- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Peace and Uncertainty
- 2. America Adjusts to Peace
- 3. A Visit to London
- 4. John Adams and His Letterbooks
- 5. Notes on Editorial Method
- 6. 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, June 1783 – January 1784
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Index
- * Descriptive List of Illustrations
- 1. John Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, Ambrotype, 1858, of a Miniature
- 2. David Hartley, British Peace Commissioner, by George Romney, ca. 1784
- 3. Definitive Peace Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, 3 September 1783
- 4. John Adams’ Bookplate, 1783
- 5. Patience Lovell Wright, Wax Modeler and American Spy, Attributed to Robert Edge Pine, 1780–1784
- 6. Receipt, John Singleton Copley, 10 December 1783
- 7. John Adams, by John Singleton Copley, 1783
- 8. Samuel Osgood, Massachusetts Delegate to the Continental Congress, ca. 1790
- 9. “Carlo Khan’s Triumphal Entry Into Leadenhall Street,” by James Sayers, 5 December 1783
- 10. Pine Tree, Deer, and Fish Seal, 1816