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

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

Braintree, March? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 1:204–206. Third in the series of (unpublished) newspaper contributions on this subject. See entry for the earliest draft in the 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, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 1:204–206).

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    Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses, March 1761
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    Adams, John
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    March 1761

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    “Draft of a Letter from an Old Man on the Evils of Licensed Houses, March 1761,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0038. [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. 48.]