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- <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1">J. Hector St. John de Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
- size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1">vecoeur (1731-1813) <br>
- Resided in the United
- States (1754-1780)<br>
- <b>Lettres d'un cultivateur am</b></font><b><font face="Verdana"
- size="-1">é</font></b><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1"><b>ricain</b> (1782)<br>
- </font><b>Voyage dans la haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New
- York</b> (1801)
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- size="-1"><br>
- </font><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Letters from an American
- Farmer</font> </b>
- <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1"><b>,</b>
- 1782</font></p>
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- <p><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif" size="-1">The
- first English edition of <i>Letters from an American Farmer</i> 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.<br>
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- in the edition on pages 122 and</font></p>
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- details of the same map upper </font></p>
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- right and to the left. Nantucket below with </font>
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- description and location key</font></p>
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- 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 Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
- size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif" size="-1">vecoeur
- may be used freely on non-commercial sites (no
- advertisements) and for educational purposes. Please provide a link to this page for copyright.</font></font></td>
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- <blockquote><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1"><b>Further
- Resources:</b><br>
- <br>
- The text of <span
- style="text-decoration: underline;">
- <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/home.html"><i>
- Letters from an American Farmer</i></a>.</span> 1782 from
- University of Virginia (Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
- size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1">vecoeur image shown above from this site)<br>
- <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br>
- </span>The text of <i><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4666">
- Letters from an American Farmer</a> </i>-- 1782 from Project
- Gutenberg<br>
- <br>
- The text of <i>
- <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">
- Letters from an American Farmer</a></i>
- -- 1904 from the Library of Congress in facsimile of 1904 Fox, Duffield edition</font><p>
- <font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1">Browse other works in <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/">
- "American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920"</a>, an
- exhibition of the Library of Congress.<br><br><br>Brief
- <a href="http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/crevecoe.html">
- critical summary</a> of Cr</font><font face="Verdana"
- size="-1">è</font><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif"
- size="-1">vecoeur's work by Doreen Alvarez Saar.</font></p>
- <p><font face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif" size="-1">
- <a href="http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lawre.htm">D. H.
- Lawrence on Franklin and Cr</a></font><font face="Verdana"
- 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>
- from D. Campbell<br><br><br><br><br><br> (c) Marilyn Shea, 2005<br> University of Maine at Farmington<br>
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