ABSTRACT

This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.

part |113 pages

Correspondence

chapter |4 pages

Thomas Hill (1860–3)

Continued, see Volume 2. Shropshire Records and Research Unit, 3042/1–6, extracts by Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |3 pages

M. T. Williams (1861)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |3 pages

Jannet Stewart (1861)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/78.

chapter |3 pages

Candler Family (1861)

Continued, see Volume 3. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chapter |2 pages

Clarke Family (1861–2)

Continued from Volume 2. Lawrence Clarke Whittet Papers. Wisconsin State Historical Society, Box 1 File. Excerpts by Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |2 pages

Edwin O. Kimberley (1861–5)

Continued from Volume 3. Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, MSS/DV, excerpts from the archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |9 pages

Jane Trattles (1862–4)

Continued, see Volume 3. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chapter |9 pages

W. H. Lancashire (1862–5)

Continued from Volume 3. Nottinghamshire Archives DD/419/1–9.

chapter |2 pages

Rutherford Family (1862–6)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/78.

chapter |2 pages

Ann and Alfred Jones (1864)

Original letters obtained from Sydney Raine, Moseley, Birmingham, from the archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |5 pages

Thomas Stephens (1865–6)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Platteville, SC 34.

chapter |15 pages

Peter Mckellar (1866–8), Including the Janet Claussen Letters

Continued, see Volume 3, and two letters from his sister Jane Peebles, from Anderston, Scotland, 8 January 1861 (the first letter presented below) and 14 December 1866. Minnesota Historical Society. Peter and Archibald McKellar Papers, 1830–97 (P 1597); British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/76.

chapter |5 pages

Jane Trattles (1867–8)

Continued, see Volume 3 and earlier in this volume. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chapter |2 pages

Sharp Family (1869)

Continued, see Volume 2. Wisconsin Historical Society, MAD 4/14/SC 134.

chapter |2 pages

Sheldon Family (1871)

Original from D. D. Sheldon, Ashton, Preston, Lancashire, from the Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Hill (1872)

Continued, see Volume 2 and earlier in this volume. Shropshire Records and Research Unit, 3042/1–6, extracts by Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |4 pages

Isaac Taylor (1873–4)

Continued, see Volume 3. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chapter |9 pages

Letters in Newspapers (1873–96)

chapter |5 pages

Ralph Youens (1877)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 5/93.

chapter |2 pages

Ann and Alfred Jones (1880)

Continued, see earlier in this volume. Original letters obtained from Sydney Raine, Moseley, Birmingham, from the archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |2 pages

Lewis Collection (1880)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |2 pages

Sharp Family (1880)

Continued, see Volume 2 and earlier in this volume. Wisconsin Historical Society MAD 4/14/SC 134.

chapter |2 pages

‘An English Hosiery Factory in America’ (1885)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |2 pages

Isaac Taylor (1885)

Continued, see Volume 3 and earlier in this volume. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

chapter |1 pages

Sheldon Family (1891)

Continued, see earlier in this volume. Original from D. D. Sheldon, Ashton, Preston, Lancashire, from the Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |3 pages

Calvin and Emma Beer (1893)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |5 pages

Samuel Clarke (1894–5)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |3 pages

William Winterbottom (1895)

Original from Joan Nuttal, Delph, near Manchester. Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter |3 pages

William Mellor (1911)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 1/70.

part |72 pages

Biographies

chapter |3 pages

David Walls (N.D.)

chapter |2 pages

Mary Brooks (1860)

chapter |2 pages

George Francis Langrick (1860)

chapter |2 pages

William Day (1861)

chapter |3 pages

Elizabeth Lamb (1863)

chapter |2 pages

Gething Jenkins (1865)

chapter |2 pages

William Randle (1865)

chapter |1 pages

John Collins (1866)

chapter |2 pages

William Dodds (1866)

chapter |3 pages

Alexander N. Henry (1867)

chapter |1 pages

Hon. James Cousins (1868)

chapter |2 pages

George Cotton (1868)

chapter |3 pages

William M. Bright (1868)

chapter |1 pages

William Mitchell (1868)

chapter |1 pages

Frank Mcgarvy (1869)

chapter |1 pages

Moses Baldwin (1869)

chapter |2 pages

William Macritchie (1871)

chapter |1 pages

John Baird (1871)

chapter |1 pages

Thomas J. Topham (1872)

chapter |2 pages

Arthur West (1875)

chapter |2 pages

Edward Devon (1879)

chapter |2 pages

Fred K. Gresswell (1879)

chapter |2 pages

Alfred Shrosbree (1881)

chapter |2 pages

John Oborne (1881)

chapter |1 pages

Kelso H. Sim (1882)

chapter |2 pages

James R. Rosie (1883)

chapter |2 pages

Frank T. Guess (1884)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Maclay (1884)

chapter |2 pages

John W. Steele (1887)

chapter |2 pages

William K. Tulloch (1887)

chapter |2 pages

Alexander Fraser (1889)

chapter |2 pages

William David Bassett (1893)

chapter |2 pages

Lord Wellington Greenwood (1903)

chapter |2 pages

William J. Richardson (1906)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Eadington (1911)

part |120 pages

Correspondence

chapter |19 pages

A Reply

chapter |3 pages

Rawlings, Emigration (1864)

chapter |23 pages

To the Public

chapter |3 pages

Jones, Letters from America (1870)

chapter |15 pages

Letters from America

chapter |14 pages

Excerpts from Bee-Hive (1870–3)

chapter |3 pages

Wilson Tickle, British Emigration

chapter |10 pages

British Emigration