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- ↑ VCU Scott House website
- ↑ VCU Scott House website
- ↑ VCU Scott House website
- ↑ Social Archive website, University of Virginia.
- ↑ Hitz, Mary Buford. Never Ask Permission: Elizabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond
- ↑ VCU publication, A Guide to the Elisabeth Scott Bocock Papers, 1928-1985
- ↑ "Maymont website, Carriage Collection". Archived from the original on 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ↑ Richmond Times Dispatch
- ↑ Elisabeth Scott Bocock Obituary
- ↑ Elisabeth Scott Bocock Article, Richmond Times Dispatch
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