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Fanny Kemble

1809–1893 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

The index holds one work for Fanny Kemble so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

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Curtis family papers,

Curtis family · 1828

Letters, 1828 to 1858, among the Curtis family of Brooklyn and their friends, 67 items. Many are from Samuel Curtis, a printer in Mobile, Alabama, to his wife Sarah in Brooklyn, on business, society, politics and religion there. Chapel Hill and the Caldwell Institute also come up, as do Henry Clay, Fanny Kemble, Bogotá and enslaved people in Alabama. At Duke's Rubenstein Library.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.

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