Manuscripts
Tuck, George O. A.L.S. to 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.
- Date
- before 1850, February 23
- Call number
- HM 75800
- Provenance
- Gift of Marilyn R. Lester, July 2002.
- Associated people
- Tuck, George Oliphant.
- Tuck, Sarah Frances Strachan,
