xxxvGuide to Editorial ApparatusGuide to Editorial Apparatus
The first three sections (1–3) of this guide list,
respectively, the arbitrary devices used for clarifying the text, the code names
for prominent members of the Adams family, and the symbols that are employed
throughout The Adams Papers, in all its series and
parts, for various kinds of manuscript sources. The final three sections (4–6)
list, respectively, the symbols for institutions holding original materials, the
various abbreviations and conventional terms, and the short titles of books and
other works that occur in volume 14 of the Adams Family
Correspondence.
1. TEXTUAL DEVICES
The following devices will be used throughout The
Adams Papers to clarify the presentation of the text.
[. . .]
One word missing or illegible.
[. . . .]
Two words missing or illegible.
[. . . .]1
More than two words missing or illegible; subjoined footnote
estimates amount of missing matter.
[ ]
Number or part of a number missing or illegible. Amount of blank
space inside brackets approximates the number of missing or
illegible digits.
[roman]
Conjectural reading for missing or illegible matter. A question
mark is inserted before the closing bracket if the conjectural
reading is seriously doubtful.
roman
Canceled matter.
[italic]
Editorial insertion.
{roman}
Text editorially decoded or deciphered.
2. ADAMS FAMILY CODE NAMES
First Generation
JA
John Adams (1735–1826)
AA
Abigail Adams (1744–1818), m. JA
1764
Second
Generation
AA2
Abigail Adams (1765–1813), daughter of JA and AA, m. WSS 1786
WSS
William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), brother of SSA
JQA
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), son of JA and AA
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LCA
Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852), m. JQA 1797
CA
Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of JA and AA
SSA
Sarah Smith (1769–1828), sister of WSS, m. CA 1795
TBA
Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), son of JA and AA
AHA
Ann Harrod (1774–1845), m. TBA
1805
Third Generation
GWA
George Washington Adams (1801–1829), son of JQA and LCA
JA2
John Adams (1803–1834), son of JQA and LCA
MCHA
Mary Catherine Hellen (1806–1870), m.
JA2 1828
CFA
Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886), son of JQA and LCA
ABA
Abigail Brown Brooks (1808–1889), m.
CFA 1829
ECA
Elizabeth Coombs Adams (1808–1903), daughter of TBA and AHA
Fourth
Generation
LCA2
Louisa Catherine Adams (1831–1870), daughter of CFA and ABA, m. Charles Kuhn 1854
JQA2
John Quincy Adams (1833–1894), son of CFA and ABA
CFA2
Charles Francis Adams (1835–1915), son of CFA and ABA
HA
Henry Adams (1838–1918), son of CFA and ABA
MHA
Marian Hooper (1842–1885), m. HA
1872
MA
Mary Adams (1845–1928), daughter of CFA and ABA, m. Henry Parker Quincy 1877
BA
Brooks Adams (1848–1927), son of CFA and ABA
Fifth
Generation
CFA3
Charles Francis Adams (1866–1954), son of JQA2
HA2
Henry Adams (1875–1951), son of CFA2
JA3
John Adams (1875–1964), son of CFA2
3. DESCRIPTIVE SYMBOLS
The following symbols are employed throughout The
Adams Papers to describe or identify the various kinds of
manuscript originals.
D
Diary (Used only to designate a diary written by a member of the
Adams family and always in combination with the short form of the
writer’s name and a serial number, as follows: D/JA/23, i.e., the
twenty-third fascicle or volume of John Adams’ manuscript
Diary.)
Dft
draft
Dupl
duplicate
FC
file copy (A copy of a letter retained by a correspondent other
than an Adams, no matter the form of the retained copy; a copy of a
letter retained by an Adams other than a Letterbook or letterpress
copy.)
FC-Pr
a letterpress copy retained by an Adams as the file copy
IRC
intended recipient’s copy (Generally the original version but
received after a duplicate, triplicate, or other copy of a
letter.)
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Lb
Letterbook (Used only to designate an Adams Letterbook and always
in combination with the short form of the writer’s name and a serial
number, as follows: Lb/JQA/29, i.e., the twenty-ninth volume of John
Quincy Adams’ Letterbooks.)
LbC
Letterbook copy (Used only to designate an Adams Letterbook copy.
Letterbook copies are normally unsigned, but any such copy is
assumed to be in the hand of the person responsible for the text
unless it is otherwise described.)
M
Miscellany (Used only to designate materials in the section of the
Adams Papers known as the “Miscellanies” and always in combination
with the short form of the writer’s name and a serial number, as
follows: M/CFA/31, i.e., the thirty-first volume of the Charles
Francis Adams Miscellanies—a ledger volume mainly containing
transcripts made by CFA in 1833 of selections from the family
papers.)
MS, MSS
manuscript, manuscripts
RC
recipient’s copy (A recipient’s copy is assumed to be in the hand
of the signer unless it is otherwise described.)
Tr
transcript (A copy, handwritten or typewritten, made substantially
later than the original or later than other copies—such as
duplicates, file copies, or Letterbook copies—that were made
contemporaneously.)
Tripl
triplicate
4. LOCATION SYMBOLS
CSmH
Huntington Library
DLC
Library of Congress
DNA
National Archives and Records Administration
DTPF
Tudor Place Foundation
ICN
Newberry Library
Ia-HA
Iowa State Department of History and Archives
MB
Boston Public Library
MBU
Boston University Libraries
MH-H
Houghton Library, Harvard University
MHi
Massachusetts Historical Society
MQA
Adams National Historical Park
MQHi
Quincy Historical Society
MWA
American Antiquarian Society
NhHi
New Hampshire Historical Society
NjMoHP
Morristown National Historical Park
NHi
New-York Historical Society
NNPM
Morgan Library & Museum
NRU
University of Rochester
OCHP
Cincinnati Museum Center
PPAmP
American Philosophical Society
PPPrHi
Presbyterian Historical Society
PWacD
David Library of the American Revolution
ViMtvL
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
ViU
University of Virginia
xxxviii5. OTHER ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONAL
TERMSManuscripts 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
(APM, see below).The present edition in letterpress, 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 is no overall volume
numbering for the edition, references from one series, or unit of a
series, to another are by writer, title, volume, and page, for example,
JA, D&A, 4:205.The portion of the Adams manuscripts given to the Massachusetts
Historical Society by Thomas Boylston Adams in 1973.Formerly, 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.Catalog of the Books Housed in the Stone Library, Adams National
Historic Site, Quincy, Massachusetts, unpublished typescript of Stone
Library card catalog, MQA, 1994.Philip J. Lampi, and others, comps., A New Nation Votes: American
Election Returns, 1787–1825, American Antiquarian Society and Tufts
University: elections.lib.tufts.edu.Oxford Art Online, a compendium of online art resources including
Grove Art Online (formerly the Grove Dictionary
of Art), the Bénézit Dictionary of
Artists, and others: www.oxfordartonline.com.Thomas Boylston Adams, Diary, 26 Dec. 1798 – 31 Aug. 1799, MHi:Adams Papers, All
Generations.6. SHORT TITLES OF WORKS FREQUENTLY
CITEDLetters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams.
With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis
Adams, Boston, 1840.xxxixLetters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams.
With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis
Adams, 2d edn., Boston, 1840; 2 vols.New Letters of Abigail Adams, 1788–1801,
ed. Stewart Mitchell, Boston, 1947.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, above, originally issued in 1842. Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H.
Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan,
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vols.J. Gardiner Bartlett, comp., Henry Adams of
Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. His English Ancestry and
Some of His Descendants, New York, 1927.Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals
for Alexander Biddle, Series A, Philadelphia, 1892.Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress, 1774–2005, Washington, D.C., 2005; rev. edn.,
bioguide.congress.gov.Boston Directory [title varies], issued
annually with varying imprints.Political Correspondence and Public Papers of
Aaron Burr, ed. Mary-Jo Kline and Joanne Wood Ryan, Princeton,
N.J., 1983; 2 vols.xlThe Cambridge Modern History, Cambridge,
Eng., 1902–1911; repr. New York, 1969; 13 vols.Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the
Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917.Diary of Charles Francis Adams, ed. Aïda
DiPace Donald, David Donald, Marc Friedlaender, L. H. Butterfield, and
others, Cambridge, 1964– .George Wingate Chase, The History of
Haverhill, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement, in 1640, to the
Year 1860, Haverhill, 1861.Allen C. Clark, Greenleaf and Law in the
Federal City, Washington, D.C., 1901.Records of the Columbia Historical
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New York, 1955–1980; 10 vols. plus index and supplements.Alexander DeConde, The Quasi-War: The Politics
and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797–1801, New
York, 1966.Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical
Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of College
History, New York and New Haven, 1885–1912; 6 vols.Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The
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1885–1901; repr. Oxford, 1959–1960; 21 vols. plus supplements; rev.
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of the United States, 1789–1800, ed. Maeva Marcus, James R.
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Politics in the New Republic, New Haven, 2001.xliFriedrich von Gentz, The Origin and Principles
of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles
of the French Revolution, [transl. JQA], Philadelphia, 1800,
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Village and Capital, 1800–1878, Princeton, N.J., 1962.William Hague, William Pitt the Younger: A
Biography, New York, 2005.The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed.
Harold C. Syrett, Jacob E. Cooke, and others, New York, 1961–1987; 27
vols.History of the Town of Hingham,
Massachusetts, Hingham, 1893; 3 vols. in 4.History of Weymouth, Massachusetts,
Boston, 1923; 4 vols.Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer, ed., Nouvelle
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Government of the United States of America, London, 1787–1788;
repr. New York, 1971; 3 vols.The Earliest Diary of John Adams, ed. L.
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Wife, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1841; 2 vols.Papers of John Adams, ed. Robert J.
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.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.The Selected Papers of John Jay, ed.
Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and others, Charlottesville, Va., 2010– .xliiJournals of the Continental Congress,
1774–1789, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John
C. Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, and others, Washington, D.C., 1904–1937;
34 vols.The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed.
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James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– .The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement
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2004– .Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with
Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, ed. James A. Bear Jr.
and Lucia C. Stanton (The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson, Second Series), Princeton, N.J., 1997; 2
vols.Diary of John Quincy Adams, ed. David
Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, and others, Cambridge, 1981– .Writings of John Quincy Adams, ed.
Worthington Chauncey Ford, New York, 1913–1917; 7 vols.Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan, Men of Letters in
the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship, Chapel
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of Rufus King, New York, 1894–1900; 6 vols.Carl Ludwig von Klöber und Hellscheborn, Von
Schlesien vor und seit dem Jar MDCCXXXX, Freiburg, 1785; 2
vols.Diary and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa
Catherine Adams, ed. Judith S. Graham and others, Cambridge,
2013; 2 vols.The Papers of James Madison: Congressional
Series, ed. William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, and
Robert Allen Rutland, Chicago and Charlottesville, Va., 1962–1991; 17
vols.The Papers of James Madison: Retirement
Series, ed. David B. Mattern and others, Charlottesville, Va.,
2009– .The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of
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United States, ed. Hunter Miller, Washington, D.C., 1931–1947;
8 vols.The Papers of James Monroe, ed. Daniel
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2011–2018; 2 vols.The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784,
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Gallagher, and others, Pittsburgh, 1973–1999; 9 vols.Mississippi Valley Historical
Review.United States Office of Naval Records and Library, Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War between
the United States and France, Washington, D.C., 1935–1938; 7
vols.New England Historical and Genealogical
Register.New England Quarterly.Paul Douglas Newman, Fries’s Rebellion: The
Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution, Philadelphia,
2004.New-York Directory [title varies], issued
annually with varying imprints.Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Dedham, Mass., 1793– .New York Genealogical and Biographical
Record.The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d edn.,
Oxford, 1989; 20 vols.; rev. edn., www.oed.com.Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail
Adams, Cambridge, 1967.Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John Quincy Adams
and His Wife, Cambridge, 1970.Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d edn., New York,
1996.Robert R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic
Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America,
1760–1800, Princeton, N.J., 1959–1964; 2 vols.xlivA Selection of the Patriotic Addresses, to the
President of the United States. Together with the President’s
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1878.Pennsylvania Archives, Selected and Arranged
from Original Documents in the Office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1935; 119 vols.
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