- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Minister at The Hague
- 2. Joint Commissioner
- 3. John Adams, Great Britain, and the Future
- 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, February 1784 – March 1785
- Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
- Index
- * Descriptive List of Illustrations
- 1. Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von Thulemeier, Prussian Minister to the Netherlands
- 2. “Der Congress Erklärt die 13 Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerica für Independent. AM 4ten. July 1776,” by Daniel Chodowiecki, 1783
- 3. Contract for the Second Dutch Loan, 9 March 1784
- 4. Mason Locke Weems, by Albert Rosenthal, 1911
- 5. Passport from the States General for Books, 2 July 1784
- 6. Observations sur le Gouvernement et les Loix des États-Unis d’Amérique, by Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, 1784
- 7. “Vue de Paris,” by John Trumbull, ca. 1786
- 8. Joint Commission to Negotiate a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Prussia, 12 May 1784
- 9. John Frederick Sackville, 3d Duke of Dorset, British Ambassador to France, by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1782
- 10. “The Sultan of Morocco Coming Out to Give Audience,” by Maurice Bagenal St. Leger Keatinge, 1816
- 11. John Adams’ Commission as Minister to Great Britain, 24 February 1785