- R. Doyne Halbritter, Collector, Preston County Material, 1761/19371
- R. E. Lee Memorial Church Collection, 1869/19301
- R. H. Lancaster Lodge No. 1370, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia Records (MS076), 1890/19104
- R. Taylor Scott and R. Carter Scott Collection, 1890/19277
- R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans Papers (SC-21), 1885/19582
- R.P. Chew, Jenkins Van Schaick, and W.N. Mason, Virginia's Debt Correspondence, 1888/18981
- R.S. Rudd (b.1846) Records, 1839/19121
- RMC Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Files, 1818/20244
- Rabbi Isaac B. Seixas's Hebrew Lexicon, 1860/19002
- Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/20057
- Radford Brick Company Cash Ledger, 1889/19212
- Railroad Passes, 1886/19161
- Railroad Stock Certificates and Bonds2
- Railroad Timetables, 1880/1968, bulk 1915/19271
- Railway mortgage certificates, 1880/19371