ADAMS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE
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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 13

May 1798 – September 1799

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$98.00 • £85.95 • €89.95

ISBN 9780674977181

Publication Date: 08/14/2017

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  • Descriptive List of Illustrations*
  • Introduction
    • 1. “Preparation for war can alone insure peace”
    • 2. “I early learnt the lesson of sacrificing to the publick”
    • 3. “We really are not like the same family”
    • 4. “I should sometimes indulge an itching which besets me for scribling”
    • 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
  • Family Correspondence, May 1798 – September 1799
  • Appendix: Valuation of the Real Estate of John Adams
  • List of Omitted Documents
  • Chronology
  • Index
  • * Illustrations
    • 1. Hannah Carter Smith, by Nathaniel Hancock, ca. 1796
    • 2. “A Plan of Fort Independence,” Boston, by Lewis Peckham, 1 December 1809
    • 3. “Der Neumarkt zu Dresden,” by Christian Gottfried Morasch, ca. 1790
    • 4. Joel Barlow, by John Vanderlyn, 1798
    • 5. Daniel Greenleaf’s Borrowing Record, Boston Library Society, 1798–1801
    • 6. Thomas Truxtun, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint Mémin, 1799
    • 7. “Order of Procession for the Funeral of the Late Governor Sumner,” Boston, 1799
    • 8. “T. B. A.,” by Sarah Wister, 1799

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