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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... sister “Johan” (perhaps, Johanna) in 1873. Laing had attempted to correspond with his sisters in the past, but at some point, for reasons we cannot know, years passed without any answer to his letters, and at last he gave up and stopped ...
... sister, added to the discomfort of which was that, though Laing was a skillful writer from a technical perspective, he was unaccustomed to writing letters, and he did not feel equal to the task. In his reply to his sister's letter, he ...
... sister Isabella coming to America. Perhaps, then, when she learned how profound David's emotional needs and inconvenient his practical requests were, she felt especially surprised by them, and unequal to the task of dealing with them ...
... sister to create a mutually satisfactory exchange of letters that maintained their tentative, newly restored relationship, they had to negotiate, both implicitly and explicitly depending on the particular problems their correspondence ...
... sisters' lives, and about her line of work, which for some reason she appeared reluctant for a time to provide. She ... sister. Though such circumstances as the death of a child, continuing grief over the death of a parent, the collapse ...
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 |