Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Brock Collection: Records of Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Legal, and personal correspondence of Robert Anderson, chiefly related to his involvement in settling the estate of his father-in-law and his brother LeRoy Anderson. Included are some letters dealing with Alexander Macaulay's shipping business at Norfolk, Va., lawsuits against Dismal Swamp Canal Company and documents and plats relating to the property at Navy Hill (Richmond, Va.), including a plat of Navy Hill (Richmond, Va.) with a "Proposed Academy" whose "object is to introduce gradually a thousand or more elementary schools j in every part of the State."
mssBR Box 50 (1)
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Records of the Sycamore and Fish Island plantations entered in a copy of the Plantation and Farm Instruction, Regulation, Record, Inventory, and Account Book (Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph, 1852).
mssBR 137
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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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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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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
mssBR Box 117
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Correspondence of Benjamin H. Smith with his friends and family, chiefly letters from his father in Richmond, Va. Also included are Smith's letters describing his duty guarding John Brown, a brief diary covering Sept. - Dec., 1861, scattered regimental records of Co. 3 of the Richmond Howitzers, and the paperwork relating to Smith's wound and his court martial case
mssBR Box 153 (1)