Manuscripts

Madison, Robert L. A.L.S. to George O. Tuck and Sarah Frances Strachan Tuck

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1866, January 15
Call number: HM 75835
Creator: Strachan-Tuck family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Marilyn R. Lester, July 2002.
Associated people: Tuck, George Oliphant.; Tuck, Sarah Frances Strachan,

Tuck, George O. A.L.S. to Sarah Frances Strachan Tuck

Manuscripts

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.

HM 75800

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