An Agricultural Romance, a Bookish Christian Sect, and Colonialism via Silkworms in West Virginia

I fell down a rabbit hole after I discovered a book with an incredibly long title. It's supposed to be a guide to rearing silkworms in 1650s West Virginia. But it has poetry? And a hint at a lost romance? And a link to a tiny Christian sect and a poem by T S Eliot. Useful links: If you can access ProQuest, the original book is here: https://manchester.idm.oclc.org/login... Cranfield, N. (2008) Ferrar, Nicholas (with Virginia Ferrar), Oxford Dictionary of Biography: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9356 Riley, K. E. (2007). The Good Old Way Revisited: The Ferrar Family of Little Gidding, C. 1625–1637, University of Western Australia. Hatch, C. E. (1957). Mulberry Trees and Silkworms: Sericulture in Early Virginia. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 65(1), 3–61. http://www.jstor.org.manchester.idm.o... My Patron with screenshots:   / joelyblack   Buy Hope Is Not Passive: https://buy.bookfunnel.com/fu975njpyr Me yapping on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@_seventwoeight