Note: habitual activities such as daily walks, weekly church attendance, the identification of Bible texts used in sermons, visits to the Boston Athenaeum, writing journal entries, and account keeping are not indexed.
subentries
studies, arranges, and binds family papers43
as family archivist and editor26
omits passages from AA, Letters
25
his silent omissions and emendations in editions of his grand-parents' correspondence8
studies and methodizes JA's papers8
edits AA's correspondence6
restores passages omitted from earlier editions6
collates JA's letterbooks with copies made by Sparks5
arranges JQA's correspondence4
as archivist and editor of JQA's Diary3
collates JA's diary with JQA's transcriptions3
corrects proof for Report and “Address” of JQA3
editing newspaper considered3
transcribes JA's comments on Terence's plays3
collates JA's diary with copies made2
omits passage from JA, Letters
2
abridges letters relating Royall Tyler's courtship of AA21
copying letters of JA and AA and preparing edition of JA's papers1
corrects proof for article by JQA1
dockets JA's correspondence1
earliest letter by AA to JA printed by1
earliest letter by JA to AA printed by1
edition of his grandmother's correspondence1
editorial methods used in publishing1
first publishes AA and JA letters1
“My grandfather's papers are my only resort and to that I must fix myself”1
publishes accurate texts of JA's famous letters of 3 July 17761
stimulated to editorial work by Sparks1