Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Letters and Immigrants 1
5. Part I Immigrant Epistolarity
6. Introduction 29
7. 1 Traditions of Inquiry 33
8. 2 Forming Selves in Letters 57
9. 3 Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant Epistolarity and the Culture of Emigration 92
10. 4 Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity 140
11. 5 Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm 162
12. 6 When Correspondence Wanes 201
13. Part II Four Lives in Letters
14. Introduction 225
15. 7 Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure 230
16. 8 Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting 257
17. 9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York 281
18. 10 Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family 309
19. Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted 337
20. Notes 339
21. Collections of Letters Consulted 399
22. Index 403
23. About the Author 422