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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
Recipe Collection (20th c.) MS 1996.33
Remarks on the works of John Baptiste Van Helmont, John Webster, and Otto Tacher, c. 1760 MS 1983.2
Rental Agreements, Ellen D. Rudd, et al, 1875 February 1 MS 1975.5
Report card, issued to F. Hurt by the Williamsburg Female Academy, 1852 May MS 1929.4
Report, Christopher Wren to the Lords of the Treasury, 1716 November 14 MS 1953.6
Research Files on Colonial Shoes, 1988 MS 1993.11
Revisal of the Laws of Virginia, 1706 MS 1930.5
Richard Corbin Papers, 1746-1825 MS 1971.5
Richard Edsall Survey, Minisink, PA, 1759 March13 MS 1931.11
Richard Jackman promissory note, 1783 December 13 MS 2009.4
Richard Winslow's Petition to the Orange County Court, 1748 May MS 1983.3
Robert Anderson Papers, 1693 [1787-1858] 1877 MS 1972.2
Robert Andrews Letter to General George Weedon, 1781 September 26 MS 2012.9
Robert Bolling, Jr. Commonplace book 1764 MS 1986.4
Robert Carter III Waste Book, 1762-1790 MS 1957.2
Robert Carter Letter Books, 1761-1769 MS 1957.1
Robert Greenhow letter to John Ambler, 1804 September 22 MS 2013.1
Robert Nicholson Bible, 1706 BS 185.1706.L6
Robert Saunders letter, 1851 August 11 MS 1939.2
Robert Spilsbe Coleman Arithmetic Exercise Book, 1773-1857 MS 1973.4
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621 manuscript(s) found

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