Abstract:This essay reads writings by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, including Letters from an American Farmer (1782) and Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New-York (1801) against Crèvecoeur's participation in transatlantic scientific exchange and the early history of the cabinet of the American Philosophical Society. Crèvecoeur's donation of a "curious book" of plant-based paper samples to the APS cabinet illuminates his consistent comparisons of his writings to specimens and lost manuscripts. By reading his work alongside the challenges faced by the APS to preserve and maintain its collections, this essay reveals how the instability of collections generated wider preoccupations about loss and longevity. Crèvecoeur's writings demonstrate the intersections between literary and institutional histories of collecting in the eighteenth century and suggest how various kinds of collections shaped literary production in early America.

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流通对象：Crèvecoeur的“好奇书”和美国哲学学会内阁

摘要：本文阅读 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur 的着作，包括美国农民的来信（1782 年）和宾夕法尼亚州北部和纽约州之旅（1801 年）反对 Crèvecoeur 参与跨大西洋科学交流和早期美国哲学学会内阁的历史。Crèvecoeur 向 APS 内阁捐赠了一本包含植物纸样本的“奇书”，这说明他将自己的作品与标本和丢失的手稿进行了一致的比较。通过阅读他的作品以及 APS 在保存和维护其藏品方面面临的挑战，这篇文章揭示了藏品的不稳定性如何产生了对损失和寿命的更广泛关注。Crèvecoeur'