Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : 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, c2006.
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Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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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650 0 |a Letter writing  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Transnationalism  |x History  |y 19th century  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Immigrants' writings, American. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Emigration and immigration  |x History  |y 19th century  |v Sources. 
651 0 |a Canada  |x Emigration and immigration  |x History  |y 19th century  |v Sources. 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Emigration and immigration  |x History  |y 19th century  |v Sources. 
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