772	MS 1931.20
Dunmore's Speech to the General Assembly at Williamsburg, Va., 1775 June 1	MS 2000.39
Edmund Bagge Account Book, 1726-1733	MS 1941.9
Edward Armistead Semple's Bond to George C. Richardson, 1846 February 6	MS 2000.13
Edward Miles Riley Papers, Undated	MS 2007.8
Edward Payson, Sermon, n.d.	MS 2000.51
Edward Payson, Sermons, n.d.	MS 2002.1
Edward Thorne Arithmetic Book, 1761	MS 1980.3.1
Eliza Selden Washington Family Papers, 1825-1877	MS 2004.19
Elizabeth Blagojevich Papers, 1939-1951	MS 1991.18
Elizabeth Cozens Pattern Book, ca. 1830	MS 1996.24
Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers, 1755-1871	MS 1989.25
Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Papers, 1780-1832	MS 1954.5
Elizabeth Lee Diary, 1814	MS 1987.8
Elizabeth Russell Robinson Family Bible, 1770-1873	BS 185.1839.P48
Engravings of English Costume, 1759-1813	MS 1951.7 bound

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)