Papers of John Adams, volume 7

xxx Guide to Editorial Apparatus Guide to Editorial Apparatus

Guide to Editorial Apparatus

In the first three sections (1–3) of the six sections of this Guide are listed, respectively, the arbitrary devices used for clarifying the text, the code names for designating prominent members of the Adams family, and the symbols describing the various kinds of MS originals used or referred to, that are employed throughout The Adams Papers in all its series and parts. In the final three sections (4–6) are listed, respectively, only those symbols designating institutions holding original materials, the various abbreviations and conventional terms, and the short titles of books and other works, that occur in volumes 7 and 8 of the Papers of John Adams. The editors propose to maintain this pattern for the Guide to Editorial Apparatus in each of the smaller units, published at intervals, of all the series and parts of the edition that are so extensive as to continue through many volumes. On the other hand, in short and specialized series and/or parts of the edition, the Guide to Editorial Apparatus will be given more summary form tailored to its immediate purpose.

Textual Devices

The following devices will be used throughout The Adams Papers to clarify the presentation of the text.

[...], [....]	One or two words missing and not conjecturable.
[...]1, [....]1	More than two words missing and not conjecturable; 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]	Editorial insertion or conjectural reading for missing or illegible matter. A question mark is inserted before the closing bracket if the conjectural reading is seriously doubtful.
<italic>	Matter canceled in the manuscript but restored in our text.

Adams Family Code Names

First Generation
JA	John Adams (1735–1826)
AA	Abigail Smith (1744–1818), m. JA 1764
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Second Generation
AA2	Abigail Adams (1765–1813), daughter of JA and AA, m. WSS 1786
WSS	William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), brother of Mrs. CA
JQA	John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), son of JA and AA
LCA	Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852), m. JQA 1797
CA	Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of JA and AA
Mrs. CA	Sarah Smith (1769–1828), sister of WSS, m. CA 1795
TBA	Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), son of JA and AA
Mrs. TBA	Ann Harrod (1774–1846), 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
Mrs. JA2	Mary Catherine Hellen (1807–1870), 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 Mrs. TBA
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

Descriptive Symbols

The following symbols will be employed throughout The Adams Papers to describe or identify in brief form 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: xxxiiD/JA/23, i.e., the twenty-third fascicle or volume of John Adams' manuscript Diary.)
Dft	draft
Dupl	duplicate
FC	file copy (Ordinarily a copy of a letter retained by a correspondent other than an Adams, for example Jefferson's press copies and polygraph copies, since all three of the Adams statesmen systematically entered copies of their outgoing letters in letterbooks.)
Lb	Letterbook (Used only to designate Adams letterbooks 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 (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 “Miscellany” and always in combination with the short form of the writer's name and a serial number, as follows: M/CFA/32, i.e., the thirty-second volume of the Charles Francis Adams Miscellany—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 than other copies—such as duplicates, file copies, letterbook copies—that were made contemporaneously.)
Tripl	triplicate

Location Symbols

BM	British Museum
CSmH	Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
CWhC	Whittier College
CtHi	Connecticut Historical Society
CtNhHi	New Haven Colony Historical Society
CtY	Yale University Library
DLC	Library of Congress
DNA	National Archives
DSI	Smithsonian Institution
IHi	Illinois State Historical Library
M-Ar	Massachusetts Archives
MH-H	Houghton Library, Harvard University
MHi	Massachusetts Historical Society
NHi	New-York Historical Society
NIC	Cornell University Library
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NN	New York Public Library
NNC	Columbia University Library
NNPM	Pierpont Morgan Library
NhD	Dartmouth College Library
NjHi	New Jersey Historical Society
NjP	Princeton University Library
PHi	Historical Society of Pennsylvania
PPAmP	American Philosophical Society
PPL	Library Company of Philadelphia
PU	University of Pennsylvania Library
PWacD	David Library of the American Revolution
RNHi	Newport Historical Society
ScHi	South Carolina Historical Society
ViU	University of Virginia Library
VtU	University of Vermont Library

Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms

Adams Papers Manuscripts 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 (see below). The location of materials in the Letterbooks and the Miscellany is given more fully, and often, if the original would be hard to locate, by the microfilm reel number. Adams Papers, Adams Office Files The portion of the Adams manuscripts given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Thomas Boylston Adams in 1973 and retained in the editorial office of the Adams Papers. Adams Papers Editorial Files Other materials in the Adams Papers editorial office, Massachusetts Historical Society. These include photoduplicated documents (normally cited by the location of the originals), photographs, correspondence, and bibliographical and other aids compiled and accumulated by the editorial staff. Adams Papers, Fourth Generation Adams manuscripts dating 1890 or later, originally part of the Trust collection together with Adams manuscripts acquired from other sources, administered by the Massachusetts Historical Society on the same footing with its other manuscript collections. 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 xxxivlibraries throughout the United States and in a few libraries in Europe, Canada, and New Zealand. The Adams Papers The present edition, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. References to earlier volumes of any given unit take this form: vol. 3:171. Since there will be no overall volume numbering for the edition, references from one series, or unit of a series, to another will be by title, volume, and page; for example, JQA, Papers, 4:205. (For the same reason, references by scholars citing this edition should not be to The Adams Papers as a whole but to the particular series or subseries concerned; for example, John Adams, Diary and Autobiography , 3:145; Adams Family Correspondence , 6:167.) Arch. Aff. Etr., Paris, Corr. Pol. Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Correspondance Politique. Koninklijk Huisarchief Koninklijk Huisarchief, The Hague. PCC Papers of the Continental Congress. Originals in the National Archives: Record Group 360. Microfilm edition in 204 reels. Usually cited in the present work from the microfilms, but according to the original series and volume numbering devised in the State Department in the early 19th century; for example, PCC, No. 93, III, i.e., the third volume of series 93.

Short Titles Of Works Frequently Cited

Adams Family Correspondence Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– AHR American Historical Review. Allen, Mass. Privateers Gardner Weld Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vol. 77), Boston, 1927. Allen, Naval Hist. of the Amer. Revolution Gardner Weld Allen, A Naval History of the American Revolution, Boston and New York, 1913; 2 vols. Appletons' Cyclo. Amer. Biog. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, New York, 1887–1889; 6 vols. Bemis, Diplomacy of the Amer. Revolution Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution: The Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775–1823, New York and London, 1935. Boston Record Commissioners, Reports City of Boston, Record Commissioners, Reports, Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols. xxxv Braintree Town Records Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, Mass., 1886. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, 1921–1936; 8 vols. Cal. Franklin Papers, A.P.S. I. Minis Hays, comp., Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1908; 5 vols. Cambridge Modern Hist. The Cambridge Modern History, New York, 1909–1910; 12 vols. Catalogue of JA's Library Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. DAB Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–1936; 20 vols. plus index and supplements. Deane Papers Papers of Silas Deane, 1774–1790, in New-York Historical Society, Collections, Publication Fund Series, vols. 19–23, New York, 1887–1891; 5 vols. De Madariaga, Armed Neutrality of 1780 Isabel de Madariaga, Britain, Russia and the Armed Neutrality of 1780, New Haven, 1962. Dict. Amer. Fighting Ships U.S. Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Washington, 1959–. Dict. of Americanisms Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, Chicago, 1951. DNB Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The Dictionary of National Biography, New York and London, 1885–1900; 63 vols. plus supplements. Dull, French Navy and Amer. Independence Jonathan R. Dull, The French Navy and American Independence: a Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774–1787, Princeton, 1915. Edler, Dutch Republic and the American Revolution Friedrich Edler, The Dutch Republic and the American Revolution, Baltimore, 1911. Evans Charles Evans and others, comps., American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. Force, Archives [Peter Force, ed.,] American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs, Washington, 1837–1853; 9 vols. xxxvi Franklin, Papers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox (from vol. 15), and others, New Haven, 1959– Gérard, Despatches and Instructions Despatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 1778–1780: Correspondence of the First French Minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes, ed. John J. Meng, Baltimore, 1939. Gruber, Howe Brothers Ira D. Gruber, The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution, New York, 1972. Heitman, Register Continental Army Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, new edn., Washington, 1914. Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale J. C. F. Hoefer, ed., Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1852–1866; 46 vols. JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. JA, Legal Papers Legal Papers of John Adams, ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Cambridge, 1965; 3 vols. JA, Papers Papers of John Adams, ed. Robert J. Taylor, Gregg L. Lint and others, Cambridge, 1977– JA, Works 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. JCC Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. Jefferson, Papers The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen (from vol. 21), and others, Princeton, 1950– JQA, Memoirs Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Philadelphia, 1874–1877; 12 vols. JQA, Diary Diary of John Quincy Adams, ed. David Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, and others, Cambridge, 1981– Journal of the Convention Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay from ... September 1, 1779, to ... June 16, 1780, Boston, 1832. Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle ... , Paris, [1865]; 15 vols. and supplements. R. H. Lee, Arthur Lee Richard Henry Lee, Life of Arthur Lee, Boston, 1829; 2 vols. xxxvii Mackesy, War for America Piers Mackesy, The War for America, 1775–1783, Cambridge, 1965. Mahan, Navies in the War of Amer. Independence Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, Boston, 1913. Martens, ed., Recueil des principaux traités d'alliance Georg Friedrich von Martens, ed., Recueil des principaux traités d'alliance, de paix, de trêve ... conclus par les puissances de l'Europe ... depuis 1761 jusqu'à présent ... Par Mr. de Martens, Gottingue, 1791–1801; 7 vols. Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715– ], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919– . (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) Mass., Province Laws The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1869–1922; 21 vols. Mass. Soldiers and Sailors Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Boston, 1896–1908; 17 vols. MHS, Colls., Procs. Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections and Proceedings. Miller, ed., Treaties Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Washington, 1931–1948; 8 vols. Miller, Sir Joseph Yorke Daniel A. Miller, Sir Joseph Yorke and Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1774–1780, The Hague, 1970. Morison, John Paul Jones Samuel Eliot Morison, John Paul Jones, a Sailor's Biography, Boston and Toronto, 1959. Morris, The Peacemakers Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, New York, 1965. Naval Docs. Amer. Rev. William Bell Clark, William James Morgan (from vol. 5), and others, eds., Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Washington, 1964– NEHGR New England Historical and Genealogical Register. OED The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. Parliamentary Hist. The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, London, 1806–1820; 36 vols. Parliamentary Reg. Parliamentary Register, ed. John Almon, London, 1774–1780; 17 vols. xxxviii Pattee, Old Braintree and Quincy William S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, with a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook, Quincy, 1878. Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), ed. Ludwig Bittner and others, Oldenburg, &c., 1936–1965; 3 vols. Benjamin Rush, Letters Letters of Benjamin Rush, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Princeton, 1951; 2 vols. Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873– . Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates Paul H. Smith and others, eds., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1976– . Stinchcombe, Amer. Rev. and the French Alliance William C. Stinchcombe, The American Revolution and the French Alliance, Syracuse, New York, 1969. Sullivan, Papers Letters and Papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army, 1771–1795, ed. Otis G. Hammond (New Hampshire Historical Society, Collections, vols. 13–15), Concord, 1930–1939; 3 vols. Thorpe, ed., Federal and State Constitutions Francis N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America, Washington, 1909; 7 vols. Ward, War of the Revolution Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, New York, 1952; 2 vols. Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931–1944; 39 vols. Warren-Adams Letters Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vols. 72–73), Boston, 1917–1925; 2 vols. Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. Wheatley, London Past and Present Henry B. Wheatley, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, London, 1891; 3 vols. WMQ William and Mary Quarterly. xxxix