Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 1

Report of the Braintree Committee on the Proceeds of the Sale of the South Common

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

Braintree, February 1763. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography , 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 , 1:242–243).