Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Episcopal Church, (bulk 1837-1893)

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Description: Collection of correspondence and manuscripts of various Episcopal clergymen. Although the majority of the collection deals with Virginia and other Southern states, there are scattered pieces relating to Episcopalian clergy in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Lower Canada. Included are materials related to the Monumental Episcopalian Church (Richmond. Va.), St. James's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Va.), St. John's Church (Hampton, Va.), Virginia Council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the Southern Churchman and other publications and institutions of Episcopal Church, particularly in the diocese of Virginia. There are only a few pieces relating to the Civil War
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1771-1900.
Call number: mssBR Box 117
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Methodist Church and Baptist Church

Manuscripts

Collection of miscellaneous personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of Methodist and Baptist ministers and congregations, mostly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Baptist Southern Convention. Included are groups of correspondence of Samuel T. Moorman, a Methodist minister who served in North Carolina and Virginia in 1840-1860's., Rev. George William Keese, a Richmond, Va. Baptist minister, and materials relating to First Baptist Church (Richmond, Va)

mssBR Box 119

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Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : sermons and correspondence

Manuscripts

Collection of miscellaneous sermons and scattered correspondence and manuscripts of Catholic, Congregational, Unitarian, Episcopal, and other clergymen, chiefly relating to Virginia. Included are pieces by William Jessup Armstrong, Richard Salter Storrs, George Washington Dame, and John Joseph Keane

mssBR Box 120

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Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Presbyterian Church

Manuscripts

Collection of miscellaneous letters, documents, and manuscripts relating to various Presbyterian clergymen, mostly from Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Enclosed are small groups of correspondence of Moses Drury Hoge and Samuel Irenaeus Prime

mssBR Box 118

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Brock Collection: Papers of Herman Böÿe, (bulk 1831-1838)

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous correspondence and documents of Herman Böÿe, including items pertaining to his immigration to the United States (credentials, letters of introduction, naturalization papers, etc.), documents relating to the preparation of the Map of Virginia, etc. The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence and documents of John George Blair, cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Richmond, Va. who was the executor of Böÿe's estate

mssBR Box 79

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of J. D. K. Sleight

Manuscripts

Letters to J. D. K. Sleight, business agent of the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Va., chiefly from subscribers in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas and other Southern States. Also included are letters from E. Thompson Baird, the Committee's Secretary

mssBR Box 161

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Brock Collection: Papers of John George Blair

Manuscripts

Business and personal records, documents, and correspondence of John George Blair and Albert Blair. Included are documents dealing with James Black's claim on the estate of William Galt, Farmers' Bank of Virginia, John G. Blair's diary kept during a trip to New York and Philaldephia (1831), and a report on coalfields in vicinity of Richmond, Va

mssBR Box 101

Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Episcopal Church, (bulk 1837-1893)

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