GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER PAPERS OF THE ADAMS STATESMEN
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Papers of John Adams, Volume 18

December 1785 – January 1787

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$98.00 • £85.95 • €89.95

ISBN 9780674545076

Publication Date: 07/11/2016

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  • Descriptive List of Illustrations*
  • Introduction
    • 1. “The Impossibility of our, doing any Thing Satisfactory, with this Nation”
    • 2. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the End of the Joint Commission
    • 3. The View from 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, December 1785 – January 1787
  • Appendix: List of Omitted Documents
  • Index
  • * Descriptive List of Illustrations
    • 1. Matthew Robinson-Morris, 2d Baron Rokeby, by R. Page, 1821
    • 2. “Attacking the Right Whale,” by Ambroise Louis Garneray, ca. 1820–1850
    • 3. Syon House, by Canaletto, 1749
    • 4. William Stephens Smith, by Gilbert Stuart, 1794
    • 5. Sidi Haj Tahar ben Abdulhaq Fennish to the American Commissioners, [28 June 1786]
    • 6. Detail from “Map of the Empire of Morocco,” 1788
    • 7. William Pitt the Younger, by Thomas Gainsborough and Gainsborough Dupont, ca. 1787–1790
    • 8. Title Page of Volume 1 of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, London, 1787

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