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
James McHenry Letter to General George Weedon, 1781 July 10	MS 2012.6
James McHenry Letter to William Smith, 1781 July 30	MS 2012.7
James Mercer. Slave pass, 1771 October 29-30	MS 1975.1
James Nickson's Account with David Galloway, 1745-1746	MS 1939.10
James Remly Papers, 1832-1853	MS 1976.4
James Rush letter to John Mason, November 10, 1800	MS 2008.13
Jameson Papers, 1756-1872	MS 1970.1
John A. Barrows Photograph Collection, ca. 1930	MS 1996.22
John Allen's Account with William Dawkins, 1721-1722	MS 1950.3
John Augustine Washington Letter to George Weedon, 1781 January 17	MS 2012.14
John Bankhead Magruder, Requisition, 1861 July 9	MS 1951.2
John E. Bossieux Papers, 1873	MS 1937.3
John Ferrell and William Patterson, indenture to Edmund Randolph, 1788 May 26	MS 2004.5
John Graves Simcoe Papers, ca. 1776-1806	MS 1930.6
John Harvey Apprenticeship Indenture, 1799 March 10	MS 2014.8
John Harvey Apprenticeship Order, 1799 January 28	MS 2014.9
John Lyle Diary, ca. 1783	MS 2003.8.1-2
John M. Maupin, Williamsburg, Agreement with David S. Cowles, 1846 June 17	MS 2000.14
John Mathews, Carpenters worke done for Samuel Foyster, Esqr., 1793-1794	MS 2010.1
John Norton & Sons Papers : Addition 1, 1788 September 2	MS 2011.17

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)