Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57

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Within the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson’s Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North The us’s Pacific Northwest, the letters of people who cared for those men followed them Within the Company’s supply ships. Every so often, these letters missed their objects — the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their ships, or died. The Company returned the correspondence to its London place of business and over time amassed a file of “undelivered letters.” Many of these remained sealed for 150 years until they were opened by archivist Judith Hudson Beattie, when the Company archives were moved to Canada.

The letters tell the stories of extraordinary people whose lives are rarely recounted in traditional histories. Editorial commentaries fram, for latest readers, the words of early nineteenth-century working- and middle-class British folk in addition to letters to “voyageurs” from Quebec. Their stories offer rare insights into the varied worlds of women and men who settled the Pacific Northwest.

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