- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. City Life, Country Life
- 2. The State of the Republic
- 3. A New Minister to the Netherlands
- 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, January 1794–June 1795
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Chronology
- Index
- * Illustrations
- 1. Edmond Charles Genet, by Jean Baptiste Fouquet, 1793
- 2. Medal Presented to Charles Bulfinch by the Proprietors of the Federal Street Theatre, by Joseph Callender, 1795
- 3. “American Stage Waggon,” by Isaac Weld Jr., ca. 1797
- 4, 5. John Quincy Adams and Thomas Boylston Adams, by Mr. Parker, 1795
- 6. “An Exciseman,” 1792
- 7. Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne, by George Graham, 1796
- 8. “Robespierre, Guillotinant le Boureau après Avoir Fait Guillotr. Tous les Francais,” ca. 1794
- 9. The Batavian Republic, 1798
- 10. “Theatrum Anatomicum,” by Crispijn de Passe, ca. 1614