These valuable papers cover eighteen months of John Adams's activities in France and Massachusetts. They provide new light on his activities as commissioner in Paris, his Paris relations with Benjamin Franklin and the Comte de Vergennes, and his attitude toward France and the Franco-American alliance.
   --John A. Schutz, Journal of American History

An important documentary resource that continues to expand our insight into the complex personality and the manifold contributions of John Adams to his own time and to ours.
   --Constance B. Schulz, Journal of Southern History