Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57 by Editor-Helen M. Buss - 2003-01

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Vancouver: Ubc Press, 2003. Paperback. pp. 497. 8vo. Light shelfwear, minor discolouration to edges, ink inscription to title page; very good.

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Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; single very light crease to spine; slight wear to inside corners; otherwise absolute minimal wear; Beattie and Buss invite us into the lives of the letter writers, threading together their words with contemporary explanations. 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 to us with startling immediacy.

Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57, Helen M. Buss; Judith Hudson Beattie. Published by UBC Press, 2003. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 497pp. maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, index. Contents are in fine, unread condition with very light shelf wear to covers.
In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson's Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for those men followed them in the Company's supply ships. Sometimes, these letters missed their objects -- the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their ships, or died. The Company returned the correspondence to its London office and over the years amassed a file of "undelivered letters." Many of these remained sealed for 150 years until they were opened by archivist Judith Hudson Beattie, when the Company archives were moved to Canada.
The letters tell the stories of ordinary people whose lives are… Read More

Vancouver: UBC Press [0-7748-0974-4] 2003. (Trade paperback) 497pp. Fine. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, index. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: ; British Columbia; Northwest Coast--Canada; West Coast--Canada. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Letter Writing, Letters, Social History).

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Vancouver: UBC Press [0-7748-0974-4] 2003. (Trade paperback) 497pp. Near fine. Signed by Beattie. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, index. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: ; British Columbia; Northwest Coast--Canada; West Coast--Canada. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Letter Writing, Letters, Social History).