Going to America.

First american edition. Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; The Lands of Promise; Who Should Go, and Why; America in the Mind of the Time; Leaving Home; Liverpool and the Last of England; Hard-driven Ships and Brutal Crews; The Voyage; Washed Away, Drowned Altogether; 1847, the Plague Year; New York; Quarantine, Runners, and Rackets; Colonising and Shovelling Out; The Breaking of Lieutenant Hodder; America for the Americans; Steamships and Castle Garden; Sources and Bibliography; Appendices (A. The Passengeer Acts (British and American); B. Emigration from thee Unite Kingdom in the Years 1835-60; C. The Proportions of Emigrants who were Irish; D. Occupations of Emigrants to the U.S.A.; E. Emigrants Helped by the New York Commissioners; F. Emigrants Stated Destinations); Index.