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05-24-2005, 06:03 PM
Thank you for making this material available to the researcher. It is not often that one has the opportunity to view at his finger tips the picturesque descriptions that Dickens offers. I have found many valuable tidbits in All the Year Round but those periodicals are difficult to find. I have been tracing an emigrant company that traveled from Bristol, England to Illinois in 1841. These emigrants traveled the same route from Montreal to Whitehall, New York just a year before Dickens and took passage on the Burlington which he praises. He doubts he could find any other vessel to compare with it any place in the world. Materials of that early vintage are difficult to find let along of the quality that you here present. Thank you. Don Smith