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Artefact offers a rare glimpse of a hellish journey | This is Sussex A 173-YEAR-OLD letter has been unearthed by archivists which detailed the horrific ordeal of a Burwash woman who emigrated to Australia. Farm servant Ann Burgess was one of 240 "assisted emigrants" who boarded the same ship from London in the summer of 1838. http://bit.ly/zfvCxO Source: http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/Artefact-offers-rare-glimpse-hellish-journey/story-15189628-detail/story.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/zfvCxO+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra