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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... wife Catherine (Kate) Grayston Bond, and a smaller number of letters from her brother James Grayston, the archived originals were consulted as well as Erickson's edited versions. (This was also done with several other letter-series ...
... wife for some years, and who at some level, perhaps connected with her hatred of American life, was the source of difficulty for his marriage, had died, probably within the last decade. He remained bitter about his wife's treatment of ...
... wife and youngest children after leaving his home, and owned and paid taxes on the house at Monticello. (Indeed, if we had used only property tax records—a common historian's source for tracking obscure individuals—to learn about ...
... wives and children, and living as if there were nothing to their lives but the eternal experience of the present, end up writing letters, sometimes after decades, that seek to reestablish contact with family and friends. As Mark Freeman ...
... wife Rebecca, a Cambridgeshire emigrant he met in Lockport, together composed a number of letters to his family after their marriage in 1861. Joseph wrote poorly and with difficulty, but was dedicated to corresponding, so Rebecca took ...
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 |