Bairds text was published in Swedish in 1838 as 'Historisk Teckning af=20
Nykterhets-F=F6reningarna i Nord-Amerikas Forenta Stater jemte n=E5gra=20
upplysningar ang=E5ende dessa F=F6reningar i England, Sverige och andra=20
Lander'; and in Danish in 1841 (translated from german by a baptist=20
M=A2nster): 'Afholdenheds-Selskabernes Historie i de forenede Stater i=20
Nordamerika'. The Danish text was immediately destroyed by the Danish=20
authorities as a 'sceterian' document. Just a few copies survived. Bairds=
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activities was discribed 1841 by J.H. B=F6ttcher (in german): 'Geschichte=
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der Massigheits-Gesellschaften in den norddeutschen Bundes-Staaten  . . =20
bis um jahre 1840 (1841). An owerview of his activities in North-Germany=20
is published in Chr. Stubbe: Die altere Massigkeits- u.=20
Enthaltsamkeitsbew. In Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin 1906, Jfr. Schr. II 5,=20
1910.=20
 
The spread of Bairds ideas seems to be of great importance for the=20
understandment of where it was possible for the first temperance movement=
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to establish a 'bridge-head' for further influence.
 
My own comparative article on Sweden and Denmark: 'Drunken Danes=20
and Sober Swedes' concerns - as Robin Room mentioned - a litle about Bairds=
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different impact in the two countries and try to explain why his ideas=20
got response in Sweden and not in Denmark.  . . .  The text is difficult=20
to get, but I can mail a copy if some one are interested.
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Sidsel Eriksen,
Research Fellow, Ph.D.
Department of History,
Njalsgade 102,
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark.
Tlf: +45 35 32 82 87