David,

	It might be worth noting that the first tract in the New World
against alcohol was written by a Quaker, Anthony Benezet (THE POWERFUL
DESTROYER DESTROYED or something like that, with a long subtitle)-- as
pointed out in Martin and Lender and, no doubt, many other standard
sources.  

	I owned a first edition of the pamphlet, usually bound in with
an abolitionist tract, and it now is part of an archive my wife and I
have given to the University of Alabama Library in honor of her parents:
The Jeanne N. and Joseph M. Smith Collection on Alcohol and Addiction
Studies.  The official announcement was February 23, and details are
available from the library.  This archive consists of my diverse and
multidisciplinary holdings collected over twenty years or so: several
hundred items.  It's strong on AA-related material; e.g. first editions
of all the canonical AA texts (including all four Big Books, a
presentation copy of the 12&12), first pamphlet printing of what would
become the Twelve Traditions, a complete run of THE UPPER FLOOR during
AA's foundational years), on temperance narratives and recovery
narratives of all sorts, on some alcoholic writers (e.g. Lowry), and
various oddments, such as a book from c. 1910 comparing the giving of
liquor to American youth to the annual California rabbit
drive/slaughter, with appropriate illustrations (the connection remains
somewhat elusive except on the level of murderous results).  There is
also the first edition of the first book in which Benjamin Rush printed
his famous paper, one key source of the "disease" model.  Alabama means
to grow this collection and to seek synergy with other ongoing
initiatives.  Brown's unmatched archive it ain't, but it's a quite
respectable start toward that.  

	John W. Crowley

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From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society
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Subject: Quakers and temperance

Any suggestions about historical articles or books that focus on  
Quakers in the Anglo-American temperance movement?