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Manuscripts
Miscellaneous File (1819-1822)
- Description
Includes Martin Van Buren autograph letter signed to James Talladge, 1819 December 3 (1 page); John Quincy Adams signed certificate of deposit, 1821 January 5 (1 page).
- Production date
- 1582-1914.
- Call number
- mssBR
- 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.
