Authors of their lives
Gerber, David A., 1944-
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.
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,
2013.
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.
Electronic books.
E184.B7 / G47 2006eb
973.5/092/241
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.
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,
2013.
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.
Electronic books.
E184.B7 / G47 2006eb
973.5/092/241