Arrangement is by Adams call number. This list does not include stored pieces of broken spines, or actual parts of the books which have simply come detached.

John Adams is listed as both the creator and the recipient of items such as notes for himself that likely had no other intended audience. Unless any document is dated, no correlation is made between the date of the book and the date of the item found in the book, nor between Adams's location and the time of the book's publication.