The Old Farmer and His Almanack: Being some Observations on Life and Manners in New England a Hundred Years Ago, Suggested by Reading the Earlier Numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas's Farmer's Almanack, Together with Extracts Curious, Instructive, and Entert…

xiv, 403 pp. 1967 reissue of 1927 edition. The Farmer's Almanack was originally begun by Robert B. Thomas in 1729, and featured sketches of American life that are still valuable for their depiction of 18th and 19th century life in New England. In the words of Kittredge, who compiled the articles collected here, the ephemeral nature of writings destined for an almanac are such that the author "appeals to the immediate present, and his records have all the value of incidental testimony."