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

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

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Gerber, David A., 1944-
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 422 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a Authors of their lives  |h [electronic resource] :  |b the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /  |c David A. Gerber. 
260 |a New York :  |b New York University Press,  |c c2006. 
300 |a x, 422 p. :  |b ill. 
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. 
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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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