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 I|2 pages

Correspondence

chapter 1|1 pages

Thomas Chalmers (1828–31)

Letters to Thomas Chalmers from Mary Kinnear (excerpts, 1828–31) and Mitchell King (1831), British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/74.

chapter 2|8 pages

Macfarlane Family (1828–32)

University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, C3127.

chapter 3|3 pages

Jonas Booth (1829)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 1/10.

chapter 4|4 pages

James Robertson (1830)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/77.

chapter 5|8 pages

John Rose (1830)

Continued from Volume 1. Originals lent to Charlotte Erickson by Donald Beaton, Waddon Lodge, Upwey, Weymouth, 1964.

chapter 6|2 pages

Peter Mckellar (1830–1)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/76.

chapter 7|16 pages

John Ingle (1830–6)

Continued from Volume 1. Indiana Historical Society, Collection M167, Folder 3.

chapter 8|2 pages

Charles Johnston (1833)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 9|2 pages

Randal Mcdonald (1833)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/76.

chapter 10|2 pages

Edward Trayes (1833)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 11|4 pages

Hugh J. M. Nudham (1834)

From the private archive of Roger Haydon.

chapter 12|9 pages

William Watts (1836)

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

chapter 13|12 pages

Sharp Family (1836–47)

Continued from Volume 1. Wisconsin Historical Society, MAD 4/14/SC 134.

chapter 14|8 pages

Charles Livingstone (1837)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/75.

chapter 15|2 pages

William Crawfurd (1838)

From the collection of Roger Haydon.

chapter 16|2 pages

Jane Crowley (1838–46)

Warwickshire Record Office, CR 394/110.

chapter 17|4 pages

N. Leprevost (1840)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Parkside SC 15.

chapter 18|16 pages

James Douglas (1840–3)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Milw SC 162.

chapter 19|6 pages

Richard Rowland (1840–4)

Missouri Historical Society, Western Travel, B1/f.5.

chapter 20|7 pages

John Ingle (1841–7)

Continued from Volume 1 and earlier in this volume. Indiana Historical Society, Collection M167, Folder 3.

chapter 21|3 pages

William and Margaret Irving (1841)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/76 (originals from the McDonald-Irving Papers in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina).

chapter 22|3 pages

George and Orange Slade (1841)

Ohio Historical Society, VFM 3334.

chapter 23|7 pages

Clarke Family (1842–5)

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

chapter 24|6 pages

Robert Shedden (1842–5)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson. Copies given to British Library of Political and Economic Science by the British Records Association.

chapter 25|2 pages

Thomas Chalmers (1843)

Continued, see earlier headnote. Letters to Thomas Chalmers from James Lenox (1843) and Colin McIver (1843), British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/74.

chapter 26|2 pages

Darnley Family (1843–4)

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, Box 129.

chapter 27|3 pages

Andrew Mattison (1843)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 28|2 pages

William Walters (1844)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson. Original in the possession of Miss B. Poignand, Diana Cottage, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey.

chapter 29|3 pages

Joseph and Elizabeth Cree (1844–6)

Manchester Central Library, Misc. 668/1,2,3,4. Donated by Ellen L. Henle, Oberlin, Ohio.

chapter 30|3 pages

Edward Gilley (1845)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 31|3 pages

John Hodgson (1845)

Wisconsin Historical Society, MAD 4/14/SC432.

chapter 32|2 pages

William Henry Evans (1846)

Indiana Historical Society, Mss. Sc 556. Typescript from the Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 33|1 pages

Janet Johnston (1846–7)

British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrant Letters 3/75. Excerpts.

chapter 34|4 pages

Thomas Hill (1846–8)

Shropshire Records and Research Unit, 3042/1–6. Extracts.

chapter 35|2 pages

Welsh Immigrants in Ohio (1846–7)

Archive of Charlotte Erickson.

chapter 36|2 pages

Owen Family (1847)

Wisconsin Historical Society, SC 54.

part II|49 pages

Biographies

chapter 37|2 pages

William Crichton (1833)

N. W. Evans, History of Scioto County, Ohio, 2 vols (Portsmouth, OH: Higginson, 1903).

chapter 38|2 pages

Thomas Watters (1836)

chapter 39|4 pages

Colonel Thomas Stephens (1840)

chapter 40|2 pages

Alexander Panluna (1841)

chapter 41|2 pages

Mary Harrison (1842)

chapter 42|3 pages

John Spencer (1842)

chapter 43|2 pages

Charles Blackburn (1843)

chapter 44|2 pages

William Broadhead (1843)

chapter 45|3 pages

Samuel Cartwright (1845)

chapter 46|3 pages

Griffith Griffiths (1845)

chapter 47|2 pages

Revd James Jones (1845)

chapter 48|2 pages

William Wetherall (1845)

chapter 49|2 pages

Andrew Davidson (1846)

chapter 50|2 pages

Samson Edwards (1846)

chapter 51|2 pages

Benjamin Beevers (1846)

chapter 52|2 pages

John Dinsdale (1846)

chapter 53|2 pages

George Mollart (1847)

chapter 54|6 pages

William Jewell (1847)

chapter 55|3 pages

Peter Kinnear (1847)

part III|187 pages

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