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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
William Byrd II Papers, 1728-1729 MS 1940.2
William Cutrell Apprenticeship Indenture, 1800 January 6 MS 2014.10
William Fauntleroy Letter and Account Book, 1735-1774 MS 2005.9
William Fleming Collection, 1773-1802 MS 1996.12
William Graves Perry Papers, ca. 1930-1940 MS 1999.15
William Harwood to John Page, 1775 Dec. 12 MS 1942.5.1
William III's Proclamation, 1688/9 February 14 MS 2000.69 1X
William III's Proclamation, 1688/9 March 16 MS 2000.68 1X
William Jennings letter to John P. Kelly, 1825 July 6 MS 2012.20
William Lightfoot Papers, 1740-1764 MS 1952.4
William Nelson ledger and daybook, 1767-1784 MS 2005.10
William Norvell Tax Book, 1768-1769 MS 1928.2
William Spencer Diary, 1790 MS 1937.2
Williamsburg Virginia, The City Hotel, May 1885 MS 1953.4
Wise-Ware Family Papers, 1846-1871 MS 1980.5
Witchcraft Amulet, or “Precept,” 18th century MS 2004.14
Wood, Samuel. "Injured humanity: being a representation of what the unhappy children of Africa endure from those who call themselves Christians", ca. 1805-1808 MS 2011.5
Writ of capias ad satisfaciendum against Henry Halstead, 1779 April 30 MS 1965.5
Writ, Patience Lockhart v. Dempsey Watts, 1773 February 24 MS 1999.3
York County Sheriff's Execution Book, 1789-1794 MS 1943.2
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621 manuscript(s) found

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