Thanks to several friends for off-list advice - it looks like the footnote
dropped a few words between bundle and Alderman . . .
    The papers are from Coutts & Co bankers in London, filmed by Virginia
Colonial Records Project in 1958.   Author probably used the film at UVA . .
. but its also at LVA, Va Hist Soc, and CW library.
    Survey reports are accessible online through LVA website : just do a
catalogue keyword search on "Coutts and Co."
    Again special thanks to S.B.,  H.G., K.S., and B.V.
For my part (having once helped computerize the VCRP indexing) this is a bit
of a "duh!" moment :)


Jon Kukla
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I’m trying to track down the location of some manuscripts that, it turns
> out, were not accurately cited in a book published in 1987 by a responsible
> author and a good university press. It happens.
> Here are the published citations:
>
> William Carr to [James] Russell, July 6, 1774, James Russell papers, bundle
> 2, Alderman Library, Univ. of Va., Charlottesville;
> AND
> Thomas Fisher to [James] Russell, August 27, 1774, ibid., bundle 6.
> I’ve contacted the author, who is now practicing law not history and no
> longer has access to working notes, etc.
>
>
> I also sought help from the archivists at the University of Virgina. They
> could find no such collection at UVA, see below, but did provide another
> similar citation that may cite the collection more accurately - but in a
> Australian journal not on hand here.
>
> The archivist at UVA wrote, “Your letter has me stymied. I know of no James
> Russell collection in the Special Collections department. In addition to the
> research you did I also checked our old card catalog with no results. . . .
> In desperation I actually tried googling and discovered a similar citation
> to a James Russell letter in a "bundle." A letter from John Augustine
> Washington to James Russell, 1774 August 15, was cited in F. H. Schmidt,
> "Sold and driven: assignment of convicts in eighteenth century Virginia," p.
> 25 note 106 in The Push from the Bush: A Bulletin of Social History no. 23,
> October 1986. [but] unfortunately "Push From the Bush" is an Australian
> publication which we do not have at U. Va.
>
> Can anyone shed light on the respository that holds the James Russell
> collection ?
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Jon Kukla
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> www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>
>

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