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• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett (HTML at virginia.edu)

• Register of the Samuel Miller Papers, 1814-1856, in the United States Marine Corps Museum, Quantico, Virginia (ca. 1975), by Doris S. Davis and Jack B. Hilliard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at usmc.mil

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Collection Guides (finding aids listings that encompass and supersede Hoyle's 1985 published "checklist"), by University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections, contrib. by Karen Nelson Hoyle (HTML at Minnesota; scroll down page to see alphabetical list of finding aids)

• Guide to the Personal Papers in the Manuscript Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (first in a series of manuscript guides; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1935), ed. by Grace Lee Nute and Gertrude W. Ackermann (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Frank J. Malina Collection at the California Institute of Technology : Guide to a Microfiche Edition (1986), ed. by Judith R. Goodstein and Carol H. Bugé (PDF at Caltech)

• A Guide to Documentary Editing (online 3rd edition, ca. 2008), by Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue (at gde.upress.virginia.edu)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Literary Manuscripts: A Checklist of Holdings in Academic, Historical, and Public Libraries in the United States (Austin: University of Texas Press, c1960), by Modern Language Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)

• Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion (1999 electronic edition; originally pub. 1940), by Federal Writers' Project (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• Virginia: A Geographical and Political Summary, Embracing a Description of the State (1876), by Virginia Board of Immigration (page images at MOA)

• Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #18; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, With Seven Related Documents, 1606-1621 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #4; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), ed. by Samuel Merrifield Bemiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: The Faith of Our Fathers (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #10; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by G. MacLaren Brydon (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On Horseback, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Physical Survey of Virginia, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)
• Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times (c1922), ed. by Alfred J. Morrison (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Virginia Tourist, by Edward A. Pollard (page images at MOA)
• Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, by Eli Bowen (page images at MOA)
• The Tidewater Cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia: Your Host for 1907, by Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virginia After the War: An Account of Three Years' Experience in Reorganizing the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia at the Close of the Civil War (Indianapolis: Baker-Randolph Litho. and Eng. Co., 1891), by S. L. M. Conser (at memory.loc.gov)
• Documents Connected With the History of South Carolina (London, 1856), ed. by Plowden C. J. Weston (multiple formats at Google)
• Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, Including Portsmouth and the Adjacent Counties, During a Period of Two Hundred Years (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853), by William S. Forrest
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
  • PDF at ohiomemory.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Proceedings of the Convention of Southern Governors, Held in the City of Richmond, Virginia, on April 12th and 13th, 1893: With Papers Prepared by the Governors of Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina and Virginia, in Regard to the Physical Resources of Their Respective States (Richmond: C. N. Williams, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scenes in My Native Land (Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1845), by L. H. Sigourney (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Notes on the State of Virginia (multiple editions, annotated; 2014), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by John O'Brien and Brad Pasanek (multimedia at jefferson-notes.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Physical Survey of Virginia, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)

• Encyclopedia Virginia (electronic edition) (illustrated HTML at encyclopediavirginia.org)

• A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1904), by George Cary Eggleston (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields, by Ellen Glasgow
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• The Inhuman Stepmother: or, The History of Miss Harriot Montague (based on Aubin's Life of Charlotta Du Pont; 2 volumes; London: J. Roson, 1770), contrib. by Penelope Aubin (PDF with commentary at Chawton House Library)
• The Life and Death of Sam, in Virginia (Richmond: Pub. for the author by A. Morris, 1856), by Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Charlotta du Pont, an English Lady: Taken From Her Own Memoirs (London: A. Bettesworth, 1723), by Penelope Aubin (PDF at Chawton House Library)
• Shannondale (New York: D. Appleton, 1851), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Gentlemen of Virginia: A Novel of the Old Regime in the Old Dominion (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1908), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Valiants of Virginia (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Hallie Erminie Rives, illust. by J. André Castaigne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Voice of the People, by Ellen Glasgow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Westover of Wanalah: A Story of Love and Life in Old Virginia (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1910), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by E. Pollak Ottendorff (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Huguenot Lovers: A Tale of the Old Dominion (Richmond, VA: The author, 1889), by C. P. E. Burgwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia (Philadelphia: Our Continent Pub. Co.; New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1883), by Marion Harland, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard and A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last of the Foresters, or, Humors on the Border: A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage, by Ellen Glasgow (Gutenberg text)
• In Ole Virginia, or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, by Thomas Nelson Page (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)

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