ABSTRACT
Henry Craig wrote this letter from Ohio City (near Cleveland) to Kent, ten years after his emigration. The fact that he addressed it to his mother and siblings, and friends, suggests that it had a wide circulation. Some passages must have been enticing: ‘this is the country to live in and yours the country to starve in – It seem hard for me to condemn my own country but I cannot help it when I see you cannot live in it as you ought to do … We are living here with every ease and comfort on what the land will produce.’ The details in this letter are wonderful.
