The Adams Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
- Thomas Boylston Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Walter Muir Whitehill, Boston Athenaeum
- Thomas James Wilson, Harvard University Press
EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Samuel Flagg Bemis, Yale University
- Julian Parks Boyd, Princeton University
- Paul Herman Buck, Harvard University
- David Donald, The Johns Hopkins University
- Philip May Hamer, National Historical Publications Commission
- Mark DeWolfe Howe, Harvard University
- Leonard Woods Labaree, Yale University
- Robert Earle Moody, Boston University
- Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University
- Kenneth Ballard Murdock, Harvard University
- Stephen Thomas Riley, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Ernest Samuels, Northwestern University
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Harvard University
- Clifford Kenyon Shipton, American Antiquarian Society
- Vernon Dale Tate, United States Naval Academy
The acorn and oakleaf device on the preceding page is redrawn from a seal cut for John Quincy Adams after 1830. The motto is from Caecilius Statius as quoted by Cicero in the First Tusculan Disputation: Serit arbores quae alteri seculo prosint (“He plants trees for the benefit of later generations”).