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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
Carpenters Worke Done for Samuel Foyster, Esqr., 1793-1794 MS 2010.1
Cartel document for the Caledonia: Sweden, 1810 June 10 MS 2000.64
Catalogue of an art exhibition for benefit of St. Paul's Church, Norfolk, 27 May 1879 MS 1951.1
Certificate of Residence for Elizabeth Temple, 1719 January 26 MS 2000.23
Certificate of naturalization to Mattern Sparr, 1767 April 21 MS 1950.2
Certification of Theodorick Bland as Clerk of Court, 1768 November 5 MS 2000.76 1X
Charles Lee Notebook of Virginia Cases, 1783-1855 MS 1976.7
Charles Steuart Papers, 1762-1789 DMS 1955.4
Christopher Tompkins Account Book, 1819-1821 MS 1940.3
Ciphering book: Solomon Higgins, Goochland County, Virginia, 1763 October 9 DMS 1987.14
Clark, Anah. Account Book, 1825-1850s MS 1994.5 Bound
Clifford Lewis III Research Collection (20th c.) MS 2000.99
Coach Drawings, 18th-19th century MS 1948.3
Coach and Carriage Papers, 1794-1848 MS 1980.2
Coleman, Mary Haldane Begg, "Diary," 1930-1932 MS 1989.3
Collection of the Acts of Parliament pertaining to the North American Colonies, 1764-1778 MS 2008.4
Colonial Williamsburg Block Ticket, undated MS 1996.52 20C
Colonial Williamsburg fragments collection MS 1996.55 20C
Commission of Alexander Robertson to Sheriff, 1789 December 12 MS 2000.48
Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 1733 Jul 4 MS 2000.70 1X
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621 manuscript(s) found

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