Papers of John Adams, volume 17
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[Committees]
The Adams Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Douglas Adams
Bernard Bailyn
Frederick D. Ballou
Levin H. Campbell
Caroline Keinath
Pauline Maier †
Catherine R. Matthews
Lia G. Poorvu
Elizabeth Prindle
Alan Rogers
L. Dennis Shapiro
John Walsh
Hiller B. Zobel
Joyce O. Appleby
Joseph J. Ellis
Linda K. Kerber
Gordon S. Wood
† Deceased
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 Cæcilius Statius as quoted by Cicero in the First Tusculan Disputation: Serit
arbores quæ alteri seculo prosint (“He plants trees for the benefit of later generations”).