I did some Google searching, and finally found what may be what , in a
footnote in Jean Butenhoff Lee's "The Price of Nationhood:  The Revolution
in Charles County."

On page 300, note 49 includes the following:

"Philip Richard Fendall to James Russell, Aug. 13, 26, 1774, Russell Papers,
bundle 3, and James Forbes to Russell, Feb. 21, 1774, bundle 6, Coutts &
Co., London (microfilm in the Virginia Colonial Records Project, reel M-235,
at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library....)."

The table of contents includes a note on sources, but that note is not
included in the Google Books version available online.  If you have (or can
get) a copy of the book, there may very well be more information there.

Hope this is helpful.

Martha Katz-Hyman

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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