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Letters From an American Farmer
  • Letter I - Introduction

  • Letter II - On The Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures, of an American Farmer

  • Letter III - What Is An American

  • Letter IV - Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants

  • Letter V - Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket

  • Letter VI - Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard; and of the Whale Fishery

  • Letter VII - Manners and Customs at Nantucket

  • Letter VIII - Peculiar Customs at Nantucket

  • Letter IX - Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene

  • Letter X - On Snakes; And on the Humming Bird

  • Letter XI - From Mr. IW--N AL--Z, A Russian Gentleman; Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request To Mr. John Bertram, The Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist

  • Letter XII - Distresses of a Frontier Man

  • Source:
    St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813.
    Letters from an American farmer : describing certain provincial situations, manners, and customs ... and conveying some idea of the late and present interior circumstances of the British colonies in North America / written for the information of a friend in England, by J. Hector St. John ...
    Published: London : Printed for T. Davies , 1782.
    Description: 8 p.l., 318 p. : fold. maps. ; 23 cm.

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