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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... Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York 281 10 Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family 309 Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted Notes ...
... Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1768–1840) of Little Cumbrae Island, Scotland and Auriesville, New York,” Immigrants and Minorities 17 (July ix Acknowledgments.
... when brought into intimate contact with Irish Catholics, and praises their character as a people. An emigrant from Scotland who settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York State in 1807, Mary Ann Archbald, as 22 | Introduction.
... Mary Ann Archbald, as she herself admitted, was not predisposed to be sympathetic to the Irish Catholics, but she nonetheless learned to respect the Irish immigrant laborers who worked on the construction of a section of the Erie Canal ...
... Mary Ann Archbald, and Thomas Steel—to Canada and the United States and the relationships embodied in their correspondence. These four chapters may be a departure in tone to the extent that they are written as a type of biographical ...
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 |