Introduction
Volumes Published
Microfilm Set Locations
Microfilm Guide
Permission to Quote
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Permission to publish or reproduce
the Adams Family Papers
In 1956, the Adams Manuscript Trust transferred all rights to the Adams
Family Papers manuscript collection to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Prior to the formal transfer of ownership, the MHS microfilmed the portion of
the papers dating from 1639 to 1889. Ninety-five research libraries and
historical institutions around the world hold the 608-reel Microfilms of the
Adams Papers. Click here for a list
of libraries holding the microfilm edition.
The MHS is the sponsor of the Adams Papers Editorial Project. Since 1961,
the editorial project has published 38 volumes of The Adams Papers.
Click here for a complete list of published
volumes.
In recent years, the MHS also has displayed digital facsimiles and transcriptions
of Adams Family Papers manuscripts at its website,
http://www.masshist.org, including
materials drawn from both the microfilm and print editions of the papers.
The MHS owns the Adams Family Papers and holds the copyright to both the print
and microfilm editions of the Papers. There are separate guidelines for securing
permission to reproduce materials from the microfilm and print editions, and from
the MHS website:
- Requests for permission to reproduce documents in any form from the Microfilms
of the Adams Papers should be directed to the
MHS Reference Librarian. Requests for
permission to reproduce text or images from the MHS website in any form also should
be directed to the MHS Reference Librarian.
Click here for further information on
using manuscripts at the MHS.
- Requests to reproduce text or images in any form from The Adams Papers, the print
edition of the Adams Family Papers edited by the Adams Papers Editorial Project and
published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, should be directed to
Copyright
and Permissions at Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
If you have further questions concerning permission to publish from the Adams Family
Papers manuscript collection, the print or microfilm editions of it, or the MHS website,
please contact the MHS Reference Librarian.
John Quincy Adams designed and used this acorn and oak
leaf seal after 1830. The motto is from Cæcilius Statius as
quoted by Cicero in the First Tusculan Disputation: Serit
arbores quœ alteri seculo prosint ("He plants trees for the
benefit of later generations").
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Online:
Adams Time Line
Adams Genealogy
Biographical Sketches
Quotations
Selected Manuscripts
Adams Electronic Archive
JQA: One President's Adolescence
Other Resources:
Related Web Sites
Books about the Adamses
Adams Family Papers manuscript collection
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