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Additional Manuscript Collections at the MHS Relating to Adams Family Members

In addition to the Adams Family Papers (manuscript collection), [described on http://www.masshist.org/library_collections/adams.cfm], the Massachusetts Historical Society holds other collections that contain historical documents and materials relating to John and Abigail Adams and their families, as well as previous and subsequent generations. Various single letters relating to the Adamses are also found within some of MHS's autograph collections and/or are cataloged as individual documents.

Researchers should search ABIGAIL (online catalog, http://www.masshist.org/library/abigail.cfm), search guides to collections (http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/), and consult with the reference staff to determine which will be of potential interest.


A few examples of collections other than the Adams Family Papers containing Adams manuscripts are:

  • Adams family additions (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Adams-Johnson Lynch family papers (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Adams-Lodge correspondence (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Adams-Waterhouse letters (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Adams-Welch correspondence (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Brooks Adams papers (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Charles Adams papers (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Charles Francis Adams II papers (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Correspondence between John Adams and John Winthrop (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Elizabeth Coombs Adams commonplace-books (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Elizabeth Coombs Adams papers (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Henry Adams papers: guide to the microfilm edition (finding aid)
  • Henry Adams photographs (finding aid)
  • Marian Hooper Adams photographs (finding aid)
  • Adams-Hull collection (finding aid)
  • Adams-Thoron papers (finding aid)
  • Adams-Thoron photographs (finding aid)
  • Tudor-Adams correspondence (bibliographic record in ABIGAIL)
  • Warren-Adams papers: guide to the microfilm edition (finding aid)