best-written and convincing pieces in the Anti-Federalist canon, and make regular appearances in collections of Anti-Federalist writing. Ralph Louis Ketcham writes that "though sometimes discursive and repetitious, the letters, skillfully written, moderate in tone, and thoughtful, were perhaps the most eloquent and persuasive anti-federalist writings." References Bennett, Walter Hartwell. Introduction to Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1978. Main, Jackson Turner. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1961. Webking, Robert H. "Melancton Smith and the Letters from the Federal Farmer." The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 44 (1987): 510-528. Wood, Gordon S. "The Authorship of the Letters from the Federal Farmer." The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 31 (1974): 299-308. The Anti-Federalist. Ed. Herbert Storing. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. The Anti-Federalist Papers. Ed. Ralph Loius Ketcham. New York: Signet Classic, 2003. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vols. XIV-XV. Ed. John P. Kaminski and Gaspare J. Saladino. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1981. (Appears in notes as DHRC) Particularly used here is the editorial note appearing in pp. 14–18. Zuckert and Webb. The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Notes External links Full text of letters United States documents Anti-Federalists Anti-Federalist Papers Ratification of the United States Constitution 18th-century pseudonymous writers Unidentified people