Partnership for Posterity: The Correspondence of William Maclure and Marie Duclos Fretageot, 1820-1833

by Josephine Mirabella Elliott (Editor)

A documentary edition that includes 478 letters or parts of letters written by Scottish-American educational reformer Maclure (1763-1840) and Fretageot (1783-1833), a French woman who ran a boarding school in Philadelphia before returning in 1819 to France, where she was introduced to Maclure. The letters not only trace their friendship, but also contain information pertaining to life in the American "West," reformers and reform movements and political events in the US and other countries. The letters from 1824 are especially important for understanding what happened at New Harmony when in 1925 Maclure joined Robert Owen in attempting an experiment in communitarian living. Available from the Indiana Historical Society, 315 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, IN 46202 (1-800-IHS-1830). The price is $76 for IHS members. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

1151 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1994