Letters from an American Farmer

Dedication: To the Abbé Raynal, F.R.S.

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