Index
| “1.5 generation,” 202, 279 | |
| 1798 Rebellion in Ireland, 137 |
| Abandonment of family, 98, 193 | |
| Accuracy of personal letters, 9–10, 49 | |
| Adventure narratives, 324–6 | |
| African Americans, 42 | |
| Aging, 114–15, 133–4, 185, 208–11 | |
| Akenson, Donald Harmon, 39 | |
| Alabama, 105 | |
| Albany (New York), 283 | |
| Alcoholism/heavy drinking, 193, 287, 288 | |
| Alienation, 204, 342n26 | |
| Altman, Janet Gurkin, 95, 100, 142 | |
| Amanuenses, 88–9, 208–9 | |
| American evangelicals, 311 | |
| American nativism, 18, 271 | |
| American Revolution, 47 | |
| American sociology, 33–40, 55 | |
| Americans: anti-Irish prejudice, 272; to Archbald (Mary), 26, 303, 305–8; to British immigrants, 20, 23–8; John Bull compared to, 25; materialism, 25, 284, 303, 310; religiosity of, 25; to Steel (Thomas), 310, 311 | |
| Anderson, Benedict, 66 | |
| Anglo-American Loyalists, 18 | |
| Anti-behaviorist psychology, 68 | |
| Anti-Catholicism, 18, 20–3, 271–4, 342n27 | |
| Anti-Irish prejudice, 18, 20–3, 271–4 | |
| Antrim (Ireland), 17, 89, 109, 110, 133 | |
| Apologies in letters, 138, 194, 195, 326 | |
| Archbald family, 282–3, 284 | |
| Archbald, Helen Louisa (Louisa, Mary Ann’s daughter): after father’s death, 307; as companion to Mary Ann, 209–10; illegitimacy, 295, 388n43; occupation, 209–10; resemblance to Mary Ann, 284; in Scotland, 282; son (George), 111, 295, 359n32, 388n43 | |
| Archbald, Hugh (Mary Ann’s great-grand- son), 294, 295 | |
| Archbald, James, III (Mary Ann’s hus- band): children, 284; courtship, 288; death, 209, 285, 307; drinking, 288; early life, 287; education, 288; emigra- tion decision, 284–5; Englinton and, 282; epitaph, 285; farms (Creekvale, Riverbank), 296, 297, 304; Little Cum- brae, 282; as a poor relation, 287; resi- dence, 161; return migration, 293–4, 305; Scottishness, 306; success, 285; writing skills, 296 | |
| Archbald, James, IV (Jamie; Mary Ann’s son), 23, 209, 282, 296, 302, 305–6, 307 | |
| Archbald, Margaret (Mary Ann’s daugh- ter), 209, 282, 297 | |
| Archbald, Mary Ann Wodrow, 281–308; aging’s effects, 209–10; Americans to, 26, 303, 305–8; changes in postal sys- tems, 161, 173–4; children, 114, 284; closing letters, 172; cohorts, 335; copy- books, 84, 293; custodial and parenting obligations, 388n35; diarylike letters, 171; family scandal, 294–5, 388n43; farming, 123, 173; Irish Catholics, 23; last archived letter, 210; literacy level, 84; Louisa as companion, 209–10; need to correspond, 228; New Year’s Eve let- ter, 174, 176, 286, 299–300, 302, 390n53; personal couriers, 107; place of letters in her life, 210, 292; as a poor relation, 287; post office, 151, 297, 389n49; religious orientation, 25, 290; |
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