- Introduction: Moving Beyond “The Farmer of Feelings”
- A Note on Crèvecoeur’s Text and on Emendations
- Letter I: Introductory Letter
- Letter II: Thoughts, 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
- A Happy Family Disunited by the Spirit of Civil War
- Rock of Lisbon
- Sketches of Jamaica and Bermudas and Other Subjects
- The Commissioners
- Ingratitude Rewarded
- Susquehannah
- The Grotto
- Hospitals
- A Sketch of the Contrast between the Spanish and the English Colonies
- A Snow-Storm as It Affects the American Farmer
- The Frontier Woman
- History of Mrs. B.
- The Man of Sorrow
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
THE JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY
Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays
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