Manuscripts

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

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1809-1881.
Call number: mssBR Box 176
Creator: Enquirer Book and Job Press (Richmond, Va.)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also included are receipts, stock certificates, and a few articles intended for publication, mostly dealing with the city affairs and social life

Brock Collection: Papers of the editors of the Richmond Whig, (bulk 1849-1883)

Manuscripts

Scattered correspondence accumulated by the editors, chiefly by Wyatt M. Elliott, Alexander Moseley, and John Camden Shields. Included are letters from readers, contributors, subscribers, and advertisers, mostly relating to accounts and subscriptions.

mssBR Boxes 178 & 179

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of the editor of the Richmond standard

Manuscripts

Scattered correspondence accumulated by the editors of the Richmond Standard, chiefly by George Watson James. Included are letters to James from contributors, readers, and subscribers; articles, books reviews, etc. The articles and letters to the editor deal with Virginia history and genealogy

mssBR Box 177

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of the editors of the Religious herald (Richmond, Va.), (bulk 1858-1880)

Manuscripts

Correspondence, accumulated by the editors of the Religious Herald, particularly by Alfred Elijah Dickinson, with a few letters addressed to Jeremiah B. Jeters. Most ante-bellum and Civil War letters deal with colporteurs. The post-war correspondence relates mostly to accounts of the individual and corporate subscribers and advertisers. There are also few items dealing with the affairs of the Southern Baptist Convention. Included are letters from John Albert Broadus, a manuscript of his "The Revised New Testament: General Remarks" (ca. 1866), a group of articles by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, articles and reviews by Jeremiah Bell Jeters, and a few other articles and letters to the editor

mssBR Box 184

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Brock Collection: Papers of Lancasterian school (Richmond, Va.)

Manuscripts

Correspondence and documents of the Lancasterian school. Included are: records of faculty appointments, tuition accounts, attendance reports, monitors's bonds, and reports of the Visiting Committee

mssBR Box 93

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Brock Collection: Correspondence of the editors of the Richmond Christian advocate

Manuscripts

Letters received by Rev. W. W. Bennett and Rev. John J. Lafferty

mssBR Box 185

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Brock Collection: Papers of Richmond, Va. Customhouse, (bulk1865, Sept. - 1872)

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous papers accumulated by the United States Customhouse in Richmond (Va.). Included are communications received from the Treasury Department and various ships' papers -- invoices and certificates for shipments of goods issued by the U. S. Consulate in England, Ireland, France, Cuba and Nova Scotia, passenger lists, declarations, agreements, contracts, etc.

mssBR Box 187

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

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