In addition to the Robert Pleasants correspondence that has long been
available on misc. reel 506 at the Library of Virginia there are now four
reels of Pleasants family records from the Brock Collection at the
Huntington, misc. reels 4238-4241, that may be of interest.  And in
general, the newly available riches of the Brock collection microfilm await
discovery and use.

PS: Kudos to everyone involved at LVA for negotiating permission to film
the Brock collection, finding funding for the project, and for the ongoing
cataloguing (accessible through LVA's online catalogue)

Jon Kukla
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:39 AM, George W. Van Cleve <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am writing a book on the reasons for the collapse of the Confederation
> government, 1783-88.  As part of my research, I am now in Virginia and will
> be here until the end of March to look for as much in the way of additional
> information about changes in Virginia public opinion about the
> Confederation government and conditions of life in Virginia during that
> period as I can find.  I am especially interested in finding unpublished
> correspondence of politically interested and/or active Virginians about the
> affairs of the state and Confederation government and postwar social and
> economic conditions in Virginia.   These individuals do not need to follow
> any particular occupation or vocation, have any particular means of
> livelihood, belong to any particular social class or gender, or live in any
> particular part of Virginia (though I confess I would be particularly
> interested in identifying correspondence of relevant individuals who lived
> in what was then western Virginia).  The wider the variety of opinion I'm
> able to explore, the more accurately I expect to be able to characterize
> Virginia opinion.
>
>  If you know of any individuals--or families--whose 1783-88 correspondence
> you think might be of interest in connection with my research, I would very
> much appreciate it if you would send me an OFF-LIST email to my email
> address, [log in to unmask], providing that information and/or any
> related research suggestions you might have.  I suggest an off-list
> response in order not to trouble listserv members with information they may
> not want to receive, but if for some reason you think your response would
> be of general interest, I don't mean to suggest that you should not also
> send it to the list.  I thank you for your assistance, and look forward to
> hearing from you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> George W. Van Cleve
> Research Professor in Law and History
> Seattle University School of Law
> Seattle, Washington
>
> P.S.  By way of  background, some of you may know me as the author of *A
> Slaveholders' **Union:  Slavery, Politics and the Constitution in the Early
> American Republic *(Univ. Chicago Press, 2010)*.*
>
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