- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Returning to America
- 2. Becoming Adults
- 3. The New Government
- 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, March 1787–December 1789
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Chronology
- Index
- * Illustrations
- 1. Mary Rutledge Smith, by George Romney, 1786
- 2. Peacefield, by E. Malcom, 1798
- 3. Quincy Coat of Arms, by Eliza Susan Quincy, 1822
- 4. Advertisement for Sayer’s Bathing Machine, 1791
- 5. “A North View of Blenheim House and Park in the County of Oxford,” by John Boydell, 1752
- 6. “A View of the Tryal of Warren Hastings Esqr.,” by Robert Pollard and Francis Jukes, 1789
- 7. Mrs. Henry Knox, ca. 1790
- 8. The Needles, Isle of Wight, by William Westall, ca. 1835
- 9. “Federal Hall, the Seat of Congress,” by Amos Doolittle, 1790
- 10. Richmond Hill, by Cornelius Tiebout, 1790
- 11. “The Washington Family,” by Edward Savage, 1789–1796
- 12. “The Republican Court (Lady Washington’s Reception Day),” by Daniel Huntington, 1861–1865
- 13. Park Row and St. Paul’s Chapel, New York, by Charles Milbourne, 1798