the research microsite

Return to Explore the Rockefeller Library Collections page

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
Nathaniel Paine Denny, Fourth of July orations, 1803-1804 MS 2008.16
Navigational Exercise Book, [1742] MS 1992.5
Neale Family Papers, 1835-1873 MS 1987.2
Nelson Family Bible, 1736-1804 BS 185.1762.C38 v. 2 Oversize
Nicholas Cresswell Journal, 1774-1824 MS 1961.2
Noel Hume, Ivor. "The Buried Treasure of Williamsburg", 1959 MS 1993.3
Norfolk (Va.) Hustings Court Order to Bind Joseph Miller, 1799 May 27 MS 2014.12
Notes of the Virginian Society for the Promotion of Usefull Knowledge, 1772 November 20 MS 1931.5
Oliver Perley military enlistment document, 1760 MS 2012.1
Order for shoes : Edward Shippen, Philadelphia, to J. Didsbury, London, 1767 September 7 MS 1989.10
Order to Town Treasurer, Ebenezer Kingsley to Pay Nathaniel Searls, 1738 May 8 MS 2000.26
Osborne, Cary G. "The Elephant at Work: Selected Letters during the Reign of William III from Jamaica to William Blathwayt" James Madison University, 1990 MS 1991.3
Overy, John, "Overy, silk dyer and scowerer…, 1796" MS 2010.12
Park Street letter to Joseph C. Cabell, 1819 July 30 MS 2012.4
Passport Signed by Thomas Jefferson: New York, N.Y., 1807 April 22 MS 1989.19.3 1X
Pasteur, William. Appraisement of that part of the negroes and personal estate of the late Doctor Pasteur which is in Williamsburg, 26 July 1791 MS 2007.1
Pat and Jerry B. Epstein American History Document Collection MS 2001.23
Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves, 1765 May 30 MS 1958.4
Peachy Family Papers, 1809-1883 MS 1949.1
Pennsylvania Stores' Account Books, 1772-1851 MS 1966.2
  1. <
  2. 1
  3. 18
  4. 19
  5. 20
  6. 21
  7. 22
  8. 23
  9. 24
  10. 25
  11. 26
  12. 32
  13. >
621 manuscript(s) found

Collection guides: