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100 1  Gerber, David A.,|d1944-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n85181522 
245 10 Authors of their lives :|bthe personal correspondence of 
       British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth 
       century /|cDavid A. Gerber. 
264  1 New York :|bNew York University Press,|c[2006] 
264  4 |c©2006 
300    x, 422 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-401) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
648  7 19th century|2fast 
650  0 British Americans|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects
       /sh85016965|vCorrespondence.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99001488 
650  0 British|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85016960|zCanada|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n79007233-781|vCorrespondence.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99001488 
650  0 Immigrants|zUnited States|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85140055|vCorrespondence.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99001488 
650  0 Immigrants|zCanada|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2008123048|vCorrespondence.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh99001488 
650  0 Letter writing|xHistory|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2009129556|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 
650  0 Transnationalism|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh00009276|xHistory|y19th century|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2002006167|vSources.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007 
650  0 Immigrants' writings, American.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh88003796 
650  7 British Americans.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       839069 
650  7 British.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/839044 
650  7 Immigrants.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712 
650  7 Letter writing.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/996699
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Transnationalism.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1154884 
650  7 Emigration and immigration.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/908690 
650  7 Immigrants' writings, American.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/967803 
651  0 United States|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|y19th 
       century|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2007100069|vSources.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2002012007 
651  0 Canada|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100374|y19th century
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
       |vSources.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2002012007 
651  0 Great Britain|xEmigration and immigration|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117808|xHistory
       |y19th century|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2002006167|vSources.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2002012007 
651  7 Canada.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204310 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
651  7 Great Britain.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204623
655  7 Correspondence.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       2003288 
655  7 Sources.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423900 
655  7 Personal correspondence.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/genreForms/gf2014026141 
655  7 Personal correspondence.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1919948 
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/
       ecip0514/2005015602.html 
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