- Descriptive List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. “Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One”
- 2. Homecoming
- 3. John Adams, Vice President
- 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 1787 – May 1789
- Appendix: John Adams’ Accounts in Europe: 1785–1788
- List of Omitted Documents
- Index
- * Descriptive List of Illustrations
- 1. Twenty-shilling Bill of Credit, 1785
- 2. “Assemblée des Notables le 22 Fevrier 1787,” 1787
- 3. Columbia and Washington Medal, 1787
- 4. “Plundering van Het Huis van Lucas van Steveninck,” Engraving after Jan Arends, 1787
- 5. John Adams, by Mather Brown, 1788
- 6. “The Federal Pillars,” 2 August 1788
- 7. “S.E. Prospect, from an Eminence near the Common, Boston,” by Samuel Hill, 1790
- 8. “Washington Delivering His Inaugural Address,” by Tompkins Harrison Matteson, 1849