Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pākehā history / Peter Wells.

When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family e...

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Main Author: Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Intro; Title Page; Contents; Red Letter Day; Obscure Individuals; Dear Oliver; How to Read a Letter; The Coming Out Letter; To Whom It May Concern; How to Write a Letter; The Business Letter; Polly; What's in a Name?; Local Hero; Dear Heroix; Silence Like a Bruise; The Failure of Language; Afterword; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Northe family tree; Copyright. 
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