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
Letter, Barbara Gregory Lowther to Mrs. McClane, 1792 June 2	MS 2000.52
Letter, Benjamin Waller Letter to Meriwether Skelton, 1780 February 21	MS 1932.7
Letter, Benjamin Waller Letter to William Byrd, 1772 March 15	MS 2000.37
Letter, Cadwalader Evans letter to Samuel Wharton, 1770 April 20	MS 2001.8
Letter, Capt. Hugh Ledlie to Samuel Gray, 1765 October 9	MS 2008.8
Letter, Charles Deane to Samuel Eliot, October 17, 1879	MS 1937.5
Letter, Charles F. Richardson to Henry Mills Alden, 1875 April 29	MS 1945.3
Letter, Edmund Jenings to William Blathwayt, 1716 May 25	MS 1987.4
Letter, Edmund Pendleton to James Madison, 1799 May 12	MS 1951.4
Letter, Edmund Pendleton to John Page, 1775 December 13	MS 1942.5.2
Letter, Edmund Pendleton to Patrick Henry, 1775 November 15	MS 2010.4
Letter, Edmund Pendleton to Richard Gaines 1786 October 27	MS 1932.11
Letter, Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore to Miss Blair, 1922 May 29	MS 2013.2
Letter, Elizabeth Brown to William Page, 1775 March 12	MS 1934.4
Letter, Francis Fauquier [Jr] to Robert Carter III, 1770 May 31	MS 1952.2
Letter, Francis Fauquier to John Stanwix, 1760 May 3	MS 2000.1
Letter, Francis Fauquier to Landon Carter, 1760 June 30	MS 1945.2
Letter, Francis Lister Hawks to Rev. Dr. Potts, 1857 May 1	MS 1960.1
Letter, Gen. Joseph Hooker to Capt. Chauncey McKeever, 1862 May 10	MS 1955.2
Letter, George Mason to John Fitzgerald, 1785 May 18	MS 2000.46

621 manuscript(s) found

Collection guides:

Guide to Manuscripts (PDF)
Microforms Short Title/Subject Catalog Guide (PDF)
Photocopied Manuscript Collections Guide (PDF)
Transcript Collections Guide (PDF)