Adams Papers

Draft of a Letter to All Young Gentlemen on the Evils of Factionalism, February 1763

Draft of a Letter to All Young Gentlemen on the Evils of Factionalism

Braintree, February 1763. 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 , 1:242–243. Incomplete and evidently not published contemporaneously, this satirical fragment anticipates one of the themes developed in JA’s newspaper pieces signed “Humphry Ploughjogger”; see the following entry.

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 , 1:242–243).

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    Draft of a Letter to All Young Gentlemen on the Evils of Factionalism, February 1763
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    Adams, John
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    February 1763

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    “Draft of a Letter to All Young Gentlemen on the Evils of Factionalism, February 1763,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0044. [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. 57.]