- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Negotiating the Peace
- 2. Peacemaking and the Postwar World
- 3. John Adams and His Letterbooks
- 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
- Papers of John Adams, October 1782 – May 1783
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Index
- * Descriptive List of Illustrations
- 1. John Laurens, by Charles Fraser, after a Miniature by Charles Willson Peale, 1780
- 2. Bill for Payment of John Adams’ Salary
- 3. The Signing of the Anglo–American Preliminary Peace Treaty, 30 November 1782, Benjamin West, Unfinished, 1784
- 4. Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Engraving by François Huot, after François Bonneville, ca. 1760s
- 5. Benjamin Franklin’s Draft Passport for Merchant Ships, 1 February 1783
- 6. Félix Vicq d’Azyr, by Carrière, after Soufflot, ca. 1780s
- 7. American Peace Commissioners, Proclamation of the Cessation of Hostilities, 20 February 1783
- 8. Libertas Americana Medal, Augustin Dupré, April 1783
- 9. Harvard College Doctorate of Laws Diploma and Seal, Conferred upon John Adams, 19 December 1781; Ordered Engrossed, 1 April 1783
- 10. Medal Commemorating the Recognition of the Independence of the United States by Friesland, B. C. V. Calker, 1782