Strachan-Tuck family papers

The Strachan-Tuck family collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, legal documents, some involving enslaved persons, financial documents, and newspaper clippings. The papers primarily relate to the Tuck family's life in Petersburg, Virginia, during the two decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War. There are a few pieces of Civil War items, including a post war invoice for $10,000 of Confederate bonds consigned for sale to a Liverpool banker. There is a small set of letters from the early married life of Robert Glass Strachan's mother, Sarah Field, in Williamsburg, Virginia. These three letters dating from 1783 through 1789 are in a fragmentary state and include typescripts. Also included in this collection are three Strachan-Tuck family charts, a manuscript book of poetry inscribed by Ellyson Armistead Strachan to his niece, and business affairs of Robert Glass Strachan.