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Frances Armistead (Fanny) Burwell (1838–1856) of Hillsborough studied to teach music at her parents' school. She died on board a steamer while returning home from music lessons in Brooklyn, New York.
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Written 16 February 1856, a letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell in Hillsborough to her daughter Frances Armistead Burwell, known as Fanny, about family and daily affairs.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Letter dated 20 February 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to her daughter Frances Armistead Burwell, called Fanny, 1838 to 1856. Mrs. Burwell and her husband ran the Burwell School for girls in Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
In a letter of 4 February 1856, Anna Burwell writes to her daughter Fanny. It belongs with her other Hillsborough letters to Fanny from 1855 and 1856.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Family letter of 8 February 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to Frances Armistead Burwell, her daughter, known as Fanny, touching on daily life in the Burwell household in Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Hillsborough mother to daughter: Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell's letter of 12 January 1856 to Frances Armistead Burwell, called Fanny, concerning daily life at home.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Letter of 19 January 1856 from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell, 1810 to 1871, to her daughter Fanny (Frances Armistead Burwell), written in Hillsborough in the last year of Fanny's life.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Family letter of 25 January 1856 in which Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell writes from Hillsborough to her daughter Fanny Burwell, part of a series of letters to Fanny from 1855 and 1856.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
On 5 January 1856 Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell wrote this letter to her daughter Fanny, Frances Armistead Burwell, one of several from the Burwell family of Hillsborough in the winter of 1855 to 1856.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell of Hillsborough writes to her daughter Frances, called Fanny, on 10 March 1856, one of a run of family letters from that winter touching on daily life.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Dated 15 March 1856, a letter from Anna Burwell of Hillsborough to her daughter Fanny, who died later that year.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Letter from Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell to her daughter Fanny (Frances Armistead Burwell), dated 4 March 1856 at Hillsborough, with news of home and daily life.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
Letter from Anna Burwell, principal of the Burwell girls' school in Hillsborough, to her daughter Fanny Burwell, dated 10 December 1855.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Burwell, Frances Armistead, 1838-1856.
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