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DOCUMENTS
IMMIGRANT LETTERS
IN the year 1928, during a visit to various countries of Europe, the Superintendent of the State Historical So¬ ciety made arrangements wherever possible for the collecting of letters written by emigrants from those countries who had settled in Wisconsin. His argument was that the pubhc in¬ stitutions of the countries from which these emigrants went forth would be benefited by having such records of the dis¬ persion of their people, while the institutions in the United States would find them invaluable as an aid in studying the process by which immigrants became adapted to American conditions. Among the European institutions which took up the suggestion most enthusiastically was the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, whose director the Hon¬ orable John Ballinger promptly circularized all Welsh news¬ papers in the interest of the plan. As a result, old letters hidden away for many years in garrets and escritoires, began to pass to the library from individuals and families in differ¬ ent sections of Wales. Of these Mr. Ballinger sent to the State Historical Society photostatic reproductions of a group of eight written at different times from Wisconsin. Of those written originally in Welsh he enclosed also an English translation.
The earhest of the Welsh letters was by Jolm and Mar- gred Owen, founders of an important Wisconsin family, who wrote from their new home in the Baraboo Valley, May 27, 1847. This letter we reproduce below, in the English
Object Description
| Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 13, number 4, June 1930 |
| Article Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 13, number 4, June 1930 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Series | Wisconsin Magazine of History ; v. 13, no. 4 |
| Format-Digital | xml |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol13no040000 |
| Description | Notable articles in this issue include an essay on a visit to John Muir’s family home and two articles on German-American writer Hans Buschbauer. |
| Volume | 013 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year | 1929-1930 |
Description
| Title | 409 |
| Page Number | 409 |
| Article Title | Documents: immigrant letters |
| Page type | Article home |
| Format-Digital | jpeg |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol13no040091 |
| Description | Immigrant Letters: This article prints a letter sent home in 1847 by John and Margred Owen (dates unknown), Welsh immigrants who had settled in Baraboo, Sauk County. It describes the area's landscape, their efforts at homesteading, their neighbors (a multicultural smorgasbord), the lack of church meetings, farming, crops, and their prices. It is followed by a letter from a descendant that contains more details about family history. (7 pages) |
| Volume | 013 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year | 1929-1930 |
| State/Province | Wisconsin; |
| County | Sauk County; |
| Community | Baraboo; |
| Subject | Welsh Americans; Immigration; Family; Letter; Pioneers; Domestic life; Farms; Religion |
| Full Text | DOCUMENTS IMMIGRANT LETTERS IN the year 1928, during a visit to various countries of Europe, the Superintendent of the State Historical So¬ ciety made arrangements wherever possible for the collecting of letters written by emigrants from those countries who had settled in Wisconsin. His argument was that the pubhc in¬ stitutions of the countries from which these emigrants went forth would be benefited by having such records of the dis¬ persion of their people, while the institutions in the United States would find them invaluable as an aid in studying the process by which immigrants became adapted to American conditions. Among the European institutions which took up the suggestion most enthusiastically was the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, whose director the Hon¬ orable John Ballinger promptly circularized all Welsh news¬ papers in the interest of the plan. As a result, old letters hidden away for many years in garrets and escritoires, began to pass to the library from individuals and families in differ¬ ent sections of Wales. Of these Mr. Ballinger sent to the State Historical Society photostatic reproductions of a group of eight written at different times from Wisconsin. Of those written originally in Welsh he enclosed also an English translation. The earhest of the Welsh letters was by Jolm and Mar- gred Owen, founders of an important Wisconsin family, who wrote from their new home in the Baraboo Valley, May 27, 1847. This letter we reproduce below, in the English |