Adams Papers Digital Edition

Early Diary of John Adams, volume 1

Contents
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The Adams Papers
ADMNISTRATIVE BOARD
Thomas Boylston Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society Franklin Lewis Ford, Harvard University Walter Muir Whitehill, Boston Athenaeum Thomas James Wilson, Harvard University Press
EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Samuel Flagg Bemis, Yale University Julian Parks Boyd, Princeton University Paul Herman Buck, Harvard University David Donald, The Johns Hopkins University Philip May Hamer, National Historical Publications Commission Mark DeWolfe Howe, Harvard University Leonard Woods Labaree, Yale University Robert Earle Moody, Boston University Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University Kenneth Ballard Murdock, Harvard University Stephen Thomas Riley, Massachusetts Historical Society Ernest Samuels, Northwestern University Arthur Meier Schlesinger,* Harvard University Clifford Kenyon Shipton, American Antiquarian Society Vernon Dale Tate, United States Naval Academy

* Died 30 October 1965

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”).