Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth CenturyNYU Press, 2006 - 422 pages 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award |
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... John Langton, a settler in the Canadian bush in 1833, and Richard Flower, a settler on the Illinois prairie in 1819, who kept diaries of their ocean passage and resettlement in North America, eventually put their diaries into letter ...
... John Ronaldson, the English coal miner John Thomas, and the English housepainter Ernest Lister, whose intentions from the beginning were to stay several years and return with as large a pot of money as they could secure in the hope of ...
... John Fisher, who emigrated from England and settled on a farm in Lenawee County, Michigan, in 1831 took the occasion presented when his trans-Atlantic ship finally docked at Quebec City to visit the Catholic cathedral, “the most ...
... John Bull and part Brother Jonathan, English immigrants settling there who shared Wade's views definitely preferred the former to the latter. His nephew, John, summed up his evaluation in 1835 in comparisons of the American Old ...
... John Bull was the opposite in every way. John Bull was bluff, open, warm-hearted, convivial, actuated by the spirit of fair play, and generous. He may have sought to improve his lot, and enjoyed the prospect of living well, but he did ...
Table des matières
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3 Writing with a Purpose | 92 |
4 Using Postal Systems | 140 |
5 Establishing Voice Theme and Rhythm | 162 |
6 When Correspondence Wanes | 201 |
7 Thomas Spencer Niblock | 230 |
8 Catherine Grayston Bond | 257 |
9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald | 281 |
10 Dr Thomas Steel | 309 |
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted | 337 |
Notes | 339 |
Collections of Letters Consulted | 399 |
Index | 403 |