Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers)
150
Agricultural and Scientific Interests
30
farming, farm improvements, and scientific agriculture
AFC02
2
“All nature is [worth studying].—But I have too much to do, to Study Men, and their mischievous Designs”
AFC03
AFC04
See also: AA—Farming and Household Management
See also: Astronomy
See also: Earthquakes
See also: Museums
654
Books, Reading, and Education
32
Digges sends printed material to
PJA09
29
reading habits and schedule
24
library of
16
law books
14
book purchases
DJA03
6
on his own motives, habits, and deficiencies in reading and studying
4
comments on Temple's Observations upon the United Provinces
2
“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
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 Congress
1
works on military tactics, horsemanship, revolution, Danish history, and of classical authors left at York, Penn., for dispatch to Braintree
AFC03
1
Bentivoglio's History of the Warrs in Flanders for parallels between the Dutch and American revolutions
AFC03
1
American revolutionary documents translated into Dutch in Van der Kemp's Verzameling der Stukken
AFC04
1
“A Temple, a D'Avaux, a D'Estrates had ... masterly Pens to celebrate their own Negotiations”
AFC04
1
“We must recommend it to Mrs Warren and her Friend Mrs Adams to teach our Sons the divine Science of the Politicks”
PJA02
0
For legal works cited by JA
See also: names of particular authors and titles
0
For works mentioned or cited see under the following authors' names
See: Addison
See: Bernard
See: Burgh
See: Burke
See: Butler, Joseph
See: Butler, Samuel
See: Chambers
See: Chandler
See: Churchill
See: Cibber
See: Cicero
See: Clarke
See: Cowell
See: Doddridge
See: Dodsley
See: Douglass
See: Dummer
See: Eliot
See: Feijoó
See: Flavel
See: Forbes
See: Franklin
See: Gorges
See: Hale, Thomas
See: Harrington
See: Hervey
See: Hoadly
See: Home
See: Horace
See: Hume
See: Hutchinson
See: Hyde
See: Juvenal
See: Locke
See: Macaulay
See: Mather, Increase
See: Middleton
See: Milton
See: Neal
See: Ogilby
See: Oldmixon
See: Ovid
See: Plato
See: Pliny
See: Pluché
See: Pope
See: Pownall
See: Prescott
See: Purchas
See: Pythagoras
See: Rapin-Thoyras
See: Robertson
See: Robinson-Morris
See: Rousseau
See: St. John, Henry
See: Shakespeare
See: Sidney, Algernon
See: Smith, John
See: Smith, William
See: Smollet
See: Speed
See: Taylor
See: Terence
See: Tillotson
See: Virgil
See: Voltaire
See: Warren
See: Willard
See also: Books and booksellers
See also: Libraries
See also: individual authors' names
1164
Character, Appearance, Habits, Domestic Life
26
Character
47
Domestic concerns
14
Home and Family
141
Relationships
35
diary keeping
AFC03
AFC04
28
early introspective reflections
DJA01
26
assistance sought by and given to Amer. prisoners and others
18
appeals from and assistance to Amer. prisoners
17
interest in and consumption of Bordeaux wines
17
sends goods to AA
10
extent of own achievements in Netherlands over obstacles realized
AFC03
6
companionship with girls and romantic interests
DJA03
1
content to farm, be a selectman and “get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers”
AFC05
1
“If I had Power I would forever banish and exclude from America, all Gold, silver, precious stones, Alabaster, Marble, Silk, Velvet and Lace”
AFC03
1
“It is not that my Pride or my Vanity is piqued by the Revocation of my envied Commission.... What affects me most is the Tryumph given to ... vile Intrigue against inflexible Honour and Integrity”
AFC04
1
“fortified with a shield of Innocence and Honour ten thousandfold stronger than brass or Iron”
AFC04
1
“my Life has been a Series of dissappointments, chequered with . . . a Ray of good Luck”
AFC05
See also: AA—Relationship with JA
331
Finances and Property
49
Accounts
15
with Neufville & Fils
20
Cotton Tufts as agent for
20
land purchases
19
investments and family business
AFC03
DJA04
LJA01
LJA03
293
Health and Illnesses
46
mentioned
AFC02
AFC04
31
recovery from 1781 illness
3
“I have been, to the very gate of the other Mansion. My Feet had well nigh Stumbled on the dark mountains”
1
“The [French] Climate and soil agree with me—so do the Cookery and even the Manners of the People ... Churlish Republican, as some ... call me”
AFC03
LJA01
LJA02
LJA03
473
Legal Studies and Career
14
Law Practice (inactive from 1778)
35
later cases and experiences at the bar (1762-1774)
32
drafts and notes of arguments
LJA02
28
early cases and experiences at the bar (through 1761)
DJA01
DJA03
26
accounts and fees for services as lawyer
LJA03
25
notes of legal authorities
See also: under names of particular authors and titles
7
court materials and summaries in his “Admiralty Book”
LJA01
15
teaching and training law clerks in his office
4
drafts information praying forfeiture of logs and masts seized by Wentworth
5
judicial service on Congressional prize appeal committee
LJA01
9
office records (docket lists, dockets, memoranda, bills, accounts, &c.)
LJA02
LJA03
5
records “Abstract” of writs of assistance argument
LJA01
LJA03
5
history and description of JA's legal papers and materials
LJA02
LJA03
4
rides circuit in “Eastern Counties” of York and Cumberland (now Maine)
LJA01
LJA02
0
For legal authorities mentioned or cited, see the following
See also: Book of Assizes
See also: Fleta
See also: Mirror of Justices
See also: Barbeyrac
See also: Barrington
See also: Blackstone
See also: Bracton
See also: Britton
See also: Brooke
See also: Burn
See also: Burrow
See also: Cay
See also: Coke
See also: Comberbach
See also: Comyns
See also: Croke
See also: Cunningham
See also: Dalton
See also: Egerton
See also: Foster
See also: Gilbert
See also: Grotius
See also: Hale
See also: Hawkins
See also: Hengham
See also: Hobart
See also: Holt
See also: Manwood
See also: Moore
See also: Noy
See also: Plowden
See also: Pufendorf
See also: Raymond
See also: Rolle
See also: Ruffhead
See also: Rushworth
See also: Salkeld
See also: Salmon
See also: Shaw
See also: Sheppard
See also: Shower
See also: Siderfin
See also: Skinner
See also: Stryk
See also: Vattel
See also: Williams
See also: Wood, T.
2
relationship of JA's legal training and experience to his public life
LJA01
See also: Massachusetts—Courts of law
See also: names of individual cases
See also: Hill, Edward
See also: Thaxter, John
See also: Thayer, Elisha
See also: Tudor, William
See also: Williams, Jonathan
See also: under the names of JA's law clerks
1522
Letters To
27
AA (1774)
40
AA (1775)
63
AA (1776)
AFC02
DJA03
108
AA (1777)
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25
AA (1778)
24
AA (1779)
28
AA (1780)
AFC03
AFC04
34
AA (1783)
28
Benjamin Franklin (1781)
19
C. W. F. Dumas (1781)
21
Comte de Vergennes (1780)
11
Continental Congress (1781)
32
Edmund Jenings (1780)
18
Edmund Jenings (1781)
18
Edmund Jenings (1782)
16
Edmé Jacques Genet (1780)
12
President of Congress (1779)
PJA07
116
President of Congress (1780)
PJA09
- 8
- 15
- 24
- 31
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52
President of Congress (1781)
PJA11
- 2
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30
Robert R. Livingston (1782)
10
loan consortium (Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje) (1782)
1330
Letters From
26
AA (1775)
37
AA (1776)
35
AA (1777)
23
Benjamin Franklin (1781)
42
C. W. F. Dumas (1781)
PJA11
25
C. W. F. Dumas (1782)
PJA12
PJA13
12
Comte de Vergennes (1780)
30
Edmund Jenings (1780)
24
Edmund Jenings (1781)
26
Edmund Jenings (1782)
17
Francis Dana (1782)
19