The article presents the child's part in the exceptionally extensive and complex correspondence of the Udovič-Hrvatin-Valencic family, which is an important source for understanding the family in a translocal migration context. The presented case study is based on the collection of family letters that started to travel among a Slovenian village, Jelšane, a city in the United States, and the capital of Argentina in the 1920s. It focuses on a child's role in the epistolary practice since many researchers claim that children are underrepresented in the studies of migration correspondence. The article is based on the methodology that combines analysis of the letters with the personal narrative and shows how the correspondence served to fill the absence and bridge the distance while it created closeness and intimacy in a different way. It actually produced intimate strangers - people who knew each other in the world of epistolary practice but also felt as strangers when they met in the real one.

Migration Narratives Network of support Migration process Subjective reality Transatlantic community Children Migrant letters Family correspondence Translocal intimacy Epistolary practices

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