Dear Oliver : uncovering a Pākehā history

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.
Subjects:
Wells, Peter, > 1950-2019 > Family.
Wells, Bess, > 1916-2017.
North family.
Northe family > Correspondence.
North family
Wells, Peter, > 1950-2019
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Families
Manners and customs
Napier (N.Z.) > Genealogy.
New Zealand > Genealogy.
New Zealand > Social life and customs.
New Zealand
New Zealand > Napier
Genealogy
Personal correspondence
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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