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

By: Gerber, David A, 1944-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2006Description: x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): British Americans -- Correspondence | British -- Canada -- Correspondence | Immigrants -- United States -- Correspondence | Immigrants -- Canada -- Correspondence | Letter writing -- History -- 19th century | Transnationalism -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Immigrants' writings, American | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century -- SourcesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.5/092/241 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.