record number: 061168

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Dates:

Apr. 1790 to Apr. 1791

Original paper slip text:April 1790–April 1791

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

"Discourses on Davila," partial draft. Numbered by

Charles Francis Adams

Original paper slip text:CFA

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Nos. 1–17 and a No. 33 "never published"

Length:

135 p.

Document Type:

JA—Essays and Addresses (non-official)

Notes:

"Discourses on Davila" originally printed in 32 numbers in Gazette of the U.S., N.Y. and Phila., 28 April 1790–27 April 1791. Collected edn., Boston, 1805, does not include No. 32, which, however, is reprinted in Iacuzzi, JA, Scholar, 1952, p. 266–267; and by Haraszti in WMQ, 3d ser., 11:89–92 (Jan. 1954).
Partly printed in JA, Works, 6:226–403, with excerpts of JA's marginalia in his own copy of 1805 edn. Haraszti, JA and Prophets of Progress, ch. 10, q.v., passim, prints JA's marginalia of 1812–1814 much more fully.
LHB, 10 April 1958
Filmed at April 1791. ER 11/16/2015
Archival Notes: No. 1 appeared in Gazette of the United States (N.Y.), 27 Apr. 1790. The last in the "Davila" series (No. 32) appeared in the same, 27 Apr. 1791. See Haraszti, p.165 ff.; 334 ff. Entered by ER 12/07/2015

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