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,...