1. See, for example, David Fitzpatrick, Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)
2. Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003)
3. Erika Rappaport, ‘The Bombay Debt’: Letter Writing, Domestic Economies and Family Conflict in Colonial India,’ Gender and History 16, no. 2 (2004), 233–60
4. David A. Gerber, Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century (New York: New York University Press, 2006)
5. Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds, Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants (New York: Palgrave, 2006)