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Extract from a letter written in 1823 to a Scottish landlord asking for help to emigrate
(Catalogue ref: HO 44/13)
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Catalogue ref: HO 44/13; letter asking for help to emigrate, Scotland, 1823
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1 What impression does this source give of life in the British empire in terms of the following issues:
  • the reasons why people migrated within the empire?
  • how their migration was organised and paid for?
  • relations between the Scottish farmers and their landlords?
2 Explain whether you think this source gives a positive or negative view of the empire.

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