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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Books, Reading, and Education
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Digges sends printed material to32
reading habits and schedule29
library of24
law books16
book purchases14
on his own motives, habits, and deficiencies in reading and studying6
comments on Temple's Observations upon the United Provinces 4
books “concerning french History, Laws, Customs and Manners, but above all a large Collection ... on the public Right of Europe and the Letters and Memoirs of ... Ambassadors and public Ministers” admitted as a proper public charge by Congress2
“I have a Set of Popes Works but I am so glad to see an old Acquaintance that I cannot part with him yet”2
Abbé de Vertot, Revolutions in Roman Republic, quoted and paraphrased1
PJA05
account of JA's life at Harvard1
EJA01
American revolutionary documents translated into Dutch in Van der Kemp's Verzameling der Stukken 1
AFC04
and N.Y. booksellers1
DJA02
and the Mathers' and Prince's libraries1
DJA03
asks for pamphlets on government1
AFC03
“A Temple, a D'Avaux, a D'Estrates had ... masterly Pens to celebrate their own Negotiations”1
AFC04
Bentivoglio's History of the Warrs in Flanders for parallels between the Dutch and American revolutions1
AFC03
Bielfeld's Institutions politiques quoted1
PJA09
boards in Worcester with Willards at cost of the town1
EJA01
Bolingbroke's works in library of1
AFC06
Bonne, Atlas 1
PJA12
book collecting1
PJA01
book dedicated to1
PJA11
books and papers left with AA in 17781
EJA01
borrows Memorials of the Courts of Great Britain and France from Mass. Council1
PJA08
Braintree grammar school1
PJA01
Buffon's Oeuvres complètes and Histoire naturelle des oiseaux 1
AFC03
Burgh's Political Disquisitions praised1
AFC03
buys La Rochefoucauld's Maxims 1
AFC05
buys medical instrument for Amer. doctor1
AFC06
buys Pope Clement XIV's Interesting Letters 1
AFC05
buys Shakespeare for AA21
AFC06
Cerisier, Tableau 1
PJA11
Cerisier's Tableau de l'histoire ... des Provinces-unies 1
AFC04
Cervantes' Don Quichotte de la Manche 1
AFC04
collection of Commonwealth pamphlets1
DJA01
commends Justinian's Institutes to JQA1
AFC06
commends Theophilus' Commentary to JQA1
AFC06
comments on Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland 1
PJA09
comments on Mercy Warren's History 1
PJA10
comments on Raynal's Histoire 1
PJA10
compares Voltaire's and Samuel Adams' writings1
AFC05
Constitutions of the . . . States of America 1
PJA13
Court de Gébelin's Monde Primitif annotated1
AFC04
Defoe, Tour through the Island of Great Britain 1
AFC03
Dickinson's library at Fairhill1
DJA02
disapproves of Chesterfield's Letters 1
AFC01
Dodsley's Preceptor 1
AFC02
Dumont1
PJA13
editions of Molière in library of1
AFC05
enthusiasm for Orrery's Letters on Swift1
EJA01
Entick, Dictionary 1
PJA11
Essarts sends books to1
PJA07
Estienne, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1
PJA12
Faber, Thesaurus Eruditionis Scholasticae 1
PJA12
folio of engravings of Greek mythological figures1
AFC03
For legal works cited by JA1
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For works mentioned or cited see under the following authors' names1
Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity 1
AFC02
general comments on the value of books1
AFC01
Genlis, Théâtre 1
PJA11
gives books to his children1
AFC01
gives books to William Cranch1
AFC06
Goudar, Le procès des trois rois 1
PJA11
Grecian history cited1
PJA05
Hobbes' Political Works 1
AFC02
“I have spent an Estate in Books”1
AFC01
inadequacy of New England education to prepare statesmen1
PJA02
in Spanish bookshops1
DJA02
“I want to see my Books”1
AFC01
James Harrington, Oceana, cited1
PJA04
Janiçon1
PJA13
Jefferys1
PJA13
Jonathan Swift, cited1
PJA05
Le guide ... d'Amsterdam 1
AFC03
lends sermon to Mrs. Warren1
AFC01
library of, in Braintree1
AFC06
Linguet's Annales politiques ... du dixhuitième siècle 1
AFC03
Loosjes1
PJA13
Lynch sends books to1
PJA09
Mably1
PJA13
Mandrillon sends printed materials to1
PJA12
marginalia, in Condorcet1
DJA04
marginalia, in Galloway's pamphlets1
DJA03
marginalia, in Hurd1
DJA01
marginalia, in Mably1
DJA02
marginalia, in Priestley1
DJA03
marginalia, in Winthrop on earthquakes1
DJA01
Mass. General Court borrows his copy of Ruffhead's Statutes at Large 1
AFC01
Matthew Prior, quoted1
PJA04
Maurice Saxe, cited1
PJA05
Mazzei sends books to1
PJA13
Memoirs of Thomas Hollis 1
AFC04
Milton, Paradise Lost 1
AFC07
Milton, Paradise Lost, quoted1
PJA04
misquotes Shakespeare, Tempest 1
PJA12
Montesquieu, cited1
PJA05
“Multitudes of Pamphlets, News Papers, and private Letters to read” in Congress1
AFC01
Nugent1
PJA13
on library of George III1
DJA03
on the study of Amer. maps and geography1
AFC02
opinion of Dryden's and Trapp's translations of Virgil1
AFC05
Ovid, Amores 1
PJA11
Oxenstiern1
PJA13
Paine, Common Sense 1
PJA04
Pestel1
PJA13
Peter Bayle, Dictionary Historical, quoted1
PJA05
poets and poetry1
PJA02
Pope, Essay on Man, quoted1
PJA08
Pownall presents Memorial to1
PJA09
presented with treatise on education1
AFC06
publication of U.S. works in London1
AFC07
purchase of Recueil des loix constitutives d'Etats-Unis 1
PJA10
purchases Raynal's Histoire 1
PJA07
purchases Samuel Clarke's sermons1
AFC07
quotes Book of Common Prayer 1
AFC05
quotes from Psalms1
AFC05
quotes Juvenal's 6th Satire 1
AFC05
quotes Pope's “On His Grotto at Twickenham”1
AFC05
quotes Shakespeare1
PJA09
quotes Shakespeare's King Lear 1
AFC05
quotes Sully1
AFC01
Raynal, Staatsomwenteling 1
PJA12
“reading news paper politicks”1
AFC01
reads Cerisier's Tableau de l'histoire 1
PJA10
receives Itinerario español from Lagoanere1
PJA08
receives Latin translation of Young, Night Thoughts 1
AFC07
recommends books for Charles Storer to send to Jefferson1
AFC07
recommends Rollin's Belles Lettres 1
EJA01
requests books from WSS1
AFC07
requests Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
AFC07
Ricard, Traité général du commerce 1
PJA12
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe 1
PJA11
Robertson's History of America 1
AFC04
Robertson's History of ... Charles V 1
AFC03
Robert Watson's History of ... Philip the Second in French1
AFC04
Robinson-Morris' Considerations 1
AFC01
rules for determining the excellence of language1
EJA01
Sallust's Jugurthine War and other works in library of1
AFC05
searches for books for Cotton Tufts1
AFC07
seeks copy of Price's Population of England 1
PJA10
seeks London publishers1
PJA13
seeks map of Gulf of St. Lawrence1
PJA10
seeks to have Politique hollandais bound1
PJA12
sends An Address to the People of the Netherlands to U.S.1
PJA12
sends collection of constitutions to Luzac1
PJA11
sends Court de Gébelin's Monde primitif to Harvard1
PJA09
sends pamphlet to Sullivan1
PJA13
sends treatise on education to John Shaw1
AFC07
struggle to choose a career1
EJA01
studies Tillotson as young schoolmaster1
AFC02
subscribes to La Blancherie's Nouvelles de la République 1
PJA07
Sully, quoted1
PJA04
Tacitus, Histories 1
AFC07
Tacitus quoted1
AFC04
taught navigation to Capt. Benjamin Beale1
AFC07
teaches JQA mathematics1
AFC06
“Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good Taste and good Latin”1
AFC04
Thaxter buys books for1
PJA12
Thucydides' History 1
AFC02
Trumbull, McFingal 1
PJA03
Tyler Sr. recommends books to1
EJA01
undergraduate papers lost1
EJA01
uses Dr. Willard's library of medical books in Worcester1
EJA01
uses Mather family books and MSS1
AFC01
uses the college library1
EJA01
Van der Kemp, Verzameling van stukken 1
PJA12
wants Johnson's Lives of the English Poets 1
AFC05
“We must recommend it to Mrs Warren and her Friend Mrs Adams to teach our Sons the divine Science of the Politicks”1
PJA02
works on military tactics, horsemanship, revolution, Danish history, and of classical authors left at York, Penn., for dispatch to Braintree1
AFC03
writes marginalia in books1
AFC07
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