Summary Of Thomas Sulley's Letter To America

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America. In 1817, writing as corresponding secretary of the Otsego County Agricultural Society, Cooper enjoined the freeholders of the county to act together for the improvement of agriculture. "Most of you have been able to witness the good produced by one neat, judicious and economical farmer in a neighborhood; what may we not expect from a combination of such men" (Letters, I, 37). He would have found a ready model for his advocacy of agricultural innovation in Jefferson 's lifelong interest in improving American agriculture.

Among Cooper 's earliest direct references to Jefferson is in an 1823 letter to Charles Kitchel Gardner in which he recounts his changing views of the man. Writing about his impressions of Thomas Sully 's portrait