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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... The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century David A. Gerber a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London new york university press New York and London www.nyupress.org ©
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... London who bought farmland in Canada for his father, Charles Julius, a librarian at East India Company House who dreamed of rustic simplicity in the Canadian backcountry; or Thomas Steel, the medical doctor who took up farming on the ...
... London, and Kingston in the mid-nineteen century, which used signature literacy as its standard, Harvey Graff discovered that British Protestant immigrants, among the most literate groups in these cities, were more literate than the ...
... London and elite social classes from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to rural areas, the provinces, the Celtic periphery, and plebeian and working classes in the nineteenth century, the process of standardization was ...
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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 |