Authors of their lives the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / [electronic resource] :
David A. Gerber.
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
- x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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--Sources.