Authors of their lives : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / David A. Gerber.

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Main Author: Gerber, David A., 1944-
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description:x, 422 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Traditions of inquiry -- Forming selves in letters -- Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration -- Using postal systems : transnational networks on the edge of modernity -- Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm -- When correspondence wanes -- Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure -- Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting -- Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York -- Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family. 
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