Scope and Contents January 3, 1961 Frances Bland Tyree to her mother Frances Brown Saunders, Calloway, Va. Do make Doctor’s appointments. Dick’s birthday on Saturday. January 6, 1961 Cousin Lillian to Mrs. F. Saunders, Sr., Roanoke, Va. Thanks for cake. January 9, 1961 Frances Bland Tyree to her mother, Frances Brown Saunders Calloway, Va. Post card. Hope she will see Doctor and then visit. January 25, 1961 Cousin [Sara Wil – her cousin and daughter-in-law] to Mrs. F. Saunders, Evington, Va. Post card. Bitter...

Scope and Contents No correspondence from September 1961-January 1962. February 13, 1962 Elsie Day to Frances Brown Saunders, Danville, Va. Talk of her bad health, news of family and friends. Grace Jones Richardson’s death. Beach news and her cottage at Nags Head. “…Richard Tyree is a good man.” “H.F. III is still scared to death of the ocean. I wonder if he will ever swim!” April 20, 1962 Elizabeth Wingo to Mrs. F. Saunders, Richmond, Va. Family news. “F.B.’s son choked badly one night but is all right now.”...

Scope and Contents August 16, 1962 Frances Bland Saunders Tyree to her mother, Frances Brown Saunders, Arrington, Va. Teaching preschoolers in Bible School. July 19, 1962 Frances Bland Saunders Tyree to her mother, Frances Brown Saunders, Arrington, Va. Post card. Visits to Yorktown, Williamsburg, and with Suzelle Hornsby. September 29, 1962 Bland Tyree to her grandmother, Frances Brown Saunders, Arrington, Va. Misses “her Grandmother” and hopes “she likes the potholder.” Going to circus in Lynchburg. Likes...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers and correspondence of three generations of the Brown Family of Virginia:  Frances (Fanny) Bland Coalter Brown and her husband, Henry Peronneau Brown (1838-1888),  J. Thompson and Cassie Tucker Brown (1890-1920) and Frances Bland Brown and Fleming Sanders (1921-1964).