Fifty-one of these letters have never been published before, and the remaining sixty-nine are a selection from letters already edited by Professor Hawkins in various French and American periodicals. The letters, penned by fifty-seven authors, are addressed to citizens of a number of countries; all of them have been chosen with careful regard to their historical or literary content. Among those of especial interest to students of American history or of Franco-American relations are the following: d’Alembert, the due de La Rochefoucauld, Lavoisier, and Marat to Benjamin Franklin; Brillat-Savarin to Samuel Miles Hopkins; Sismondi to Andrews Norton, father of Charles Eliot Norton; Clemenceau to John Durand, American editor and art critic; Alexandre Dumas fils to Mrs Margaret Bertha Wright; and especially the nineteen letters written by Alexis de Tocqueville to Theodore Sedgwick, a lawyer of New York City.