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Authors of Their Lives : the Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century.

2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award. In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy leve...

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Main Author: Gerber, David A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Immigrants' writings, American.
Transnationalism > History > 19th century > Sources.
Letter writing > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Canada > Correspondence.
Immigrants > United States > Correspondence.
British > Canada > Correspondence.
British Americans > Correspondence.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780814733219
0814733212
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Immigrant Epistolarity; Introduction; 1. Traditions of Inquiry; 2. Forming Selves in Letters; 3. Writing with a Purpose; 4. Using Postal Systems; 5. Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm; 6. When Correspondence Wanes; Part II: Four Lives in Letters; Introduction; 7. Thomas Spencer Niblock; 8. Catherine Grayston Bond; 9. Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald; 10. Dr. Thomas Steel; Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted; Notes; Collections of Letters Consulted; Index; About the Author.

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