Partnership for Posterity William Maclure Marie Duclos Fretageot George Rapp Robert Owen New Harmony Indiana History Account
Rare. First Edition / 1st Printing. Book. 1994 Indiana Historical Society. Illustrated. The Correspondence of William Maclure and Marie Duclos Fretageot, with a firsthand account of what happened at New Harmony utopia experiment.
ISBN:0871951045
ISBN-13: 9780871951045
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Year: 1994
Condition: Ex library in very good shape with light wear to cover and DJ. NO markings to text. SHIPS IN A BOX! Packaged with care.
Summary: 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.