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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
F.B. is James’s friend, recent guest, and the recipient of his letters. Though F.B. doesn’t appear directly in the book, James portrays him as an educated Englishman who’s much more cultured, well-read, and widely traveled than James himself. After visiting James in America, F.B. apparently requested that James write him letters in England, which form the premise for the book.
Mr. F.B. Quotes in Letters from an American Farmer
The Letters from an American Farmer quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. F.B. or refer to Mr. F.B.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Were I in Europe, I should be tired with perpetually seeing espaliers, plashed hedges, and trees dwarfed into pygmies. Do let Mr. F. B. see on paper a few American wild-cherry trees, such as Nature forms them here in all her unconfined vigour, in all the amplitude of their extended limbs and spreading ramifications—let him see that we are possessed with strong vegetative embryos.
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Mr. F.B. Quotes in Letters from an American Farmer
The Letters from an American Farmer quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. F.B. or refer to Mr. F.B.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Letter 1
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Were I in Europe, I should be tired with perpetually seeing espaliers, plashed hedges, and trees dwarfed into pygmies. Do let Mr. F. B. see on paper a few American wild-cherry trees, such as Nature forms them here in all her unconfined vigour, in all the amplitude of their extended limbs and spreading ramifications—let him see that we are possessed with strong vegetative embryos.
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