18 July 1787
Original paper slip text:18 July 1787
Commencement oration at Harvard. "Upon the importance and necessity of public faith, to the well-being of a Community." Also a 19th-century copy.
8 p., 16 p.
JQA—Lectures and Orations
- For another copy see D/JQA/11 (under date of 18 July 1787).
- See: JQA/Diary, 7 Oct. 1822 (Memoirs, 6:77) for the transmittal of a copy in a letter from George M. Dallas of 4 Oct. 1822.
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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 370
Original held by:Massachusetts Historical Society
From the collection: Adams Family Papers
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Printed :Printed: Columbian Magazine, 1:625–628 (Sept. 1787);
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