The Adams Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
- Thomas Boylston Adams
- James Barr Ames
- Frederick Burkhardt
- Mark Carroll
- F. Murray Forbes
- Arthur J. Rosenthal
- Walter Muir Whitehill
EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
- Samuel Flagg Bemis, Yale University
- Julian Parks Boyd, Princeton University
- Paul Herman Buck, Harvard University
- David Donald, The Johns Hopkins University
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, National Historical Publications Commission
- 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
- 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”).