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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 [email protected] for more information.

Search for manuscripts:

Title Number
Land grant to Archibald Hopkins, 1 February 1781 MS 1931.6
Land grant to Joel Robinson, 31 Oct. 1765 MS 1929.5
Land grant to Moses Terry, 1767 September MS 1938.5 1X
Lease to Isaac Merritt, 1676 January 16 MS 1946.1 3X
Lease to James Cocke, 1767 November 5 MS 1968.2
Lease to John Pain, 1776 August 30 MS 2000.96 3X
Lease to Mary Withell, 1760 July 14 MS 2000.94 3X
Lease to Thomas Redford, 1771 November 1771 MS 2000.95 3X
Leases to John Blair and John Dixon, 1746-1750 MS 1931.19 a
Lemuel Newton's Plat for Captain William Craford, 1711 Mar 26 MS 2000.73 1X
Les Regles Pour La Musique, ca. 18th century MS 1981.1
Letter from George Leigh, 1795 September 14 MS 1958.1
Letter to Bishop James Madison, 1809 MS 1950.1
Letter to William Hunter, ca. 1760/1 MS 1990.4
Letter, A. Wells to Elisha Abbe, 1782 March 19 MS 1994.21
Letter, Adam-Philippe, Comte de Custine, 1793 May 31 MS 1931.23.2
Letter, Alexander Spotswood to Edmund Pendleton, 1775 November 16 MS 1999.10
Letter, Alexander Spotswood to Unknown Recipient, 1711 Aug 4 MS 1931.15
Letter, Ann Cary Nicholas to Sarah (Sally) Cary Fairfax, 1760 January 16 MS 2007.4
Letter, Armand-Louis de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de Lauzun to the administrators of the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, 1793 April 22 MS 1931.23.1
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621 manuscript(s) found

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