Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Correspondence of George C. Wedderburn

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Description: Personal, political, and business correspondence of George C. Wedderburn, chiefly letters addressed to him. The letters discuss his contributions to various periodicals, family news, and business enterprises and transactions, including a steamship line and various publishing projects. Included is Wedderburn's correspondence with Gilbert Carlton Walker and Montgomery Blair regarding the Cincinnati Convention of Liberal Republican party in May 1872
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1865-1872.
Call number: mssBR Box 168 (1)
Creator: Wedderburn, George C(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Brock Collection: Correspondence of the superintendent of Camp Lee Soldier's Home

Manuscripts

Chiefly letters addressed to James Pollard and William R. Terry relating to disabled veterans applying for admission to the Home, with a few items relating to the affairs of the inmates, management, finances, and charitable contributions to the Home. Included are a few letters dealing with establishment of similar homes in Texas and North Carolina

mssBR Box 166

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George C. Wedderburn correspondence (1865-1874)

Manuscripts

Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.

mssBR

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Brock Collection: Papers of George Evans

Manuscripts

Personal financial and legal records and scattered correspondence of Dr. George Evans: bonds, bills, accounts, powers of attorney, receipts, and land surveys. There are also bills and receipts for purchases and sales of slaves, treatment of plantation slaves, and documents relating to several estates administered by Dr. Evans. Also included are letters from his agents regarding his bounty lands and letters relating to the debts of George Evans, Jr

mssBR Box 47

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Brock Collection: Papers of the editors of the Richmond enquirer, (bulk 1867-1876)

Manuscripts

Papers, chiefly routine correspondence with a few documents, accumulated by the editors and managers. Included are accounts, advertisements, letters from contributors, readers, subscribers, and advertisers, correspondence relating to the merger with Richmond Examiner (1866) and the company management. The majority of the letters are addressed to George C. Wedderburn and W. W. Berry.

mssBR Box 176

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of Lewis Hill

Manuscripts

Chiefly business letters addressed to Lewis Hill, relating to bill collecting and hiring of slaves. Included are a few documents and pieces of personal correspondence

mssBR Box 92

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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: Correspondence of George C. Wedderburn

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