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Six letters from French engineer and political economist Michel Chevalier to American politician and New York State commissioner of canals Samuel B. Ruggles. Letters concern the development of various public works in France and the United States; politics and revolutions in Europe (1848); Chevalier's meeting with American merchant William Henry Aspinwall, and Aspinwall's plans to build a railway across Panama; and Chevalier's requests for assistance in securing a position in the United States for his brother, Émile. In French less