Index: Consolidated

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848, son of AA and JA, designated as JQA in The Adams Papers)

226

Books and Reading

12

as resource to CFA

DCA07

DCA08

10

borrowings from library in St. Petersburg

DQA01

8

library at MQA

6

use of JA's library

DQA02

4

CFA on collection

DCA03

4

Voltaire's Histoire de ... Russie

AFC04

4

borrowings from Harvard library

DQA02

3

Horace

AFC07

3

Hugh Blair

AFC07

3

Nepos' De viribus illustribus

AFC04

4

Phaedrus' Fables, copied

AFC03

AFC04

4

at Old House

DCA03

DCA04

3

books sent from Europe

AFC06

3

quotes Shakespeare's Hamlet

AFC05

AFC06

3

summer reading

DQA02

2

Gazette d'Amsterdam

DQA01

2

Claude Millot

AFC07

2

David Humphreys

AFC07

2

François Soulés

AFC07

2

GWA's books

DCA03

DCA04

2

Gravesande

AFC07

2

JA sends list of portraits in Bentivoglio's History to

AFC02

2

Jean Jacques Burlamaqui

AFC07

3

John Clarke's Introduction à la syntaxe latine

AFC03

AFC04

2

Mercier's Du théâtre, ou nouvel essai sur l'art dramatique

AFC04

2

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

AFC04

3

Smollett's History of England

AFC02

2

Virgil

AFC07

2

Xenophon

AFC07

2

alludes to Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe

AFC06

2

alludes to Sterne's Sentimental Journey

AFC06

2

alludes to Swift's Gulliver's Travels

AFC06

3

bookplates

DQA01

2

borrows Catharine Macaulay's History of England and Hume's History of England from the English Library in St. Petersburg

AFC04

2

cites Manstein's Memoirs of Russia

AFC05

2

comments on Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda and other plays

AFC06

2

gaps in collection

DCA04

2

poetry recommended to, by JA

AFC04

2

quotes Lyttleton's prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus

AFC06

2

quotes Voltaire's Histoire de l'empire de Russie

AFC05

2

reads Bampfylde Moore Carew's Life and Adventures

AFC02

2

reads Le Sage's Histoire de Gil Blas

AFC06

2

reads Rollin's Ancient History

AFC01

2

reads to his mother

AFC01

2

removed from storage to Old House

DCA03

2

pamphlet collection

DCA05

1

Lettres hollandoises

AFC04

1

Burgoyne

AFC07

1

Cleanthes

AFC07

1

Erasmus' Colloquia

AFC03

1

Ferguson

AFC07

1

Henry Fielding

AFC07

1

Homer

AFC07

1

JA advises to read newspapers and history

AFC02

1

JA advises to study ancient history

AFC02

1

JA sends “perpetual almanack” to

AFC02

1

JA urges to study histories of revolutions

AFC02

1

Jeremy Belknap

AFC07

1

Kerroux's Abrégé de l'histoire de la Hollande

AFC04

1

Lily's Short Introduction of Grammar ... of the Latin Tongue

AFC04

1

Littleton's Latin Dictionary

AFC04

1

New Testament

AFC07

1

Nicolas Boileaux-Despréaux

AFC07

1

Philip Doddridge

AFC07

1

Pope

AFC07

1

Prodicus of Ceos

AFC07

1

Robertson's History of . . . Charles V

AFC05

2

Sewel's Dutch-English Woordenboek

AFC03

1

Shakespeare

AFC07

2

Temple's Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

AFC03

1

Thomson's Seasons

AFC04

1

Thucydides' History

AFC02

1

Timothy Dwight

AFC07

3

Tricot's Rudiments de la langue latine

AFC03

1

Watson's History of ... Philip the Second

AFC04

1

William Enfield

AFC07

1

a broken set restored

DCA04

1

alludes to Ariosto's Orlando Furioso

AFC06

1

and booksellers' shops in St. Petersburg

AFC04

1

at Athenaeum as payment for share

DCA03

3

bibliography of French grammars and dictionaries

1

borrows Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe and Nichols' Poems from the English Library in St. Petersburg

AFC04

1

catalogue made with CFA

DCA03

1

comment on Spartan law and history

DQA02

2

copies Dictata ... ad Analogiam Linguae Graecae

AFC04

1

copies from Wenshing's treatise on Greek grammar

AFC04

1

desire for building to house

DCA04

1

discussion of French poets with Trumbull

DQA01

2

first bookplate designed and executed by

AFC04

1

fondness for poetry

AFC07

1

interest in N.Y. satirical poem on women

AFC06

1

introduces CA to French poetry

AFC07

1

legal studies limit pleasure reading

DQA02

1

memorizes Collins' “Ode”

AFC01

1

purchase of French and Russian grammar

DQA01

1

purchase of French-German dictionary

DQA01

1

purchase of astronomy books

DQA01

1

purchases at sale of TBA's collection

DCA04

1

quotes Abbé de Raynal

AFC06

1

quotes Horace's Epistles

AFC06

1

quotes McFingal

AFC06

1

quotes Pope's “Messiah”

AFC05

1

quotes Voltaire's Tancrède

AFC06

1

reads Justinian's Institutes

AFC06

1

requests books

AFC01

1

sends Cerisier's Politique hollandais to JA

AFC05

1

sends books and writings to Braintree

AFC05

1

sent from Washington to Old House

DCA04

1

size of collection

DCA03

1

“Appendix de Diis et Heroibus ethnicis”

AFC03

1

“Cicero's oration pro Milone”

AFC04

1

CFA on library of

DCA05

1

GWA's collection

DCA05

1

loaned to G. A. Otis

DCA05

1

lost in binder's fire

DCA06

2

plan to build library

DCA07

DCA08

1

plans for library building

DCA06

1

presentation copy from S. Grimké

DCA08

1

Sewel's New Dictionary English and Dutch

AFC03

1

appetite for books

DQA01

1

book-numbering system

DQA01

1

bookplate bearing Boylston seal engraved for

AFC04

1

dates of book purchases

DQA01

1

early reading accomplished

DQA01

See also: under individual authors and newspapers
1100

Character, Appearance, Habits, Domestic Life

60

CFA's estimate

8

speeches, writings, and lectures

DCA08

4

as money manager

DCA07

DCA08

2

distinction

DCA08

1

fondness for conversation

DCA07

1

imaginative qualities from AA

DCA07

1

independence of actions

DCA08

1

little talent for farming

DCA07

1

pleasure in living with

DCA08

1

silence affects large dinner

DCA07

1

values money

DCA07

1

“sinks from want of intellectual stimulus”

DCA08

1

Tocqueville's evaluation of presidency

DCA07

1

battle against Gag Rule

DCA07

1

changes in political views

DCA07

2

compares to JA

DCA07

1

contribution to CFA's “Southern Conventions” articles

DCA08

1

member of diplomatic mission

DCA08

1

tariff policy

DCA07

1

“My father is a genius, and he is not prudent”

DCA05

1

prominence limits CFA's political activity

DCA07

DCA06

101

Character

25

concern over loss of time

DQA01

24

self-appraisal and concern for future

DQA01

10

objectivity and sense of fairness

DQA01

DQA02

7

sensitivity to proprieties

DQA01

DQA02

6

compassion for others

DQA01

DQA02

6

disgust with student irresponsibility

DQA02

5

appreciation of nature

DQA01

4

argumentativeness

DQA01

DQA02

4

desire for independence

DQA01

DQA02

3

industriousness

DQA02

3

manners

DQA01

DQA02

1

promptness

DQA02

1

“I am . . . weary of this wandering, strolling kind of Life”

DQA01

1

as revealed in Diary

DQA01

1

republicanism

DQA01

88

Disputation and Controversy

20

political Antimasonry

DCA03

6

over reform of Phi Beta Kappa

5

with Massachusetts Federalists

DCA03

DCA04

4

CFA on talent for

DCA05

DCA06

4

quarrel with Mass. Federalists

DCA05

4

with National Republicans over endorsement of non-party members

DCA06

4

in congress

DCA04

5

with Jared Sparks

DCA04

4

with Antimasons over policy on Bank of U.S.

DCA05

DCA06

3

with CFA

DCA06

3

CFA on

DCA04

3

in Calhoun-Jackson dispute

DCA03

4

with CFA

DCA03

DCA04

2

with Jackson over Mexican boundary

DCA06

2

with National Republicans over Fortification Bill

DCA06

2

over Nullification

DCA04

2

with Proprietors of Boston Athenaeum

DCA03

1

attacked by Maj. Henry Lee

DCA05

1

over Josiah Quincy's administration of Harvard

DCA05

1

over award of honorary degree to Jackson

DCA05

2

with Daniel Webster

1

with Democrats over maneuver in House

DCA06

1

with Demorats and Van Buren over appeasement of South

DCA06

1

with National Republicans

DCA06

1

over Latin-American policy

DCA03

1

with John Randolph

DCA03

1

with Jonathan Russell

DCA03

200

Family

20

and CFA

14

at CFA's new house

12

rides with CFA

9

assists TBA family

DCA03

DCA04

7

CFA writes to

DCA07

DCA08

7

and CFA's new house site

DCA07

7

and JA2

DCA03

DCA05

5

despair and grief over illness and death of Georgeanna Frances Adams

DCA08

5

visits AHA

DCA07

DCA08

4

and CFA's situation

DCA06

4

and LCA

DCA03

5

memorial tablet to JA and AA

DCA03

3

AA's letters to

DCA08

5

and CFA's political activities

DCA05

DCA06

3

and GWA

DCA03

3

family's ill health

DCA05

4

grants CFA's request to use AA's papers

DCA07

DCA08

3

pleasure in company of ABA and CFA

DCA04

4

presents coin and medal collection to CFA

3

suggests CFA write memoir of AA

DCA08

2

CFA on role as father

DCA06

2

LCA2 resembles

DCA04

2

and ABA

DCA03

2

burdens CFA with a charge

DCA07

3

despair over death of T. B. Adams Jr.

DCA07

3

gives CFA land for house

DCA07

DCA08

2

gives recovered ancient coin collection to CFA

DCA07

DCA08

2

on CFA

DCA03

DCA04

2

proposed Quincy residence for JA2

DCA05

2

rapport with CFA

DCA05

2

visits LCA's family

DCA08

2

visits relatives

DCA08

2

wedding gifts to CFA and ABA

DCA03

1

Bible reading with grandchildren

DCA07

1

CFA accompanies to Capitol

DCA08

1

CFA visits in Washington

DCA08

1

CFA wishes JQA had heard a better sermon

DCA08

1

and AA

DCA05

1

and CFA on “draws”—“drawers” usage

DCA08

2

and CFA's responsibility to sustain family name

DCA07

1

and Hellen family

DCA05

1

and Louisa C. Smith

DCA05

1

and anecdote of JA

DCA06

1

and funeral of distant relative

DCA07

1

and illness of Mary Louisa Adams

DCA08

1

approves CFA's decision on newspaper acquisition

DCA06

1

burdened by household cares

DCA03

1

collection of ancient coins disappears

DCA06

1

concern for ABA's health

DCA07

1

desire for perpetuation of line

DCA05

1

devises heraldic seal

DCA03

1

discouraged over LCA's condition

DCA05

1

encourages publication of “An Appeal” as pamphlet

DCA06

1

family's ill health depresses

DCA04

1

gift to JQA2

DCA05

1

gives Athenaeum share to CFA

DCA03

1

gives CFA money for debt to MCHA

DCA07

1

gives CFA pew at Adams Temple

DCA07

1

gives CFA portrait of JA

DCA08

1

gives CFA “Pine Tree” seal of 1816

DCA07

1

gives Treaty Seal to CFA on occasion of JQA2's baptism

DCA05

1

inculcates duty of diary-keeping

DCA07

1

offers CFA editorship of Boston Patriot

DCA04

1

offers CFA house lot

DCA06

1

on TBA

DCA04

1

on birth of HA

DCA07

1

on the date of JA's birth

DCA06

1

plans for household

DCA05

1

pleasure from living with CFA

DCA08

1

pleasure in company of CFA and ABA

DCA06

1

pride

DCA03

1

supplies dates for CFA's sketch of LCA

DCA07

1

visits AA birthplace

DCA08

1

visits CFA in Boston

DCA06

1

“all my hopes of futurity in this world are now centered upon [CFA]”

DCA06

1

“helpless in his private concerns”

DCA05

1

and I. H. Adams' commission to West Point

DCA07

20

depressed, languid, irritable, &c.

DCA04

DCA05

DCA06

20

carries letters and gifts to America

16

in St. Petersburg

14

health and minor illnesses

DCA05

DCA06

11

health

DCA03

DCA04

11

belongings sent to America from The Hague

10

goes bathing

DCA03

DCA04

DCA05

DCA06

10

for JA

10

comments on

9

delivery of letters, etc.

DQA01

DQA02

10

health of

10

works on family papers during brief retirement from public life

AFC02

8

likenesses

DCA04

8

purchases made

DQA02

8

letterbook and diary keeping

8

observations of character

7

morning rising habits

DQA01

DQA02

7

temperature recording

DQA01

7

clothing of

7

plays flute

7

resemblance to parents

AFC06

7

sad at separation from family

AFC06

7

trouble with mails

6

salt-water bathing

DCA07

DCA08

6

projected return to America

AFC06

8

receives maternal advice on habits and morals

AFC04

5

CFA comments on singularity

DCA05

DCA06

5

and Harvard

DCA05

DCA07

DCA08

5

disinterest in management of money and property

DCA03

DCA04

5

goes fishing

DCA07

DCA08

6

portrait by Durand

DCA06

5

trees and gardening

DCA07

DCA08

5

uninterested in management of money and property

DCA05

DCA06

5

trunks

DQA01

DQA02

5

Mary Cranch cares for

AFC07

5

attends church

6

boards with Cranches

5

general health of

AFC05

5

health

DCA02

5

reunion with relatives

4

health problems

DCA07

DCA08

4

Elizabeth Shaw on

AFC07

4

arrangements to leave Washington, 1829

DCA02

5

dedication to duties

AFC03

AFC04

4

expenses of

AFC06

AFC07

4

family impatient with lack of letters from

AFC06

4

interest in astronomy

DCA01

DCA02

4

observations on morals and politics

AFC03

4

physical appearance of

AFC07

4

praised

AFC05

AFC06

4

studies leave no time for social life

AFC06

3

birthdays

DCA07

DCA08

3

books and papers kept in disorder

DCA07

3

furniture

DQA02

3

shopping in Amsterdam

DQA01

3

adjured to improve handwriting

AFC03

AFC04

3

advice to brothers

3

apologetic for not writing

AFC05

3

arrangements for coach to take family to Paris

AFC05

3

buys coach for trip to Lorient

AFC06

3

lack of exercise

AFC07

3

offers violin to William Cranch

AFC06

5

portrait by Schmidt

AFC05

AFC06

3

post rider between Braintree and Boston

AFC02

3

receives mail before sailing

AFC06

4

self-appraisal

AFC05

AFC06

2

40th wedding anniversary

DCA07

2

Sunday service

DCA08

2

busts of

DCA07

DCA08

2

egocentricity

DCA06

2

exhausted

DCA07

DCA08

2

extraordinary memory

DCA06

2

gift of house lot to First Church minister

DCA07

2

makes will

DCA04

3

portrait by Leslie

DCA05

DCA06

4

portraits of

DCA08

2

uses telescope

DCA08

2

“unfitness for public exhibition”

DCA06

2

Russian passport

DQA01

2

horse

DQA01

2

lack of firewood

DQA02

2

watch repair

DQA01

2

Adamses pay Cranches for boarding of

AFC07

2

Mary Cranch on

AFC07

2

Samuel Williams on

AFC07

2

and Pedrick's business scheme

DCA01

2

arrival in N.Y. unknown in Europe

AFC06

2

assists in keeping family accounts

AFC06

2

comments on attention received in N.Y.

AFC06

2

correspondence from Europe

AFC05

2

correspondence with Winslow Warren

AFC06

2

dines at Brookses

DCA02

2

dislikes card games

AFC06

2

humor of

AFC07

2

inventory of clothes and possessions

AFC06

2

is seasick

AFC06

2

morality instilled by JA

AFC04

2

recovers money from dishonest agent

AFC06

2

reunites with AA and AA2

AFC05

2

sends trunks to Haverhill

AFC06

2

typical day in Auteuil

AFC06

3

youthful letter-writing

AFC01

AFC03

1

CFA frustrated by JQA's character

DCA05

2

CFA on his gifts as a writer

DCA05

DCA06

1

CFA on his moral superiority and unpopularity

DCA05

1

CFA on his return to politics

DCA05

1

CFA on inflexible morality

DCA04

1

absorbed in Antimasonry

DCA05

1

and Quincy

DCA05

1

apathetic to plans and projects

DCA06

1

as seen by enemies

DCA05

1

asperity

DCA06

1

chests moved to “the Office”

DCA07

1

cold and reserved manner

DCA03

2

comments on art works

DCA08

1

compared to JA

DCA05

1

contemplates leaving Washington

DCA05

1

dislike of adulation

DCA08

1

effect of domestic discord on

DCA05

1

general appearance

DCA05

1

goes to Boston

DCA07

1

hostility of Boston elite to

DCA05

1

hot-tempered

DCA05

1

indulgent to servants

DCA03

1

inspects quarry and nursery

DCA07

1

not given to reminiscence

DCA06

1

public estimation of

DCA08

1

railroad accident

DCA05

1

response to criticism

DCA05

1

self-appraisal

DCA06

1

serenaded by band

DCA06

1

sleeps at lectures

DCA06

1

tendency to financial speculation

DCA03

1

ties to First Church, Boston

DCA03

1

vigorous

DCA04

1

visits wine merchant

DCA07

1

walks to Boston

DCA06

1

wants of his situation

DCA06

1

weakness for buying Adams family land

DCA07

1

“As a sort of personage myself, of the last century, I was flattered”

DCA05

1

“busy”

DCA08

1

“deeply agitated”

DCA06

1

“has always loved to ride the whirlwind”

DCA05

1

“the reputation of [JQA] is too strong for them to resist”

DCA06

1

appearance

DQA02

1

college room

DQA02

1

daily routine

DQA02

1

freshman servant

DQA02

1

in Paris

DQA01

1

letter-writing impeded by studies

DQA01

1

lost teaspoons

DQA02

1

preference for mathematics over law

DQA02

1

prefers walking to visiting

DQA02

1

reflections in graveyard

DQA02

2

service as secretary: for Dana

DQA01

1

suffering from heat

DQA02

1

sword and hat

DQA01

1

translation of German for Dana

DQA02

1

AA on “How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead”

AFC07

1

AA2 on letters of

AFC07

1

AA: “your passions are strong and impetuous and ... sometimes ... hurry you into excesses, yet ... I have observed a frankness and Generosity accompany your Efforts to govern and subdue them”

AFC03

1

GWA on appearance of

DCA02

1

Lucy Cranch assists in furnishing rooms at Harvard

AFC07

1

Richard Cranch on

AFC07

1

TBA compared to

AFC07

1

accepts being laughed at for weight

AFC07

1

adjustment to new surroundings

AFC06

1

admonished by AA2

AFC04

1

advised by father to attend English Separatists' church in Leyden

AFC04

1

affection for CA praised

AFC04

1

and Golden Verses of Pythagoras

DCA01

1

attends funeral of Lucy Quincy Tufts

AFC07

1

auction of Dr. Iron-side's books

DCA02

2

avid interest in early balloon ascents

AFC05

AFC06

1

behavior of

AFC07

1

benefits of returning to America

AFC06

1

birthday

DCA02

1

burial place

DCA02

1

buys silver from Baron van Tuyll

DCA02

1

called “our young Northern Envoy”

AFC05

1

carries money for parents to Cotton Tufts

AFC07

1

compared to M. d'Aragon

AFC06

1

compared to Samuel Cooper Johonnot

AFC07

1

concerned that parents will disapprove horse purchase

AFC06

1

correspondence from Russia

AFC05

1

correspondence with family in Europe

AFC07

2

declares independence of opinions

AFC05

1

definition of genius, quoted

DCA01

1

delivers letters in Boston

AFC06

1

describes unusual “dark day”

AFC06

1

dines at Judge Hall's

DCA02

1

earliest known surviving letter of

AFC01

1

entertains Elizabeth Cranch by singing and acting

AFC06

1

executor of Ward Boylston's will

DCA02

2

facsimiles of handwriting in 1780

AFC03

1

family letters received

AFC06

1

goes hunting

AFC07

1

grooming habits of

AFC07

1

handles household duties in France

AFC06

1

handwriting reproduced

AFC05

1

has felt like a wanderer abroad for seven years

AFC06

1

horticultural problems at Quincy

DCA02

1

hospitable to relations in Europe

AFC06

1

incorporates Quincy family arms in bookplate

AFC05

1

lack of clean linens

AFC07

1

lack of improvement in letterwriting

AFC05

1

marriage

AFC02

1

moral precepts quoted

DCA02

1

morning naps of

AFC07

1

named for Col. John Quincy

AFC01

1

on AA's pregnancy

AFC02

1

on Jackson administration

DCA02

1

on cleaning paintings

DCA02

1

oversees dogs Lafayette sends to Washington

AFC06

1

receives great attention upon arrival home

AFC06

1

relationships with young women

AFC07

1

requests TBA become student of Timothy Jennison

AFC07

1

resemblance to AA2

AFC06

1

reunited with brothers

AFC07

1

rocked to sleep by AA2

AFC01

1

sad over recent deaths

AFC06

1

says does not keep up with public news

AFC06

1

sends greetings to WSS

AFC07

1

sends regards to people in Haverhill

AFC07

1

serves as interpreter for Vérac and Dana

AFC07

1

stays with Shaws

AFC07

1

studies are only consolation for departed friends

AFC06

1

study “does not diminish his flesh”

AFC04

1

thought older than sister

AFC06

1

tires of questions about Europe

AFC06

1

will take wine to college

AFC06

1

“I know not that I am apt to be over-Sentimental”

AFC06

1

“a good Character wherever he has been”

AFC05

1

“form'd for a Statesman”

AFC06

1

“inherits the spirit of his father, and bids fair to be a Roman like him”

AFC03

1

“is respected wherever he goes for his Vigour and Vivacity both of Mind and Body, for his constant good Humour ... as well as his general Knowledge which for his Age is uncommon”

AFC03

1

“naturally inclined to be fat”

AFC05

1

“quite a gallant among the Ladies”

AFC07

1

“we all form opinions of Persons according to their Conduct to ourselvs”

AFC06

0

on gardening and arboriculture

See also: Old House
2

bookplates

AFC03

AFC04

1

character

DCA01

1

correspondence with Storer

AFC05

6

diary-keeping

1

early correspondence of

AFC05

1

friendship with Thaxter

AFC05

1

letter-books of

AFC01

1

on Edward Everett, quoted

DCA02

1

receives gift of John Trumbull engraving

AFC07

697

Education

343

Harvard College

24

mathematics and surveying

20

admission to

16

divinity

16

role in commencement

12

Handel Society

13

study habits

11

attends Samuel Williams' lectures on physics

9

fields of study and classes at

7

declamations

DQA02

6

accommodations at

5

Burlamaqui

DQA02

5

TBA's admission to

5

commencement

AFC07

5

graduation from

AFC07

4

Latin

DQA02

4

absence from classes

DQA02

4

faculty of

AFC07

4

lives with CA at

AFC07

4

on students and tutors at

4

participates in events at

AFC07

5

preparation for admission to

AFC07

4

sorrow at leaving

DQA02

3

Greek

DQA02

3

JA advises on

3

Reid

DQA02

3

lives with Henry Ware at

AFC07

3

senior class desire for private commencement

DQA02

2

Locke

DQA02

2

Waterhouse lectures

DQA02

3

admission

DQA02

2

admission process for

AFC07

2

attends exhibition at

AFC07

2

chosen thesis collector at commencement

AFC07

2

leaves Shaws to attend

AFC07

2

remains at over vacation

AFC07

2

resents time spent on “mere ceremonies” at

AFC07

2

works hard writing

DQA02

1

AA concerned about

AFC07

1

AA2 chastises for critiques of Harvard professors by

AFC07

1

John Boylston on

AFC07

1

Richard Cranch visits at

AFC07

1

attends debate on democracy

AFC07

1

choosing friends at

AFC07

1

classmates listed

DQA02

1

competition among classmates over valedictory oration at

AFC07

1

has advantage in French over other students

AFC07

1

public speaking at

AFC07

1

return of books to college library

DQA02

1

roommate Henry Ware

DQA02

1

studies with CA and William Cranch

AFC07

1

translates piece from English into Latin

AFC07

85

Preparation for Harvard

11

Horace

8

Homer

8

New Testament Greek

8

program of studies for admission

AFC05

6

Xenophon

DQA01

9

prepares for college

AFC06

5

Watts

DQA01

5

plans for studies at Haverhill and Harvard

AFC06

5

returns to America to attend Harvard

AFC05

AFC06

3

Locke

DQA01

3

reasons for attending Harvard

AFC06

3

study routine

DQA01

2

JA arranges for college costs

AFC06

2

JA wants to send to Harvard

AFC05

2

admission to Harvard with advance standing

AFC05

1

English literature

DQA01

1

Latin studies finished

DQA01

1

Rev. Shaw as tutor

DQA01

1

advice from Pres. Willard

DQA01

1

arrival in Cambridge to enter Harvard

DQA01

18

reading in Blackstone

16

modern languages

DQA01

DQA02

12

preparation for legal career

11

attendance at courts

DQA01

9

and French language

AFC04

9

at University of Leyden

AFC03

7

copying of legal instruments

DQA02

8

independent study

DQA01

DQA02

7

indifferent success in the pursuit of studies in St. Petersburg

6

JA's comments on

6

in Coke

6

tutored by John Thaxter

AFC01

AFC02

6

hears and comments on House of Commons debates

6

program of studies charted by JA

AFC03

AFC04

4

conditions of study

DQA02

6

in Le Coeur's school

5

in Pechigny's school, Passy

4

slackened application to studies

DQA02

4

studies and translates Horace

AFC05

AFC06

4

studies and translates Tacitus

AFC05

AFC06

3

translates Suetonius, Virgil, and Tacitus into French

AFC05

3

urged to study classics and algebra

AFC05

3

English translations from Latin

DQA01

5

and the Latin School on the Singel, Amsterdam

AFC03

AFC04

3

attendance at House of Representatives

DQA02

3

in Hawkins

DQA02

3

in Sullivan

DQA02

3

in Wood

DQA02

3

reading in Bacon

DQA02

3

reading in Foster

DQA02

3

reading of Vattel

DQA02

3

role of Parsons in

DQA02

3

studied with JA

AFC07

3

tutoring

DQA01

2

attends Mass. Supreme Judicial Court session

2

pursues studies with ardor

AFC05

AFC06

2

schoolmates in France

AFC05

2

studies Dutch, Latin, and Greek

AFC05

2

studies German

AFC05

2

studies Greek New Testament

AFC05

2

studies Phaedrus

AFC05

2

translates Cleanthes' “Hymn to Zeus”

AFC06

2

translates Virgil's Aeneid

AFC05

2

in Gilbert

DQA02

2

loss of classical studies at Leyden regretted

AFC04

2

problem of finding a school for

AFC01

4

schooling

2

study of German language

AFC04

1

JA recommends “a Book of Amusement” of moral philosophy

AFC05

1

JA teaches mathematics to

AFC06

1

attends Courts of Justice (Chancery) session

AFC05

1

interprets for American pilot directing French ship

AFC06

1

translates Latin at Auteuil

AFC05

1

translates Suetonius' Caligula and other Lives of the Twelve Caesars

AFC05

1

translates Virgil into English

AFC05

1

“Study. . . is to be my only mistress”

AFC06

1

Dumas as tutor to

AFC07

1

JA on writing style of

AFC01

1

JA regrets delay in college entry occasioned by European residence

AFC04

1

JA: “John has Genius”

AFC01

1

JA: “You must acquire the Art of mixing Study with Business”

AFC02

2

adjured by AA to study Dutch history

AFC04

1

becomes amanuensis for Francis Dana

AFC04

1

capacity for emulation best served at Leyden or Harvard

AFC04

2

classical studies

AFC03

AFC04

1

converses in foreign languages with Richard Cranch

AFC07

1

cost of schooling

AFC03

1

effect of European travel on support for republicanism

AFC07

1

in Justinian

DQA02

1

in Wright

DQA02

1

linguistic and orthographic equipment at fourteen

AFC04

1

list of JA's law books made

DQA02

1

listens to debates in Mass. House of Representatives and Supreme Judicial Court

AFC07

1

on battle of Bunker Hill and death of Warren

AFC01

1

plan to place him in Governor Dummer Academy

AFC02

1

reading of Robertson, Charles V

DQA02

1

requirements for success in

AFC07

1

speaks French with CA

AFC07

3

study of the Dutch language

AFC03

AFC04

1

tutored by Jonathan Mason

AFC02

1

urged by AA to study “men and manners”

AFC04

1

wants a blank book in which to “transcribe the most remarkable occurances”

AFC02

1

“If there is no other Way, I will take you home, and teach you Demosthenes and Homer myself”

AFC04

1

Thaxter tutors

AFC05

1

pattern of

DQA01

103

Family and Domestic Life

23

relations with brothers

8

visits to P. B. Adams

DQA01

DQA02

6

impatience for parents' return

5

visits to N. Quincy

DQA01

DQA02

5

and GWA's death

DCA01

4

emotions on visiting home

DQA01

4

feeling for GWA

DCA02

4

reunion with and helps parents settle into Old House

DQA02

3

and LCA's trip to N.Y. State

DCA02

3

feeling for family

DCA02

3

importance of letters from family

DQA01

3

interest in AA2's engagement

DQA01

DQA02

3

settlement of JA's estate

DCA02

2

GWA and CFA compared

DCA02

2

and death of JA

DCA02

2

feeling at seeing Grandfather Smith's home

DQA01

DQA02

2

letters from LCA

DCA02

2

on JA2's marriage

DCA02

2

visits to Grandmother Hall

DQA02

1

GWA and Mary C. Hellen

DCA01

1

TBA Jr. assists

DCA02

1

and LCA's return to Washington

DCA02

1

attends funeral of Mrs. Isaac Smith Sr.

DQA02

1

burial and funeral of GWA

DCA02

1

family discuss his speeches

DCA01

1

fondness for E. Cranch

DQA01

1

helps nephew, J. Q. Adams

DCA02

1

meets sister of WSS

DQA01

1

reaction to meeting JA's college friend

DQA01

1

reading from JA's Diary

DQA02

1

regret at leaving Braintree

DQA02

1

sends sons to attend Congress

DCA01

1

sorrow at parting from family

DQA01

1

sympathy for Wm. Smith Jr.'s children

DQA01

1

career's effect on LCA

DCA01

1

treatment of children

DCA01

234

Finances and Property

35

Accounts

20

Accounts and notes payable

DCA05

DCA06

13

Accounts and notes receivable

DCA04

1

debt of Bird, Savage, & Bird liquidated

DCA05

1

debt to A. Giusta

DCA08

35

Boston rental properties

10

Court Street (law office)

10

Tremont Street

4

annual reports on

DCA03

DCA04

2

Hancock Street

DCA03

2

High Street

DCA03

DCA05

2

taxes on

DCA03

1

CFA's management of

DCA05

1

decline in value

DCA05

DCA07

DCA08

17

Columbian Mills (D.C.)

DCA08

DCA03

DCA05

2

Farm lands

1

Medford

DCA05

1

Randolph

DCA05

7

Farms acquired by mortgages

4

at Medford

DCA03

DCA04

2

at Braintree

DCA04

1

at Randolph

DCA03

26

Fiscal situation

DCA03

DCA04

DCA06

DCA08

18

Legatee and trustee under will of JA

DCA04

DCA05

See also: Boylston, Thomas
49

Quincy properties

16

Mount Wollaston orchand and farms

DCA04

9

quarries

DCA07

DCA06

8

ancestral farms and woodland (Penn's Hill)

DCA03

DCA04

4

farms and woodland

DCA05

DCA06

3

woodlot

DCA07

DCA08

2

extent of

DCA07

1

Mt. Wollaston

DCA08

1

Mt. Wollaston farm

DCA06

1

Penn's Hill

DCA06

1

farmland

DCA07

1

new road through

DCA08

1

property taxes

DCA07

1

salt marsh

DCA07

See also: Old House
See also: Quincy, Mass.
30

Securities owned

DCA04

DCA05

DCA06

DCA07

7

Trustee of estates

4

JA

DCA07

3

W. N. Boylston

DCA07

DCA08

8

Weston farm and woodland

DCA03

DCA04

DCA08

59

Health and Illnesses

16

unwell

DQA01

11

inoculated with smallpox

AFC01

11

sleeplessness

4

and exercise

DQA02

4

mentioned

AFC01

3

dizziness

DQA02

3

weakness of eyes

DQA01

DQA02

2

depression

DQA02

2

recovery from sleeplessness

DQA02

2

sore throat

DQA02

1

inoculation (1776)

DQA02

125

Letters To

10

AA (1778)

AFC03

3

AA (1779)

AFC03

3

AA (1780)

AFC03

2

AA (1781)

AFC04

4

AA (1783)

AFC05

3

AA (1785)

AFC06

2

AA (1786)

AFC07

1

AA2 (1778)

AFC03

12

AA2 (1785)

4

AA2 (1786)

AFC07

1

AA2 (1787)

AFC07

3

CA (1778)

AFC03

1

Elizabeth Cranch (1773)

AFC01

1

Elizabeth Cranch (1778)

AFC03

1

Elizabeth Cranch (1782)

AFC04

1

Elizabeth Cranch (1784)

AFC05

2

Elizabeth Cranch (1786)

AFC07

1

Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1786)

AFC07

1

JA (1774)

AFC01

4

JA (1777)

AFC02

4

JA (1780)

AFC03

AFC04

8

JA (1781)

AFC04

4

JA (1782)

AFC04

10

JA (1783)

9

JA (1784)

2

JA (1785)

AFC06

3

JA (1786)

AFC07

1

John Thaxter (1778)

AFC03

1

John Thaxter (1781)

AFC04

4

John Thaxter (1782)

AFC04

1

Lucy Cranch (1778)

AFC03

1

Mary Smith Cranch (1784)

AFC06

1

Mary Smith Cranch (1785)

AFC06

5

TBA (1778)

AFC03

1

TBA (1779)

AFC03

2

TBA (1780)

AFC03

1

TBA (1786)

AFC07

1

William Cranch (1778)

AFC03

1

William Cranch (1780)

AFC03

1

William Cranch (1784)

AFC06

2

William Cranch (1785)

AFC06

2

William Cranch (1786)

AFC07

99

Letters From

3

AA (1778)

AFC03

5

AA (1780)

AFC03

3

AA (1781)

AFC04

1

AA (1782)

AFC05

2

AA (1783)

AFC05

2

AA (1784)

AFC05

5

AA (1785)

AFC06

9

AA (1786)

2

AA (1787)

AFC07

1

AA2 (1781)

AFC04

1

AA2 (1782)

AFC04

1

AA2 (1783)

AFC05

6

AA2 (1785)

AFC06

6

AA2 (1786)

AFC07

1

Elizabeth Cranch (1781)

AFC04

1

JA (1776)

AFC01

5

JA (1777)

AFC02

6

JA (1780)

AFC03

AFC04

8

JA (1781)

AFC04

4

JA (1782)

AFC04

8

JA (1783)

7

JA (1784)

AFC05

3

JA (1785)

AFC06

3

JA (1786)

AFC07

1

JA (1787)

AFC07

2

John Thaxter (1780)

AFC03

1

John Thaxter (1781)

AFC04

1

John Thaxter (1782)

AFC04

1

John Thaxter (1783)

AFC05

3

Letters to, from, omitted

1

from Benjamin Vaughan listed (1784)

AFC06

1

to Hannah Thaxter listed (1775)

AFC06

1

to William Cranch listed (1781)

AFC06

537

Opinions and Beliefs

16

Education

11

Harvard—curriculum, etc.

2

effect on character

DQA01

1

languages

DQA01

1

meaning of study

DQA02

1

on legal studies

DQA02

153

Exchange of views with CFA

13

on CFA's writings

DCA05

10

CFA's program of studies, writings, and career

DCA03

DCA04

10

JQA's re-entrance into politics

7

politics and finances

DCA07

DCA08

5

American history

DCA03

DCA04

5

family financial and residential arrangements

DCA06

6

general issues

4

on return to public life

DCA06

4

duel between House members

DCA08

3

Antimasonry

DCA04

3

Demosthenes and Cicero

DCA03

DCA04

3

French spoliation claims

DCA06

3

business matters

DCA03

3

on making money

DCA06

3

political affairs

DCA05

DCA06

3

CFA's political views and prospects

DCA07

2

British politics of late 18th century

DCA03

2

ancient and modern oratory

DCA03

2

antimasonic party and convention

DCA05

2

causes of defeat in Senate election

DCA06

2

poetry and literature

DCA04

2

response to political attacks

DCA04

DCA05

2

satisfactions of public life

DCA06

2

the traiff

DCA04

2

Further Reflections

DCA07

2

CFA's rejection of Mass. House nomination

DCA08

2

CFA's “Speculations Upon the Carolina Policy”

DCA08

2

fiscal crisis

DCA07

2

provides pamphlets on Texas annexation and abstract of bank returns

DCA07

DCA08

1

A. H. and Edward Everett

DCA04

1

Bank of the United States

DCA04

1

Bentham

DCA03

1

French drama, versification, and Molière

DCA03

1

Greeks and Romans

DCA04

1

Hamilton and Jefferson

DCA05

1

Hamilton, Jefferson, Knox

DCA05

1

Indian removal

DCA03

1

JA2's future

DCA05

1

Mass. elections (1833-1834)

DCA05

1

Mass. history

DCA05

1

Milton's poetry

DCA04

1

New England Federalists

DCA05

1

Nullification Proclamation

DCA04

1

anti-Jacksonism

DCA05

1

balloonists

DCA05

1

civil law and common law

DCA04

1

early years of Revolution

DCA05

1

governmental authority and rights of the people

DCA03

1

on politics and principles

DCA06

1

on the meaning of “orphan”

DCA05

1

outlook for nation

DCA05

1

politics and moral character

DCA05

1

religion

DCA05

1

writings and reputation

DCA06

1

“washstand letter” controversy

DCA05

1

Reflections Upon the Currency

DCA07

1

Biddle and the Bank

DCA08

1

CFA's lecture on AA

DCA08

1

CFA's writing in support of A. H. Everett

DCA07

1

CFA's “Letters to Biddle”

DCA08

1

CFA's “Southern Commercial Conventions”

DCA08

1

Calhoun and Clay

DCA08

1

Mass. legislative course on banks

DCA08

1

Pennsylvania election returns

DCA07

1

character of Lafayette

DCA08

1

guesses CFA's authorship of “The Democratic Address”

DCA08

1

impending election (1836)

DCA07

1

influence of college education

DCA08

1

proposed newspaper

DCA07

1

slavery

DCA07

1

“rather warm” on the currency

DCA07

54

Historical, Literary, Scientific &c.

10

theater

9

literature

6

art and architecture

DQA01

DQA02

6

Cicero

DCA03

DCA04

2

Jay and Arthur Lee

DCA03

2

astronomics

DCA04

2

book-collecting

DCA03

2

interest in horticulture

DCA05

2

phrenology

DCA04

2

stage presentation of Shakespeare

DCA05

DCA06

1

Harvard oratorical style

DCA04

1

Shakespeare

DCA03

1

Southey's essays

DCA04

1

and MHS

DCA06

1

attainment of literary eminence in America

DCA06

2

fine arts

DCA04

1

his own poetry

DCA04

1

“Religious sentimentalism is the most common characteristic of the writings of the young Unitarian Sons of Harvard”

DCA05

1

Fanny Kemble

DCA05

1

aerostatics

DCA05

25

National characteristics

6

Americans

DQA01

DQA02

6

French

4

British and French compared

DQA01

4

Dutch

DQA01

2

Jews

DQA01

1

Danes

DQA01

1

Spanish peasant

DQA01

1

Swedes

DQA01

52

Public men and issues

4

Shays' Rebellion

DQA02

4

federal constitution

DQA02

3

slavery

DCA06

DCA08

2

Antimasonry and Bank of U.S.

DCA06

2

James Monroe

DCA04

2

politics absorbs

DCA03

DCA04

1

slave trade

DQA02

1

Andrew Jackson

DCA05

1

Bank of U.S. and Boston Daily Advocate

DCA06

1

Cousin's report on public education in Prussia

DCA08

1

E. Everett's oratory

DCA05

1

Fanny Wright

DCA04

1

Fisher Ames

DCA04

1

Freemasonry

DCA05

1

George Thompson

DCA06

1

Henry Clay and campaigning for office

DCA05

1

Josiah Quincy III

DCA05

1

Mme. de Staël

DCA06

1

Panama Inter-American Congress

DCA03

1

R. W. Emerson

DCA08

1

William Slade

DCA06

1

abolitionism

DCA08

1

antimasonic party

DCA05

1

congressional speech on the currency

DCA08

1

deposits question

DCA05

1

effects of neglect of public worship

DCA08

1

equates anti-Bankism with support of slavery

DCA07

1

executive powers of removal in the Constitution

DCA06

1

expressed to Tocqueville

DCA04

1

on official reaction to destruction of Ursuline Convent

DCA05

1

opposed by J. T. Buckingham of the Boston Courier

DCA08

1

overriding questions

DCA06

1

ratio of Congressional representation

DCA04

1

right to withhold participation in procedure deemed unconstitutional

DCA04

1

rumored slave insurrection

DCA08

1

speech on Cherokee compensation

DCA08

1

touchstone of American foreign policy

DCA04

1

“Jackson-Masonic Post Office”

DCA05

1

“Time serving and Sycophancy are qualities of all learned and Scientific Institutions”

DCA05

1

“gag rules”

DCA06

1

Solomon Lincoln

DCA06

16

Religion

12

clergy and preaching

DQA01

DQA02

See also: names of individual clergymen
3

Roman Catholicism

DQA01

See also: Roman Catholic Church
1

disinterested benevolence

DQA02

22

Social

11

social relations

DQA01

DQA02

5

silly and despicable customs

1

card-playing

DQA01

1

change in family status over generations

DQA02

1

clubs

DQA02

1

defense of dancing

DQA01

1

meddlesomeness of mankind

DQA01

1

modern gentility

DQA02

9

Virtues and vices

3

suicide

DQA01

DQA02

2

intrinsic worth

DQA01

DQA02

1

dueling

DQA02

1

envy

DQA02

1

superstition and bigotry

DQA02

1

“virtues of the heart”

DQA02

44

Women, love, and children

8

love and marriage

DQA02

4

children

DQA01

DQA02

7

agriculture and livestock

DQA01

6

professionals and charletans

5

Joseph Willard

AFC07

3

Henry Ware

AFC07

3

Royall Tyler

AFC07

3

women

AFC07

2

CA

AFC07

2

James Winthrop

AFC07

2

Miss Dixey

AFC07

2

Samuel Williams

AFC07

2

Shays' Rebellion

AFC07

2

TBA

AFC07

3

commemorations of Battle of Bunker Hill

2

comments on young women in N.Y.

AFC06

2

finds it awkward to prefer one European country

AFC06

2

love

AFC07

2

praises Swedish hospitality to strangers

AFC05

2

remarks on frailty of human life

AFC06

2

remarks on the social prominence of N.Y. loyalists and their daughters

AFC06

2

thinks Court life ridiculous, but necessary

AFC06

2

philosophical ideas

DQA01

DQA02

2

progress and man

DQA01

2

sea travel

DQA01

1

AA2 as JA's secy.

AFC07

1

Almy Ellery

AFC07

1

Americans wary of a traveler's veracity

AFC06

1

Anna Dumas

AFC07

1

Boston

AFC07

1

Catherine Jones

AFC07

1

Dumas family

AFC07

1

Edward Wigglesworth

AFC07

1

Eleazar James

AFC07

1

Elizabeth Ellery Dana

AFC07

1

James Bridge

AFC07

1

John Hale

AFC07

1

London “for convenience and beauty is far superior to Paris”

AFC05

1

Margaret Wigglesworth

AFC07

1

Mass. General Court

AFC07

1

Mass. elections

AFC07

1

Moses Little

AFC07

1

Nathan Read

AFC07

1

Palmer family's difficulties

AFC07

1

Stephen Sewall

AFC07

1

Thomas Cushing

AFC07

1

Thomas Thompson

AFC07

1

Timothy Jennison

AFC07

1

WSS

AFC07

1

admires teacher of deaf mutes

AFC06

1

arts in U.S.

AFC07

1

bored at “insipid uniformity” of sea travel

AFC06

1

comments on Yale's library

AFC06

1

comments on absolute monarchy

AFC05

1

comments on honor paid to André

AFC05

1

comments on roads and lodgings in France

AFC06

1

comments on travel

AFC05

1

compares French and Brit. wines

AFC07

1

compares conversation in U.S. and Europe

AFC07

1

contrasts U.S. and European education of young women

AFC06

1

criticizes Othello (in the 1830s)

AFC06

1

criticizes a hasty and improvident marriage

AFC06

1

criticizes petty religious differences

AFC06

1

describes “Italian eyes”

AFC06

1

dislikes sarcastic misogyny of old bachelors

AFC06

1

does not regret leaving sights of Europe for America

AFC06

1

engagement of AA2 to WSS

AFC07

1

finds Americans as proud of family as Europeans

AFC06

1

gentlemen

AFC07

1

health effects of flute playing

AFC07

1

hopes Concord and Lexington will be venerated by posterity

AFC06

1

human nature

AFC07

1

marriage

AFC07

1

meeting with his brothers

AFC07

1

on popularity of social visits at N.Y.

AFC06

1

poetry

AFC07

1

refuses to attend opening of Charles River Bridge

AFC07

1

relations between men and women

AFC07

1

remarks on Denmark

AFC05

1

republicanism

AFC07

1

scholarly excellence

AFC07

1

supports trade restrictions against British

AFC06

1

thinks English mealtimes ridiculous

AFC06

1

thinks U.S.-Sweden treaty promises much commerce

AFC05

1

thinks every impartial observer finds French stage superior to the English

AFC06

1

thinks trifling matters are clues to character

AFC06

1

value of the English coronation crown “might have been better employed”

AFC05

1

young Amer. women value beauty over accomplishments

AFC06

1

“A single life in this Country cannot be an happy life”

AFC06

1

“Foibles of Mankind”

AFC07

1

“How happens it, that revenge stares through the eyes of every Spaniard”

AFC06

1

“Ideas of Beauty are often local”

AFC06

1

“The good scholar is esteemed, even by the idle; but the bad one, is despised as much by those who are like him, as he is by the judicious”

AFC07

1

“it is impossible, as well for whole Nations [England], as for particular persons to be Vicious and happy”

AFC05

1

“nothing has so much influence over the human heart as the voice of undoubted friendship”

AFC05

1

“the instances, are very rare, where a person of a loose Character, makes any figure as a Scholar”

AFC07

1

stuff in New England

DQA02

1

Independence Day

DQA01

1

commemorations of Battle of Bunker Hill

DQA02

1

dreams

DQA02

1

dullness of county life

DQA02

1

game laws

DQA02

1

gloominess of snow

DQA01

1

originality

DQA02

1

rewards of physicians

DQA02

1

smokers

DQA02

1

the uneducated

DQA01

1

wit

DQA02

1

Amer. versus European universities

AFC07

14

Paintings and Busts

4

Stuart portrait

DCA02

3

Harding portrait

DCA01

DCA02

2

C. B. King portrait

DCA01

1

Browere bust

DCA02

1

Cardelli bust

DCA01

1

Copley portrait

DCA02

2

Sully portrait

DCA01

339

Public Life

25

Candidate for Governor (1833)

10

and withdrawal from race

DCA05

6

nomination and campaign

5

proscription charge and the “wash-stand letter”

DCA05

3

election-day flier

DCA05

1

“Address to the People”

DCA05

21

Contestant for Senate (1834-1835)

7

candidacy

DCA06

5

and National Republicans

DCA06

6

and Webster's intrigue

DCA05

3

damaged by rumor

DCA06

36

Presidential candidacy, 1824

15

mentioned

8

and his negotiation of slave trade convention

3

CFA's opinion of

DCA01

2

Mrs. Moulton affair

DCA01

2

importance of N.Y. State

DCA01

1

and Cunningham correspondence

DCA01

1

anti-Clay forces' accusations

DCA01

1

elected President

DCA01

1

electoral college vote in election

DCA01

1

in political cartoon

DCA01

1

political supporters

DCA01

58

President

11

quarrel with Federalists

DCA02

7

state elections

4

Henry Clay

DCA02

4

annual messages to Congress

DCA02

5

election of 1828

DCA01

DCA02

3

Giles' publication of Jefferson's letters

DCA02

2

Inter-American Congress

DCA02

2

development of pro-Jackson forces

DCA02

2

elections of Speakers of House

DCA02

2

end of term

DCA02

1

Benton versus Scott

DCA02

1

DeWitt Clinton

DCA02

1

Lafayette visit

DCA02

1

McDuffie amendment

DCA02

1

Randolph-Clay duel

DCA02

1

attacks of Russell Jarvis

DCA02

1

inauguration

DCA01

1

internal improvements policy

DCA02

1

message to Congress on Creeks

DCA02

1

new slave trade convention

DCA02

1

open house, 4 July

DCA02

1

prospects for reelection

DCA02

1

reviews militia parade in Boston

DCA02

1

salute from Baltimore rifle company

DCA02

1

visit to Lowell, Mass.

DCA02

1

federal art commission

DCA02

50

Representative in Congress

5

attempted censure over anti-slavery petitions

DCA07

5

speech on slavery

DCA06

4

speeches on dueling

DCA08

4

struggles against “gag rules”

DCA06

3

actions

DCA05

3

as temporary presiding officer

DCA08

3

constituent support on Texas question

DCA07

3

course on issues before House

DCA06

3

supports Jackson's measures against France

DCA06

2

and Fortification Bill

DCA06

2

on southwest boundary question

DCA07

2

speeches on tariff

DCA05

1

CFA's attitude toward service as

DCA05

1

Jackson and Mexican boundary

DCA06

1

and resolution of northeast boundary (1841–42)

DCA08

1

and sub-Treasury bill

DCA08

1

appraises career

DCA06

1

continuance questioned

DCA06

1

minority report of Committee on Manufactures

DCA05

1

on “Southern Machinery”

DCA05

1

plan to form a new party to support

DCA08

1

shifts toward National Republicans

DCA06

1

speech on northwest boundaries

DCA08

12

acts as JA's personal secretary

AFC06

8

independence of party

DCA05

DCA06

7

social life as Secretary of State

6

prepares and delivers eulogy on James Madison

DCA07

6

diplomatic missions

DCA01

DCA02

4

rumored appointment to mission on northeast boundary controversy

DCA08

3

Commissioner of Sinking Fund

DCA01

3

lecture on the Constitution for N.-Y. Hist. Soc.

DCA08

3

lectures on Smithson bequest

DCA08

3

on Webster's resolution

DCA01

3

helps promote sale of Amer. whale oil to France

AFC05

AFC06

3

Biddle's published letters to

DCA07

2

and Antimasonry

DCA05

2

and Jackson ball, 1824

DCA01

2

attends Monroe's drawing room

DCA01

2

honored at Quincy picnic

DCA08

1

Boston Advocate friendly to

DCA07

1

4th of July oration in Newburyport (1837)

DCA07

1

Boston reaction to

DCA07

2

Boylston professorship at Harvard

DCA01

1

CFA on failure to leave Washington as President

DCA06

2

Secretary of State

DCA01

1

Secy. of State

DCA05

1

alliance against election to Senate (1835)

DCA08

1

and Alexander Smyth and War of 1812

DCA01

1

and Ladd debts

DCA01

1

and founding of Smithsonian Institution

AFC07

1

as minister to the Netherlands

AFC07

1

citizens present his portrait to Boston

DCA08

1

congressional election of 1838

DCA08

1

criticized in whig address

DCA07

1

discusses with Clay Ghent Treaty and Jackson's invasion of Florida

DCA02

1

early career

DCA05

1

estimates of, by others

DCA05

1

honored by ladies of Hingham

DCA08

1

in Norfolk Congressional election (1833)

DCA05

1

in Quincy

DCA06

1

law office of, 1792-1794

DCA02

1

lecture on JA for Quincy Lyceum

DCA08

1

lecture on education in Braintree

DCA08

1

object of attack

DCA06

1

on roads and canals bill

DCA01

1

opposed by National Republicans

DCA06

1

political course of

DCA07

2

political independence of

DCA07

1

positions defined by A. H. Everett

DCA06

1

possible Democratic opposition to reelection

DCA07

1

proposed antimasonic nominee for Governor (1834)

DCA05

1

rumored whig nominee for governor

DCA07

1

support of Louisiana Purchase and of Embargo

DCA05

1

urged to take action on currency issue

DCA07

1

“one of those moments which compensate for a Life of Sorrows”

DCA06

1

asks Dana to tell Swedish merchant of exports suitable for America

AFC05

1

tells JA of Swedish expectation for early peace

AFC05

1

tells JA that Denmark has designated an envoy to U.S.

AFC05

1

visits French minister in Copenhagen

AFC05

1

4th of July oration at Faneuil Hall (1793)

DCA07

1

as secy. to Francis Dana

AFC07

1

later career

DCA01

107

Relationship with AA2

3

AA2 informs of engagement and marriage

AFC07

2

AA2 opposes learning flute

2

AA2 requests lock of hair from

AFC07

2

AA2 teases

AFC06

2

AA2 wants JQA's portrait and lock of hair

AFC06

2

criticized by AA2 for not writing

AFC05

AFC06

2

deeply moved by receiving AA2's letters

AFC06

7

develops correspondence with AA2

AFC06

2

receives book from

AFC07

3

suspends writing to AA2 until admitted to college

AFC05

AFC06

1

AA2 advises

AFC06

1

AA2 feels “as if we were growing into Life strangers to each other”

AFC05

1

AA2 imagines as Mass. congressman

AFC07

1

AA2 on separation from

AFC07

1

AA2 shares letters of with WSS

AFC07

1

AA2 suspects romance between Nancy Dumas and

AFC07

1

AA2's emotions on JQA's departure

AFC06

1

AA2: “you have become so great a traveller that much is expected from you”

AFC05

1

WSS asks to be remembered to

AFC07

1

agrees to exchange opinions of characters with AA2

AFC06

2

agrees to write daily to AA2

AFC05

AFC06

1

and AA2's relationship with Royall Tyler

AFC07

1

and correspondence with WSS

AFC07

1

approves AA2's dismissal of Tyler

AFC06

1

disappointed at receiving no letters from AA2

AFC06

1

dissatisfaction with own letters to AA2

AFC06

1

informs Elizabeth Shaw of engagement of

AFC07

1

interprets for AA2 in Paris

AFC06

1

reaction to engagement of

AFC07

1

receives advice from on behavior at college

AFC07

1

receives profile of WSS from

AFC07

3

reunites with AA2 in London

1

takes pleasure in the company “of a Sister who fulfills my most sanguine expectations”

AFC06

1

thanks AA2 for caution and correction

AFC06

1

owns portrait of AA2

AFC06

224

Relationship with Parents

22

correspondence with AA

13

acts as AA's secretary and translator

AFC06

11

requests and receives books from

10

correspondence with JA

8

AA sends fabric and clothing for

7

AA complains at not hearing from

7

judges oratory of speakers in Parliament at JA's request

6

correspondence with

6

AA sends political information to

AFC05

5

sends JA's books to Holland

4

AA comments on

AFC06

4

JA enjoys company of

AFC05

4

JA wants JQA in Holland

AFC05

5

return to Holland relieves JA

AFC05

7

reunites with AA in London

3

JA sends to London to meet AA and AA2

AFC05

3

JA urges improvement in letterwriting

AFC05

3

JA urges to keep a journal

AFC05

3

neglects writing to AA

AFC06

4

reassures AA of affection for

AFC05

3

returns to JA at The Hague

AFC05

2

AA expresses concern for JQA's moral condition

AFC05

2

JA advises JQA on behavior in London

AFC05

2

JA longs to see

AFC05

2

JA suggests learning Dutch together

AFC05

3

corrects AA's Yankee speech

AFC05

2

receives medal from AA

AFC07

2

sad when AA's arrival in London is delayed

AFC05

2

sends JA list of new congressmen

AFC05

2

sends JA political news from N.Y.

AFC06

2

sends copy of debate to

AFC07

2

writes observations on Russia at AA's request

AFC05

1

AA advises to prepare to serve country

AFC06

1

AA calls JQA “the young Hercules”

AFC06

1

AA calls “Johnny”

AFC05

1

AA cautions not to discuss conferences with minister from Tripoli publicly

AFC07

1

AA concerned about health of

AFC06

1

AA encourages close relationship with CA

AFC07

1

AA expects great things for

AFC05

1

AA informs of AA2's engagement

AFC07

1

AA instructs on treatment of brothers by

AFC07

1

AA is happy to be with

AFC06

1

AA on

AFC07

1

AA receives report on him from Cotton Tufts

AFC07

1

AA sees JQA's “Strong resemblance of his Pappa. He is the same good humourd Lad he formerly was”

AFC05

1

AA sends clothes to

AFC06

1

AA sends drawing of The Hyde to

AFC07

1

AA sends epitaph for Samuel Johnson to

AFC07

1

AA sends poem to

AFC07

1

AA writes by fireside of

AFC06

1

JA advises on health

AFC07

1

JA allows to choose with whom to study law

AFC07

1

JA asks for account of travel expenses

AFC05

1

JA calls “a Man in Understanding as well as Stature”

AFC05

2

JA calls “greatest Traveller of his Age”

AFC05

1

JA is pleased with studies of

AFC05

1

JA on behavior of

AFC07

1

JA plans tour of England with

AFC05

1

JA pleased with Americans' good opinion of

AFC06

1

JA recommends Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow to

AFC07

1

JA says people “should take him to be my younger brother, if they did not know him to be my son”

AFC05

1

JA says: “you must prepare yourself to get your Bread”

AFC06

1

JA thinks JQA has greater opportunities than he had

AFC05

1

JA travels to London to meet (1784)

AFC07

1

JA urges regular distribution of time, prudence, frugality

AFC05

1

JA: “well pleased with what I hear of you”

AFC05

1

JQA and JA share same role in Harvard commencement

AFC07

1

agrees to write JA by every post

AFC05

1

as JA's secretary

AFC05

1

awaits JA's orders for bringing AA and AA2 from London

AFC05

1

delivers instructions to Cotton Tufts for AA

AFC07

1

executes seal commemorating negotiations at Ghent at JA's request

AFC05

1

hopes JA approves horse purchase

AFC06

1

instructed by JA on residence and studies

AFC05

1

intends to write to AA from Holland

AFC05

1

misses walking with JA

AFC07

1

receives letters from AA

AFC06

1

receives poem from AA

AFC07

1

reveres JA

AFC07

1

tells JA he hears nothing of peace negotiations

AFC05

1

urged by AA to have pride in own country and its leaders

AFC05

2

watches Battle of Bunker Hill with AA

AFC07

1

wishes to study law with JA

AFC07

1

becomes JA's closest companion

AFC05

4

correspondence with JA described

AFC05

1

sends Copley portrait of JA to U.S.

AFC05

1

unsatisfying early correspondence with AA

AFC05

3

writes to JA at Congress and in Europe

AFC05

29

Religion

6

attends church: in Netherlands

DQA01

3

and public worship

DQA02

3

and salvation

DQA01

DQA02

2

New Divinity impious

DQA01

2

and sectarianism

DQA02

2

in New York

DQA01

1

Christianity and ancient belief compared

DQA01

1

and immortality

DQA01

1

and suicide

DQA01

1

arrogance of atheism

DQA01

1

as support

DQA01

1

in Sweden

DQA01

1

much more than morality

DQA02

1

supremacy of Christ

DQA01

1

teaches resignation

DQA01

1

“exhorting” condemned

DQA02

1

views on, summarized

DQA01

See also: under names of individual preachers
125

Residences

10

journeys between

DCA05

DCA06

8

journeys to Washington

DCA07

DCA08

5

returns to Quincy

DCA07

DCA08

4

at Shaw's, Haverhill

DQA01

DQA02

4

with I. Smith Sr., Boston

DQA01

3

Brackett's tavern, Boston

DQA01

DQA02

3

Hôtel de Rouault, Auteuil

DQA01

3

Weston property

DCA02

3

at Cranch's, Braintree

DQA01

3

at Quincy

DCA01

3

with R. H. Lee in N.Y.

AFC06

2

Washington and Quincy

DCA05

2

Hollis Hall

DQA02

2

R. H. Lee's, N.Y.

DQA01

2

and JA's estate

DCA02

2

at J. Palmer's, Boston

DQA01

2

at Meridian Hill, D.C.

DCA02

2

at Mrs. Leathers', Newburyport

DQA02

2

considers houses in Boston

DCA02

3

house at Auteuil

AFC05

AFC06

2

in Cambridge

DQA02

2

plans for Quincy estate

DCA02

1

birthplace

DCA08

1

(1830)

DCA03

1

1333-35 F St. N.W.

DCA06

2

Washington

DCA03

1

Washington: 1601 I (Eye) St.

DCA06

1

birthplace

DCA03

1

uncertainty in plans, (1829)

DCA03

1

Cape's tavern, N.Y.

DQA01

1

Capt. Cox's tavern, Conn.

DQA01

1

Dessein's Hôtel d'Angleterre, Calais

DQA01

1

Grante Amirante, La Coruña

DQA01

1

Hall's tavern, outside N.Y. city

DQA01

1

Hôtel d'Artois, Rennes

DQA01

1

Hôtel de L'Imperatrice, Brussels

DQA01

1

Hôtel de Paris, St. Petersburg

DQA01

1

Hôtel de Valois, Paris

DQA01

1

Hôtel de la Marine, Lorient

DQA01

1

Hôtel des Armes d'Amsterdam, Amsterdam

DQA01

1

Hôtel des Etats Unis, The Hague

DQA01

1

Hôtel du Maréchal de Turenne, Rotterdam

DQA01

1

Hôtel du Maréchal de Turenne, The Hague

DQA01

1

John Stockdale's, London

DQA01

1

La Cour D'Hollande, Leyden

DQA01

1

Mme. Henry Schorn's, Amsterdam

DQA01

1

Mr. Artaud's, St. Petersburg

DQA01

1

New Castle of Antwerp, Utrecht

DQA01

1

Newhall's tavern

DQA02

1

Osborne's Hotel, London

DQA01

1

Sign of the Negro, near Gotha

DQA01

1

Sign of the Swan, Valenciennes

DQA01

1

Vassal's in Strand, Copenhagen

DQA01

1

at Shaw house in Haverhill

AFC06

1

at birthplace in Braintree

AFC06

1

at D. Atkins', Salem

DQA02

1

at Mrs. Hooper's, Newburyport

DQA02

1

at Prof. Wigglesworth's

DQA02

1

at Tho. Welsh's Boston

DQA02

1

at Wm. Foster's, Boston

DQA01

1

at Wm. Smith's, Boston

DQA02

1

birthplace

DQA01

1

boards at Cranches in Braintree

AFC06

1

guest of Mr. Platt, New Haven

DQA01

2

homes in Washington

DCA01

DCA02

1

plans for Mt. Wollaston

DCA01

1

surveys Quincy boundaries

DCA02

1

with B. Pickman Jr., Salem

DQA02

1

with CA, Cambridge

DQA01

1

with E. Gerry, Cambridge

DQA02

1

with JA at The Hague, 1783-1784

DQA01

1

acquisition of Old House

DCA01

1

in White House

DCA01

See also: Old House
706

Social Life

41

Attendance at theater

16

in Paris

8

in London

7

in St. Petersburg

DQA01

3

in Göteborg

DQA01

2

in El Ferrol

DQA01

1

in Bordeaux

DQA01

1

in Brussels

DQA01

1

in Copenhagen

DQA01

1

in Lorient

DQA01

1

in Norrkiöping

DQA01

43

Sightseeing

14

in Russia

7

in London

DQA01

5

in Amsterdam

DQA01

3

in Paris

DQA01

3

in U.S.

DQA02

2

in Brussels

DQA01

2

in Finland

DQA01

2

in Lorient

DQA01

2

in Spain

DQA01

1

in Antwerp

DQA01

1

in Copenhagen

DQA01

1

in Sweden

DQA01

177

Recreation

42

walking

DQA02

25

riding and sleighing

23

hunting

13

card playing

DQA01

DQA02

12

attendance at concerts

DQA02

11

swimming

DQA01

DQA02

9

viewing paintings

8

backgammon

3

group games

DQA02

2

equestrian shows

DQA01

2

fishing

DQA02

1

attendance at dance recital

DQA01

1

attendance at fair

DQA01

1

balloon ascension

DQA01

1

billiards

DQA01

1

conjurer

DQA01

1

draughts

DQA02

1

skating

DQA01

1

watching: rope dancer

DQA01

38

Friendships

15

correspondence with classmates

DQA01

6

Nancy Hazen

5

other girls

4

Bridge

DQA02

2

Dr. Kilham

DQA02

3

with Dana

DQA01

2

Jefferson

DQA01

1

Thompson

DQA02

27

Newburyport “Club”

27

attends dinners and social functions

DCA06

24

receives visitors at Old House

23

attends dinners and social functions

17

Tea Club meetings

11

entertaining of relatives and friends

11

entertains at Old House

DCA03

8

visits in Quincy

DCA08

7

visits in Haverhill

AFC06

6

attends theater and opera in Paris

AFC05

AFC06

6

visits Cranches at Braintree during vacations

6

visits in Boston

6

visits with Cranches

6

weddings and funerals

DQA01

5

attends parties

5

dines out in Boston

AFC06

5

visits in N.Y.

5

pays social calls

DCA04

4

Harvard exercises

DQA02

4

dines out in N.Y.

4

in moot court

DQA02

5

skating and horseback riding

AFC03

AFC04

4

visits in Braintree

AFC06

4

visits with Danas

AFC07

3

as escort

DQA02

3

observes militia exercises

DQA01

DQA02

3

ordinations

3

plays cards

AFC06

3

reading aloud

DQA01

3

visits with Shaws

AFC07

3

attends theater

DCA05

DCA08

3

goes fishing

DCA06

3

receives visitors

DCA08

2

acquaintance of Paul Randall

AFC07

2

and Leyden fair

AFC04

2

at Independence Day celebrations

DQA02

2

attendance at theater

AFC03

2

dines out in France

AFC06

2

friendship with William Cranch

AFC07

2

spends time with Charles Storer

AFC07

2

visits with Elbridge Gerry

AFC07

2

Degrand

DCA03

3

allows Sparks to use JA's Letterbooks

DCA03

DCA04

2

contributes to building Episcopal Church, Quicny

DCA04

2

visits at P. C. Brooks house, Medford

DCA03

2

P. P. F. Degrand

DCA05

2

and Benjamin Waterhouse

DCA05

2

and I. P. Davis

DCA07

2

and P. P. F. Degrand

DCA07

2

and supervisors of Adams Temple and School Fund

DCA07

DCA08

2

attends lectures

DCA07

2

entertains at Old House

DCA05

2

trip to White Mountains

DCA05

2

visits art exhibits

DCA08

2

visits at Peter C. Brooks house, Medford

DCA05

DCA06

2

visits in Philadelphia

DCA05

DCA06

2

writes letters of introduction for Sidney Brooks

DCA05

1

and Jean Baptiste Petry

AFC04

1

and Waterhouse

AFC04

1

and the Le Roy-Chabanel circle in Amsterdam

AFC04

1

at the Foire St. Germain

AFC03

1

attends Te Deum

DQA01

1

attends bachelor's wedding dinner in Haverhill

AFC06

1

attends fair at The Hague

AFC05

1

attends illumination and masquerade ball at Peterhoff

AFC04

1

blackberry-picking

DQA02

1

boards with Edward Wigglesworth during vacation

AFC07

1

breakfast club

DQA02

1

celebration of Thaxter banns

DQA02

1

converses with Almy Ellery

AFC07

1

dines at James Foster's

AFC07

1

dines at Montmartre

AFC03

1

dines in London

AFC05

1

dines out in Milton

AFC06

1

dines with Nathaniel Tracy

AFC07

1

eating and carousing

DQA02

1

goes to Concert Hall in Boston

AFC06

1

hospitable social life in Haverhill

AFC06

1

limited friendships to be made in St. Petersburg

AFC04

1

meets Benjamin Austin Jr. at commencement

AFC07

1

picnic

DQA02

1

promenade de Longchamps

DQA01

1

sees Benjamin West's paintings

AFC05

1

spends time with CA and William Cranch

AFC07

1

takes excursion to Cronstadt, &c.

AFC04

1

visit to royal family

DQA01

1

visits Dalton's in Newbury

AFC06

1

visits Fagel's estate (1797)

AFC07

1

visits Gov. Pownall at Richmond Hill

AFC06

1

visits Pope's Grotto

AFC06

1

visits in Cambridge

AFC06

1

visits in France

AFC06

1

visits with Charles Storer

AFC07

1

visits with Whites

AFC07

1

watching ship launching

DQA02

1

wishes Betsy Cranch to stay at Shaws

AFC07

1

Life of Arthur Lee dedicated to

DCA03

1

J. B. Davis

DCA03

1

Thomas Welsh Jr.

DCA04

1

and Dr. Thomas Welsh

DCA03

1

attends ordination

DCA04

1

Judge Joseph Hall

DCA05

1

and Dr. George Parkman

DCA05

1

and Dutee J. Pearce

DCA07

1

and George Beale

DCA07

1

and H. G. Otis

DCA08

1

and J. Sewell

DCA07

1

and John Bailey

DCA06

1

and Pres. Josiah Quincy

DCA05

2

and Quincy's Independence Day celebration (1835)

DCA06

1

and Rev. George Whitney

DCA05

1

and Supervisors of Adams Temple and School Fund

DCA06

1

attends Boston Lafayette memorial exercises

DCA05

1

attends Hingham celebration

DCA06

1

attends baptismal rites and dinner

DCA06

1

attends christening

DCA08

1

attends demonstration of a new illuminating oil

DCA08

1

attends ordination

DCA07

1

calls on Van Buren

DCA08

1

dinner with Fanny Kemble

DCA05

1

hears W. E. Channing

DCA08

1

outings

DCA06

2

week's trip to Nantucket &c.

DCA06

1

as President, entertains Lafayette at White House

AFC03

See also: names of individuals for JQA's visiting
314

Travels

16

in Boston

AFC06

14

accompanies Dana overland to Russia (1781)

12

in Cambridge

AFC06

11

from N.Y. to Boston

10

returns to Holland from Russia (1782-1783)

7

in England (1783)

AFC06

6

return to U.S.

AFC07

5

Paris and environs

AFC03

6

from London to Paris (1784)

5

accompanies his father to France (1778)

AFC01

AFC02

4

arrives in N.Y.

AFC06

5

in London (1784)

AFC05

4

preparations for leaving France

DQA01

4

return alone to Netherlands planned and route proposed

AFC04

4

return journey with father from Paris to Braintree (1779)

4

sea voyage to N.Y.

4

to Boston

AFC07

4

to Haverhill

AFC07

DQA01

4

trip to Haverhill

AFC06

4

trips to Boston

DQA01

3

St. Petersburg

AFC04

3

accompanies father on second mission to Europe (1779)

3

accompanies father to Amsterdam (1780)

AFC03

3

across northern Spain and to Paris

3

arrives in Boston

AFC06

4

returns to America (1785)

AFC05

AFC06

4

returns to Holland (1784)

AFC05

3

stay in N.Y.

3

trips to Braintree

DQA01

2

French packet to U.S.

DQA01

2

Netherlands to London

DQA01

2

Russian-Swedish money equivalents

DQA01

2

The Hague to Amsterdam, and return

DQA01

2

arrival in Abborfors, Finland, and Helsingfors

DQA01

3

at Stockholm

AFC05

AFC06

2

from Auteuil to Lorient

AFC06

2

in Hampstead

DQA02

2

overturned carriage

AFC04

2

places and distances, Lovisa to Stockholm

DQA01

2

stage to New Haven rejected

DQA01

2

to Braintree

AFC07

2

to St. Petersburg (1781)

AFC07

2

visits Bath with JA (1783)

AFC07

2

stays with CFA in Boston

DCA08

1

Amsterdam to Leyden

DQA01

1

Amsterdam to Utrecht

DQA01

1

Auteuil to London

DQA01

1

Auteuil to Paris too far for walking

DQA01

1

Bordeaux to Paris

DQA01

1

Copenhagen to Amsterdam

DQA01

1

Cranch: “He will be the greatest American Traveller of his Age”

AFC04

1

El Ferrol to La Coruña

DQA01

1

German and English posts and money compared

DQA01

1

JA: “He behaves like a Man”

AFC02

1

La Coruña to Bordeaux

DQA01

1

London to Auteuil

DQA01

1

London to Bath

DQA01

1

London to Netherlands

DQA01

1

Lorient to New York

DQA01

1

New York to Boston

DQA01

1

Paris to Amsterdam

DQA01

1

Paris to Lorient

DQA01

1

St. Petersburg to Peterhoff and return

DQA01

1

St. Petersburg to Stockholm

DQA01

1

The Hague to Paris

DQA01

1

Uddevalla >to Göteborg

DQA01

1

Utrecht to St. Petersburg

DQA01

1

accompanies Dana to St. Petersburg as French interpreter

AFC01

1

arrival at Antwerp

DQA01

1

arrival at The Hague

DQA01

1

arrival in Copenhagen

DQA01

1

arrival in Norrkiöping

DQA01

1

arrival in Vyborg

DQA01

1

arrives at Harvard College

DQA01

1

arrives in Copenhagen

AFC05

1

at Hamburg

AFC05

1

attempt to go to Kiel by ship

DQA01

1

between England and Netherlands (1784)

AFC07

1

bridge of boats over Waal

DQA01

1

bunks with Thaxter

DQA01

1

carriage accident

DQA01

1

citadel on Rhine

DQA01

1

cost of posts

DQA01

1

customs officers in Brittany

DQA01

1

describes journey through Sweden

AFC05

1

drunken postillion

DQA01

1

from Boston to Haverhill

AFC06

1

give greater experience to

AFC07

1

in Exeter

DQA02

1

in Hingham

DQA02

1

in Lincoln

AFC06

1

in Newbury

AFC06

1

in Sandwich

DQA02

1

journey through Spain (1779-1780)

AFC06

1

lightning at sea

DQA01

1

met John Bowdoin in Paris

AFC07

2

moves to Leyden to continue schooling

AFC04

1

places, distances, and post charges to Frederichshamm

DQA01

1

reaches Braintree

AFC06

2

returns to Paris from Holland (1783)

AFC05

1

roads and expenses, Paris to Lorient

DQA01

1

roads and lodgings in Spain

DQA01

1

roads in Province of Main

DQA01

1

stays in Åmine, Finland

DQA01

1

through Denmark to Germany

AFC05

1

to Cambridge

DQA01

1

to France (1779)

AFC07

1

to St. Germain

DQA01

1

trade winds

DQA01

1

trip to Trollhätten

DQA01

1

very little during terms at Harvard

AFC07

1

visit to Brooklyn

DQA01

1

visit to Port Louis

DQA01

1

visits Chantilly

AFC06

1

visits New Hampshire

DQA01

1

voyage to Spain

DQA01

1

voyage to Spain in 1779

AFC02

1

within England

AFC07

1

in N.Y. City

DCA08

1

accompanies father on board the Boston to France (1778)

AFC03

2

to Europe with JA and John Thaxter (1779-1780)

AFC05

334

Writings and Editorial Work

19

Archival work

9

methodizes letters of JA

DCA03

DCA04

7

has amanuenses copy sections of JA's diary

DCA03

DCA04

DCA05

3

collates JA's diary with copies made

DCA04

DCA05

158

Diary

20

plans and problems of keeping of

17

sketches of Harvard classmates in

17

passages copied into

DQA02

11

booklets of, described

DQA01

11

titlepages for

DQA02

10

drawings in

DQA01

6

comments on classmates and others in

AFC07

4

shorthand in

DQA02

3

English translations in

DQA01

3

cipher in

DQA01

3

describes social events in

AFC07

3

line-a-day memoranda

DQA02

2

describes events at Harvard in

AFC07

2

reference to reader made in

DQA02

2

“volumes” of

DQA01

1

AA encourages to continue writing

AFC07

1

Elizabeth Shaw on his keeping of

AFC07

5

character of

1

collects mathematical theses

AFC07

1

copies Matthew Prior into

AFC07

1

copies essay into

AFC07

1

describes possible attack on Cambridge

AFC07

1

describes weather

AFC07

1

discusses books read during vacation

AFC07

1

loose scrap with Greek quotation in

DQA02

1

on Battle of Bunker Hill

AFC07

1

records Elizabeth Shaw's advice in

AFC07

1

records visit to Fagel's estate (1797)

AFC07

1

superscript numbers in

DQA01

1

tallies in, of persons mentioned and letters written

DQA01

1

use of almanacs for

DQA01

1

“Journal from America to France” from

DQA01

2

bound blank books used for

DQA01

1

character sketches in

DQA01

1

later publication of by Adams Papers

AFC07

1

physical appearance of, summarized

DQA01

1

publication opposed

DQA01

1

survival of

DQA01

1

use of, by JQA and others

DQA01

1

“Rubbish” volumes of

DQA01

78

Unpublished writings

7

for Phi Beta Kappa

7

for the A.B. Club

7

“Memorial of the Life of John Adams” in CFA, Life and Works of John Adams (1850-1856)

DCA03

6

for Harvard exhibitions

6

“Reply to the Appeal of the Massachusetts Federalists” in HA, New-England Federalism

DCA03

DCA04

4

diary

AFC05