Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow, 1834
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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
The accidental death of Frances Appleton Longfellow, who died in 1861 from terrible burns suffered when her dress caught on fire when she was sealing keepsake packets of her daughters' curls, left many struggling to reconcile the tragedy with what they knew of Longfellow and the family.
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