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Miscellaneous File

Description

Individuals represented in the miscellaneous file include:

John Quincy Adams; Sir Edmund Andros; Governor James Barbour; Phineas Taylor Barnum; Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; August Belmont; Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt; Sir William Berkeley; Robert Bolling; Daniel Boone; Robert Brooke; John Brown; Robert Browning; William Cullen Bryant; James Buchanan; Aaron Burr; Col. William Byrd II; Col. William Byrd III; Governor William H. Cabell; Governor William Evelyn Cameron; Charles II, King of England; Salmon Portland Chase; George Rogers Clarke; Henry Clay; Grover Cleveland; De Witt Clinton; George Clinton; Jefferson Davis; Henry Alexander Seammell Dearborn; Robert Dinwiddie; Hugh Drysdale; Jubal Anderson Early; Edward Everett; Benjamin Stoddert Ewell; Francis Fauquier; Filipi II, King of Spain; Millard Fillmore; Benjamin Franklin; John Charles Frémont; Albert Gallatin; James Abram Garfield; George II, King of England; George III, King of England; Thomas Walker Gilmer; William Gooch; Horace Greeley; Edward Everett Hale; Alexander Hamilton; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Governor Frederick William Mackay Holliday; Robert Hunter; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jonathan Jackson; John Jay; Thomas Jefferson; Governor Edmund Jennings; Joseph Egglestone Johnston; Walter Savage Landor; Henry Laurens; John Laurens; John Letcher; Benjamin Lincoln; Louis XV of France; Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay; Henry Brainerd McClellan; James McDowell; John Marshall; James Monroe; Robert Morris; John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore; Napoleon I, Emperor of France; Wilson Cary Nicholas; Governor John Page; Rembrandt Peale; Benjamin Peirce; Timothy Pickering; George Edward Pickett; Franklin Pierce; James Knox Polk; Joseph Reed; William Cabell Rives; Theodore Roosevelt; John Rutherford; Charles Greene Sawtelle; John McAllister Schoffeld; Philip John Schuyler; Winfield Scott; Frederich William Seward; William Henry Seward; Lydia Huntley Sigourney; Benjamin Stilliman; Alexander Spotswood; Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart; James Ewell Brown Stuart; James Sullivan; John Sullivan; William Booth Taliaferro; Benjamin Tallmadge; Zachary Taylor; Littleton Waller Tazewell; William Makepeace Thackeray; William Marcy Tweed; John Tyler; Abel Parker Upshur; Martin Van Buren; Stephen Van Rensselaer; Gilbert Carlton Walker; Lew Wallace; Bushrod Washington; George Washington; Anthony Wayne; Daniel Webster; Gideon Welles; John Wickham; William Wirt; and Levi Woodbury.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1582-1914.
Call number
mssBR
Creator
Brock, R. A (1839-1914)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description
The large group of individual items described by a misnomer Miscellaneous File and Miscellaneous Manuscripts apparently constituted the core of Mr. Brock's collection. Most materials concern history of Virginia, with items relating to other Southern States, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York, etc. Brock's own voluminous private and official correspondence, and papers of the Virginia Historical Society and the Southern Historical Society.
Provenance
Purchased from Elizabeth Brock, through the agency of Robert O. Schad, 1922.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated organizations
Southern Historical Society.
Virginia Historical Society.
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