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Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century Book

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  • Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century
  • Written by author David Gerber
  • Published by New York University Press, July 2008
  • 2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which
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Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Letters and Immigrants     1
Immigrant Epistolarity
Introduction     31
Traditions of Inquiry     33
Forming Selves in Letters     57
Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant Epistolarity and the Culture of Emigration     92
Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity     140
Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm     162
When Correspondence Wanes     201
Four Lives in Letters
Introduction     227
Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure     230
Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting     257
Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her "Little Isle" from a Farm in Central New York     281
Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family     309
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted     337
Notes     339
Collections of Letters Consulted     399
Index     403
About the Author     422


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