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mssHM 75769-75841
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Title: Strachan-Tuck family papers
Inclusive Dates: 1783-1890
Collection Number: mssHM 75769-75841
Collector:
Strachan-Tuck family
Extent:
Approximately 100 items in 1 box (0.417 feet)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This group of correspondence and miscellaneous records were assembeled by Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck of Petersburg, Virginia.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
HM 75769-75841, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of Marilyn R. Lester, July 2002.
Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck (1823-1890) was the daughter of Robert Glass Strachan and Eliza H. Currie [or Curry]. Robert
Glass Strachan was the third son of Dr. Alexander G. Strachan. Sarah Frances (Strachan) Tuck was married to George O. Tuck.
The couple had five children: Roberta Strachan Tuck; George Ellison Tuck; Eliza Currie Tuck; Albert Beverly Tuck; and Mary
Lane Tuck.
The Strachan-Tuck family collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, legal documents, financial documents, and newspaper
clippings. The papers primarily relate to the Tuck family’s life in Petersburg, Virginia, during the two decades before the
outbreak of the American Civil War. There are a few pieces of Civil War items, including a post war invoice for $10,000 of
Confederate bonds consigned for sale to a Liverpool banker.
There is a small set of letters from the early married life of Robert Glass Strachan’s mother, Sarah Field, in Williamsburg,
Virginia. These three letters dating from 1783 through 1789 are in a fragmentary state and include typescripts.
Also included in this collection are three Strachan-Tuck family charts, a manuscript book of poetry inscribed by Ellyson Armistead
Strachan to his niece, and business affairs of Robert Glass Strachan.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Strachan-Tuck family
Strachan, Robert Glass
Tuck, George Oliphant
Tuck, Sarah Frances (Strachan)
Courtship -- Virginia
Families -- Virginia
Slaves -- Virginia
Petersburg (Va.) -- Religious life and customs
Petersburg (Va.) -- Social life and customs
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Williamsburg (Va.)
Financial records
Letters (correspondence)
Invoices
Poetry