"Letters from an American Farmer" by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Full title: Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur. 

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From Wikipedia:

"A series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782. . . . Crèvecœur wrote Letters during a period of seven years prior to the American Revolutionary War, while farming in the fertile Greycourt, blackdirt region of Chester, NY, a small town in Orange County, New York. It is told from the viewpoint of a fictional narrator in correspondence with an English gentleman, and each letter concerns a different aspect of life or location in the British colonies of America.

"The work incorporates a number of styles and genres, including documentary, as well as sociological observations.

"Although only moderately successful in America, Letters was immediately popular in Europe upon its publication in 1782.

"Prompted by high demand, Crèvecœur produced an expanded French version that was published two years later.

"The work is recognised as being one of the first in the canon of American literature, and has influenced a diverse range of subsequent works."

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