Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Brock Collection: Papers of Walter D. Blair
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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
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
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Sermons, articles, correspondence, and documents. The correspondence concerns religious and social life in Richmond in the late 1780's - early 1800's and the Blair family affairs. Included are Rev. Blair's letters to Samuel Pleasants, the editor of The Virginia Argus, his Fourth of July Oration (1798), and articles on various subjects, some intended for publication in the Virginia evangelical and literary magazine (1821).
mssBR Boxes 45 & 46
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Business records and correspondence of John Cunliffe regarding trade in tobacco, salt, rum, sugar, and coal
mssBR Box 49
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Business correspondence and accounts documenting Samuel Miller's tobacco business.
mssBR Box 103
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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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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)