Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Elizabeth Brock to Earl Gregg Swem. She also presented the library with a piece the original bell, which includes the date 1717 on it.

Scope and Contents

Letter, dated Oct. 16, 1879, and written by Thomas Samson to R. A. Brock of Richmond. In the letter, Samson details the information he has about the William & Mary college bell. He worked at the Richmond Foundry when the bell was sent to be recast because it was broken. He mentions the same happened to the bell of Hampden-Sydney College.

Related Material

University Archives Subject File Collection University Archives Artifacts Collection

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Brock, Elizabeth
• Brock, R. A.

General

Removed from the University Archives Subject File Collection in December 2018