WorkMorris Birkbeck

“Notes on a Journey in America and/or Letters from Illinois”

InferredBirkbeck' as an example of a man 'bred a farmer' who could successfully adapt to frontier life ? implicitly contrasting him with the refined European couple she is describing. This is Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825), English Quaker farmer who emigrated to Illinois in 1817 and published Notes on a Journey in America (1817) and Letters from Illinois (1818), both widely read guides to western settlement.

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Documented 1843

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Mr. Birkbeck was bred a farmer, but these were nurslings of the court and city”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Birkbeck' as an example of a man 'bred a farmer' who could successfully adapt to frontier life ? implicitly contrasting him with the refined European couple she is describing. This is Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825), English Quaker farmer who emigrated to Illinois in 1817 and published Notes on a Journey in America (1817) and Letters from Illinois (1818), both widely read guides to western settlement.