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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
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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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Papers and correspondence of several generation of the Pleasants family, focusing on Robert Pleasants.
mssBR Boxes 12-15
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Business records and correspondence
mssBR Box 95
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Chiefly business papers and correspondence of Micajah Crew dealing with wheat, corn, and tobacco trade. There are a few letters relating to the affairs of the Society of Friends and hiring of slaves. Also included correspondence about the estate of Robert Pleasants, including the fate of his former slaves, and a letter regarding a decision of the Superior Court of Chancery to restore a slave to her freedom (1809)
mssBR Boxes 42 & 43
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Extracts of the papers of a lawsuit filed in the Virginia Court of Appeals by Mary Taliaferro, Harry Taliaferro, and Mildred Strother. The defendants were Lawrence Taliaferro (1734-1798), Hay Taliaferro (1740-1825), John Taliaferro (1745-1788), Francis Taliaferro (1743-1815), Richard Brooke (1732-1792), and William Taliaferro (1726-1798), all of Caroline, Essex, Orange, and Spotsylvania Counties, Virginia. The legal proceedings stemmed from a suit over the execution of the will of John Taliaferro (d. 1720) filed in the Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Court in July 1749. The case was decided in November 1786.
mssBR Box 217
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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