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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... wrote in their behalf); those who sought completely to sever connections with family and friends; those with completed families; young children living with their parents; and women, who even when literate were, as immigrants when ...
... wrote, so contextualizing either party in ways, whether social, economic, or even interpersonal, that assist in interpreting their correspondence, is difficult. Rarely, moreover, do we have access to the letters that were sent to ...
... wrote in his first letter to his wife from Canada, “In time of danger they do nothing but sprinkle holy water, cry, pray, cross themselves and all sorts of Tomfoolery instead of giving a hand to pump the ship and then when the danger ...
... wrote that she was not sure what sort of Christmas celebration she and Jim would have, because they had not been able to make any friends in Connecticut. “The Yankes are very distant peopel. They don't thinck much of John Bulls, but we ...
... wrote his 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 ...
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 |