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Letter from John Steele to his wife, dated 11 March 1878. Steel was serving a mission to the British Isles and writes his wife.
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Barr (1849-1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist who abandoned his early teaching career to write for the Detroit Free Press, later becoming its news editor. In 1881 he moved to London where he founded The Idler magazine in 1892 in collaboration with Jerome K Jerome. In 1895 he retired from its co-editorship to become a more prolific novelist, publishing a book a year. This novel was first published in 1905 and includes the illustrations which accompanied the original edition.
Other letters discuss Steele's attitude toward slavery; including letter to Mary, 1 Mar. 1792, re his affection and sense of responsibility for "these black people"; and postscript, 4 Mar. 1792, re discipline for a slave named Dan, to be administered by the overseer.
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Robert Barr was born in Barony, Lanark, Scotland to Robert Barr and Jane Watson. In 1854, he emigrated with his parents to Upper Canada at the age of four years old. His family settled on a farm near the village of Muirkirk. Barr assisted his father with his job as a carpenter, and developed a sound work ethic. Robert Barr then worked as a steel smelter for a number of years before he was educated at Toronto Normal School in 1873 to train as a teacher. After graduating Toronto Normal School, Barr became a teacher, and eventually headmaster/principal of the Central School of Windsor, Ontario in 1874. While Barr worked as head master of the Central School of Windsor, Ontario, he began to contr...
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