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Letters from Wilson in Lowell, Mass. to his father in Yorkshire, England, in which he describes his work in a carpet factory, encourages others to come to Lowell, and provides instructions. He describes his voyage to America and the cholera that broke out on board ship, and the aid given the immigrants by his employer, Mr. Milne.

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,...