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- catalog abstract ""In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson's Bay Company sent men to its posts along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest, letters from loved ones followed in the company's supply ships. The messages from a mother or father, a wife or sweetheart travelled for many months from London, around the southernmost tip of South America, and north to isolated trading posts. By the time a letter carrying the news and gossip from home reached its destination, it might well miss the man meant to read it. The Company returned these letters to its London office, and over the years an "undelivered letters" file built up. Many remained sealed for 150 years." "Beattie and Buss invite us into the lives of the letter writers, threading together their words with contemporary explanations. This unique collection of letters will be compelling reading for social historians, literary scholars, genealogists, students of the fur trade, and anyone interested in British and North American culture of the period. The news of everyday life - from parents on farms and in towns, sisters in domestic service, brothers and friends in trade - reaches out across two centuries to speak with us with startling immediacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12740691.
- catalog contributor b12740692.
- catalog contributor b12740693.
- catalog contributor b12740694.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson's Bay Company sent men to its posts along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest, letters from loved ones followed in the company's supply ships. The messages from a mother or father, a wife or sweetheart travelled for many months from London, around the southernmost tip of South America, and north to isolated trading posts. By the time a letter carrying the news and gossip from home reached its destination, it might well miss the man meant to read it. The Company returned these letters to its London office, and over the years an "undelivered letters" file built up. Many remained sealed for 150 years." "Beattie and Buss invite us into the lives of the letter writers, threading together their words with contemporary explanations. This unique collection of letters will be compelling reading for social historians, literary scholars, genealogists, students of the fur trade, and anyone interested in British and North American culture of the period. The news of everyday life - from parents on farms and in towns, sisters in domestic service, brothers and friends in trade - reaches out across two centuries to speak with us with startling immediacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-474) and index.".
- catalog description "Letters to Men on the Ships -- Letters to Voyageurs -- Letters to Men at the Posts -- Letters to Emigrant Labourers -- Ships -- Posts.".
- catalog extent "xiii, [32] p. of plates, 497 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0774809736".
- catalog identifier "0774809744".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Vancouver : UBC Press,".
- catalog spatial "Northwest Coast of North America".
- catalog subject "971.1/102/0922 21".
- catalog subject "F1060 .U53 2003".
- catalog subject "Fur traders Northwest Coast of North America Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hudson's Bay Company Employees Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hudson's Bay Company Employees Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Letters to Men on the Ships -- Letters to Voyageurs -- Letters to Men at the Posts -- Letters to Emigrant Labourers -- Ships -- Posts.".
- catalog title "Undelivered letters to Hudson's Bay Company men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57 / edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss ; with introductions and narratives by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss ; and notes by Judith Hudson Beattie.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".