ADAMS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6
October 1782 – December 1785
- Volume V
- Descriptive List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. The Family Becomes International
- 2. Abigail Adams in Europe
- 3. The Second Generation
- 4. Earlier Publication
- 5. Notes on Editorial Method
- 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, October 1782–November 1784
- Volume VI
- Descriptive List of Illustrations
- Family Correspondence, December 1784–December 1785
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Chronology
- Index
- * Illustrations, Volume V:
- 1. Charles Storer
- 2. John Thaxter Jr., ca. 1782
- 3. “I cannot o! I cannot be reconcild to living as I have done for 3 years past”: Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 October 1782
- 4. “No Swiss ever longed for home more than I do. I shall forever be a dull man in Europe”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 March 1783
- 5. “Glorious intelligence!”: 1 April 1783
- 6. Promenade a Longchamp
- 7. The Continental Congress’ Earnest Recommendations Regarding Loyalist Property, 14 January 1784
- 8. John Quincy Adams by Isaak Schmidt, 1783
- 9. The Reverend William Smith (Abigail Adams’ Father)
- 10. John Adams by John Singleton Copley
- 11. “I will not attempt to describe my feelings at meeting two persons so dear to me…I will only say I was completely happy”: John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 30 July 1784
- 12. Anne-Catherine, Comtesse de Ligniville d’Autricourt, Madame Helvétius, by Louis Michel Vanloo
- * Illustrations, Volume VI:
- 1. Western Suburbs of Paris (including Auteuil and Passy) in the Eighteenth Century
- 2. Vue du Théâtre Français
- 3. Madame Lafayette, about 1774
- 4. The Lafayette Children with a Bust of Their Father, about 1786
- 5. Auteuil and Passy, from the Isle des Cygnes, ca. 1785
- 6. “Both of them were killed by their fall, and there limbs exceedingly broken”: Abigail Adams 2 to Lucy Cranch, 23 June 1785
- 7. Princesses Charlotte, Augusta, and Elizabeth, about 1784, by Thomas Gainsborough
- 8. Abigail Adams 2, July 1785, by Mather Brown
- 9. Sarah Kemble Siddons as Desdemona
- 10. “Never was there a young man who deserved more a severe punishment than yourself”: Abigail Adams 2 to John Quincy Adams, 27 November 1785