- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. A Divided Republic
- 2. The Cult of Domesticity
- 3. European Affairs
- 4. Notes on Editorial Method
- 5. Related Digital Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Guide to Editorial Apparatus
- 1. Textual Devices
- 2. Adams Family Code Names
- 3. Descriptive Symbols
- 4. Location Symbols
- 5. Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms
- 6. Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited
- Family Correspondence, July 1795–February 1797
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Chronology
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- 1. Charles Adams, ca. 1795
- 2. William Henry Ireland’s forged Shakespeare letter to Anne Hathaway, ca. 1795
- 3. “Titania and Bottom,” by Henry Fuseli, ca. 1790
- 4. “The Carrier’s Cart,” by John Cranch, 1796
- 5. “To the Free and Independent Citizens of Southboro’,” circular letter, ca. April 1796
- 6, 7. Joshua Johnson and Catherine Nuth Johnson, ca. 1792
- 8. “View of the Suburbs of the City of Washington,” by George Isham Parkyns, ca. 1795
- 9. Louisa Catherine Johnson, by Samuel Shelley, ca. 1796
- 10. James Greenleaf, by Gilbert Stuart, 1795
