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...Yale University Press ($4). Letters from an American Farmer, published in England in 1782, is a book known to serious students of the period of American history just prior to and during the Revolution. Buried for nearly a century and a half in the cabinets of the Crèvecoeur family, unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Even for casual readers the book has interest and the sort of charm inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted as to time, regardless of the limitation of its area of action. Moreover...