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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
Letter, George Meriwether to William Meriwether, 1776 October 18 MS 1938.8
Letter, George Purdie, 1789 October 26 MS 2004.7
Letter, George Weedon to William Phillips, 1781 April 12 MS 2013.8
Letter, Gov. Patrick Henry to John Rogers, 20 May 1779 MS 1937.4
Letter, Hunt and Adams to Craigie, Wainwright & Co., 1787 July 11 MS 1938.3
Letter, James Montague to the Principal Officers… of His Majesty's Navy, 1775 October 22 MS 2000.40
Letter, James Tilley to Nicholas Low, 1793 October 9 MS 2000.50
Letter, Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Donald Campbell, 1762 May 4 MS 1982.7
Letter, John Barrett to William Nelson 1784 August 13 MS 1936.4
Letter, John Catlett to Thomas Catlett, 1 April 1664 MS 1931.16
Letter, John Francis Mercer to John Fitzgerald, 1785 May 28 MS 2000.47
Letter, John Hamilton to Henry Dundas, 1795 June 21 MS 2014.4
Letter, John Hatley Norton to George William Fairfax, 1774 June 31 MS 2002.18
Letter, John Mercer to James Mercer, 1766 October 20 MS 2005.2
Letter, John Nicholas to James Rees, 1802, March 2 MS 2008.7
Letter, John Page to Margaret Lowther Page, 1796 February 21 MS 2000.58
Letter, John Page to Richard Caswell, 1777 September 26 MS 1932.8
Letter, John Paradise, to Dr. Warren ca. 1780 MS 2001.18
Letter, John Riddell to Francis Newton and William Gordon, 1765 January 15 MS 2004.3
Letter, John Riggs to William Blathwayt, 1701 May 9 MS 2003.5.1
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621 manuscript(s) found

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