Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio

Contents

Editor’s Note and Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio

Editor’s Foreword

Letter to Monsieur Le Chevalier de Boufflers

Letter to Monsieur Jacques-Henri-Bernadin de Saint-Pierre

Letter to my Eldest Son

Appendix

Prospectus for the Colony on the Ohio and Scioto Rivers in America

The French on the Banks of the Scioto

The Paris High Court on the Scioto

Letter Written by a Frenchman Emigrating to the Lands of the Scioto Company

New Prospectus of the Scioto Company

Modern Chivalry

Letter to Monsieur Audrain

My Memories

Chronology

Bibliography

Index of Proper Names

Notes

“Hoffman’s excellent edition includes an introduction with a full account of the background to the proposed colony and its checkered history, as well as an analysis of the literary strategies and ‘alternative facts’ that characterize the Letters. . . . The book will interest students of American Studies, French Revolutionary history, travel literature, Rousseau, and utopian fiction. We add to that potential audience those persons . . . with personal or professional roots in the regions around the banks of the Ohio.”

—Kathleen Hardesty Doig, XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century