Manuscript collections that are highlighted in bold are completed and open for research; the rest are currently being processed. Finding aids for completed collections are available online in the rare book reading room.
MS-1: Carl Van Vechten - Mark Lutz Collection
MS-2: Ernest Lee Bolling Collection
MS-3: Edward Henry Peple Collection
MS-4: Lt. Henry S. Kinsey Papers
MS-5: Historic Maps Collection
MS-6: Commander Horace Elmer Papers
MS-7: Fred O. Seibel Cartoon Collection
MS-8: World War I & World War II Pamphlet Collection
MS-9: Marguerite Roberts Papers
MS-10: Calvin Robinson Scrapbook
MS-11: Gresham Incunabula Collection
MS-12: James Rachels Papers
MS-13: Civil War Collection
MS-14: Gresham Papers
MS-15: Garnett Ryland Papers
MS-16 Miscellaneous Correspondence Collection
MS-17 Richmond Print Collection
MS-18 Martin Staples Shockley Collection
MS-19 Claudia Stevens Collection (held at Parsons Music Library Special Collections)
MS-20 Congressman Watkins Moorman Abbitt Papers
MS-21 Jack Welsh Collection
MS-22 Richmond Civil War Photographs
MS-23 W.H. Brown Botanical Drawings
MS-24 Rev. and Mrs. Wyatt Tee Walker Collection
MS-25 UR's 175th Anniversary Collection
MS-26 Civil War Era Naval Correspondence Collection
MS-27 Rose Poetry Collection
MS-28 Harleigh Bridges Schultz Collection
MS-29 Dr. Jack Welsh Scrapbook Collection
MS-30 Modlin Center Scrapbook Collection
MS-31 Robert Ray Martin Collection
MS-32 Hazel Paris Cederborg Collection
MS-34 Frederic W. Boatwright Collection
MS-35 Dave Clinger Collection
MS-36 Fletcher Stiers, Jr. Collection
MS-37 (anonymous) Collection
MS-38 Virginia Screenwriters Forum Collection
MS-39 Dr. George M. Modlin Book Award Collection
MS-40 Irina Rogova Civil Rights at UR Collection
MS-41 Earl & Jewell Ratliff Collection
MS-42 Cheryl Pierce Craddock Theater Design Collection
MS-43 James Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research Award Collection
MS-44 Gary McDowell Collection
MS-45 Charles Meredith Civil War Broadsides Collection
MS-47 Willis Andrew Shell Collection
MS-48 Stereograph & Stereoscope Collection
MS-49 Phyllis Laskey Renick Law School Papers
MS-50 Black Student Coalition Collecton
MS-51 Westhampton Time Capsule Collection
MS-52 Fred Basye Corr Scrapbook
MS-53 Richmond Female Institute Scrapbook
MS-54 Lucille Burnett Scrapbook
MS-55 Westhampton College Class of 1947 50th Reunion Scrapbook
MS-56 University of Richmond Student Organizations Activities Collection
MS-57 Partners in the Arts Collection
MS-58 Ronald A. Crutcher Papers
MS-59 Steven Barza Poetry Collection
MS-60 Perry Jester Diplomatic Collection
MS-61 David E. Howard Papers
MS-62 Edward Ayers Collection
MS-63 Charles Hamilton Smith Print Collection
MS-64 Boatwright Memorial Library Collection
MS-65 Carolyn F. Baker Collection
MS-66 Jasper Hunter Jr. Photographic Collection
MS-67 Peple Family Collection
MS-68 British Parliamentary Pamphlets Collectoin
MS-69 Leland Melvin Collection
MS-70 William Roxburgh Botanical Print Collection
MS-71 John Gould Ornithological Lithograph Collection
MS-72 John Gould Ornithological Proof Print Collection
MS-73 Christine Chenowith King Collection
MS-74 Student Development Award Collection
MS-75 will Collection
MS-76 Comic Books & Graphic Novels Collection
MS-77 Historic Map Collection
MS-78 American Association of University Professors (UR Branch)
MS-79 Dr. David Burton Pop-Up Book Collection
SC-1: Journal of a Whaling Voyage
SC-2: Kenyan Fabric
SC-3: Maps of Jerusalem
SC-4: C.F. James Diary
SC-5: Bail Bond of Jefferson Davis
SC-6 Receipt for US Direct Taxes 1866
SC-7 Diary of Thomas Eugene Massie, Randolph Macon College
SC-8 Alfred Dunhill Tobacco Patents and Product List
SC-9 Edward E. Reavely - USS Chester 1917
SC-10 Edward Paul Duffy - US Flagship Trenton 1880
The Book Arts collection combines technical manuals, descriptive and historical works, and artists' book and creations. Book Arts technical manuals are currently housed in the Book Arts studio, while more general descriptive and historical works are located in the circulating collection. Artists' book are housed in the Rare Book Room. All are noted as part of the Book Arts Collection, so that the collection may be searched as a whole in the library catalog. Individual artists' books are cataloged and may be searched as a featured collection of Boatwright Library.