John Adams Papers
Collection — Container: MS Adams
Call Number: MS Adams
Scope and Contents
This is an artificial collection that was created with letters from the Mellen Chamberlain, Americana, and English Civilization collections and contains 61 letters written by John Adams before he was President, primarily to Dr. Benjamin Rush. In addition, there are three letters written to Adams and 15 others either written about him or in which he is mentioned. In addition, there are 82 items that were removed from the inside of Adams's books (approximately 35 of those are notes written in Adams's hand) that make up the remainder of the collection.
Dates
- 1764-1906
Creator
- Adams, John (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. In addition, we do not assert any additional restrictions on copies of items beyond those that might exist in the original.
As such, we cannot grant or deny permission to use copies of items held in our collections.
It is the sole responsibility of the user to make his or her own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law. Provision of a copy from the Boston Public Library should not be construed as explicit permission to use it for any particular reason.
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Extent
180.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Arranged in four series:
Series 1 Letters written by John Adams
Series 2 Letters written to John Adams
Series 3 Letters written about John Adams
Series 4 Items removed from John Adams's books
Series 1 Letters written by John Adams
Series 2 Letters written to John Adams
Series 3 Letters written about John Adams
Series 4 Items removed from John Adams's books
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Dawn Bovasso in 2005.
Creator
- Adams, John (Person)
- Chamberlain, Mellen (Person)
- Title
- John Adams Papers
- Date
- 00/00/2005
- Description rules
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2020-12: Related materials note updated by Eve C. Neiger, 2020 December.
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