Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Means

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Description: Legal and business papers of Robert Means and Daniel Call. Included are a few personal letters discussing political news in Virginia and Ohio. Among correspondents are Virginia Land Office, Duncan McArthur and Albert Gallatin
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1782-1836.
Call number: mssBR Box 63
Creator: Means, Robert (-1808)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.
Associated people: Brock, R. A. (1839-1914,); Call, Daniel, (approximately 1765-1840.)

Brock Collection: Papers of John C. Underwood

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous professional and political correspondence of Judge Underwood. Included are his legal opinions and correspondence with legislators, clerks, lawyers, Republican politicians, etc. discussing legal matters and political situation, particularly Virginia Constitutional Convention (1867-1868)

mssBR Box 207

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Brock Collection: Papers of L. W. Spratt

Manuscripts

Provision returns, receipts, requisitions, invoices, reports, orders, and other records generated and accumulated by the Brigade Commissary.-bAlso included are a few personal letters addressed to Spratt discussing political and war news

mssBR Box 153 (2)

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Brock Collection: Papers of Robert William Hughes, (bulk 1874-1891)

Manuscripts

Professional and personal correspondence of Judge Hughes. Included are his letters to R. A. Brock concerning Virginia history and genealogy

mssBR Box 208 (1)

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Brock Collection: Papers of Archelaus Hughes

Manuscripts

Correspondence and business records Archelaus Hughes. Included are rentals, leases, titles, and building contracts of real estate in Richmond, adjacent to the James River Canal, and surveys and deeds for property in Kent and Henrico Conties. There are a few personal letters, including ones discussing the trial of Aaron Burr (1807) and Fourth of July (1813), and a letter from John Clopton (1756-1816) about political and congressional news (1810)

mssBR Box 50 (2)

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Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Hill

Manuscripts

Chiefly commissions and business correspondence of Robert C. Hill and the firm Hill & Dabney concerning with wheat and corn trade, bill collecting and sale and hiring slaves

mssBR Box 41

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Brock Collection: Cabell family papers

Manuscripts

Letters and documents to and from members of the Cabell family, concerning family affairs, business dealings, legal and political matters and local current events, including the affairs of the University of Virginia.

mssBR Box 48

Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Means

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