Brock Collection: Institutions of learning collection

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  Institutions of Learning

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  Institutions of learning in the United States include: Alabama Historical Society; Alabama Polytechnic Institute; American Anthropological Association; American Antiquarian Society; American Catholic Historical Society; American Geographical and Statistical Society; American Historical Association; American-Irish Historical Society; American Numismatic and Archaeological Society; American Philosophical Society; Arkansas. State Library; Army & Navy Club; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; Baylor University; Boston Public Library; Buffalo Historical Society; California State Library; Case Library; Charleston Library Society; Chicago Historical Society; Chicago Public Library; Chicago, University of, Library; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Historian & Recorder's Office; College of Charleston; Columbia University Library; Confederate Memorial Literary Society Connecticut Historical Society; Delaware Historical Society; Detroit Public Library; Enoch Pratt Free Library; Essex Institute; Georgia Historical Society; Georgia. University Library; Gilbert M. Simons Library; Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute; Harford Historical Society; Harvard College Library & Harvard Law School Library; Huguenot Society of America; Indiana State Library; Iowa, Historical Department of; Iowa State Historical Society; Johns Hopkins University Library; Kansas Historical Society; Kentucky State Historical Society; Kentucky State Library; Leland Stanford Junior University. Library; Library of Congress; Long Island Historical Society; Louisiana Historical Association; Louisiana State University. Library; Louisville Public Library; Maine Historical Society; Marietta College. Library; Maryland Historical Society; Maryland State Library; Massachusetts Historical Society; Massachusetts State Library; Michigan State Library & Michigan Library Association; Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Milwaukee Public Library; Minnesota Historical Society; Minneapolis Public Library; Minnesota. University. Library; Mississippi Historical Society; Missouri Historical Society (State Historical Society of Missouri); Missouri. University. Library; Nebraska State Historical Society; Newberry Library; New England Historic Genealogical Society; New Hampshire Historical Society; New Hampshire State Library; New Haven Colony Historical Society; New Jersey Historical Society; New York Genealogical & Biographical Society; New York Historical Society; New York Public Library (Lenox Library, Astor Library, Mercantile Library); New York State Library; Norfolk Public Library; North Carolina Library Department; North Carolina University. Library; Northern Indiana Historical Society; Numismatic & Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Oberlin College Library; Ohio Historical & Philosophical Society; Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society; Oneida Historical Society; Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences; Pan-Republic Congress & Human Freedom League; Peabody Institute; Pennsylvania. University. Library; Pennsylvania State Library; Pennsylvania Historical Society; Philadelphia, Library Company of & Philadelphia Mercantile Library; Rhode Island Historical Society; Richmond College Library; Rochester Astronomical Society; Rockford Public Library; Rosenberg Library; Rutgers College. Library; St. Louis Public Library; Sam Houston Normal Institute; San Francisco Public Library & San Francisco Mercantile Library Association; Smithsonian Institution; Sons of Revolutionary Sires; Sons of the American Revolution; South Carolina. University. Library (South Carolina College); Southern Historical Society; Southern History Association; Syracuse Public Library; Tennessee Historical Society; Transallegheny Historical Society; Texas. University. Library; Texas State Historical Association; Tulane University of Louisiana; Union League of Philadelphia. Library; U.S. Artillery School; U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls & Library, Bureau of Accounts; U.S. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Education, Bureau of Pensions, Census Office, Geological Survey, Office of Indian Affairs, Office of the Secretary; U.S. Military Academy Library; U.S. Naval Academy Library; U.S. Navy Department. Library; U.S. Navy Department. Office of War Records; U.S. Treasury Department. Bureau of Statistics; U.S. War Department. Library, Supply Division, Secretary of War; U.S. War Department. War Records Office; Vermont. University. Library; Vermont Historical Society; Virginia. University. Library; Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College (Virginia Polytechnic Institute); Virginia Historical Society; Virginia State Library; Washington & Lee University. Library; West Virginia Historical & Antiquarian Society; Western Reserve Historical Society; Weymouth Historical Society; Williams College Library; Wisconsin Historical Society; Worcester Society of Antiquity; Wyoming Historical and Geological Society; Yale University Library; and the YMCA of the United States and Canada. Historical Library. Institutions of learning outside United States: Bodleian Library; British Museum. Printed Book Department; Canada. Society for Historical Studies; Huguenot Society of London; Numismatic & Antiquarian Society of Montreal; Ottawa (Canada). Institut Canadien Français; Quebec Lit. & Historical Society; Royal Academy of Belles Letters, History and Antiquities; Royal Historical Society; Royal Society of London; Society of Antiquaries of London; United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada; and the Victoria Institute.

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  Brock Collection: Dealers collection

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  Collection of miscellaneous business correspondence, print notices, circulars, prospectuses, bills, book lists, advertisements and similar material, addressed to Robert A. Brock as Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society and Southern Historical Society. Represented are publishers and publishing houses, booksellers, autograph dealers, printers & stationers, and publishers' agents

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  Brock Collection: Letters from Kate Mason Rowland to Robert Alonzo Brock

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  Letters from Kate Mason Rowland to R. A. Brock concerning her work on The life of George Mason, Virginia history, affairs of Virginia Historical Society, etc.

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

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  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.

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  Brock Collection: Papers of Thomas Harding Ellis, (bulk 1869-1895)

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  Correspondence, mainly dealing with the affairs of the Southern Historical Society and Virginia Historical Society, with a few pieces relating to Thomas H. Ellis' business activities. Correspondents include Robert Alonzo Brock and Thomas Hicks Wynne.

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  R. A. Brock collection

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  This collection consists of papers and manuscripts chiefly related to the history of Virginia, which were collected by historian R. A. Brock (1839-1914). The materials cover a period from 1582-1914, although the main bulk of the manuscripts come between 1780 and 1900 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. 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. United States presidents represented in the collection include: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, James Monroe, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, Theodore Roosevelt, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren. See series container lists for item details, especially the Miscellaneous File series. The volumes are mostly: Account books, including a copy of George Washington's ledger Letter books Diaries Orderly books Sermons Parish records, including the original Mannakin Town register The single letters and documents are of all types – personal, commercial and political. They have been divided into sub-collections wherever there were enough papers of one individual, one family, or one institution, to justify such division. These sub-collections include about 25,000 manuscripts. Correspondence of Mr. Brock and other officers of the Virginia Historical Society, amounting to at least 15,000 pieces, has been arranged in a rough chronological order. A group of several hundred pieces of literary material is sorted alphabetically. The rest of the manuscripts have been arranged chronologically in a miscellaneous file of about 7,000 to 8,000 pieces. Subject matter consists of: A. The Land 1. Northern Neck Proprietary: 1721-1776 a. Rent rolls for the following counties: Berkeley (3 pieces); Culpeper (3 pieces); Dunmore (3 pieces); Fairfax (5 pieces); Fauquier (3 pieces); Frederick (4 pieces); King George (3 pieces); Lancaster (4 pieces); Loudoun (3 pieces); Northumberland (3 pieces); Prince William (11 pieces); Richmond (12 pieces); Stafford (6 pieces); Westmoreland (3 pieces) b. Survey warrants issued by Robert Carter, 1722-1730; William Fairfax, 1739-1752; Thomas Bryan Martin, 1760-1761 c. Correspondence of the Fairfax family 2. Other counties: grants, deeds, of sale, etc. 3. Virginia land office a. Survey warrants issued for bounty lands b. Correspondence of William Price, register of the land office B. Government and civil authority 1. State, county, and U.S. district court records 2. Board of trade 3. Treasury C. Military affairs 1. Board of war a. Scattered official papers b. Correspondence of William Davies, commissioner of the War office 2. Virginia regiments: orderly books, returns, lists, accounts, pay-rolls, muster rolls, etc. D. Business firms represented by 20 or more pieces (before 1800): Donald & Burton & James Brown (20 pieces); Freeland & Gillies (25 pieces); John Cunliffe (58 pieces); John Norton & Sons (225 pieces); Micajah Crew (150 pieces); Mutual Assurance Society (44 pieces); Robson & Harford (30 pieces); Williams Cuninghame & Company (100 pieces); William Prentiss & Company (20 pieces) E. Virginia families represented by 20 or more pieces (before 1800): Fairfax (100 pieces); Harrison (41 pieces); Lee (30 pieces); Pleasants (104 pieces); Randolph (27 pieces); Scott (Charles & Daniel) (20 pieces) F. Society of Friends: records and correspondence G. Freemasons (Virginia Grand Lodge): records and correspondence Some notable items include: Virginia. Council. Patent (with seal) to Richard Kempe for 840 acres of land called "The Meadows." 1638/9, Mar. 4. Byrd, William II. Notebook containing drafts of addresses, petitions, etc., representative of Byrd's activities in London while agent for the colony of Virginia, 1697-1702. -----. Journal, in shorthand, 1709-1712. -----. Secret history of the Dividing Line, 1726-1729. -----. Description of the Dismal Swamp, and proposals for draining the swamp, 1729. "Registre Contenant le Baptesme qui se sont fait Dans L'Eglise Des francois Refugiée a Mennekintown," 1721-1754. The Mannakin Town Register. Virginia. Proprietors Office. To George Washington: Warrants to survey certain lands. (27 pieces, mostly signed by George William Fairfax; nearly all endorsed by Washington, and many in his handwriting), 1749-1752. Rose, Robert. Diary of Reverend Robert Rose, 1746-1751. (Note: this manuscript is a copy made ca. 1850; the original was destroyed by fire in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War). "Dinwiddianae; or, Select Poems Pro Patria." Anonymous, ca. 1757. St. Ann's Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia. Vestry books, 1772-1785. Armand, Charles Tuffin, Comte de la Rouerie. Letter to Theodoric Bland. "…As you had showed me great politeness and some friendship during my sickness, I Expected that I was authorized to tell you with frankness my trouble and my case in general – and as the resolve from Congress hurted my reputation and my hart…I wished that you could have influenced in the House for not render this resolve publick in inscribing in on the Journal" [ca. 1779]. Laurens, Henry. Letter to James Lovell. "…Tomorrow I proceed to Paris having now a prospect that our Negotiations for a solid Peace will be brought to a speedy and I trust happy Issue – but mark what I say prospect, the greatest adepts in Weather and Politics are sometimes mistaken…." London, 1783, Apr. 7. Toulmin, Harry. Journal of a voyage to North America (together with descriptive and statistical information concerning various counties in Virginia and Kentucky), 1793-1794. (Note: this manuscript is a copy. If the original exists, its whereabouts is unknown.) Richmond (Virginia). City Assessor. Assessment of Houses and Lotts in the City of Richmond for 1799.

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