J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1731-1813)
Resided in the United States (1754-1780)
Lettres d'un cultivateur américain (1782)
Voyage dans la haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New York (1801)
Letters from an American Farmer , 1782
The first English edition of Letters from an American Farmer is shown below. The frontispiece is followed by the Advertisement, a brief preface to the edition. It was published in the same year as the French edition. The handwriting on the frontispiece is from a previous owner.
Two foldout maps were included in the edition on pages 122 and
160. They are shown below.
Map of Martha's Vineyard upper left, with details of the same map upper
right and to the left. Nantucket below with
description and location key
to the lower left.
The enlargements of the book are sufficient for easy reading -- they will be a slow download on a modem. The photographs of the books by Crèvecoeur may be used freely on non-commercial sites (no advertisements) and for educational purposes. Please provide a link to this page for copyright.
Further Resources:
The text of Letters from an American Farmer. 1782 from University of Virginia (Crèvecoeur image shown above from this site)
The text of Letters from an American Farmer -- 1782 from Project Gutenberg
The text of Letters from an American Farmer -- 1904 from the Library of Congress in facsimile of 1904 Fox, Duffield editionBrowse other works in "American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920", an exhibition of the Library of Congress.
Brief critical summary of Crèvecoeur's work by Doreen Alvarez Saar.D. H. Lawrence on Franklin and Crèvecoeur from D. Campbell
(c) Marilyn Shea, 2005
University of Maine at Farmington