Important observations on frontier America by a native of Normandy who immigrated to Pennsylvania when he was 16, and became one of the first victims of the War of Independence when Indian allies of Great Britain set fire to and destroyed his farm. He wrote these letters both preceding and during the war, and upon his return to his native land translated them into French. They were first published in London, in English, in 1782. Howes states "Description of American life of great influence in attracting European immigration in the post-revolutionary period. As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century." This copy with the armorial blindstamp of the Comtesse de Moreles (dated 1952) on front free endpapers, and further provenance information laid in. Howes C883; Sabin 17494.