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  Adams Papers
• Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (see below). The location of materials in the Letterbooks and in the volumes of Miscellany is given more fully and, if the original would be hard to locate, by the microfilm reel number.
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  Adams Papers Editorial Files
• Other materials in the Adams Papers editorial office, Massachusetts Historical Society. These include photoduplicated documents (normally cited by the location of the originals), photographs, correspondence, and bibliographical and other aids compiled and accumulated by the editorial staff.
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  Adams Papers, Adams Office Files
• The portion of the Adams manuscripts given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Thomas Boylston Adams in 1973 and retained in the editorial office of the Adams Papers.
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  Adams Papers, Microfilms
• The corpus of the Adams Papers, 1639–1889, as published on microfilm by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954–1959, in 608 reels. Cited in the present work, when necessary, by reel number. Available in research libraries throughout the United States and in a few libraries in Canada, Europe, and New Zealand.
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  The Adams Papers
• The present edition, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. References to earlier volumes of any given unit take this form: vol. 2:146. Since there will be no overall volume numbering for the edition, references from one series, or unit of a series, to another will be by title, volume, and page; for example, JA, Diary and Autobiography , 4:205.
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  PCC
• Papers of the Continental Congress. Originals in the National Archives: {p. R72} Record Group 360. Microfilm edition in 204 reels. Usually cited in the present work from the microfilms, but according to the original series and volume numbering devised in the State Department in the early 19th century; for example, PCC, No. 93, III, i.e. the third volume of series 93.
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  Thwing Catalogue, MHi
• Annie Haven Thwing, comp., Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800; typed card catalogue, with supplementary bound typescripts, in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited

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  AA, Letters, ed. CFA, 1840
• Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1840.
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  AA, Letters, ed. CFA, 1841
• Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, 3d edn., Boston, 1841; 2 vols.
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  AA, Letters, ed. CFA, 1848
• Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, 4th edn., rev. and enl., Boston, 1848.
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  AA2, Jour. and Corr.
• Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, Daughter of John Adams, . . . edited by Her Daughter [Caroline Amelia (Smith) de Windt], New York and London, 1841–[1849]; 3 vols.
  Note: Vol. [1], unnumbered, has title and date: Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, 1841; vol. 2 has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams . . . Vol. II, 1842; vol. [3] has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams . . ., Vol. II, 1842[!], i.e. same as vol. 2, but preface is signed “April 3d, 1849”[!], and the volume contains as “Part II” a complete reprinting from same type, and with same pagination, of vol. 2 (i.e. “Vol. II”), above, originally issued in 1842.
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  A. N. Adams, Geneal. History of Henry Adams of Braintree
• Andrew N. Adams, A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants, Rutland, Vt., 1898; 2 vols.
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  Biog. Dir. Cong.
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949, Washington, 1950.
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  Braintree Town Records
• Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, Mass., 1886.
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  Burnett, ed., Letters of Members
• Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, 1921–1936; 8 vols.
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  Cambridge Modern Hist.
• The Cambridge Modern History, Cambridge, Eng., 1902–1911; repr. 1969, [New York]; 12 vols.
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  Catalogue of JA's Library
• Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917.
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  Catalogue of JQA's Books
• Worthington C. Ford, ed., A Catalogue of the Books of John Quincy Adams Deposited in the Boston Athenaeum. With Notes on Books, Adams Seals and Book–Plates, by Henry Adams, Boston, 1938.
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  Col. Soc. Mass., Pubns.
• Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications.
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  DAB
• Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–1936; 20 vols. plus index and supplements.
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  Dict. of Americanisms
• Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, Chicago, 1951.
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  Dipl. Corr., 1783–1789
• [William A. Weaver, ed.,] The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America, from . . . 1783, to . . . 1789, Washington, 1837 [actually 1855]; 3 vols.
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  DNB
• Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The Dictionary of National Biography, New York and London, 1885–1900; 63 vols. plus supplements.
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  Evans
• Charles Evans and others, comps., American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols.
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  Fowler, Baron of Beacon Hill
• William M. Fowler Jr., The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock, Boston, 1980.
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  Franklin, Papers
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox (from vol. 15), Claude A. Lopez (vol. 27), Barbara B. Oberg (from vol. 28), and others, New Haven, 1959-.
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  Grandmother Tyler's Book
• Frederick Tupper and Helen Tyler Brown, eds., Grandmother Tyler's Book: The Recollections of Mary Palmer Tyler (Mrs. Royall Tyler), 1775–1866, New York and London, 1925.
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  Harvard Quinquennial Cat.
• Harvard University, Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636–1930, Cambridge, 1930.
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  History of Hingham
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Hingham, 1893; 3 vols. in 4.
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  Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale
• J. C. F. Hoefer, ed., Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1852–1866; 46 vols.
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  JA, Diary and Autobiography
• Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols.
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  JA, Earliest Diary
• The Earliest Diary of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966.
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  JA, Legal Papers
• Legal Papers of John Adams, ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Cambridge, 1965; 3 vols.
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  JA, Letters, ed. CFA
• Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1841; 2 vols.
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  JA, Papers
• Papers of John Adams, ed. Robert J. Taylor, Gregg L. Lint (from vol. 6), and others, Cambridge, 1977-.
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  JA, Works
• The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856; 10 vols.
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  JA-AA, Familiar Letters
• Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution. With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, New York, 1876.
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  JCC
• Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols.
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  Jefferson, Papers
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen (from vol. 21), John Catanzariti (from vol. 24), and others, Princeton, 1950-.
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  Jensen, The New Nation
• Merrill Jensen, The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781–1789, New York, 1950.
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  JQA, Diary
• Diary of John Quincy Adams, ed. David Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, and others, Cambridge, 1981-.
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  Lafayette in the Age of the Amer. Rev.
• Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, ed. Stanley J. Idzerda and others, Ithaca, 1977-.
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  Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel
• Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIX siècle, Paris [1865]; 15 vols. and supplements.
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  Mass., Acts and Laws
• Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1780–1805], Boston, 1890–1898; 13 vols.
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  MHS, Colls., Procs.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections and Proceedings.
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  Miller, ed., Treaties
• Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Washington, 1931–1948; 8 vols.
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  Morris, Papers
• The Papers of Robert Morris 1781–1784, ed. E. James Ferguson, John Catanzariti, and others, Pittsburgh, 1971-.
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  Morris, Peacemakers
• Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, New York, 1965.
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  Namier and Brooke, House of Commons
• The House of Commons, 1754–1790, ed. Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke, London, 1964; 3 vols.
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  NEHGR
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
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  Notable American Women
• Edward T. James and Janet Wilson James, eds., Notable American Women, 1607–1950, Cambridge, 1971; 3 vols.
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  Oxford Classical Dictionary
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. N. G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, 2d edn., Oxford, 1970.
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  OED
• The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1888–1972; 12 vols. and supplements.
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  Oliver, Portraits of JA and AA
• Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, Cambridge, 1967.
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  Parliamentary Hist.
• The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, London, 1806–1820; 36 vols.
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  Pattee, Old Braintree and Quincy
• William S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, with a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook, Quincy, 1878.
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  Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder
• Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), ed. Ludwig Bittner and others, Oldenburg, &c., 1936–1965; 3 vols.
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  Rice, Adams Family in Auteuil
• The Adams Family in Auteuil, 1784–1785, As Told in the Letters of Abigail Adams, ed. Howard C. Rice Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society, Picturebook, Boston, 1956.
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  Rice, Jefferson's Paris
• Howard C. Rice Jr., Thomas Jefferson's Paris, Princeton, 1976.
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  Sabin
• Joseph Sabin and others, comps., A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, New York, 1868–1936; 29 vols.
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  Sibley's Harvard Graduates
• John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873-.
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  Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates
• Paul H. Smith and others, eds., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1976-.
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  Warren-Adams Letters
• Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefiy a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vols. 72–73), Boston, 1917–1925; 2 vols.
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  Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
• Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols.
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  Wheatley, London Past and Present
• Henry B. Wheatley, London Past and Present, Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Based Upon the Handbook of London by the Late Peter Cunningham, London, 1891; 3 vols.
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  Winsor, Memorial History of Boston
• Justin Winsor, ed., The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, 1630–1880, Boston, 1880–1881; 4 vols.
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  WMQ
• William and Mary Quarterly.