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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Letters and Immigrants
• I Immigrant Epistolarity
• Introduction
• 1 Traditions of Inquiry
• 2 Forming Selves in Letters
• 3 Writing with a Purpose: Immigrant Epistolarity and the Culture of Emigration
• 4 Using Postal Systems: Transnational Networks on the Edge of Modernity
• 5 Establishing Voice, Theme, and Rhythm
• 6 When Correspondence Wanes
• II Four Lives in Letters
• Introduction
• 7 Thomas Spencer Niblock: A Dialogue of Respectability and Failure
• 8 Catherine Grayston Bond: Letter-Writing as the Practice of Existential Accounting
• 9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald: Longing for Her “Little Isle” from a Farm in Central New York
• 10 Dr. Thomas Steel: The Difficulties of Achieving the Reunited Family
• Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted
• Notes
• Collections of Letters Consulted
• Index
• About the Author