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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... father after three years in Wisconsin. He was on that occasion specifically referring to a plan of the local highway commissioner to put a road, which he deemed unneeded but for which he was to be assessed, across his property. He had ...
... father in County Clare.51 This sort of writing is hardly a coincidental or unconscious by-product of practical expression. Immigrants and homeland correspondents did not write solely to convey information. They sought to express their ...
... Crawshaw, a textile artisan who left Huddersfield for Philadelphia in 1853, wrote his father to alert him to consult Titus's “favorite work, the Botanic Guide,” which he knew to be in his parents' house, Forming Selves in Letters | 79.
... father and sister of Dr. Thomas Steel desired vicarious tourism in the form of descriptions of the United States. Moreover, because they had a tentative understanding with Thomas that eventually they would join him in Wisconsin, they ...
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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 |