Shetlanders by Penny Post - The Mathewson Family Letters 1850-1880

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Through 1800 letters this unique book documents the daily events, struggles and emotional lives of a family from Yell, Shetland, two centuries ago. The reader comes to know the world of these ordinary people, who wrote extraordinary letters, intimately.

 

It makes vivid the lives of the Mathewsons and their neighbours during a period of social and economic transition. Family members, writing roughly on a scedule, sent long letters back and forth, and the British government delivered them on schedule.

Kenneth Carpenter was a librarian at Harvard University for forty years. Work on the Mathewson letters was not planned; he just found them irresistible.


 

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Publisher - The Shetland Times

Language - English

Paperback

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Author

Kenneth E. Carpenter


Published Date - July 16 2024

ISBN - 9781910997574

Dimensions - 24.0 x 16.5 x 2.7 cm

Page Count - 478

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