Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies (New series)
- Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies (New series) / Volume 12 / January 1966, pp 5-41
- Copyright © British Association for American Studies 1966
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S052450010000276X (About DOI), Published online: 17 February 2011
Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies (1966), New series,
12:5-41 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © British Association for American Studies 1966
doi:10.1017/S052450010000276X
Research Article
An Emigrant's Letter from Iowa, 1871
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John Flounders Dixon was born in 1844 at Crathorne, near Yarm, in the Cleveland district south of the Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire and was thus 27 years of age in 1871 when he made the journey to America described by him in the following letter. His companions were his younger brother, Charles Albert, aged 22, and Frank Standing to whose uncle's farm in Iowa they travelled.
