Apr. 1790 to Apr. 1791
Original paper slip text:April 1790 - April 1791
"Discourse on Davila," partial draft. Numbered by CFA Nos. 1-17 and No. 33 "never published" [in CDF]
135 p.
JA—Essays and Addresses (non-official)
- "Discourse on Davila" originally printed in 32 numbers in Gazette of the United States, N.Y. and Phila., 27 April 1790 - 27 April 1791. Collected edn., Boston, 1805, does not include no. 32, which, however, is reprinted in Iacuzzi, , Scholar, 1952, p. 266-267; and by Haraszti in WMQ, 3d ser., 11:89-92 (Jan. 1954).
- LHB, 10 April 1958
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, with excerpts of JA's marginalia in his own copy of 1805 edn. Haraszti, JA and Prophets of Progress, ch. 11, prints JA's marginalia of 1812-1814 much more fully.Original paper slip text:JA, Works, 6:226-403
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
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