Scope and content Included are a series of ten letters (1870s) from Mrs. Catherine (Grayston) Bond to relatives in England commenting on the growth of her family, on living and working conditions, on the master, a Philadelphia business man, to whom she and her husband were engaged as farm-helpers; another series (1879-99) also written by Mrs. Bond from Bunker Hill, Russell County, Kansas, commenting on her family, living conditions, prices of land, wages, and other matters; and two letters (1877-78) by James...

Scope and content Letters to relatives in England describing conditions of his emigration to America, the emigrant agents in Liverpool, the passage across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, his work as a tailor in Boston and in Manchester, New Hampshire, the wages earned by himself and his wife, and urging his brother, a potter, to emigrate by describing the location of pottery works in New England and commenting on the ease with which another trade might be learned. The Dawson letter from Shullsburg,...