Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses, January 1761

Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses

Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 1:190–192 Unsigned, but the author introduces himself as “an old Man, seventy odd.” See entry for the earliest draft in this series, 29 May 1760, above, and references there.

Printed: (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 1:190–192).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses, January 1761
Author: Adams, John
Date: January 1761

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Cite as: “Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses, January 1761,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0035. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 1, September 1755 – October 1773, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977, p. 47.]