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  40. 			<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
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  41.  size="-1">J. Hector St. John de Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
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  42.  size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
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  43.  size="-1">vecoeur (1731-1813)&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
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  44. 			Resided in the United
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  46. 			<b>Lettres d'un cultivateur am</b></font><b><font face="Verdana"
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  67. 		first English edition of <i>Letters from an American Farmer</i> is shown 
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  69. 		preface to the edition.&nbsp; It was published in the same year as the 
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  193. 					-- they will be a slow download on a modem.&nbsp; The 
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  194. 					photographs of the books by Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
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  195.  size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif" size="-1">vecoeur 
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  197. 					advertisements) and for educational purposes.&nbsp;  Please provide a link to this page for copyright.</font></font></td>
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  213.  size="-1"><b>Further
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  215.           <br>
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  216. The text of <span
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  218. 			<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/home.html"><i>
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  219. 			Letters from an American Farmer</i></a>.</span>&nbsp; 1782 from 
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  220. 			University of Virginia (Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
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  221.  size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
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  222.  size="-1">vecoeur image shown above from this site)<br>
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  223.           <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>
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  224.           </span>The text of <i><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4666">
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  225. 			Letters from an American Farmer</a> </i>-- 1782 from Project 
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  226. 			Gutenberg<br>
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  227.           <br>
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  228. 			The text of&nbsp; <i>
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  229. 			<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=00543//lhbtn00543.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/lhbtnbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(lhbtn+00543))&linkText=0">
    230. 

  230. 			Letters from an American Farmer</a></i>
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  231. -- 1904 from the Library of Congress in facsimile of 1904 Fox, Duffield edition</font><p>
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  232. 			<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
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  233.  size="-1">Browse other works in <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/">
    234. 

  234. 			&quot;American Notes:&nbsp; Travels in America 1750-1920&quot;</a>, an 
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  235. 			exhibition of the Library of Congress.<br><br><br>Brief
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  236. 			<a href="http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/crevecoe.html">
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  237. 			critical summary</a> of Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
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  238.  size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
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  239.  size="-1">vecoeur's work by Doreen Alvarez Saar.</font></p>
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  241. 			<a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lawre.htm">D. H. 
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  242. 			Lawrence on Franklin and Cr</a></font><font face="Verdana"
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  243.  size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif" size="-1"><a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lawre.htm">vecoeur</a> 
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  244. 			from D. Campbell<br><br><br><br><br><br>&nbsp;(c) Marilyn Shea, 2005<br>&nbsp;University of Maine at Farmington<br>
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